Wishl | Description

Description

A Short System Description

Most of us know the situation before Christmas or birthdays. You don´t know which gift to buy. Does my Sister like this color? Does my grandmother already have the new ultra-fast hair-dryer? To reduce this stress before celebrations, we develop the idea of an online wish list.

Our WishList application integrates seamlessly into current social network applications. Now it is possible to find out the biggest wishes of your friends and everybody in your social context.

The main idea is that every user in the given social network creates his own wish list. If you are looking for a gift at your friend´s birthday or on Christmas Eve, you can simply look at your friends wish list. If you chose the gift for buying, you can mark it, so that other users don´t buy the same thing for your friend. If there is no gift left on wish list, the system can extrapolate from former wishes and wish lists from other people a bunch of other appropriated gifts.
At Christmas time, children are able to send their wish list to a virtual Santa Claus (this wish lists were forwarded internally to the parents).

A (Preliminary) Feature List

Evaluate from price comparisons on homepages
Other members can see, what I looked for
Messenger in tree form
Enter new products
Enter a wish list
See other wish lists
Mark a desire => to avoid doubled gifts
Indicate who posseses the product => You can send a message to this person
For every product show the Top 3-Internet-Shops with the best price/support relationship (calculated by a fixed formula)
Link to an extern product-comparison page
Children are able to send their wish list to Santa Claus (a build-in account)
Save old lists
Remember the persons, which gave you a gift for your birthday/Christmas. Send a remembering-mail to you 2 weeks before their birthday/Christmas.
Offering the ability to compose groups to give a common gift.
Show people which have similar wish-lists to deliver more gift ideas.

Features added during the design process

Analyze the email-, messenger-, and other social network-traffic to categorize the nature of the relationship between the users.
Analyze the process of giving a gift to get the nature of the different gifts (i.e. rose is a more personal gift than a DVD).