BIRTHDAY
GREETINGS
Suming Chen
John Hwang
Damandip Sanghera
What’s the need?
• The ability to give someone a birthday card
over Facebook.
• The current way of saying “Happy Birthday”
over Facebook does not allow for any creative
or visual personalization of the message.
How to address the need?
• We will be catering to the mutual friends of the
birthday card recipient.
• The idea of having a group of mutual friends
being able to send out a birthday card to a
birthday friend and being able to contribute
content cooperatively.
• This approach will allow the user to see what
mutual friends they have with the birthday
person, and then the user has a chance to send
invitations to those mutual friends so that they
can help build the birthday card.
Demonstration
Architecture Diagram
User Study Methodology
• Since our application is really focused on the fact that
users can band together to group sign a card, we
thought it would be best to watch two people
concurrently try to create a card and contribute to it.
• Our method of observing these activities was to be
with the pair in real life and record the time they spent
on each feature.
• We would ask them, time to time, if they had any
complaints or suggestions, while we recorded the data
onto our laptops.
• We used a Likert scale to quantify the user’s
experience.
Summary of User Study
• The users seemed to like the colors and fonts.
They also thought the navigation was smooth
compared to other Facebook applications.
• It seemed that the users felt like the final product
was worth the effort, since the slideshow would
be displayed for everyone to see.
• Another general consensus among users was that
it was annoying not have a back button.
• A pair of the users we interviewed had a problem
as one of them sent the card before the other
had even had a chance to contribute anything.
Conclusions of User Study
• Add an option to delete unwanted
photographs.
• Add a back button to the Upload Pictures and
Palette/Drawer page, so that a user could
have an easier time navigating.
• Put a reminder at the top of the screen so that
only the user who initially created the card
can send the card.
Design Changes
• A “ready system” will be implemented so that
contributors to the card can tell the creator of the card
when they have finished contributing, so the creator
knows when to send the card.
• Improve the palette/drawer. Most users seemed to
find it not as intuitive and easy to use as the Graffiti
application.
• Our palette/drawer saves a picture much slower than
the Graffiti application, so the foremost improvement
we would have to make is to lessen the time it takes to
save the picture.
• Adding music to the contributions page.