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Goal: share a picture from son's 6th birthday
Individual Designs
Ken
Fun Display
This design tries to make it fun for users to scroll through and find media.
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.
Large View
Joe
Tiny Screen
This design tried to tackle the extreme case of having a tiny screen, perhaps on a mobile device.
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