The problem: Selling art and networking as a freelance artist is difficult. Using social media to showcase and advertise sounds like a great start, however it is easy to get lost in the sea of profiles on social media sites. The majority of them are upstarts, people trying to become famous, people looking to socialise, and just a general medley of different use cases.
The solution: The Art Hub or Hui Kiʻi application will provide a centralized directory for artists at and near UH Manoa and their art. The Hub is a platform that specifically brings artists together, from amateurs to professionals, to showcase, advertise, and sell their products.
Art Hub has three user roles: artists, collectors, and administrators. Any user can have any role, or more than one (you can be an artist and a collector, for instance). Artists have additional tools to post art and create galleries. Collectors have tools to make offers to purchase art. Hub Admins have the ability to edit the data associated with artists, ensuring site content is appropriate.
Artists can post a profile describing their work as an essay. They can also post both individual works and galleries organizing multiple individual works. They can edit (CRUD) their own art and galleries. Each user may display a gallery on their page that can host their completed works or things they are currently working on.
Collectors can specify interest areas, and be notified when a new artwork is created matching that interest area. Interests can include media, content, and size.
Admins can monitor the site for inappropriate content, and create new categories of musical tastes, capabilities, and goals. They can edit any artwork or gallery.
Note: if you choose this idea for your final project, you cannot name it “Art Hub”. Come up with a different name for your final project.
Some possible mockup pages include:
Whether or not the following bullet points list all pages or not, the completed use case should show an end-to-end scenario of using the system.
After implementing the basic functionality, here are ideas for more advanced features:
Brook Conner
Joshua Cooperrider, Darin Wong, Rolando Cadiz, Keita Grant, Justin Barrett