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• Persona 1: Novice user
  • General opinions: 
    • Useful thing to have. 
    • Without having to exchange multiple emails back and forth, you can schedule a meeting. It is convenient
  • Additional features: 
    • Reminder email for any change in plan. It is hard to get notified of sudden changes. It will be nice to get reminders if anything changes ( location, time etc.)
• Persona 2: Power User
  • General opinions
    • Great idea, especially for users who have to constantly deal with scheduling meetings
  • Favorite Features
    • Being able to invite other people without having them log on
    • Having a recurrence option that can allow users to choose a day in the week to schedule a recurring event can help users because they don't need to recreate an event every time
  • Additional Features
    • An optimal message to be attached to the invite
    • A way to rank/select pre-scheduled flexible events that can be moved so it can be moved
• Persona 3: Office Socialite
  • General opinions:
    • Only wants to use MashCal if it is easy to set up
    • Likes that he doesn't need to coordinate the optimal time for everyone
    • Wants to have everyone go to lunch with him. If the program says it can't happen, he doesn't have to feel bad about not accommodating everyone.
  • Additional features
    • Invites via text message
• Persona 4: Dumbphone or non-mobile user 
  • General opinons
    • Adam liked the idea but thought it wouldn't be useful for him if it were mobile only.
  • Favorite features
    • Ability to import calendar once makes MashCal easy to use in the future because it is always in sync
    • Use of email as the communication medium means that even people without smartphones can use MashCal.
  • Additional Features
    • Make the interface not mobile only. There should be a standard, non-touch web interface.

Task analysis

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Tasks:

• Linking of calendars/create accounts
• Create meetings
• Sending invitations
• View mashed events
• Group circles

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I'd appreciate it if you made these changes, since we'll be working off this document for the whole rest of the project.

Revised User Analysis:

Person A

Uses email and facebook events to schedule events. No one ever confirms her invites. Has to call people the day of the event in order to get confirmations.

Person B

Mom scheduling for her kids. She keeps a schedule on a paper calendar and has to manually erase/update them for upcoming and changing events.

Person C

Person D

Person E

Person F