User Interactions on Website Brainstorming

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.”