GR2 - Designs

Significant Task Alterations from GR1

• Our focus has shifted to quick last minute events (instead of planning things out in advanced.)
• We've dropped coordinating items to bring for the event as a primary task, and instead it is something that we can do if we have time.

Scenario

Rob is a senior in college, and he’s out of class for the day looking for something fun to do. Sure, he has homework, but that comes later; for now he just wants to hang out and do something fun. Instead of texting all his friends and getting a jumble of messages back, he pulls up EventHub, where he can quickly see what’s going around him.

Before logging in, he’s presented with the browsing view of activities happening nearby. He immediately logs in and is returned to the original page. He tweaks the preferences in the sidebar: he only wants events happening in the next three hours within 1 mile, posted by his friends. The page redraws. An event for a chess game catches his eye: his friend Adam wants to play a game in 2.5 hours. Adam is a 24 year old who thinks he's much better at chess than he really is. Rob is in -- he's heard about this Adam kid. He clicks the event and the details open in the page. Adam only wants to play with one person, and Rob is the first to see the event. Rob RSVPs on the page and the event is removed from everyone else’s listings.

Rob still has 2.5 hours to kill and feels like playing basketball so he creates an event of his own. He clicks the “create event” link at the top of the page. He enters all the revelant details (title; location; time; public, semi-private, or private) and tags it so people can find it: basketball, sports, pickup game. His event will now show up for anyone nearby; in the meantime, he heads home to change.

When Rob gets home, he decides to make himself a snack to fuel up for the basketball game, but this means pushing the game back half an hour. No worries, he just logs back on EventHub, navigates to the page of his events, and edits the event he just created, moving the time back half an hour. He saves the event changes and makes himself a peanut butter, nutella, and banana sandwich. Rob receives a text message on his phone, letting him know the new details of the event. And 15 minutes before he receives another, reminding him that the event is about to happen. 

After his snack, Rob checks EventHub before heading out. His friends Jake and Amy (players on the boys and girls varsity teams, respectively) have RSVPed to his event, so he knows he’ll definitely have people to play with. When he shows up to Dupont, two other guys he doesn’t know are there too. New pickup buddies, nice.

Designs

Design 1:

This is the homepage that all users see when they first come to the EventHub page. At the top of every page is a menu bar to navigating through options: homepage (logo), the user's events (attending and administering), the user's profile if he is logged in, their friends, and the option to create an event. Similarly, there is a link to login or register above the menubar, which is replaced with the user's name after login. 

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