simple day

simple day offers a more organized and personalized outlook to the everyday UC Davis student. Its purpose is to make the lives of UCD students easier, more efficient, and prevent decision fatigue.

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Inspiration

simple day draws a lot of inspiration from another Google Extension called Momentum, a Google Extension that replaces the new tab page with a personal dashboard. We noticed the lack of involvement that students felt in our community, because they aren't aware of the events that interests them. We were inspired to create a tool that enables UC Davis students or anyone in general to be notified of important events and stay organized with their task. Hence making their days simpler.

What it does

simple day is a free Google Chrome add-on that breathes life into your New Tab page. Enjoy a minimalistic design, inspiring quotes, important UC Davis reminders, to-dos, local weather and more!

How we built it

We started brainstorming and prototyping on Figma. We each created a few user sketches and prototypes. Then we combined our ideas to formulate a final low-fi design. After this we split into teams of developers and designers. For the developers, they used bootstrap and css to style and JS for the functionalities. Meanwhile, the designers continued to design the high-fi design and worked on the css.

You can view the prototypes here: https://www.figma.com/file/cU4ZPUyCQ7cZoWlVkIxsrg/hackdavis-2022?node-id=0%3A1

We used HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to create our extension.

Challenges we ran into

Because of the time restrictions, we were unable to finish much of the app's functionality. We planned on creating a calendar system where it web scrapes the web for upcoming UC Davis events.

One of the major challenges we ran into was adding the weather and quote api into our extension. We had to resolve issues with the JavaScript files conflicting with each other.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud to have finished within the limited amount of time and also laid out a foundational idea for a project we will continue to pursue in.

What we learned

Initially, we struggled to compromise on a design but we've learned to work together as a team and agree upon our differences. We divided the workload into the developer and designer teams, and each of us learned something new from the project.

What's next for simple day

We hope to implement additional customization functions for users, such as a personal class schedule view and different themes (such as dark mode and other color choices). And we would hope to implement an automatic process of getting the important dates.

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