User Interactions on Website Brainstorming

1. Resident logs onto longhorn sharing project using two factor authentication

Front Page:

• Welcome banner at the top (catchy slogan under that)
• Most recent items listed below (20 per page)

Top Tabs:

• Gives (default)
• Requests

Requests:

• Automatically takes to list of requests
• Plus sign at top right to add request
• Search button

Gives:

• Plus sign at top right to add a donation
• Title
• Select filters
• Description (add a short description of your item, you could include weight, additional details, a quick history on the item, etc.)
• Search button

Filters on Gives:

• Category
• Food
• Apparel
• Jewelry/Accessories
• Dorm Furniture (must be small like lamps, footstools, etc.)
• Dorm Decoration
• Personal Care Items
• Dorm
• Condition
• New
• Barely Used
• Well Used but Good Condition
• Worn and Torn

Clicking/Requesting an Item:

• Overview of item
• Button at bottom to request item
• Auto generates a message to the owner's email linked to EID (“First Name Last Name” requested your “item title”. Contact them at “email address” to set up your giveaway. Make sure to…..[suggested guidelines])
• Once this button is clicked, we hide the item so multiple people don’t request item
• If the initial giveaway did not work, it is up to owner to change their account settings so that we can unhide the item
• Person who requested the item is prompted to report whether the exchange happened successfully or not. 
• If successful: permanently delete item
• Else: unhide item and prompt
• If an item has been on the page for 3 months and no one has taken it, message owner in their website account if they’d like to renew item
• If yes: keep item
• If else: remove item (no or hasn’t responded in 48 hours)

Notifications:

• Every time owner or requestor has received a notification in their account (new message, someone has requested your item, etc.) auto-generate and email to their eid account
• “You have a new important notification in your Longhorn Sharing Account! Please click here to view your message.”