EventPlus
Online Collaborative Event Planning
EventPlus
Our solution is a new Facebook application called EventPlus, which includes guests in the event planning process. Attendees are able to volunteer to bring items, discover carpooling opportunities, and participate in polls to come to consensus on sensitive factors like the time or location of an event. This way, the event planning experience becomes more social and less monotonous. In addition, while Facebook events are ignored after the event has taken place, EventPlus stays active afterward to encourage an open dialogue of what could have been improved and to share stories and media from the event. With more than more than 2 million events created each month on Facebook, there is a massive repository of events with valuable information for event planners. Adding just one line of feedback to each of these events can go along way.
What's Up
Motivated from the data in our research, we came up with a list of features and narrowed them down with affinity diagramming, user testing and the creation of a scenario. We broke down our resulting features into three primary sections:
1. Invitations: Increasing potential attendees through a more conspicuous listing of friends who may be attending, and prompting people to RSVP truthfully by modifying the selections.
2. Planning: Encouraging attendees to participate in event planning by giving them a specific list of tasks to choose from, offering modes of transportation, and giving an option to voice their opinions.
3. Post-Event: Provide a centralized location for post-event discussion and media sharing as well as feedback for what could have been improved for helping people plan similar events.
Our deliverables include an interactive click-through of our design ideas, a scenario supported by a series of screenshots, and an open source Facebook wireframing template for Adobe InDesign, which can all be found on the right column under Deliverables. We expect that through using EventPlus, people will use Facebook as a tool for more than just event invitations, but for effective social collaboration and insightful feedback resulting in more well-planned, enjoyable and memorable experiences.