Justine begins at home, where she browses possible options for materials.

She decides that she doesn’t want to see option from individual sellers, and prefers to shop only downtown, so she adjusts her settings accordingly.

When she arrives downtown, Social Fabric presents a range of parking options - both street and lot parking - and points her toward the place most convenient to her shopping destinations.

Then, Justine maps out her walking route so that she can hit all her stops as efficiently as possible.

When Justine enters a store, she is automatically presented with the options “FIND” to locate a specific material on her list, “TAG” to add new material photos and information to the database, and “BROWSE” to explore what other users have already tagged in this location.

Justine locates the items she needs, and Social Fabric takes note of their availability in the store. She also tags a handful of new things that she thinks might be useful for future projects.

She quickly selects from dropdown menus to describe the material and enters it into the app.

When she leaves the store, she rates her overall experience based on their customer service, price accuracy, and availability of products.

While making the rounds to the various stores on her list, Justine’s parking alert goes off to let her know that she only has 15 minutes left on her meter and it is about a 10 minute walk away.

Valerie has a client meeting at 2pm and wants to show her client a handful of options for a new project that they’re starting. She opens Social Fabric and starts a new sample book.

She knows the downtown area pretty well, but Social Fabric directs her to a handful of stores that have a high volume of the type of material she’s looking for.

Valerie snaps photos of all the material she takes swatches of.

She marks them as a swatch

Then she makes notes on content, weave and other important details.

Nearing 2pm, she pinpoints a nearby coffee shop to meet with her client.

Valerie shows the client her options, and is able to look at the notes that she made while in the store, and tell which samples came from the same place.

Using the project calculator, she is able to give her client a quote for using different materials, and can even place an order without even leaving the coffee shop.