Random Ramblings

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Nov 9, 2020

Viren Mohindra @VirenMohindra

want to unnecessarily add stress to your life? try creating UserAccount classes for women-centric startups.

Viren Mohindra @VirenMohindra

besides polluting your Google search history with unfavorable adjectives describing females, you end up committing code UNDER YOUR NAME to a monolithic project with types such as BODY_PARTS. just trying to tread carefully :-)

Viren Mohindra @VirenMohindra

the silver lining is I'm learning more about how to shop for the other sex, or at the very least ask better questions. But what words should you end up using instead? I thought it would be a good idea to see how the bigger stores tackle this problem and went down a rabbit hole.

Viren Mohindra @VirenMohindra

'leading apparel brands' outsource and end up using FitFinder, a solution produced by FitAnalytics, which superimposes a widget to capture shopper data with 'advanced' machine learning techniques :-) I'm merely using a checkbox and accepting string input but sure.

Viren Mohindra @VirenMohindra

in their demo on the website, they showcased the image with some text. interestingly enough, most brands choose NOT to display the captions. I'm going to do the same. as of now, each image is mapped to a singular numeric enum instead of describing the body/ figure shape

Viren Mohindra @VirenMohindra

I can rest easy, and my code isn't completely ineligible for future redesigns.

Fit Finder - the world’s most accurate apparel size advisorThe Fit Finder size advisor from Fit Analytics helps the world’s best apparel and footwear firms boost margins and solve sizing for shoppers.fitanalytics.com

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