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Jeanette, a freshmen in college, wants to make a birthday card for her best friend Jode, who's whose birthday is coming up in two weeks. She understands everyone is busy, and that some Unfortunately, all of Jode's friends may not be in the areaare either super-hosed from school or in another continent. She can't possibly invite everyone to come to Jode's party, not even to sign her birthday card. So she goes to Eloha, where she signs up for creates an account and chooses a template for the overall look of the card. After successfully signing up and choosing a template, Eloha presents her with a link an e-card for Jode. Eloha then generates a URL link for her to send to all her of Jode's friends that she'd like to sign in the e-card. One of them is Max, who goes on Eloha and writes his own message. He has the option of signing up for an account if he would like to save his work and be able to come back to it later in case he wants to edit anything. Or he can just choose to confirm his final message and not sign up for an account, knowing the fact that he will not be able to make any changes afterwards. He decides not to sign up for an account, and sends the link to another friend Xindi.
Max receives an email that day day with the link to sign Jode's birthday e-card. Longtime lab buddies, he readily agrees and follows the link to Eloha. He briefs through Jeanette's messages and inputs his own witty rhyme. In a rush to get to his next class, Max hurriedly saves the card and saves anonymously. Although his message won't be perfectly polished, he'll be able to live with a few mistakes as long as he can finish fast. Later that day, Max meets Xindi, another Jode's pset buddy, in class and passes on the URL link to Xindi when they bring up Jode's upcoming birthday party.
Later that night, Xindi goes on to Eloha, writes a brief half-finished message, and decides to sign up for an account so that saves her message under a new account she creates so she can come back to the card at a later time to finish working on it. A few days before to finish it. After two days, Xindi finally finds the time and OCDness to finish her literary work of perfection by login in, editing Jode's card, and saving with numerous revisions.
After a week's worth of message collecting, we're finally two days away from Jode's birthday, Jeanette goes signs back into Eloha with her registered email/password. She previews the card , adds some last finishing touches and publishes the e-card.
Jode's birthday arrives, she wakes up to a surprise Happy Birthday email in her inbox with a link onto Eloha, and decides to compile everything so that it'll be ready for Jode. On the day of her birthday, Jode receives a new link that takes her to her Eloha greeting card , filled with all the custom messages and photos that her friends and family have included compiled virtually together for her. Everyone is happy, and the birthday is a successJode is ecstatic to read messages from her old friends and sits at her computer all morning cracking up at silly pictures of the past and the love sent from all her close-ones. Mission Accomplished!
Designs
Graphics Editor Layout
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Jeanette logs in creating a page-modal popup login box. There is a close button the popup as well as a Cancel button, both of which will return focus to the homepage in case they clicked on "log in" by accident.
Page-modal popups prevent the user from doing unexpected actions aside from the current action (like logging in), but also require the user to navigate their mouse cursor to the popup to interact with its fields. So, for example, we could've used a drop-down accordion-like panel that appears when the "Log In" button is clicked. That way, the mouse cursor is already in the vicinity of the login fields and so it would make it easy to navigate to them, as opposed to the modal popup in the center of the screen.
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Jeanette sees her card list, which has no cards currently. If the card list is populated, it will display all cards available with a small thumbnail preview of the card. She can access account options on the right, which is similar to how the homepage was laid out, all controls and commands on the right. This is consistent with the homepage and is used (mostly) all across the entire website. The message in the center of the card list lets Jeanette go straight into making a card.
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Clicking on "Contributors" opens a page-modal popup showing contributors to the card via their email. It also displays their permissions. You can edit by directly typing in a row and selecting permissions via a drop-down list. The current entry is highlighted. Jeanette sends an invite to Max here.
It may be a bit slow to manage large groups of contributors since the user must edit each contributor individually with regards to permissions.
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Max is editing text using the text tool (depressed in the tool menu). A typography bar appears showing common text options. The text edit box is dotted to separate it from other objects on the canvas, and is adorned with resize handles.
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- Lack of media options: Collaborators won't get to attach videos, doodle, or scrap together pictures into the ecard. This may inhibit creativity and cramp people's styles.-