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- This design tries to make it fun for users to scroll through and find media. Items are displayed in varying sizes in a mosaic like form. This yields some uncertainty as to where certain items are but it gives the user a fun and new way to browse files.
- The search bar is there to find a specific picture or event, but the layout is meant for the user to go looking for one thing and stumble upon several others in the process.
- The design is not efficient for the user. The layout makes it fairly easy to learn how to use.
Efficient Design
- This design allows the content to get to content strictly by searching.
- The search results page not only displays relavant media, but it also displays potential people, albums, or events in a separate grouping. This gives the user easy access to the result type they wanted. It takes limited scrolling to find what you want in the results so it is efficient to get the result you want, and it only requires one page load. Search autocomplete aids the user in searching for relavant things. The user can search by person, event, date, or filename.
- The landing page also presents the user with recent activity in case the other parent recently did something they were trying to do.
Large View
- The larger view allows users with poorer eyesight to navigate with ease. It also attempts to display things to the user in a friendly way. The user will be less intimidated by the overly sized interface because they won't feel like they are missing something.
- It sacrifices some efficiency by initially displaying media to the user one item at a time, however the option remains to see a grid like view of all the media.
- The initial search for something can be made by person, event, or date. The calendar shows users which dates have files associated with them through color and mouse over pop ups.
Joe's Designs
Tiny Screen
- This design tried to tackle the extreme case of having a tiny screen, perhaps on a mobile device.
- The process of finding a specific picture is done by searching through a calendar layout.
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- User chooses who they would like to share with.
Usability Analysis
- Learnability
- Pros
- Brings user through a very straightforward progression of finding and sharing content
- Cons
- Does not indicate the possibility for other use cases, which could confuse the user if this is not what they are trying to do
- Pros
- Efficiency
- Pros
- Brings user through a very straightforward progression of finding and sharing content with no wasted steps
- Cons
- Directly intended for this use case; will not be efficient for browsing and other uses
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- Safety
- Pros
- Users can progress through steps, but also easily go back steps if they want to make changes.
- The effects of the user's actions on one step are shown on the next.
- Cons
- Needs better indication of search toggling between recent added/uploaded and all content
- Pros
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