Sunday, 7 February 2010

Site Breakdown: DeviantArt


Focus: Artists (digital and photography)

Members: 11 million


Users connect to eachother by commenting on their work (mainly photos)

no. users: 11million (info from wikipedia)


setup: community focused (primarily grouping and sharing common interest and information with strangers/new friends' rather than one-to-one connections with contacts that you already know)

Customisation: Can change colours/layout/content on their personal pages

Interaction: Join groups, discuss forum-style, comment on admired work, get advice in forums, find out about relevant events, polls, community news

Live feed: New content uploaded to website (by administrators), list of top photos, journals, videos, recent contributors and top contributors, most popular communities, individuals

Aliases: Yes, most members create their own screen name

Ads: Highly targeted, small and doesn't disrupt the design of the site.

Issues: I wanted to test if the images on the site are downloadable, and most are which is a copyright problem (they could make it more difficult to plagiarise). Also, when i opened up the download page norton came up with a huge alert saying that the site as unsafe.

I am interested in the interface difference between PC browser and mobile editions of sites, and how that this will affect the design....

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