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Design 2 - Handheld Browsing
This design was designed as a stretch for a mobile device.
It has a similar browsing philosophy to Design 1, but designed specially to make handheld browsing quick, efficient and useful. It also takes advantage of the fact that people can use the time they have say waiting in a train or a bus ride, to look through tattoo designs and to curate a little sketchpad of the designs he likes.
The main interfaces comprises of a 'Menu-Icon' on the top left, and a 'Sketchpad' on the top right. Clicking the 'RSI Menu Icon' brings up a small menu bar of different modes of the application, such as the Browse mode, the View mode, the Search mode, etc. In this example, we are in the Browse mode, where the user is shown a randomly scrolling view of tattoo designs, again carefully selected as good examples by tattoo artists. The user can drag and drop designs he likes into his sketchpad to the top right. Note that it displays a little number showing how many designs the user has selected.
Once done, the user can click the sketchpad icon, which pops up a bubble allowing him to delete designs he doesn't want. At any time, the user can click "Analyse This" and the computer will, based on the images he has chosen and the labels these images are tagged with, give an analysis of the categories he seems to be interested in, and also gives a recommendation of Tattoo Artists which might suit his style.
Here, the interface focuses mostly on browsing actual tattoo designs. In this way, the user will be able to formulate a realistic idea of what tattoos are like, and be able to not only be on the right track to find a suitable artist to match his preferences, but also be more educated on the different styles of tattoos. Note that the user will also be able to do a more specific browse using the Search function, if for example he knows he is into say Tribal tattoos, and wants more inspiration.The mai