Kayla Firth
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Stories Apart — Web app mockup
Web Design
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Stories Apart — Web app mockup, 4
Web Design
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Stories Apart — Web app mockup, 5
Web Design
Statement
Everyone has a story to share!
Stories Apart is a space for digital oral storytelling that encourages personal expression. It aims to bring the intimate experience of communal storytelling to the web, fostering meaningful interactions in a safe, anonymous, chosen community of storytellers.
This platform will allow users to create a "campfire," an online circle for sharing stories in text or audio format. These campfires may be public (open to anyone) or private (invite-only), allowing users to either foster inclusive spaces for anyone, or a safe space for a select group. Listeners can help the campfire grow by recording a story reply, or by sharing a key-code to invite new voices into a private campfire.
My research for this project explored the intrinsic value of storytelling: Why does telling stories matter? What do inclusive, meaningful, empowering stories look like? How can we create safe, authentic, and intimate spaces to share our stories? I narrowed the scope of my research by centering queerness, wanting to accommodate lived experiences typically exchanged outside of mainstream spaces. Early iterations of the Stories Apart prototype were largely tested by anonymous users from queer dating apps.
Stories Apart currently exists as a functional lo-fi prototype, powered by open-source web tools. This version supports a single proof-of-concept campfire, which will be used to pitch the project to a developer. The mock-ups below are a vision of how the webpage may someday look.
Your stories are welcome here! To participate in the prototype, visit:
Graphic Design (BFA) Students
Akia Jones - not exhibiting
Alen C. Park - not exhibiting
Angelos Zhou - not exhibiting
Christian Dexter - not exhibiting
Clair DeSmit - not exhibiting
Daniel Flounders - not exhibiting
Emily Yeung - not exhibiting
Hailey Kim - not exhibiting
Henry Heo - not exhibiting
Jane Cho - not exhibiting
Jessica He - not exhibiting
Kitty Liu - not exhibiting
Lydia Wang - not exhibiting
Neha Sarah Mathew - not exhibiting
Nicole Prado - not exhibiting
Risa Benedyk - not exhibiting
Sami Moya Medina - not exhibiting
Sangwoo Hahn - not exhibiting
Sarah Tarabulsi - not exhibiting
Steve Novak - not exhibiting
Tae Kyoung Kim - not exhibiting
Yun Jun - not exhibiting
Zeyi Li - not exhibiting