For this project we were tasked with creating an application for the Facebook platform called “Facebook TV”. Our concept was a weekly “TV” segment consisting of clips sent in by users of Facebook relating to a weekly theme. We delivered a mockup of Facebook TV and an IA diagram of Facebook.

Final Mockups

Summary

This project involved the creation of a Facebook TV concept. The application was then developed and fit into the current information architecture of Facebook.

Process

As a group we began conceptual brainstorming for what we wanted Facebook TV to be. We decided that the content of Facebook TV would be a weekly video compilation made up of smaller video segments submitted from Facebook users about a weekly theme.We figured the user submission and voting on videos would help draw users into our application and the ability to incorporate votes and submissions to the news feed would continually draw in user participation.

After the first night I developed the IA diagram of Facebook and Drew created a mockup of how he saw the application looking in Facebook. I also created a sitemap for how Facebook TV as an application. These were created using Omnigraffle.

Drew created a mockup in photoshop of how he thought Facebook TV would look, but unfortunately he created a mockup that looked more like a facebook group than a Facebook application.

I walked my team through the differences in look and behavior between an application, event pages, and fan pages. We then sketched how the application would look, and how the users homepage would look when they participated in the Facebook TV application.

We mocked up our final application and the homepage mockups using Adobe Photoshop.

Reflection

This project was a good opportunity to try to build an extension to an existing product. This required a deep understanding of the Facebook platform as it currently existed. We as a team worked to make sure we were designing precisely what we were tasked with. It was important to understand how Facebook users would interact and become part of Facebook TV and it was important to fit this application in seamlessly with the current Facebook product.