CCAD_iPad_V3

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CCAD the iPad App



Introduction The Canadian Contemporary Art Database (CCAD) application for ipad’s main function with

serve the purpose as a search engine. Through three different scopes one can direct their

search in any number of possible ways. How this will improve upon the current site is makethe data easily assessable and more visually interesting. To make the art or artist you are

searching for that much easier to find. With the art scope directly in mind, it eliminates the

endless pages of useless websites from an ordinary website search and only searches

relevant information. It will make it more readily available for artists to contact one another

or find artists who are similar to your search. An easier way to navigate through the over-

whelming information is the goal here and will be achieved in several ways, one is the bread-

crumb. The breadcrumbs will essentially leave a trail for you to follow and look at where you

have been and be able to know exactly where you are on the site at all times. Also, the appli-

cation will entail three possible search options, the first of which would be an open search.

What the open search does is a basic browse option. Type in a general idea of what you seek

and the database will search through the thousands of images and display results for you to

browse through. The guided search option acts as a more advanced search function, if you

know more specifically what you are looking for, it will give you several categories which you

can select options from to narrow your search even smaller to find the precise item you might

be researching, or just interested to know more detailed about. The last option available on

the application is the User Picks. This option allows a network of Canadian artists to build an

online community where they can view the Top All-time Picks, which allows them to see themost popular and most frequented images or the User Picks, which allow them to created

their own database and save for the themselves or to share with others the last option is a

CCAD employee list, which would showcase what the database is currently interested in and

viewing as well. The final piece that is included is a scrollable background image, one can

drag their fingers to change through the spotlight photos and see what’s new or whats avail-

able on the database itself. So the new CCAD iPad application will solve the websites existing

problem of navigation the visually stagnate identity and lack of Canadian artist community



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Final Icons

SEARCH USER PICKS GUIDED SEARCH

INFO USERS TOP USERS TOP CCAD TOP OVERALL



NAME: Sarah

AGE: 28

LANGUAGE:English

OCCUPATION: Curator

INTERESTS: Fine Arts, Indie Music, History, Photography

CURRENTLY:Living in Toronto and recently received an e-mail with a job offer for curating a show

SARAH–has dedicated her life to curating a variety of contemporary art projects. She has lived in

British Columbia all her life and has recently decided to move to Toronto to search for better, more

challenging curating projects. Upon arrival she visits several galleries and installations in the

Toronto downtown area, leaving her business card at each location.

She has now received an e-mail with a very flexible job opportunity; she has been asked to find and

recruit a number of local artists for a collaborative film and video installation at the Distillery

District happening in a few weeks’ time. At this point she picks up her iPad and opens the

Contemporary Canadian Art Database App to begin gathering contact information.

Scenario One

CCAD PERSONA: Sara

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6THE SEARCH ENGINE–Seeing as

her project has a very short

timeline, she needs to find the

contact information as accurately

and quickly as possible. When the

application opens, she is greeted

and given the option to navigate

the database in three different

ways: open search, guided search

and userpicks.

Assuming that the search bar

will find specific information

easily, she presses the open

search option, types in her

request: “Toronto Film and Video

Artists.”Since the app is hosted

on a dedicated server, the results

appear almost instantaneously.

At this point she checks the first

and last category on the list:

“Medium” and “Currently

Practicing.” which takes her

straight into the Film and Video

list that highlight the medium

and the practice status.

COLLECTING INFORMATION

–Having a list available she quickly

browses between results and

selects one that fits her needs.

A popout page slides into place and

offers all available information on

the artist, such as his e-mail, work

previews, curriculum vitae, etc.

In addition, Sarah will not only be

visiting one but several artists’

pages. Therefore a bread-crumbs

function is present at all times.

With this function she will be able to

go back to a specific point in her

search and finish recruiting artists

for her installation.

RESULTS’ FORMAT–To her surprise

the results have been sorted and

placed into categories according

her key words, “Toronto,” “Film,”

“Video,” and “Artist.” In addition to

similar functions used on the

Google search bar to rate the

information, the app also catego-

rizes the search instead of showing

endless pages of results, therefore

Sarah has the option of searching

each category separately.



Scenario Two

CCAD PERSONA: Ann

Age: 18Language: EnglishOccupation: StudentInterests: Fine Arts, Museums, Hanging with friendsCurrently: A first year student at OCAD in Toronto studying Fine Arts.

Anna: She just started at york university a couple of months ago, there are so manyprojects and assignments. Sometimes it can be hard to find inspiration for all thepaintings and projects she has to do. She recently received a project from her CanadianArtistic Roots class to create a piece of art based on a Contemporary Canadian art. Atfirst she was a little lost, after extensively searching on google for anything that wouldhelp me and go through pages and pages of content still not find anything relevant to whatshe was browsing for. This is why a couple of weeks ago She downloaded the CCADapplication for her iPad tablet. The application was exactly what she was looking for. Itallows her to search through multiple engines to get exactly what she is looking for. If Shewant to look up examples of Canadian artists in the acrylic medium its as simple asinputting it in. Through the simple easier to use navigation she can browse thoughthousands of images to casually look through images to find exactly what she’s looking forin terms of inspiration. The best part for her is all the images are relevant to art andunlike google with many irrelevant sites and images, it’s all Canadian Contemporary Art

and nothing else. When she don’t know what exactly I want to find I can look through thespotlight images or just use the open search or use the user picks reccomendation fromother artists like herself to see what they are looking at and enjoying as well. Creating acommunity of Canadian artists just like herself to explore what Canadian art has to offerAnna. She chose to add to the recommendations or read through everyone else's or theCCAD’s recommendations itself.

