"What Artists Want": Elicitation of Artist Requirements to Feed the Design on a New Collaboration Platform for Creative Work

TL;DR

This paper explores visual artists' needs for a decentralized creative platform through qualitative research, identifying key requirements to inform the design of a new collaborative tool.

Contribution

It introduces a qualitative methodology for eliciting artist requirements and provides a prioritized set of features for a decentralized creative collaboration platform.

Findings

Identified key artist needs and concerns for platform design

Developed a set of essential requirements for the new platform

Provided insights into artists' work processes and preferences

Abstract

Aiming at designing a decentralized platform to support grassroot initiatives for self-organized creative work, the present work solicited feedback from a group of visual artists regarding their work processes and concerns. The paper presents the qualitative methodology followed for collecting requirements from the target audience of the envisioned software solution. The data gathered from the focus group is analyzed and we conclude with a set of important requirements that the future platform needs to fulfill.