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For our third design, we aimed for the opposite end of the spectrum from our first design. Where our first design took all the control out of the user's hands with a wizard, we wanted to put all the control back into the hands of the user with this design. The landing page for this design showed the two main features of our site, browsing businesses and creating events, as well as a visually appealing graphic. The graphic was a representation of our business and charity connections network in the form of a graph. Charities and business would be represented by nodes of different shapes, and when a business sponsors an event for a certain charity, there would be an edge between that business's node and that charity's node. For this model, we decided that each business would have two important attributes: points and quota rating. A business would earn points for donations. Larger donations would earn more points. So, points would reflect the frequency and size of a business's donations. The quota rating would represent how much a business has donated thus far compared to its donation quota. So, a business that has a large quota rating is probably more willing to donate than a business with a low quota rating. If a business has reached its quota, it has zero quota rating and is probably unlikely to donate any more. The browse businesses page was inspired by yelp's search results page. A user could filter results by relevant criteria such as location, size, points. The businesses would populate a list underneath the filters, with each business having its own row to display information. If a user is logged in, then clicking on a "connect" button below the business would pop up a message dialog box so the user could contact this business about donations. If the user is not logged in, then clicking on the "connect" button would show a preview of the message functionality and prompt the user to log in or make an account. These messages that the user could send would be filtered by our system so that only legitimate requests could actually reach a business. This feature addresses the complaint that several businesses raised in our interviews of being overrun with requests to donate. The create event page would be similar to our last design, for an illiterate user. We think that design provided a simple, interactive and interesting interface for the user. |