Our design team created three fun frames, focusing on the library and Book Festival. These frames were designed with selfies and social media in mind, leaving plenty of space in the center of the screen to show guests and event details while clearly showing where they were taken and enhancing the branding of the event. 

The Photo Booth works like this: users go to a URL, either by tapping their phone to an NFC card or using a QR code. They choose the custom frame they want to use. Then, they take a photo and share it. From there, the Administrative team can look at photos for screening. For this step, we used a program called Pusher, which gets real-time updates from the server so the Admin team knew when new pictures were taken. This way, administrators didn’t have to keep checking to see if any new pictures were available for approval. Once the administrators approved pictures, they went to the public-facing screens for the guests at the festival to see!

The photo booth was a different type of project than we typically do, so there were some challenges we had never encountered before. Getting the user interface, the administrative backend, and the public display to interface together was a crucial part of the programming process. Another challenge was making sure the design elements scaled appropriately on every device. The end result ensured that the frame looked good on Apple and Android, Chrome and Safari, and screens of all sizes.