Anna opens the application notknowng exactly what she waslooking for. So we decided tobrowse through the spotlightimages to see if can find any-thing of interest.

She browses through severalimages, by swiping

She happens across anillustration that peeks herinterest,

So see selects the open searchoption and types in ‘Illustration’

Search results are displayed,which she can scroll through bydraging her finger up or down.

She chooses the icons toenlarge one particular image,and also displays a brief bio ofthe artist. She likes the artistso much she decides to herAdd to List.

She chooses the Top User Pickoption to view the list of usersand to add to her ownindividual list.

She scrolls through the list ofusers and she taps on her ownaccount to add the newinspiration she found to the listto save for later and showothers what shes interested in.

She simply then adds the pieceinto her collection for others tosee and to save for later

As she is done this currentsearch all she has to do to exitthis search is simply gentlyshake her ipad to refresh thesearch, and can start again toher hearts content.

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Scenario Three

CCAD PERSONA: Dan

Age: 55Language: EnglishOccupation:Senior Business ExecutiveInterests: Books, art criticism, cooking, and woodworkingCurrently: Working with a London Based Publishing Firm on a new book projectDante: Dante is a 55 year old Senior Business Marketing Executive for a large publishingfirm in London, England. For his company’s next publicatio nproject, they are attemptingto position a new book on the market that will appeal to creative types as a sort of coffeetable book. The book itself is a retrospective of creative ingenues of the late twentiethcentury. In their brief, which Dante recently received, they stated that they want to includea wide selection of subject matter, including business people, mathematiciams, inventors,writers, archeologists, artists, and the like. Additionally, they want to ensure that they areselecting individuals from most of the G20 countries. Working alphabetically down the listthe creative research team is currently working on Canada. Dante is in close contact withthe team as he is advising them on how to best reach their target demographic with thecontent they are choosing. They are currently composing their list of notable Canadianartists who create work in a variety of mediums, that is also visually appealing and highlyunique. Dante has been incredibly busy with other elements of the project but he receives

an email saying he has a meeting with the creative department the next morning. Notbeing Canadian or an art buff, Dante is in a bit of a pinch. He talks to his girlfriend Effiewho is knowledgeable of art and the like. She says that she has an app for the CanadianContemporary Art Database which is pretty easy to use if he would be interested in givingthat a try. Dante grabs her iPad, and pulls up the site. He quickly realizes that this is aperfect tool for quickly finding, and cross referencing artists and compiling a list of theartists he likes.

Dante goes into the sectiontitled User Picks. He wants tohave a look at his GirlfriedEffie’s picks so he can see whatthe site has to offer and if it willbe able to provide interestingimagery that will work for hisproject

Effie tells him to select mypicks as that is where herpersonal user lists are saved.He does so.

Dante opens up Effie’s list andafter a few moments of brows-ing he realized that this willprove a valuable tool for hisproject

Dante scrolls through hisresults. They look fairly diverand the imagery seems brighand dynamic. He is pleasedwith what he sees at a glancebut wants a closer look befirdeciding for sure.

Dante decides to restart andmake his own list on Effie’saccount since she has agreedto let him use her iPad for hismeeting in the morning. Hegives the iPad a shake as thatis the restart function.

Dante returns to the mainmenu, this time selecting theguided search option since heknows the general perametersof what he wants but not thedetails of what artists he’ssearching for.

Dante selects medium as hisfirst choice of category. Heknows that the company islooking to have a variety ofmediums incorporated in thebook so he figures this is agood place to start his search.

Dante is sure to select a varietyof mediums, but not ones hedoesn’t think will translate wellinto book form. Things likeaudio art won’t work in hisopinion. He is satisfied with hischoices and so he selects thego option to see his results.

As he is doing this he realizeshe can slide the entire right

menu to the side and look atthe featured artist images inthe background. This draws attention to some interestingworks he might not haveotherwise seen.

Dante taps the image next tothe artist’s name to get acloser look. He is impressed buthe ease with which he canview information about theartist as well as images of theirworks. He continues looking atthe artists the searchgenerated and saves the onesof interest as he goes.

Seeking to further refine hislist however, Dante remembers

he has to reference only artistsin the twentieth century. Hereturns to the options menuusing the breadcrumbs whichare handily located on thelower left side of the screen.This time he selects period,and century as his categoriesin addition to the mediums hepreviously selected.

Dante’s refined search itemspop up. He glances through the

list, sliding up and down it asbefore....

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Getting back on task, dantedecides to also cross referencehis list with the most popularartists so he’s sure to haveartists that are relevant andwill appeal to a large audience.

After selecting top 100, hegenerates a new list of results.Again he scrolls through thelist and selects artists.

After closely examining a fewmore artists that the list hasprovided, Dante saves them forhis final compilation. He has afeeling that he’s nailed it...If hedoes say so himself.

Dante looks through the list ofartists he has compiled usingthis tool. He is satisfied andsaves it as “Dante’s List” underEffie’s account. He is impresedby how quickly and efficientlyhe was able to both operate thetool and find suitable artists.He is thankful he was able toget ready for tommorrow’smeeting so quickly using thisapp instead of spending hoursaimlessly browsing on google.

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