Exploring Artwork
- FindArt
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The team designed a feature called FindArt for CampusCompas, as an effort to create interactive art labels for Humber Art Galleries. CampusCompass is an existing navigation mobile app for Humber College, that helps navigate the campus. With the new feature, CampusCompass helps students and officials to discover art around them. This feature notifies users about artworks in their vicinity and navigates them towards the artwork.
Role: Project Lead and UX Designer
Setting: A Design team consisting of 2 visual designers, 2 UX designers
Timeline: 2 days
The Problem
The majority of artworks displayed along the campus of Humber College are undiscovered. Students and officials often walk past them without paying much attention, and the artists fail to connect with the audience through their art.
CampusCompass
It lets you know where to get food and where the buildings are.
So, why not let the students know if there is an artwork nearby!
On the first day of our two-day design jam, we were briefed about the design problem that we had to tackle; design an interactive art label for the Humber art galleries. In the short period, we spoke with a curator from the Humber gallery, an artist, and two viewers (a student and a faculty) to discover more about the problems they face. We found that exhibits are not just displayed in the gallery space but all around the campus, and the students and officials at Humber are not aware of a majority of them.
Stakeholders
Artists
Viewers
Curators
Pain Points
Artists'
How to get more traction for their artwork?
How to connect with their audience through their art?
How to understand the art or even identify it?
Viewers'
Curators'
How to have the viewers pay attention to the artwork?
From our research, we learned that majority of the students do not know where artworks are located and often they struggle to find more information about artworks that are placed in unconventional locations. We thought about two scenarios that would help students and officials at Humber College identify artworks: notify them through the CampusCompass application or direct them to an art label on scanning a QR code displayed along with an artwork.
2 Scenarios
Gets notified
Scan the QR code
Task Flows
01
Get notified
01
Gets notified when in 10 m vicinity
02
Art details appears on the screen
03
Get directions
04
Navigate towards it
05
Read/Listen about the art and the artist
02
Scan the QR code
01
See an artwork
02
Scan QR code
03
Directs to Campus Compass
04
view art label in the app
05
Read/Listen about the art and the artist
Features in FindArt
Notifies every time a person is within a 10m radius from an artwork.
Provides directions to reach the artwork
Scan QR codes to display art labels
Chunking information and audio descriptions
When a user is within a 10m radius of an artwork, they will get a notification that directs them to the CampusCompass application. The user can use the app to navigate to the art display, and on reaching, a detailed description appears on the screen. Describing as chunks, and the audio recording displayed on the screen encourages the viewers to look at the artwork and pay more attention to the details. Alternately, users who do not want to enable the notification services can scan the QR code next displayed next to artworks if they do not want to enable the notification services.
