Design+Education



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Description
[|Design Education] is a social networking site like facebook on a way smaller scale focusing its target audience towards designers. This site is fairly new and has less than 50 members. With most its members coming from the GTA. There reason I chose this was to see how feedback and community could be built in the context of design. Similar to facebook there are many applications a user has. They can blog, add photos, create/join groups, discuss in the forums, post videos, add friends, meet new people as well as comment and rate photos/design on the website. Also the site lists current events happening in Design, most events are listed in Toronto.

How it Works
Users will usually sign up. On this page users can see all the other member of the network. Currently the network is small. This idea might be good for the artists to come together maybe outside of the CCCA database but still part of the system. [|designeducationmembers.jpg]

Bio pages, this is the space where users can upload photos, videos, update their blog, create events and groups. [|designeducationmembersbio.jpg]

This user has a lot more going on. Really using the site, incorporating images from her flickr account. Posting links to videos. Taking part in discussions. This can all be seen simply from the navigation on the left side under her profile picture. [|designeducationmemberbetter.jpg]

Photos Main Page. On this page, all the recent picture that have been posted by users are shown together. Organized in different ways. Most recent, Most viewed etc. [|designeducationphotosmain.jpg]

Once the user selects a photo. This new screen will feature the photo, state who posted it on the top left corner. Users will have the option to provide a description of their photo. This can be used for critiques, or sharing their artwork. [|designeducationphoto.jpg]

On the same page. Other users have the option to rate the photo. Also add comments and give some feedback to the original poster. [|designeducationcomments.jpg]

The events page, featuers up comming events in the design realm. Many of these events are happening in Toronto, and mainly so because most of the users are from the GTA. [|designeducationcomments.jpg]

Insights

 * Re-thinking of different ways to set-up the bio pages for artists
 * Trying to connect artists together through groups, forums, discussions
 * Feedback from artists on photos
 * Publishing of artwork in this space/database
 * Small scale social network that could exists side by side with database
 * Giving Users/Artists more options to be more enjoyable.