Le Six thinking hats page

Summary

ok in summary- I discussed with my partner mostly technical aspects of the website such as features and contents. My website now focuses a bit more on archiving and user interaction, since the base idea was to share art bags, it makes sense to also include other topics.
To your right is the hat that I think reflects my natural thinking style. If you wanted one of the six hats, that would be creativity, because my thinking always begins with creative ideas.

Hat by hat

Information

Miraland collection? infinity nikki - where people show off the outfits they make. user submitted database, community section that archives every item. A user submitted forum where people share their bags and log every item in a database that people can search both ways. For items not found in the catalogue it can be linked to external websites or provide simular products. Seperation by brand and medium kind.

Emotion

good idea for artists to share their work and supplies. makes it easy to archive a bag/supplies. will be able to support both beginner and expert artists.

Judgement

the data itself will be a lot to hold, as well as having user submitted data and monitoring it to make sure it follows guidelines. also guidelines are needed to make sure every bag and archive is concise and easy to read for all users. site UI as well should be simple enough to navigate for all ages and artist levels. there is an inherit risk of spam when it comes to databases plus data loss.

Optimism

centralized database for artist tools and having them catagorized by things like price, medium, what art its for etc. plus a social site to find other artists and see what materials they are using. beginner and expert friendly means wide userbase. it also allows users to archive their materials for future lookback and share them with others.

Creativity

large text and an index page that immediately prompts the database or artist bags. easy navigation bar that is present on every page. user pages would be a useful feature to present your bag, your "followed" data, what youre interested, what kind of artist you are etc. a forum is good for discussion as well for art related questions. multiple bags feature for different occasions or mediums (such as a work bag, hobby, painting, etc). a navigation to seperate social medias should the user choose so. reviews section for products?

Management

so far we have

what we should do next is continue to flesh out the websites features and contents some more and then move on the sketching UI and css ideas.