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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.

Goal: share a picture from son's 6th birthday

Design Markups

Storyboards and Designs

Design 1

Step 1

 - Introduced to homescreen with information about spouse's uploaded content and sharing activity 

- User wants to find picture so they go to browse

 

Step 2

-User is not sure on exact specifics of picture, but has an idea of a picture, so they browse.

- Mosaic displays random pictures, which is fast for sorting and fun to view.

Step 3 

-User is not sure on exact specifics of picture, but has an idea of a picture, so they browse.

- Mosaic displays random pictures, which is fast for sorting and fun to view.

Design Highlights

  • Design's overall theme is for someone who either has an idea for the content they want, but not a specific picture in mind, or they just want to browse for personal enjoyment.
  • Home screen is designated for the dealing with the sharing of content problem. Gives updates on recently shared items, content recently added by spouse and access to child profiles.
  • Still allows for functionality of searching for specific content and adding new content (not pictured).

Usability Analysis

  1. Learnability
    • Pros
      • Simple interface in terms of few buttons on home screen. This allows the users to know precisely what they can do.
      • Mosaic is catchy for the user. They are likely to hover over it with mouse, and learn more about its functionality. 
        • We need to use this opportunity to inform them in some way.
    • Cons
      • Some users might not understand the mosaic can move adding new pictures. Arrows try to convey this information.
  2. Efficiency
    • Pros
      • Showing random pictures at varying sizes allows users to process a lot of data at once. Clicking on picture can get them to related pictures.
    • Cons
      • Overall process is geared towards browsing, which is inefficient if the user has a specific photo in mind.
  3. Safety
    • Pros
      • Users are processing a lot of data at once, but it takes a click to actually learn more, not just a simple hover.
      • Pressing escape or clicking outside scope of sharing/larger view window goes back to mosaic (easy to undo mistake)
    • Cons
      • Pictures are close together for the mosaic and user could potentially click on wrong photo.

Design Analysis

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