An ideation/working prototype of a mobile application for use on a smartphone using the Uizard AI-powered user interface. The working title was ‘Whorlsapp’-a guide to identify a textile technology. The intention was to create better accessibility to understanding these whorls when discovered in fieldwork, in post-excavation analysis and for research purposes, Uziard (2018) is an AI design tool, which allows an open access style of design to websites and mobile application. It was proposed that the mobile application would offer a pictorial typology and an overview of the technical functions of what makes a whorl a whorl.
Whorl-sapp
Published
Early Medieval Textiles Ireland and beyond 