Deviant Art is a well known site, it is the most popular website for uploading and sharing artwork, used both professionally and by a large community of hobbyists.
The site itself is optimised for displaying pictures, lacking information generally as the photos themselves are what people use the site for. The site has a green, easily recognisable theme and tries to be innovative with its design to fit in with its artistic nature. The sites layout allows for easy management of your own account and following of your favourite artists and friends, when you aren't doing this you'll most likely be spending your time browsing the latest and greatest artwork, your searches can be easily refined or you can simply look at whats trending with the community.
The site is known for its large teenage user base, and they definitely try to facilitate and appeal to this audiance.
The site lacks animations (Other than the user submitted ones of course, gif avatars can be used which is pretty useful) And despite lacking animations or fancy typography, the site manages to look both modern and creative, looking different to any other website i have seen, i could easily recognise it from a small thumbnail like those used in internet browsers sometimes, which is probably something intentional.
Overall deviant art has a very well designed layout which is extremely effective in delivering a great user experience for artists interested in art as both a serious profession or a hobby.
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