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Mosaic: Designing Online Creative Communities for Sharing Works-in-Progress

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Online creative communities allow creators to share their work with a large audience, maximizing opportunities to showcase their work and connect with fans and peers. However, sharing in-progress work can be technically and socially challenging in environments designed for sharing completed pieces. We propose an online creative community where sharing process, rather than showcasing outcomes, is the main method of sharing creative work. Based on this, we present Mosaic—an online community where illustrators share work-in-progress snapshots showing how an artwork was completed from start to finish. In an online deployment and observational study, artists used Mosaic as a vehicle for reflecting on how they can improve their own creative process, developed a social norm of detailed feedback, and became less apprehensive of sharing early versions of artwork. Through Mosaic, we argue that communities oriented around sharing creative process can create a collaborative environment that is beneficial for creative growth.

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We would like to thank our colleagues that helped shape this research with their valuable feedback. We also thank all the artists who participated in this study for their time and expertise. This material is based upon work supported by the NSF GRFP under Grant No. DGE-114747 and by the Hasso Plattner Institute Design Thinking Research Program.

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Kim, J., Agrawala, M., Bernstein, M.S. (2018). Mosaic: Designing Online Creative Communities for Sharing Works-in-Progress. In: Plattner, H., Meinel, C., Leifer, L. (eds) Design Thinking Research. Understanding Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60967-6_6

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