Friday, December 14, 2007

A real-world experiment on elements of web 2.0

My recent post made an observation on the design elements of modern web. I was curious if I can actually create a design based on the observations made and the result is... (drum roll)... Phototinkr.com. A highly optimized online photo editor. Most of the design elements I recognized are applied to the UI design of the site.



The design principle of the application is based on Pareto principle, specifically, to analyze the photo editing tasks to find minimal set of editing options that suffice most of the editing requirements. For example, to place a text on the image, only three different sizes of text would satisfy most casual users.