The Project that Was Doomed to Fail
 
Artbajter was an ambitious project undertaken by my former emplyer, ThirdFrameStudios. The CEO had already started a strong design community in Slovenia, called 3delavnica. It dated back to 1999, and was basically an early version of Behanced. Artbajter was the long overdue overhaul that started in 2009. The designs were finished, and in 2010 we even started to implement the first prototypes, when suddenly the recession struck hard. The project was undeservingly killed off to ensure the company's survival. 
 
My career started with this portal, and I consider it an immense honor to be responsible for its complete redesign. I collaborated with one of the best designers in Slovenia, Samo Ačko and Rok Benedik.
 
The result was the design below which shares an eerie resemblance to today's Behanced.
Naturally, the whole page is in my native language, Slovenian.
This is the main page, divided into three columns. On the far left you can filter the content by Author, Jobs, Collections, Events, Groups or Companies. You could even filter by content you commented on - this later turned into an activity feed, similar to the one used by Facebook.
Detailed view of the input fields when adding a new project.
This screen illustrates adding a project. You set the creative commons license, the groups which the work belonged to, added tags and privacy settings. Lastly, you were able to link multiple projects into collections. Since then, I would move the name (top left) to the right column on the right side of the picture. Same goes for the description under the picture.
This was the default layout when you looked at a project. You could commend it by clicking on the link left to the star icon. The other thing to do was to leave a comment or add the project to your personally curated collection.
Some images (most of them, actually ) really shined through when they had the real-estate to do so. This is why we decided to include a "fullscreen" view. Pressing left and right arrows, you were able to navigate all the collection's items.
Each user had her own personal profile page. She could post her projects which were not limited to images, any user could post articles, too. As an observer, you could check what the user "collected" under her collections, and which events she will be attending.
As if the above similarity wasn't enough - we invisioned the Creative Folder, which is a very simplified version of the ProSite. The purpose was the same. We needed something to monetize the product with. This was our solution. Every user could upgrade to the Creative Folder option, and have his own custom portfolio page.
The artist's main page on the Creative Folder. Left are the categories, right is the content.
Detailed project view with captions.
Artbajter
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Artbajter

An older project done for the community that helped shape my professional skills.

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