Artnet is the leading online resource for the international art
market. They provide a platform for galleries, auction houses,
collectors, and enthusiasts to buy, sell, and research art. In March of 2022, I was hired to lead Design at Artnet— reporting
directly to the CTO. We redesigned and launched Artnet's flagship product, the
Artnet Price Database, which is an industry-standard tool in the art
world.
Landing page for the new Artnet Price Database
Facilitating communication between international and
inter-departmental teams is one of my specialities. I accomplished
this by creating quick designs and recording video presentations
talking through the work. This allowed stakeholders to respond when
they had time rather than trying to squeeze in one more meeting.
The Price Database work was on a tight timeline. In order to gain a
better understanding of the field, I immersed myself in the world of
fine art auctions. I met with folks from business and data science
as well as auction specialists who consult the database as part of
their day-to-day work. Within a month we had the main designs ready
to envision with the engineering team and we launched the beta
version in just six months.
Designs for desktop and mobile
I worked closely with the engineering team as well as with business
and the Chief Strategy Officer. My role also included making
periodic presentations to the CEO and the rest of the company.
Unification of Navigation and Marketplace Redesign
While I continued to refine and build out the designs for the Price
Database, I worked on a unification of our navigation. At the time,
each vertical was siloed to its own site with individual navigation.
I created different versions to fit with shifting product roadmaps.
After the main unification of nav was designed, I began working on a
complete redesign of the whole the site to better integrate the
robust data we had. I consulted with business, data science, and
engineering to explore possibilities and designed out a new paradigm
that will make it tons easier for art collectors to discover and
acquire new work.
Screen capture of an interactive prototype I put together to demonstrate the new Marketplace paradigm
I am passionate about mentorship and empowering my teams to do their best work and during
my time there I brought up a Junior UX researcher to be a UX/UI Deisgner and an important
member of the team.
Also, I decided to learn Tailwindcss to better communicate with the
Front-End Engineering team. It came in handy on several occasions to
clarify what needed to be developed.
Tutorial I created for the product launch of the new Artnet Price Database
The variety of tasks I oversaw at Artnet included the creation of
several videos-- one of which was shown at Art Cologne, an important
international art fair. I had a lot of fun working with the team at
Artnet and I'm really proud of all the work we created together.
Design wrap-up video I put together for our 2022 end-of-year stakeholder meeting
Fun with the team
Andy Warhol paid the team a visit on Halloween to congratulate them on the beta launch of the Price Database
Praise from the CTO, Quentin Rider
