Yes-No-Maybe App
- Client: Berlin Art Prize e.V.
- Year: 2020 – 2021
- Our Roles: Idea, Design, and Code
- Services: Creative Direction, App Development, Digital Design, Interaction Design, and UX/UI Design
In collaboration with the Berlin Art Prize, Yil & Mann developed an alternative structure for the application and selection process of art prizes – the Yes-No-Maybe App. The web-based application aims to make application management completely digital, simpler and anonymous, enabling a more objective judging of submitted artworks.
Walkthrough artist-, jury and admin-panels. A detailed and commented description of the tool and a video with a walk-through can be found on Kultur B Digital.
Yes-No-Maybe App was developed to guide two user groups through either the submission or judging phase of the award. After logging in, applicants upload their works via the app's web interface and are guided step-by-step through the rest of the process. Once the submission phase is complete, a jury then evaluates the portfolios in a predefined number of evaluation rounds. With the help of keywords, even large numbers of submissions remain manageable and searchable. During the judging process, jury members see a full-screen presentation of each portfolio, and submissions can be presented anonymously to avoid bias in the judging process. Both the simple presentation and the anonymization of the submissions help to focus solely on the content of the work.
Effortlessly manage complex, multimedia portfolios, encourage collaborative discussions among jury members with an elegant, integrated chat feature, and ensure impartial and transparent art evaluations.
After the rating with the options "Yes", "No" and "Maybe", the next submission is randomly selected and displayed. With the help of an integrated chat, jurors can leave comments and notes on each submission or portfolio. In order for the judging processes to run dynamically, all functions of the tool, such as the chat or the ratings, can be accessed interactively and in real time, so that votes can be held both online and in live presence.
The use of statistics and archiving of the individual evaluations by the jurors enables a well-documented and transparent jury decision. Although the Yes-No-Maybe app was primarily developed for the application and evaluation of artworks, it can also be used for other selection and application processes.
Yes-No-Maybe App is open source and its repository can be viewed on GitHub. The project was funded by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa.
- Services: Creative Direction, App Development, Digital Design, Interaction Design, and UX/UI Design
- Medium: Web-Application
- With: Berlin Art Prize e.V.