New York City is a melting pot of creative inspirations and diverse perspectives, overflowing with various art, music, and media styles (Broadway, street art, jazz, subway performers, The New York Times & Wall Street Journal and more!). Create a hack that flexes your creativity to support, expand, and show love for the arts and media industry in NYC!
One of the challenges was that, despite the prompt being centered around New York, none of us live or have lived in New York. Therefore, we could only infer what the problem we could solve was from reading articles and blogs about New York street art. Due to the time constraint we didn't make any contact with anyone who did live in New York since we may not have gotten a response in a timely manner, but I fully believe that if we had taken that time we would have gotten a better idea of the problem and created a solution that would have been more tailored for the Big Apple.
Having that primary source information could have also helped our team in focusing on the user since it would have had that human element behind it, but the provisional personas we had created did help in keeping us focused.
Our team of four are all artists at heart and have lived around the major North American cities, from NYC to Toronto. So it’s only natural that we also share a love for city street art!
The problem our app solves also reflect the issues we have with finding street art. How can we feel connected with our city’s arts community? Where can we even find all of the local street art? And most recently relevant, since COVID-19 has us all in a mental funk, can we connect the arts with something that can help us reconnect with both other people and the city itself?
ArtStreet allows people to safely reconnect with their community by getting out of their houses and interacting with street art around the city and their community as well as connect with others who also enjoy finding and interacting with public art. Some of the features we build include:
During the two days that we had to work on this app, we knew that we needed to stay on top of everything to ensure that we have something to turn in that we were proud of.
Due to the time constraint, we decided to focus on the existing apps that fulfilled a similar function. We noticed that while you’re able to find and navigate to different art pieces in most of the apps, there was a lack of community building functions such as commenting.
Once we figured out how we wanted to proceed with our app, we iterated on the ideas we had with sketches, and designed and prototyped the mobile app in Figma.
One of the challenges was that, despite the prompt being centered around New York, none of us live or have lived in New York. Therefore, we could only infer what the problem we could solve was from reading articles and blogs about New York street art. Due to the time constraint we didn't make any contact with anyone who did live in New York since we may not have gotten a response in a timely manner, but I fully believe that if we had taken that time we would have gotten a better idea of the problem and created a solution that would have been more tailored for the Big Apple.
Having that primary source information could have also helped our team in focusing on the user since it would have had that human element behind it, but the provisional personas we had created did help in keeping us focused.
All four of us had always been intimidated by hackathons, so TechTogether NYC is actually all of our 1st real experience! We initially came across hackathons thinking: But as designers, do we actually belong in hackathons? And we all learned the answer to that is YES!
This was the first time we all worked on a team with so many other designers (we’re all bootcamp students usually working on projects solo), so we had to learn how to work and decide on features together as a group. On the design phase for instance, we each designed separate screens, but soon realized that many of our components were inconsistent with each other since we each had our own creative solutions.
As a result, we've had a couple of times where we needed to take a minute, go back to our goals, and readjust, which isn't much until you remember our time was incredibly limited. Ultimately, these moments of readjustment only benefited us because it gave us a chance to make sure that we were all on the right page. We were always in a video conferencing room together during the entire duration of the hackathon, and we learned to overcome our design inconsistencies through continuous communication and reasoning out our major design decisions together.
As our team designed for the MVP, we still envision for more iterations and updated app versions. For example, interactions with community members within the app would be further developed, from direct messaging to replying and interacting with existing comments. We would also design an in-app map that would not only allow people to route to art pieces that they want to go, but also have the function to create an ‘Art Viewing Party’ where it could ping everyone within a certain radius to come to a specific art piece. We would also want to develop the user profile and add functions such as a gallery for the user’s own posted pics.
New York City is a melting pot of creative inspirations and diverse perspectives, overflowing with various art, music, and media styles (Broadway, street art, jazz, subway performers, The New York Times & Wall Street Journal and more!). Create a hack that flexes your creativity to support, expand, and show love for the arts and media industry in NYC!
Our team of four are all artists at heart and have lived around the major North American cities, from NYC to Toronto. So it’s only natural that we also share a love for city street art!
The problem our app solves also reflect the issues we have with finding street art. How can we feel connected with our city’s arts community? Where can we even find all of the local street art? And most recently relevant, since COVID-19 has us all in a mental funk, can we connect the arts with something that can help us reconnect with both other people and the city itself?
Our team of four are all artists at heart and have lived around the major North American cities, from NYC to Toronto. So it’s only natural that we also share a love for city street art!
The problem our app solves also reflect the issues we have with finding street art. How can we feel connected with our city’s arts community? Where can we even find all of the local street art? And most recently relevant, since COVID-19 has us all in a mental funk, can we connect the arts with something that can help us reconnect with both other people and the city itself?
ArtStreet allows people to safely reconnect with their community by getting out of their houses and interacting with street art around the city and their community as well as connect with others who also enjoy finding and interacting with public art. Some of the features we build include:
During the two days that we had to work on this app, we knew that we needed to stay on top of everything to ensure that we have something to turn in that we were proud of.
Due to the time constraint, we decided to focus on the existing apps that fulfilled a similar function. We noticed that while you’re able to find and navigate to different art pieces in most of the apps, there was a lack of community building functions such as commenting.
Once we figured out how we wanted to proceed with our app, we iterated on the ideas we had with sketches, and designed and prototyped the mobile app in Figma.
