Scenario
Mother (passive user) wants to find pictures from her son's 6th birthday so the grandparents can view it. She is not sure where these picture are stored- if it is on a site, a camera, or anywhere. So she searches on the site for them. Once she gains access to it on the site, she distributes the picture (as well as maybe any other relevant ones) to the grandparents.
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- Learnability
- Pros
- Text boxes are labeled indicating their function.
- Links and buttons should have the proper affordances to indicate their uses
- Cons
- Pros
- Efficiency
- Pros
- The efficiency of this interface stems mostly from the anticipation of user needs. The "Recent" tab provides immediate access to more current content which is presumably used more. Also, the buttons to email or copy or the pictures link are located next to the picture themselves as tasks commonly following viewing a picture or video.
- Cons
- Unfortunately, if many pictures occur on the same day, the user would potentially have to scroll through all of them if searching for something in particular. While this is better than simply searching through all pictures, it is something to improve in future iterations.
- Safety
- Pros
- The different modes for simply viewing recent pictures versus those from a specific date are clearly demarcated using the visible tabs at the top, hopefully minimizing mode errors.
- Cons
- Pros