wiki art project lightning talk
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WikiArt Project
Online Encyclopedia of Fine ART
Katya Nerush, Oct 6 2015, Ladies Who Code meetup
[email protected], @knerush
About Myselfnow - iOS developer
Web Developer in Finance
Moved to London in 2009
Coding jobs since 2005
MS in Computer Science - Kiev, Ukraine
What is WikiArtwhat: encyclopedia of art
why: popularize art
how: wiki principle
collected:
2500+ artists,
170 000 artworks
~1 Million Monthly Active Users
Web Stats..
~25k Monthly Active Users
Zero Marketing
Pillars of WikiArt designOffline-like experience
Content over design
Maximize user time spent in the app
Pillars of WikiArt designOffline-like experience
image cache
data persistence
Content over design
simple navigation,
plain vanilla controls
Maximize user time spent in the app
content discovery features - map, charts, randomized home screen
endless browsing - deep linking, wikipedia link
Architecture & Tech Challenges
Tech stack: Objective-C, uses Pods, Python
Challenges:
image cashing
data persistence
custom layouts
used Python to obtain data needed
Thank you!