One of the challenges was that, despite the prompt being centered around New York, none of us live or have lived in New York. Therefore, we could only infer what the problem we could solve was from reading articles and blogs about New York street art. Due to the time constraint we didn't make any contact with anyone who did live in New York since we may not have gotten a response in a timely manner, but I fully believe that if we had taken that time we would have gotten a better idea of the problem and created a solution that would have been more tailored for the Big Apple.
Having that primary source information could have also helped our team in focusing on the user since it would have had that human element behind it, but the provisional personas we had created did help in keeping us focused.
All four of us had always been intimidated by hackathons, so TechTogether NYC is actually all of our 1st real experience! We initially came across hackathons thinking: But as designers, do we actually belong in hackathons? And we all learned the answer to that is YES!
This was the first time we all worked on a team with so many other designers (we’re all bootcamp students usually working on projects solo), so we had to learn how to work and decide on features together as a group. On the design phase for instance, we each designed separate screens, but soon realized that many of our components were inconsistent with each other since we each had our own creative solutions.
As a result, we've had a couple of times where we needed to take a minute, go back to our goals, and readjust, which isn't much until you remember our time was incredibly limited. Ultimately, these moments of readjustment only benefited us because it gave us a chance to make sure that we were all on the right page. We were always in a video conferencing room together during the entire duration of the hackathon, and we learned to overcome our design inconsistencies through continuous communication and reasoning out our major design decisions together.
As our team designed for the MVP, we still envision for more iterations and updated app versions. For example, interactions with community members within the app would be further developed, from direct messaging to replying and interacting with existing comments. We would also design an in-app map that would not only allow people to route to art pieces that they want to go, but also have the function to create an ‘Art Viewing Party’ where it could ping everyone within a certain radius to come to a specific art piece. We would also want to develop the user profile and add functions such as a gallery for the user’s own posted pics.
New York City is a melting pot of creative inspirations and diverse perspectives, overflowing with various art, music, and media styles (Broadway, street art, jazz, subway performers, The New York Times & Wall Street Journal and more!). Create a hack that flexes your creativity to support, expand, and show love for the arts and media industry in NYC!
Our team of four are all artists at heart and have lived around the major North American cities, from NYC to Toronto. So it’s only natural that we also share a love for city street art!
The problem our app solves also reflect the issues we have with finding street art. How can we feel connected with our city’s arts community? Where can we even find all of the local street art? And most recently relevant, since COVID-19 has us all in a mental funk, can we connect the arts with something that can help us reconnect with both other people and the city itself?
Our team of four are all artists at heart and have lived around the major North American cities, from NYC to Toronto. So it’s only natural that we also share a love for city street art!
The problem our app solves also reflect the issues we have with finding street art. How can we feel connected with our city’s arts community? Where can we even find all of the local street art? And most recently relevant, since COVID-19 has us all in a mental funk, can we connect the arts with something that can help us reconnect with both other people and the city itself?
ArtStreet allows people to safely reconnect with their community by getting out of their houses and interacting with street art around the city and their community as well as connect with others who also enjoy finding and interacting with public art. Some of the features we build include:
During the two days that we had to work on this app, we knew that we needed to stay on top of everything to ensure that we have something to turn in that we were proud of.
Due to the time constraint, we decided to focus on the existing apps that fulfilled a similar function. We noticed that while you’re able to find and navigate to different art pieces in most of the apps, there was a lack of community building functions such as commenting.
Once we figured out how we wanted to proceed with our app, we iterated on the ideas we had with sketches, and designed and prototyped the mobile app in Figma.
One of the challenges was that, despite the prompt being centered around New York, none of us live or have lived in New York. Therefore, we could only infer what the problem we could solve was from reading articles and blogs about New York street art. Due to the time constraint we didn't make any contact with anyone who did live in New York since we may not have gotten a response in a timely manner, but I fully believe that if we had taken that time we would have gotten a better idea of the problem and created a solution that would have been more tailored for the Big Apple.
Having that primary source information could have also helped our team in focusing on the user since it would have had that human element behind it, but the provisional personas we had created did help in keeping us focused.
All four of us had always been intimidated by hackathons, so TechTogether NYC is actually all of our 1st real experience! We initially came across hackathons thinking: But as designers, do we actually belong in hackathons? And we all learned the answer to that is YES!
This was the first time we all worked on a team with so many other designers (we’re all bootcamp students usually working on projects solo), so we had to learn how to work and decide on features together as a group. On the design phase for instance, we each designed separate screens, but soon realized that many of our components were inconsistent with each other since we each had our own creative solutions.
As a result, we've had a couple of times where we needed to take a minute, go back to our goals, and readjust, which isn't much until you remember our time was incredibly limited. Ultimately, these moments of readjustment only benefited us because it gave us a chance to make sure that we were all on the right page. We were always in a video conferencing room together during the entire duration of the hackathon, and we learned to overcome our design inconsistencies through continuous communication and reasoning out our major design decisions together.
As our team designed for the MVP, we still envision for more iterations and updated app versions. For example, interactions with community members within the app would be further developed, from direct messaging to replying and interacting with existing comments. We would also design an in-app map that would not only allow people to route to art pieces that they want to go, but also have the function to create an ‘Art Viewing Party’ where it could ping everyone within a certain radius to come to a specific art piece. We would also want to develop the user profile and add functions such as a gallery for the user’s own posted pics.
