"Party Passes" allow for hosts to quickly scan in guests and validate their identity as well as provide some accountability for who was at the party should issues occur.

For public parties, scanned party passes provide glanceable insights about the guest based on previous host reviews and can view their overall guest score to determine if they want to admit them or not.

Guest reports of malpractice ping the host and helpers with push notifications providing them with a breakdown of the report so that they can address the issue as soon as it is identified.

This is with the intention of preventing further issues from arising and resolving then before their impact has any further impact on the party and guests.

Deep consideration was given as to how to represent the relevant information needed by prospective guests when searching for parties to attend whilst at the same time protecting the privacy of hosts, this involved showing time in distance to the event and anonymised guest lists.

Furthermore instead of using a map based search a feed based solution was derived that affords uses the flexibility to search and filter their feed to find parties that interest them.

Confetti Gold is a service aimed at ensuring security at social events, Gold parties are hosted by top rated hosts who the undergone bespoke training and education on managing social environments so that guests know they are in good hands.

In order to provide a solution that fosters safe social environments, you need to have an understanding as to the factors that influence them.

Party feedback in the form of emojis is a qualitative method of collecting live party feedback as to map the overall guest experience across the course of a party so that when reports of malpractice are generated the conesquent impact on the guest experience can be mapped, in turn informing Confetti of the priority of each type of report.

The afformentioned live feedback is displayed next to the associated party to signify to potential guests the current live experience via the type of reactions and frequency at which they are submitted.

The party creation flow was created with the goal of minimising the disparity between party hosting and party attendance frequency amongst target users and promoting a self sustaining balance where supply of parties meets demand and overcrowding is prevented.

To achieve this Miller's law was considered and the task complexity was abstract across several stages to minimise the load on the user's working memory and convenience was prioritised in the forms of location detection and theme selection to condense the flow where possible.

The inability to properly organise, control and moderate social gatherings detrimentally impacts both the host and guest experience through threats to safety and overall wellbeing.

The possible existence of these issues alone could be enough to detract from the social environments but the consequences should they happen can be deeply damaging.

Whether that's lost bags or stolen wallets to sexual assault, theft and even discrimination.

It came to attention that there is a disparity between the user's propensity to attend a party/social event compared to hosting one. This highlighting potential opportunity areas for exploration in understanding user motivations and pain points that could lead to such behaviour.

Furthermore the type of party/social event was examined as to refine the focus on the solution so that the final functionality does not spread itself too thing and fail on solving any one user's needs.

Furthermore the user's emotional state during parties was evaluated with the aim of identifying the key concerns and opportunity areas that the solution could target, the most prominent feelings being those of unease and confusion.

Finally, as to gain insight into why a discrepancy between attending and hosting propensities the concerns associated with hosting a party was examined so that future ideation could take place around addressing these concerns, such as security and participant management and promote a more enjoyable and fruitful social environment for all.

Competitive analysis was conducted looking at existing market solutions, analysing their objectives, infromation architecture, functionality, strengths and weaknesses as to develop an understanding of the market shortcomings and opportunity areas.

It became clear that these solutions do not appropriately consider user safety or provide sufficient feedback mechanisms to help hosts and guests make informed decisions about the social environments they attend and foster.

Moreover there was a distinct gap between solutions focused strictly on fun and those for more formal social contexts such as professional events.

Lastly, these tools do not take the necessary steps to ensure a good party to guest fit, instead discoverability prioritises the quantity of attendees with key context information hidden behind map views (which pose security/privacy issues as users can circumvent the system using the map location).

After developing a better understanding of the user’s problems, goals and needs we were able to define users by 2 categories, Guests and Hosts. Although it is to be noted that users can fall into both categories.

These personas encompassed the target audience and beyond with the goal of representing user pain points, motivations and contexts to facilitate empathising and understanding oh user needs when ideating through potential solutions.

Initial sketches were created to explore potential solutions and as well to explore potential information architectures

This process was valuable in ideating the different fields required for the party creation flow and deciding the sensitivity and necessity of sensitive host related information.

To ensure a clear and consistent user experience we then outlined the information architecture explored the solution structure and infromation hierarchy to ensure usability and consistency.

This is achieved through placing the right information and functionality where it would be expected based on the perceived user mental model.

After completing the intial sketches and information architecture and having a better understanding of the user flow we created wireframes to outline both the host and guest flow for all of the defined application functionality.

Thought the design process considerations were made about protecting both host and guest privacy supported by the afformentioned information architecture to ensure the right information is displayed in the correct context.

Furthermore an emphasis was placed on display and collecting user feedback as to establish accountability that users can use to make informed decisions as to which parties they attend and which guests they admit.

In order to further refine the user experience and ensure a cohesive user flow we then created a mid-fidelity prototype to evaluate the rationality of the functionality, test the interactions and validate wayfinding through user testing.
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We conducted the user testing over 4 participants of varying ages and produced a system usability score across both the host and guest flows that enabled us to assess the viability and usability of each solution.

Based on this feedback we were then able to gain insights into specific user pain points in our lfow and redesign our functionality in accordance with them.

According to the feedback received from the user testing it was clear that the party overview scene from the host flow had shortcomings with regards to the guest list being integrated into it, to address this the guest list was redesigned into its own screen to facilitate more items in the viewport and faster scanning.

Additionally the notification management logic had to revised as the initial solution did not provide a referencable hub for notifications. To solve this a notifications CTA was added with a notification signifier to alert users of past notifications.

In encapsulating the spirit of parties and socialisation the confetti name was chosen with the accompanying logo mark symbolising the function of the solution a recognisable way.

Implementing the feedback from using testing the final high fidelity visualisations were created to bring the final solution to life.

When approaching the party creation flow, extensive exploration took place in determining the optimal behaviour for managing date and time selection.

The focus was on providing logical navigation with clear context signifiers to inform the host as to which days might be best for their particular party.

This can be seen through he solution exploration, the first design showcasing a full calendar view, this is great for scheduling events in the distant future but becomes problematic in that it.

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In showcasing the final solution, the problem it sets out to solve and the functionality that achieves it, a vision video was created, the starting point being storyboards to outline the different scenes and narrative.

After deciding on the video plot via storyboarding, a video script was created composed of the number of shots, a description, the type of shot and duration.

Filming was completed over one day and post production was completed using principle animations overlaid in mockups in adobe premier.