New Calendar App Solution

[kellessdee 48]

Hey there everyone! I am currently taking an Interactive User Design course in my college program, and our main project is basically to design an application (all on paper, no actual coding...however I may design this in the future, I think it would be useful for me)

 

Anyways, onto the application.

 

Intro

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As we all know, there are many calendar and datebook applications exist, however they generally only work if you remember to check them (which is something I do not do.) So this design is an attempt to create a calendar application that is not only easy to use and highly user friendly (I believe it should not be harder to set up a date book than it is to remember the date/appointment in the first place) as well as attempts to NOT LET YOU FORGET.

 

Features

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How the application will work is by allowing the user to set up multiple notification types (through popular social networking, SMS/Text messages, e-mail, etc.) And will remind you on all services (if you choose to do so).

 

There will be default tagging of Date types (so you can set multiple default settings)

 

Location Tagging (integrated with google maps) So you can be reminded where to be.

 

Confirmation of remembering appointment, you can confirm that you remembered the date so you can see whether you missed something.

 

Discussion

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So, my question to you is:

Is this something that you would find useful? What features do you think would be useful that I may have missed?

 

 

Also, if you have the time please fill out this survey, I need about 25 responses for class. It's only 6 questions.

If not I included a forum poll to still collect some extra data.

 

Survey

 

 

Thank you very much for your time, I appreciate it greatly.

 

PS. If you are interested in reading the full project definition, you may here:

 

Project Definition

[ShinyToyGuns 29]

I think this would be quite useful from the sounds of it. I'm constantly forgetting stuff, and 1 reminder isn't enough.

[Polraudio 122]

This would be very useful because i dont look at most of the things i use. A feature that would be key to add.

Alarm. So you have no choice but to look at it. Maybe make it get louder the longer its going off.

 

I just seem to do things when alarms go off. then you feel like you have to do it.

[kellessdee 48]

@stg: cool, I am not the only one then :P I want to actually make this in the end (primarily because I would find it very useful) as long as I can find a way to do it well while keeping it a free service. I wouldn't have it in me to charge people for something like this. google ad sense could be a good solution.

 

@pol: that's another issue I have, I have used a lot of datebook solutions before but never remember to look at them...thus making them useless. And alarms sound like a good idea. The goal is really to make something that by default is useful, but also add some customization (seeing as everyone's memory works differently) so additional features like this would be great.

 

Thanks for the responses guys :)