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Originally for our first computer prototype, we had our photo layout in such a way so that the width for both vertical and horizontal photos were the same, meaning the height of vertical photos were much longer. However, we also decided not to add much white space between rows of photos. This meant that some vertical photos would extend into the second and third row of photos, making rows not perfectly aligned when vertical photos were added. We thought there would be an aesthetic appeal to this layout. However, we found in our heuristic evaluation that some people preferred thumbnail sizes that were more similar. It was also brought to our attention that the lack of defined rows made it harder for users to order photos, because it wasn't immediately obvious which photo came before others. We decided that it was still important to distinguish between horizontal and vertical pictures because it created an affordance for recognizing photos quickly. Thus, to keep this and still have defined rows, we decided to create more white space in between our rows of photos and shorten our vertical photos from what we originally had. That is how we ended up up with our final photo layout for groups.
Share Suggestions
When doing the paper prototype, it was mentioned that a useful feature we should add would be suggesting emails of people you can share groups with so that you don't have to type in the same email each type. We created this to help the user with this processOne of the highest friction components of our websites was when a user had to enter the emails of the people he/she wanted to share with. The problem with this was that a lot of people had difficulty remembering the emails of their friends. Thus, even though our interface was very simple to use, this still resulted in a lot of errors because the manual typing would have a lot of room for errors. Thus, we created suggestions when the user began typing the emails of friends to share groups with, and these suggestions were based on previous emails that the user had used before. We believed this made the process a lot more user friendly for the user and also reduced the possibility for error.
Simplification of Comments
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