Redefining the creative community experience. Sessions is the idea sharing and feedback platform for creative communities. Work together as you help each other see your projects from ideas to finished works.
Sessions is participatory at its core. We are putting users, and their work, first. Rather than submitting work to a blank screen, share it with the community.
Professor
Jason Gottlieb
Tags
User Experience . Product Design . Research Thesis
Time
2024 Second Quarter
Sessions recreate the magic of group critiques in a digital format by putting people’s work first on the circle. These spaces are time based and can be used to share feedback between peers or classmates at key points of a project.
Selected Feature
Communities can create multiple sessions. Timeline allows you to pan through them and see people’s work over time, making progress tangible and communication more transparent.
Add specific questions you have to each post, or leave it open ended. In this way you can make sure you are getting exactly the feedback you need on your work.
This was a research heavy project, exploring various forms of creative online engagement, and following comprehensive user research and interviews, market research, prototyping and usability testing
I first invited as many students and professors on campus to comment on their thoughts about three main themes relevant to my project:
(Critiques–Discussions) (Documentation–Archive) (Online Community)
Additionally, I attended various open critiques in art and interviewed the participants to better understand how critique is facilitated.
Early on, I designed many sketches exploring alternative user interfaces. I would present these to peers and professors across the department to see what features clicked the most with people and how they would imagine their experience in these platforms.
As I refined the concept, I started experimenting with social features for connecting to other artists and communities online. Ultimately, I scrapped most of these features in favor of a much more lean, community focused platform.
Having landed on a specific concept and in the process of refining its architecture, I tested multiple prototypes with my peers to iron out the details. At this point my main focus was on nailing the library and posting structure, so that commenting on each other’s work could be as seamless as possible.
