Callvenient is an app that knows when you can’t be interrupted and handles your incoming calls made by phones or skype, helping people find the best times to contact you. With a Microsoft account, Callvenient fetches your appointment informations and agenda, so when people try to reach you, Callvenient will act before the call, and if you are busy, it’ll notify the caller and provide him with options to contact you in a better time. It doesn’t simply block your incoming calls, but handles them in a more personal way offering ways for the connection to happen in the most convenient time.

1. IMAGINE CUP 2013
WINDOWS 8 APP CHALLENGE
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2. APP SUMMARY
• What is the goal of your project?
Nowadays, anytime and anywhere can be a really distracting environment. The constant ringing and
buzzing of our devices can sometimes disrupt our work, dinners, family time, and even our sleep.
Our main goal is to enable people to be more focused on their daily activities reducing the number of
interruptions during their appointments.
• Name and description of your app
Our solution to the scenario described is Callvenient, an app that knows the moments you don’t want to
be interrupted and based on that, handles your incoming calls made by other phones or skype through
Callvenient, helping people find the best ways and times to contact you.
To make it possible, you need to login with your Microsoft account, and then, Callvenient will
automatically sync with your Contacts and your Calendar. This allows the app to fetch your appointment
informations and keep track of your daily agenda. This way, when people try to reach you at an
inconvenient moment, Callvenient will act before the call is effectively made, and if you are busy, it’ll send
a notification to the caller that it isn’t a great time because you’re engaged in an important event, and
also, will provide your caller with some options to contact you in a better time, or less distracting way.
It doesn’t simply coldly block your incoming calls during inconvenient moments, but the opposite, it
handles them in a much more personal way offering options to the connection to happen in the most
convenient time.

3. APP SUMMARY (CONTINUED)
• Windows 8 App design and user experience
Callvenient was designed with full attention to details, from the background to the custom icons and
animations. All these little pieces were put together to create our interface and make it look not just
beautiful, but also digital, fast and enjoyable.
We used different font sizes and colors in the headers, sub-headers and content to emphasize the visual
hierarchy of the content and provide what the user needs, being an information or a button to execute an
action, as fast as possible. This can be noticed in the menu present in the contacts page, where the user
can access the main features like calling, text, schedule just with one tap.

4. APP SUMMARY (CONTINUED)
• Windows 8 platform functionality
To enhance the user experience and help the user achieve his objectives, we took advantage of a series of
windows 8 features:
• Share contract: When you create a busy moment via the status page, you can share your appointment
with your contacts. Very useful if you’re entering a meeting and want to suggest participants to be
unreachable as well.
• Toast notification: You get toast notifications for when the time for a scheduled call comes, when you
are entering on busy mode (if on the app settings you’ve set to be warned before going busy) and
when someone among your contacts starts using Callvenient. These are some examples of situations
you’ll be notified by a toast notification.
• Live Tile: Since Callvenient missed calls can carry useful informations from the calls, such as the
subject the missed call intended to discuss and other details, users will want to check them
frequently. For that matter, Callvenient uses a counter in the tile to display how many lost calls you
have. The live tile also changes its color according to your current status right in Start Screen.
• Semantic zoom: Browse through your contacts from the Home page using semantic zoom.
• Animations: The animations are an important characteristic of Callvenient, especially in the screens
that displays our most original features, like the checking screen and the contact status screen.

5. APP SUMMARY (CONTINUED)
• Originality and Innovation
Hundreds of apps enhances the connection between you and the people you care about. Some of them
are really smart and personal. But the way we call each other hasn’t changed much since a long time ago.
Other apps and devices just coldly block your incoming calls and offer few or no options to treat these
calling attempts like a human would.
Callvenient can provide you not only a personal but efficient assistance for your connections to happen
more conveniently. That’s why our app is different.
Callvenient is also innovative in the way it handles your incoming calls without the need of any call signal
to be sent, reducing the distractions to zero, as your device won’t even vibrate during incoming
undesirable calls.
It’s synchronization with calendar appointments is also an incredible feature that can automate completely
the recognition of moments you don’t want to be interrupted.
• Presentation & Polish
The key points in our video are the moments when the app is being used. The first one, when Alice is at an
important meeting with her clients shows exactly how our app works and makes clear that our main action
happens before the call is made, preventing Alice’s phone from ringing and interrupting her appointment.
Also, this part illustrates the actions available to the caller in that situation, when he will be able to
schedule the call, text, leave her the subject for the call or call her anyway.

6. APP SUMMARY (CONTINUED)
• Pre-existing source code
In Callvenient, we used:
• Windows Phone toolkit
• Mobile Service Client Library
• Live Connect SDK

7. WINDOWS 8
STYLE
DESIGN
AND USER
EXPERIENCE

8. TAILORED USER EXPERIENCE
• What are the specific user goals your app addresses?
Our app is designed to address these major user goals
• Don’t be interrupted during my important appointments or personal time
• Don’t interrupt my contacts during their important appointments and personal time
• Be more focused and productive in my daily activities
• Describe the scenarios your users will experience while
using your app.
With our app, you will be able to stop your interruptions anytime. For example, if you are
going to do something that needs your attention using your desktop or tablet and don’t want
to be interrupted by skype calls or your phone ringing, you can go to Callvenient and with a
few taps, change your status. The app will automatically handle the calls made to your phone
or Skype using Callvenient.
Or, if you synchronized Callvenient with your calendar, it will do all that automatically for you.
If you are going to a meeting and it`s registered in your calendar, our app will predict that is
going to change your status and in the right time, will do that for you.

