Entrepreneurship Project

After being assigned our first project in my Information Studies and Technology class, IST 195, I brainstormed a number of ideas, wondering what product I could create or improve upon. Being that I spend most of my time on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, I decided that I would want to incorporate the art of social networking into my idea. My Entrepreneurship Project will be created in the form of an App for Iphones and Ipads. I noticed that there are many apps for art and drawing, such as the game Draw Something or Drawing Pad that both allow the user to create their own drawings using their finger or a stylus against the screen. I love how Instagram allows its users to take or upload photos to share with their followers on Facebook and Twitter. My app would be similar in that way, but instead of photographs my app will be drawings, scribbles, pictures, etc. But, there is no app that integrates the freedom to draw and the ability to share their artwork with their peers. Thus, the app, Scribbler, will be born.

Scribbler will be a public or private application, depending on the user’s preference, and will allow its users to create a profile and a username. The profile will feature a default picture, a “LookBook” in other words, a folder of one’s uploaded artwork. Users will be able to “Follow” each other and the “Followers” will be displayed on one’s profile. Other users will be able to “Like” each other’s posted artwork and can also comment on them. The act of “Tagging” another user in the post would be another feature. Each type of artwork would be posted as a “Scribble.” Scribbler will include a number of effects, tools, and colors to apply to each scribble. For instance, apply a watercolor effect or use the sponge tool. Almost like a mini Photoshop. Users would be able to use a Text tool to write captions or titles anywhere on the picture. There will also be the ability to draw on top of photographs, like to draw a mustache on your best friend’s face in a photograph. Backdrops will be an option as well, similar to Photo Booth.

Scribbler adds value to the existing applications available on the Iphone and Ipad by being the first to join art and social networking together. I am not quite sure why my idea has not been created yet, but I know that it will attract many people of all ages.  My app will be very successful because it allows for the little artist inside us all to come and make its debut to the World Wide Web. Social networking has proved itself as being the number one way to share content to friends, family, and even to strangers. But either way, it allows freedom of expression and that is exactly what Scribbler will provide, the freedom to express yourself through art.