Jakob was the Season of Usability 2008 student.
GalleryX Features/Improvements
List of features and improvements that I would like to see get implemented into GalleryX as of September 24 2008. It is not really prioritized, sorry.
Help
- ubiquitous tooltips
- no too long help descriptions immediately within the interface (that often describe edge cases and help practically nobody)
Navigation
- simplify that navigation
- get rid of ambiguous items: e.g. reorder vs. rearrange
- all image manipulation functions (edit, delete, rotate, ...) should be right in context with the photo and not in some navigation in the sidebar
- look into getting rid of the sidebar navigation and try to replace it with a simple head navigation + footer
- use Javascript lightbox for features, where it makes sense (login, registration, upload, ...) to not distract people form these tasks
Misc
- a nifty AJAX drag'n'drop photo organizer to rearrange albums (see Flickr)
- better visual differentiation between Gallery items (e.g. photos vs. albums)
- end user dashboard (what's new?)
- admin dashboard (see Wordpress)
- you already know what I have to say about the upload interface
- default support for tagging
- get rid of most of the metadata fields
- photo annotation
- bigger thumbnails by default