9. WINDOWS 8 STYLING AND LAYOUT
The Windows 8 style can be viewed in Callvenient by our
combination of typography, icons and animations to create
a content focused interface.
In the entire app, we organize the content in a grid and
display it with the Segoe typeface using variations of size,
color and weight to create the hierarchy that makes it
readable and easily accessible. Also, between headers,
titles and text, we applied standardized margins to increase
the separation of different categories of content.
Appointments group in the tablet

10. WINDOWS 8 STYLING AND LAYOUT
The app background. Instead of using a solid color or a photo, we
created a pattern with a light effect to achieve a depth in the interface.

11. WINDOWS 8 STYLING AND LAYOUT
The status group, where you can see your current status and change it to busy.

12. WINDOWS 8 STYLING AND LAYOUT
The groups headers
Custom buttons Custom icons and buttons

13. WINDOWS 8 STYLING AND LAYOUT
The status screen in the Windows Store App and Phone App before and
after the set up of a busy moment. The change of the color to red shows
the user that he is currently busy.

14. INTERACTIONS
Using Callvenient, you will interact directly with the content, always tapping right in the
information to execute the main actions. Additional actions, the ones that the user won’t
need frequently, are displayed in the bottom app bar, that is related to the current view or
page.
User accessing
contact detail page
tapping right on the
contact photo.

15. INTERACTIONS
The app bar being displayed in the contact details page after a swipe
gesture.
The app bar was used to place commands relevant to the context of the
user, and also navigational commands like the home button.

16. NAVIGATION
Callvenient uses the hierarchical system to organize its content. The app’s first page is a Hub
with different categories of content that maps to the sections and details pages. Especially in
the Contacts group, the section page is accessed with a semantic zoom in the group of
photos, and the detail page of a contact can be directly accessed with a tap in his or her
photo.
To ease the users navigation, we used the Header with a persistent back button and also the
home button in the bottom app bar.

17. NAVIGATION
Tablet hub page showing different groups of content.

18. NAVIGATION
Contacts semantic zoom.

19. NAVIGATION
The header with persistent back button and, in the app bar, the
home button.

20. FAST & FLUID
We used animations to make the app more organic and fluid, especially in the screens that
have our most unique features.
• Checking: This animation plays while Callvenient is accessing it’s Azure database to check
if the contact being called is busy or not. When Callvenient gets the answer, it plays the
transition, that is also custom animated, between the checking and the contact current
status screen.
• Status change: When the user configures it’s busy moment and taps the “Get busy”
button, the page goes from the available to the busy mode, and this is shown with an
animation of the elements and their colors, changing it from green to red.

21. FAST & FLUID
Video displaying checking animation in the tablet.

22. FAST & FLUID
Video displaying checking animation in the
phone.

23. WINDOWS 8 STYLING AND LAYOUT
Video displaying status change animation in the phone.

24. WINDOWS 8
PLATFORM

25. VIEWS
Callvenient adapts itself to different screen resolutions and orientations.
Tablet in landscape mode.

26. VIEWS
Tablet in portrait mode.

27. CONTRACTS
Callvenient uses the settings and share contracts. In the settings, the user can configure the
options to make the app fit its own needs. And the share contract can be used to share a busy
moment created in the status page.
Settings contract
Here, the user can configure Callvenient, read the
privacy policy or configure his synchronized
account.

28. TILES
In the Callvenient live tile, we display the current status of the user by the color and, by a
counter, how many lost calls he has.
The live tiles from the phone and
tablet when the user is available.
When the user is busy, the tile
changes to red and the Callvenient
logo display an exclamation.
When somebody calls you using
Callvenient but, for some reason, you
didn`t answer, it`s counted like a
missed call and you get this
information in the tile.

29. NOTIFICATIONS
Callvenient uses toast notifications in three situations. When the selected time for a
scheduled call comes, when the user is entering on busy mode and when somebody shares
an appointment with you. All of them can be tapped, the first to make the call, the second to
cancel the change to busy mode, and the third to accept the appointment or not.
Notification that a
user wants to
share an
appointment with
you.

30. ANYTIME, ANYWHERE
Callvenient exists in any Windows 8 device, be it your stationary work computer, or your
personal laptop, tablet, or Windows Phone. It’s there for you, anytime and anywhere.
You can switch between devices and still have a seamless experience. Schedule calls on the
phone and be reminded on the tablet. Set a busy status on the PC and not be bothered on the
phone, and so on!

31. ROAMING
Callvenient uses Azure`s Mobile Service Client Libraries to synchronize your status and
scheduled calls with all your devices. When handling the calls you are going to make through
Skype or phone, the app firstly checks your agenda on our Azure Mobile Service using an
internet connection and the Mobile Service Client Libraries and, by the time it realizes that it
isn’t a great time because of your busy appointment, it will provide the callers with some
options to contact you in a better time.
And of course, if you are available, the call will be completed directly.

32. THANK YOU!