Photos

Introduction

It would be nice to have a simple and elegant replacement for using Files to show the Pictures directory.

Designers

Jon McCann, Jakub Steiner

Objectives

• View local and online/cloud collections
• View photos on attached devices
• View photos on DLNA media servers
• See new photos shared by friends
• View full screen slideshows
• Share photos (email, IM, ?)
• Upload photos
• Set as background
• Select favorites
• Very basic manipulation:
  • Rotate
  • Crop
  • Enhance
  • Remove/Delete
  • Combine into an Album
• Allow opening full featured editor for more advanced changes

Constraints

• Not an editor
• Not a management tool

Relevant Art

iOS

Google

http://photos.google.com/

WebOS

Media Explorer

??

Discussion

• How to indicate what is already uploaded
• How to differentiate between photo sources/providers

Tentative Design

Wireframes:

• /GridView

• Recent view

• Editing

• Sharing

• Albums

• Import

Sub-pages:

• Storage design page

• Time browsing

Old Mockups

Original mockups

Comments

See Also

• http://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Photos

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzU2Qln3LEs&feature=player_embedded

• http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=106176

• http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/#facebook-integration

• http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/photos.html

• http://instagr.am/

• http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/howto/wp7/pictures/pictures-hub.aspx