"Give others the liberty to access your gallery but on your own terms". The 5 day UX design assignment that follows the design principle of reviewing the existing apps, researching the eco system and proposing an idea to ease the picture sharing issues around gallery app.

1. Access my Gallery
Give others the liberty to access your gallery but on your terms
A Project done for Samsung, India
by Namita Maheshwari
CUA, M.Des., B.Arch

2. 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

3. 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 capturer
30, Designer, Consultant
Delhi, Johannesburg
Smart Phone expert user

4. Salim Bhai- The Ladies Man
40, Tailor and Designer
Mumbai
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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Interaction style and Presentation
Inconsistent interaction style- swiping
Horizontal and vertical scroll
As 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

10. 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

11. 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!

12. 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

13. Sort
and
Search
Select
Send
Permission to
ACCESS
YOUR
GALLERY
Receive
Permission to
access
sender’s
gallery
Save
Assumptions made:
1. Both the user have good internet access
2. The users know each other
3. The technologies of face tagging and location tagging are much better and easier than at present
receiverSender

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. Functionality/ Action box
Primary Content
Below the fold
1
2
3
3
3
3
3
A four column grid with 20pixel space
between each column
1-Status bar- 100 pixels
2- Action bar- 280 pixels
3- Each container- 340 pixels
Space between each container is 20 pixels
Margins around the display- 20 pixels
Color Palette:
Cyan- #33ccff
Indigo- #3366ff
Black- #000000 (45% transparent)
White-#ffffff
Basic UI Guidelines

20. Search
12:45
127 Photos
43 Videos
100 Photos
22 Albums
misc
20 Photos
22 photos
Notifications :
From the analogy of
Facebook and other
apps
For 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.

21. 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

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