After the final critique on Monday, I got new ideas about how to do my final calendar. I was told that sometimes we get too attached to our work and that prevents us from coming up with new ideas. Sometimes is good to step back and rethink our process and explore with different ideas. With that in mind, I decided that it was not necessary to write down the names of your friends for every birthday. We only need a reminder of those days and we can usually remember whose birthday is it or check on facebook. So I changed the function of my calendar. Instead of being a calendar to write down the name of your friends on their birthdays, it is a calendar to remind the user that there is a birthday(s) on a specific day. All the user needs is a small, portable, and functional calendar to mark down the birthdays and use it as a reminder.
The final product is a 2” x 3.5” card that can easily fit in your pocket, wallet, or purse and it has the 12 months with their respective number of days. Each day is represented by a candle that the user can fill in to remind that there is a birthday going on that day. For the packaging I thought that a gift box would be appropriate since gifts and birthdays go together.
With my final calendar, I was able to achieve the main objectives I had since the beginning of my process: functionality, portability, and ease of use.
On the attached pictures you can see my calendar (front and back) and the template I used to make the packaging.
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