2023
Apr
Cinergy Collaborative
Product UI/UX
Solo Project
Creativity thrives in a collaborative environment. Cinergy follows this value that enables users to collaborate and inspire each other, no matter what fields they are involved. It generates a collaborative community where professionals can exchange ideas and showcase their works across various fields, fostering inspiration and creation.
Power of idea sharing space
The platform encourages interdisciplinary inspiration and creative expression, allowing users to broaden their horizons and produce imaginative new works. The platform also aims to serves as a creative tool for those seeking to bring their ideas to life, and as a source of inspiration for those in need of a fresh perspective.
Problems of creative platform
The issue with many creative platforms is their focus on specific fields, which hinders the expansion of creativity across various domains such as design, writing, science, visual art, and more. In today's society, expertise is often highly specialized, making it challenging to connect with individuals who possess expertise beyond one's own field of specialization. This limitation impedes the cross-pollination of ideas and collaboration across diverse creative disciplines.
How might we connect creative people in different domains and make them collaborate?
goals
People stimulate creativity each other
Secure and simple collaboration space
Enlarge idea sharing across fields
target audience
Visual artist and writer
Designer and developer
Collaborator
Final Design
Challenges
Layout
Cinergy was aimed to make users focus on exploring artworks and collaborations. Thus, the goal of the layout was making users experience the feeling that they are in the gallery. I thought gallery was the best piece to show how user flows should be organized to make environment that visitors could concentrate on the arts. Finding the best layout for this application was one of the hardest challenges. After various attempts, I decided to choose horizontal scroll for artwork viewing in selected field, and vertical scroll for moving to another fields.
Consistency
UI components should be consistent not to disturb user experience in this application design. Moreover, colour palette was minimized for removing all obsatcle to concentrate on artworks. These variables led design to being simple and minimal. It was difficult showing design skills in limited options.
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