Enhancing Behance
Enhancing Behance
A make-over of the Behance website that leverages the community aspect of the creative field, using it to provide support and enhance connection between creatives. This redesign of Behance also provides a way to add personality to a creative’s portfolio while also being consistent with the platform’s design language.
One size (doesn’t) fit(s) all? Aspiring creatives lack the resources to build a personal website hence they turn to Behance to present their portfolios but fail distinguishing themselves from others on the same platform in the process. They’re at the phase in their career where getting feedback on their work and learning new skills is something high on their priority list.
One size (doesn’t) fit(s) all? Aspiring creatives lack the resources to build a personal website hence they turn to Behance to present their portfolios but fail distinguishing themselves from others on the same platform in the process. They’re at the phase in their career where getting feedback on their work and learning new skills is something high on their priority list.
Due to the diversity of creative fields, connecting with other creatives and getting feedback gets tricky.
Client
Academic Project
Year
2022
Team
Personal Project
My Role
Research, Testing, Ideation, UI/UX
RESEARCH
Initial research was done in the form of semi-structured discussions conducted with a total of 16 creatives belonging to the different ages in the range 18-32, creative backgrounds, career stage and country.
Initial research was done in the form of semi-structured discussions conducted with a total of 16 creatives belonging to the different ages in the range 18-32, creative backgrounds, career stage and country.
01.
About user’s understanding
of the Behance.
03.
About current habits and
tools they use in their creative process.
05.
About usage habits
related to Behance.
02.
About user’s perception
and painpoints about Behance.
04.
About creative choices,
creative block and what inspires them.
06.
About user’s opinion on current
direct/indirect competitor (LinkedIn)
OPPORTUNITY AREAS
PERSONAS
KEY OPPORTUNITIES
01.An opportunity exists to help people distinguish themselves from other creatives.
02.
An opportunity exists to enhance
the way projects are presented on Behance.
An opportunity exists to enhance
the way projects are presented on Behance.
03.
An opportunity exists to provide better engagement between audience and creators.
PROCESS MAPS
WIREFRAMES
My UI design process was based on Brad Frost’s atomic design process
UI DESIGN COMPONENTS
FINAL DESIGN
Making an account on Behance is now a more goal oriented and personalised task. Due to a wide range of users on Behance, they can select their goal of creating a Behance account after which the website builder will guide them accordingly to create a profile.
The website wizard helps the user add a new project and provide guidance every step.
The user’s profile page gives them a chance to express themselves as a designer and standout from others via prompts. It is completely customisable.
Users can also be a part of teams which are bascially the school they go to, studio/company they work for and have their projects featured in the teams tab.
Users now have the ability to create shared inspiration boards and have content integrated from other websites such as pinterest and lemanoosh.
The profile will also have a discussion board where people can leave comments, feedback and questions on a project.
Views and appreciations have been rephrased and combined in a positive language called “Impacts”. Every visitor can view a creators impact score. Impact score increases when someone views the user’s projects and add them to a moodboard.
Projects also get a more defined search strategy and classification according to the different creators, design teams and adobe softwares.
One size doesn’t fit all most times! Which is why the newly designed Behance would preview projects in different thumbnail sizes.