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Assignment 1

Facebook Application- TuYa Art Gallery

Class: ITGM 748

Professor: SuAnne Fu

Student: Yuan-Ting Tsai

Date: September 19, 2010

Turns: Fall 2010

ITGM 748 Facebook Application‐ TuYa

Overview

Many designers and artists have face to the same vexations that they always need to

publish their artworks in different forums and websites in order to get more attentions or share

the artworks to different groups of audiences. TuYa gallery is an application which allows the

users to publish, share, and display their artworks on Facebook. The main purposes of TuYa

gallery are assisting the users to publish their artworks together which might display in different

forums, such as CGtalk and Zbrush Central, more convenient for the users to display their

artworks to different groups of audiences, like their college school classmates and family

members, and attracting more audiences through Facebook’s functions; for example, the “share”

function and the “like” function which publishing the users’ artworks in a effective way through

the amazing social networking power.

In TuYa gallery, the user can upload their artworks which allow the users’ friends to rent

the artworks for decorating their personal galleries, and the user can get some honor points. The

more popular artworks (the higher honor points) have more chances to show the artworks on the

ranks. The limitation period for renting an artwork is seven days, and the same artwork can’t be

rent by one user twice in three days. Also, the honor points can exchange some decorations for a

gallery, such as wall papers or frames.


Rationale

1. What is the justified need of this project?

The main purpose for designers and artists keeping publishing their works online

is to get more audiences, and the power of social networking is to gather people that

come from different backgrounds. Those people might never know some professional

design or art websites, and they don’t know where can find designers or artists who have

the skills or styles they want. Through Facebook’s social networking, those customers

might find an appropriate designer or artist for their business from their friends’ galleries

collections. Also, it is more convenient for the users to save the time because they don’t

have to post the same work once and once again on different forums or websites for

different group audiences.

2. How is it different from what’s out there or why approach this projects?

Some well known art websites, such as CGtalk, ZBrush Central, ConceptArt,

CreativeCrash, Heyshow 黑秀網(in Taiwan), and 小哈工作坊 (in Taiwan) are in forum

base which have confusing interface designs for users, and Flickr, Facebook photos,

Google Picasa, and 百度(in China) are more focus on image sharing. One of the

advantages of Facebook is the international feature that the users don’t have to worry

about the language problems. For instance, many of my college classmates cannot

understand the articles and artworks on CGtalk and even afraid to browse it because the

interface is all in English. In the other hands, some designers and artists have to deal

with those forums and websites which have different upload rules, like the file sizes, and


even background colors. Also, it is hard to find the right categories from different forum

because they named categories differently.

3. Where do you get the impression?

The original concept was from a Facebook game- pet society, the most popular

social network game that players have their own pet and pet house. I thought if this game

can have a new function that allows the players to get currencies by their abilities, the

game will have more fun and more funny creative decorations in the house, such as paint

a painting and then display on the wall. Their friends might interest to have the painting

and pays some currencies for it. After that, I realized that my idea is against to the

purpose of getting revenues of the game company, and this idea can work individually.

4. How will you create this project and what skills will you have?

This project is going to work on Facebook and it requires some skill to place the

application on Facebook. The application will be written in Flash Action script and some

web languages. Also, how to create a effective and easy user interface will be the main

topic of this design. The style of this application will be in 2D illustration.

5. Annotated

The idea of application was come from pet society and the purpose is helping the players

to making more currencies, but it is unnecessary to have “currency” in this application.

However, some interesting mechanism might encourage users to keep using this

application, so instead of currency, the idea of honor points and badges might more fit to

this application.


Fig.1 CGTalk- the best known art website for designers and artists.

Fig. 2 ZBrushCental- more focus on 3D arts


Fig. 3 CreativeCrash- including motion design

Fig 4 2d illustrations


Fig. 5 小哈工作坊(The well known forum in Taiwan, 2d arts)

Fig.6 Heyshow 黑秀網(Taiwanese designer website)


Fig. 7 Flickr

Fig. 8 Google Picasa


Fig.9 Facebook Photo

Fig.10 Baidu 百度貼吧(China)


Target Audiences

The ideal audiences of TuYa gallery will close to the listed

1. Interested in art or design works.

2. Facebook user.

3. Always share his/her own works with friends.

4. Tech Comfort Level: understand the bases of editing images.

Persona#1

Name: Ted

Age: 33

Occupation: Game company art director

Income Level: 50.000 per year

Education Level: College

Ted is an art director which has been working in game industry for ten years. His is also a

famous designer on some art forums because his artworks are amazing. However, to update the

artworks is always his tasks. Also, not all of the customers who are interesting in Ted’s works

have the accounts of the art forums which only allow the members to leave massages.


Persona#2

Name: Mark

Age: 17

Occupation: Art school Student

Income Level: Less than 10,000 per year

Education Level: Senior high school

Mark is a senior high school student, he loves to paint. However, he feels longly on some art

forums because his painting skill is not that good, so people always ignore his works. Also, it is

terrible for his parents to show Mark’s work to friends because the forum is too difficult to use.

Name: David

Age: 55

Occupation: government agencies


Just like an average American father, David is proud of his son- Mark and likes to share every

artwork from Mark. But the unfriendly interface of each art forum blocks him. Most of his

friends cannot open the links that David copy from the art forums, and even David cannot

navigate the art forums. He wants to display and share his son’s works in a easier way.


Persona#3

Name: Peggy

Age: 25

Occupation: SOHO


Peggy is a Taiwanese designer. She loves to use Facebook, but she never publishes any of her

works on Facebook. The main way that she got the business is from several Taiwanese design

websites, and more and more companies start outsourcing to China because they pay less. In

Peggy’s case, she doesn’t know CGtalk or any other famous art forums, but she tries to extend

her Studio’s business to other countries.

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