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Eduard, a 23-year-old designer, works in a Boston area based start-up. He visited the New York Metropolitan Museum of Arts last month. He was excited about Jackson Pollock's works. He wants to learn Pollock's techniques of drawing. He googled a lot of phrases like "draw as Jason Pollock", he found a few videos and text descriptions which were very boring and non-interactive. He tried to find a private tutor to explain him how to learn that technique, but that tutor was too expensive ($100 per hour) for him. He was upset because he didn't find a way to learn Pollock's technique.
Typical process consists of three stages:
- Lectures, when teacher describes the process of right drawing, shows typical pictures and tries to describe all the basic rules. This process is similar to studying the information in books or in the internet.
- First attempts of drawing when students try to draw something similar of existing pictures, and the teacher monitors the whole process and gives feedback right in the process of drawing. This step is necessary because it helps artists to become a skilled hand at this technique.
- Lastly, all the students begin drawing by themselves showing only ready works to a teacher.
Individual design sketches.
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1. A user wants to repeat/draw a picture. He has two options: to find it by name/author/style using a search text box (see below) or if he sees a picture at the moment, he can just photo it (after pressing "Search by Photo" button). So, the user chooses one picture he would like to train on.
2. The user takes a sheet of paper and redraws the picture, step-by-step.
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User personal account. User can use it to choose to customize his or her account, add photo and start or continue to work on techniques. Also he can see his progress in each of them.
After choosing lesson user gets to the lesson page. Here he can see the interactive sub window which shows how to draw a picture and sub window which contains transforms video from the webcam which allows user to see how he draw a picture. Also he can see his or her progress in this lesson.
Analysis of the designs.
Design
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Pros:
Learnability: a user can understand the sequence of steps very fast. Additionally, every page contains full information about technique few controls.
Efficiency: user can use search to find technique which suits for him fast.
Safety: the user will be able to check his progress as many times as he wants; so even if he accidentally mixes up a picture or his drawing, he will be able to recheck the progress or redraw something after making a photo and receiving feedback.
Cons:
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Efficiency: You need to go to the account to start lesson.
Safety: No possibility to undo.
Design: Mobile Application.
Pros:
Learnability: as soon as it is learning by doing, a user can understand the sequence of steps very fast. Additionally, every page contains little information and few controls, so for user it will be easy to understand what he should do on each step.
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Safety: Each page contains one/two buttons - difficult to make any mistakes. If mistake was made the user immediately gets feedback from the rabbit-artist. All the mistakes easy to solve by pressing "No" or undo.
Cons:
Learnability: no help button
Efficiency: you cannot skip registration, you cannot use search, you need to approve choice of technique.
Safety: you can't return to the main page easily.
Design: Website
Pros:
Learnability: a user can understand the sequence of steps very fast. Additionally, every page contains full information about technique few controls.
Efficiency: user can use search to find technique which suits for him fast.
Safety: the user will be able to check his progress as many times as he wants; so even if he accidentally mixes up a picture or his drawing, he will be able to recheck the progress or redraw something after making a photo and receiving feedback.
Cons:
Learnability: No help, requires a certain period of time to learn all the features of the website. You need to have an account to add lesson to it and to start.
Efficiency: You need to go to the account to start lesson.
Safety: No possibility to undo.