How do you plan events?

BRIEF - How do you plan events with the people around you?

People are always busy with their lives so it is hard to keep track of what everyone around you that matters. There are people who may loose touch with their friends for not going to the same college or parents setting up plans with their children. Young adults at work also wants to keep in touch with friends who may be still studying or working or, just having to set up meetings with colleagues.

“Everyone has different agendas, it is hard to come to a conclusion when planning and scheduling events together”

Initial Research

Brainflow - What do we want?

A little concept map

Research (Cont.) - what do we need?

Let’s have a look at our similar buddies

Google Calendar

One of the most common and used shared Google Calendar app. In this app, you can have separate calendars accordingly and colour code them to your choice.

You will have to own a gmail account to be able to use this calendar so people will have to create a new email address for those who don’t have one already

Apple Calendar

Apple Calendar can be used cross platform; on macOS and iOS. It is a simple, streamlined calendar and easy to read. Like most Apple products, it can be synced to iCloud and can also tag locations to the event users input into the calendar.

Apple calendar does not cross OS so it is a disadvantage for people who does not use an Apple device.

Trello

Trello is used commonly for work tracking and productivity between colleagues. This is also used as an area for colleagues to collaborate and discuss on tasks at hand.

Users are not able to share photos or other common form of media through the app.

research (cont.) - Who wants to plan? with whom?

Personas

“To create a place to plan, devise, chat, share, an all-in-one app to help users gather people together.”

The solution - make a social calendar

HORA

WHAT IS HORA?

Hora is an application that allows users to swiftly plan events with people you know, whether that be at school, work, or with people you want to hang out with. To hasten the process, schools and universal holidays are already in the app. For users who are currently working, they can also input holidays into a calendar and share with the company. this app lets you sync all the holidays together without trying to message everyone individually. Another use for this is also for parents to get updated on their children’s calendar without having to ask them repeatedly. In the app, there will also be chat boxes available to that group, where you will be able to talk to the selected people and also share photos, video and voice recordings that can be tagged to a date on the calendar.