Virtual Closet Widget for Online Shopping Interface
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Solution Overview
Problem
Online shopping systems, particularly clothing and apparel platforms, face challenges in providing an engaging user experience due to cumbersome interfaces and limited configuration management, which reduces user interaction time and sales conversion.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented method and system for managing shopping, featuring a virtual closet widget that allows users to configure and visualize outfits, add items from a catalog, and persistently store them across sessions, enabling drag-and-drop functionality, social sharing, and personalized recommendations, while integrating with online catalogs and shopping baskets.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If online shopping interfaces use traditional catalog browsing methods, then users can search for and purchase items, but the interface becomes cumbersome and difficult to interact with, reducing user engagement time
Solution Approach 1:
The shopping interface is segmented into distinct functional areas: a catalog region for browsing items and a virtual closet region for assembling outfits. This segmentation allows users to efficiently search for items in the catalog while simultaneously visualizing and managing their outfit selections in the virtual closet, reducing interaction complexity and increasing engagement time
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a virtual closet dimension that overlays or adjacents the traditional catalog browsing experience. Instead of merely adding items to a flat cart list, users can visually assemble outfits in a virtual closet space, adding a spatial and visual dimension to the shopping interaction that makes it more engaging and intuitive
2Adaptability or versatility
If online shopping systems provide limited configuration management, then the system remains simple, but managing item configuration becomes difficult and reduces sales conversion
Solution Approach 1:
The virtual closet allows users to pre-configure and visualize complete outfits by assembling multiple items before making a purchase decision. This preliminary configuration action enables users to experiment with different combinations, ensuring satisfaction with their selections before checkout, thereby increasing conversion without proportionally increasing system complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual closet widget serves multiple functions: it acts as a shopping cart, an outfit planner, a visualizer, and a configuration manager all in one interface. This multi-functionality provides comprehensive configuration management capabilities while maintaining a unified, manageable system rather than requiring separate complex subsystems
Data Source
AI summary
Systems, methods, or media is directed to managing an outfit over a network. A navigation of an electronic media source is provided with a virtual closet widget representative of outfit data for display on at least one device. An activation component is provided within the virtual closet widget to configure a panel. The panel provides a selectable catalog of items that are configured to be added into the outfit data. In response to adding an item, a visual indication of the item on the virtual closet widget is provided, wherein the item comprises at least one unset attribute for setting through the virtual closet.