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Mutual Widget Mockup

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Description

An idea/mockup I made several years ago as a pitch for a developer hackathon.

Have you ever went to someone’s profile and said, “who is this person and why should I care?”

This widget would display your relationship with the artist whose page you're viewing.

Benefits / goals
  • Personalizes the deviantART experience
  • Shows what's most relevant to a user
  • Builds a better connection between users, gives them talking points 
  • Utilizes data we already have
  • Encourages watching new people
Some thoughts / concerns:
  • Widget would be fixed on the top of a profile.
  • Tells you if the user is watching you. (This was designed before that feature was released)
  • The issue with this widget is that it pulls elements out of their expected areas -- friends and groups are listed here, however, there are already existing widgets for them, so these elements might be duplicated on the page. It might make more sense to instead display these mutual connections in the corresponding areas (Groups widget, friends widget, and Favourites page).
  • Doesn't really "function" as a widget, but doesn't really fit well into anywhere else on the profile.
  • UI is ugly, but tried to be consistent with the current widget UI.
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rotane's avatar
I never told you how much i'd love to have a "widget" like this. One additional thing i'd love to see in there is this: "deviations of them i have +fav'd", and vice versa. It might be a bit overkill for sure, but nice to know regardless. (It could be styled similar to the Groups widget though, where you can flip through via tabs.)