Investigate similar applications on the market（1）

Pixiv

"As of September 2016, the site consists of over 20 million members, over 43 million submissions, and receives over 3.7 billion page views monthly. Pixiv aims to provide a place for artists to exhibit their illustrations and get feedback via a rating system and user comments. Works are organized in an extensive tag structure which forms the backbone of the website."  This application gathers artists from all over the world, it works with a lot of printing houses to help artists publish their own portfolios and pushes out its own drawing software 'CLIP STUDIO', you can publish your work on Pixiv by this software directly. The rich extensive services and detailed label classification are believed it's unique selling point. Next, we will analysis the constriction and layout of this application.

 The home page has three big modules: illustration, manga and novels. Manga as a well-known culture is difficult to define its audiences, everyone has read comics at one time or another, this is not only limited in teenagers but also people of every age but it will differentiate strictly the content over the age of 18 and all ages by verifying user's personal information. The illustration has relatively more extensive audiences, you can publish anything you create on it. You can see many cases of novices becoming masters here. The main part is divided into modules of Rankings, Popular Lives and Recommended which can be scrolled. There are photos and popularities at the bottom of every work.

The Newest page often posts some information about recent competitions in this application, by the way, it has the web version. You can see the recently developments of the artists you follow in the following module. The most part why I like this application is It has no advertisement, it only recommends some new artists and makes novices easier to get attention. Most of its revenue comes from its expanded services like membership system(you can watch official tutorial) and software.

 You can use the search module to find the work and follow the artist you want.

The sidebar is one of the most important parts. You may have already found, it appears the repetition in the first part with the home page in some features. It's thought be necessary for easier to use. The second part is about your work, you can check your work, collection and browsing history on it. However,  Markers is thought to be the same as Collection and I have never used it, so I will cancel it when I do my work.

You have to put a lot of detail information on the module of Submit work, that's why there are so many tags on every work to help audiences find something they want and I think this is a really good part, and you can share your work on other applications immediately(this part collects the information of your devices).

This is the Follow module and you can watch the latest developments of the artists you follow.

The part of the feedback and the information about this application. Although few people would go to check it, it's still an important part and it's very detailed. I think I will refer to it in my work.

In the next post, I will analysis the Instagram and Behance, they are also very great application, but Because of the simplicity of their features, I'll put them together in the same blogger article.

Reference：
En.wikipedia.org. (2020). Pixiv. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixiv#Pixiv_Market [Accessed 26 Jan. 2020].