Access my GalleryGive others the liberty to access your gallery but on your terms

A Project done for Samsung, India

by Namita MaheshwariCUA, M.Des., B.Arch

What is the ‘Gallery’ Story?

E=mc^2

Eh.. Smart Phone

Overloaded and confused gallery, I am

clueless

Yes.. And I promise to get better

Hey Gallery.. Can you sort, edit, manage?

What more can I do to delight you

Fundamentally, mobile refers to a user and not the device or the application

Vineeta is a full time designer whose work demands her to be observant and learn from her surroundings. Travelling and hanging out with a close set of friends is something she looks forward to. She likes to invest in gadgets as she feels it makes her life simple. She recently got a smart phone which will cater to her needs of photography, good memory space and editing features

Drives: Quick access, Data management, new functions like edit etc

Blocks: Search, share

Persona 1

“ Sharing and transferring photos is the WORST TASK BY FAR on my phone ”

Vineeta Rath- The capturer30, Designer, ConsultantDelhi, Johannesburg

Smart Phone expert user

Salim Bhai- The Ladies Man40, Tailor and DesignerMumbai

Somewhat Expert User of Smart Phones

Salim Bhai has a small fashion boutique in a commercial area in Mumbai. He is well known for his designs and good stitching quality. He wants to grow his business and reach out to more customers. Unlike before now Salim shows and shares his designs on his phone but often gets stuck on finding the right design as each customer has their own needs.

Drives: Quick access, memory space

Blocks: Edit, Share, lack of knowledge on new features, data management

“ My gallery is my catalogue, and in future I would like to use it as a place where my customers can access it, like a website”

Persona 2

Reviewing and Comparing Samsung GalleryThe review will be based on primary functions (Browsing, Viewing, searching and Sharing) on parameters of Interaction, content and presentation

Home Screen- Directing the User

Too many albums with no separation,

indication, container hence

Decision making causes mental load on a user

Potential for user confusion as the album names is composed of

Alphabhat+ Special character+ Number leading to Visual clutter

No clear Indication of Source of Photograph-The users mental model looks for the source of

Photograph as per conventional gallery apps.

“I still prefer the very tight, neat display of my previous phone, the lumia 800 “

Samsung note 4 user

Sort and Search

The search option looks like a global search

but is just a suggestive search box.

Multiple level sorting shows its result above

the search options. The proximity and order of

selected gives an indication of all of them

being filter options

“The search gives an impression as if I can type anything and it will show results“

Samsung note 4 user

The search in Photos gallery

of Nexus 5 gives results on

any related keywords

Reviewing and Comparing Samsung Gallery- Select and Share

Whatsapp, Facebook and

gmail are the most common

form of sharing which should be

by default the first choices for

sharing.

Numerous sharing options:

Multiple options to share pictures

but it would be good to know how

many of these are used at all.

“These are the only choices I Phone has when it comes to sharing, I can print though (Sarcasm)”

I phone user

Interaction style and Presentation

Inconsistent interaction style- swiping Horizontal and vertical scrollAs per the user- Location and face sort has horizontal swipe and rest is vertical scroll.

Lack of anchoring points, the Video icon takes up much of the users attention

“ In I Phone all the pictures, clicked from the phone and received from others in the same container, In a way its good if all you do is browse, but to search a picture is a difficult task

CONTENT AND INFORMATION

CLARITY:

Terms like studio, Photo studio

and Shot and more is not as per

users mental model who

understand these options more in

terms of edit

Content

The pencil icon is a universal edit

icon found in facebook, linkedin,

photo editing apps etc. hence the

user easily associates it with

editing

Current delighter moment of Gallery App- Data Management and Organization

The new apps can organize your pictures based on face recognition, places, things, location etc.

Multiple filters at one go can help gallery have a global search

This Opens a lot of future possibilities for the gallery App, especially the we access and share our photographs

Samsung being an android phone, by default has another gallery app called Google Photos, is the user expected to learn two styles of accessing there gallery?

Challenge!

