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Observations & Interviews
The Architect
- An architecture student doing graduate-level training for professional architecture work
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- Wants review audiences to have limited visibility of each other (e.g professors shouldn't be able to see what her friends think of her art)
The Filmmaker
- A technical artist at an Academy Award-winning special effects studio.
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- Really enjoyed contextual feedback (i.e. "oh this is a lot like <some other film maker>")** Especially helpful when such comparisons inspired collaboration.** Would have liked a forum in which people could post videos of related work.
The Digital Artist
- Background in painting
- Studied Digital + Media Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design
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- Some work is generated programmatically -- could be interesting ways for people to experiment and contribute
User Classes
- Hosts
- Roles
- Arts professors
- Arts students
- Professional artists
- Non-artists
- Types
- Host
- wants feedback, for themselves, or on behalf of their mentees
- roles: arts professors, arts students, pro or professional artists
- Commenters
- givers providers of feedbackall roles
- art students (peers), professors, professional artists, non-artists
Needs & Goals
- Efficient feedback
- Artists don't want to spend a lot of time getting feedback (e.g. at gallery critiques)
- Artists would like to get feedback online
- Artists would like to get feedback frequently
- Constructive feedback
- Commenters should be able to include references (e.g. this work reminds me of..., try to make this work more like...)
- Commenters should be able to provide graphical examples (e.g. sketches) and annotations (similar to pen/paper or sticky notes in traditional critique sessions)
- Variety of feedback
- Artists would like to reach a wide variety of commenters (e.g. friends, professors, professionals)
- Artists may be interested in collaborating with others
- Organized feedback
- Artists would like to organize feedback by type (e.g. emotional, like/dislike, technical)
- Artists would like to set privacy/viewing settings between groups (e.g. professors should not be able to see comments from artist's friends)