Six Hat Summaries
White Hat
While there are many other individual websites that do what I want to achieve not many bring it together. Users will be able to look at different art works and look through history, contemporary times, and compare them across mediums by just engaging with the work. Seeing how art has changed over the years.
Red Hat
The feeling on belongingness towards a community or even representing a community. It helps us connect with eachother through similar interests and makes it so we can understand people's influences. Helps us look inwards and find a sense of connection.
Black Hat
Users are forced to question art that their friends have and understand what those pieces could mean to them. It helps improve critical thinking in the sense they engage with pieces that might challenge their internal moral compass or just be exposed to new ideas. It also invokes discussion around critique.
Yellow Hat
People on the site might feel a sense of inspiration and look at art work they want to get into or put new techniques into practice. While this is not particularly a webstie designed to share your work and get inspired by your peers, rather it allows for new disoverys that can instead lead to that across other social medias.
Green Hat
Similar to the last hat, the inspiration aspect can be seen through the vast amount of work that is already out there. It helps put a perspective on how many ideas are being tested and how each person can essentially craft their own perspective. Users will be inspired to furhter evolve their own artistic identity.
Blue Hat
The whole purpose of the website is a collection of art that represents you and makes you unique. Organizing your inspirations plays a huge role in that. I do think though I should reflect on the white and black hat since I feel like I pivoted away from objective reasoning.
Six Hat Summaries: with partner
White Hat
My partner let me know that the there could be issues with biases or propoganda art. Art that is hateful towrads a community or is used as military propaganda.
Red Hat
They let me know that in order to make sure this feeling applies, the UI of the website should be immersive. If it replicates social media it can take away that feeling of immersion and force users to approach with doing something just because it is a trend.
Black Hat
My partner brought up a good point about how being too abstract in the layout and design can all cause many problems with people new to art. The idea fundamentally is hard to grasp to the average person who many not look at art the same way. Look to targetting an audience or somehow make it more accessible.
Yellow Hat
They did not have much to say, they think there is plenty of room for inspiration.
Green Hat
They mentioned how my site could be lacking in interactive features which could lower engagment. In this stage of social media, having interactive features is a must, even if you are marketing yourself as not specifically social media.
Blue Hat
Similar to the point from the black hat, making sure the site is actually accessible towards those who don't engage with art at a deeper level is important.
Final summary
I think I should still continue with this idea however there are somethings I would like to review such as the number of pages I first thought of implementing. Talking through the black hat helped me realized I wanted a seemless transition where users don't have to keep on clicking through different pages since that takesaway from the flow. I also realized I should cater towrads an audience but also keep my website accessible to those who are not so familar with art pieces, a good idea I thought of was adding a 'most popular' section so users can easily identify artist they are familiar with.