Komal, Vineeta and Saranya have gone out on a five day trip to Leh.

Scenario 1- The picture acquiring Issue

“ Can’t wait to upload my pictures, but its

almost impossible to get the pictures from

Vineeta”

During the Trip

The scenic beauty that Leh is, Vineeta can’t stop clicking pictures of the mountains, rivers and her friends who are constantly asking her to click their pictures.

After the trip

Sort and

SearchSelect

Send Permission to

ACCESS YOUR

GALLERY

Receive Permission to

access sender’s gallery

Save

Assumptions made:

1. Both the user have good internet access2. The users know each other3. The technologies of face tagging and location tagging are much better and easier than at present

receiverSender

Screen flow- Vineeta’s (Sender) Phone

Search Photos

Home Screen:

1.Photosand videos clustered

as per the source its received

from.

2. Gallery search based on

tagging done either by user

or organized based on

recognitions made by web

Use the search box to

type Key words like

name (needs to be

tagged by user),

location, date etc.

The Samsung

gallery app sorts

the container as

per the search

Open the container (Eg.

Camera) to view the

pictures

1

Select Photos

Select photo by long

press and

There are defined

activities related to

multiple photos, and

hence the ‘+’opens as

pop up

Drag finger to select

multiple pictures.

To Acknowledge user

about this new feature

with gallery, give a

dialogue bullet

Tell the user- where he is

Access my gallery

2 Choose ‘Access my gallery3

After clicking ‘Access

my account feature’ a

search contact screen

opens.

Type in the name, and

click on the auto

suggested name

Select multiple names,

and to deselect use the

cancel next to the

selected names

Press OK to send the

permission to access

your gallery

Feedback: Receive a

confirmation message

Select contact and send Permission4

Screen flow- Komal (Reciever) Phone

Komal receives a

notification on her

phone.

The message has the

picture of the sender

Instant Gratification moment:She can push the notification away for

now and check it later in her gallery

Komal’s home screen:

The notification

access clearly

highlights about the

new request.

(Taking the analogies

from Facebook and

other apps)

Click accept to see the

desired folder in

Vineeeta’s gallery.

The notification column

also acknowledges user

about new updates and

changes in gallery app

1

Receives a notification and accept5

On pressing SAVE,

There is a pop up to

create an album, hence

helping you with one

step of keeping your

data organised

Name the album The album is instantly

saved in the albums

folder.

By default pictures are

already selected

Receiver can do only 2

actions in this- either

save or cancel.

She cannot tweak with

the pictures

Saves as an album6

Functionality/ Action box

Primary Content

Below the fold

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A four column grid with 20pixel space between each column

1-Status bar- 100 pixels2- Action bar- 280 pixels3- Each container- 340 pixels

Space between each container is 20 pixels

Margins around the display- 20 pixels

Color Palette:Cyan- #33ccffIndigo- #3366ffBlack- #000000 (45% transparent)White-#ffffff

Basic UI Guidelines

Search

12:45

127 Photos

43 Videos

100 Photos

22 Albums

misc20 Photos

22 photos

Notifications :

From the analogy of

Facebook and other

appsFor easy recognition:

Icon for each container

based on the source of

picture

Global gallery search:

Assumed that the user tags

faces and other categorization

automatically done by web

Misc. folder works on the

basis of ‘mental model of

user to put things in

miscellaneous folder

incase they don’t need

immediate attention

12:45

Komal Leh

Album

Movie

Give Access

Delete

Tell users where they are

There are some common actions you

take with multiple photos-

The auto suggest pop -up saves user

from the action for pressing ‘+’ icon.

Komal and Saranya wants to make sure after every click they get to see the picture. The ‘ Dikhao Dikhao (Show me the picture right now) is something that really annoys Vineeta. It takes up too much of her time to begin with, her phone battery and whole browsing activity in middle of capturing it.

Scenario 2: The ‘Click’ that causes Hysteria

Work in Progress

Hey Gallery…Is there a way?the minute I click the picture, it is shown on my friends phone