App Design

The design is informed by the Design Questionaire from back in 2014, but I will possibly want to do a second round on that. We are now seven years further and expectations may have evolved.

Logo

I like the idea behind the original logo, a film strip with some of my photos. I've been experimenting with that, using the gimp filmstrip filter. Will need to spend some more time with that. See the Logo page for details.

Color Scheme

The basic color scheme uses a dark gray (or maybe dark-gray-blue) background with a light text color. See Color Scheme for details.

App Startup

Have a splash screen while loading, then come to the home screen with the most common options available.

Views

See Views (Pages) in the App for a list of the different pages in the app.

Thumbnails

Thumbnails to show the whole (or most of) the picture, not only a square middle part. Note: explore the option to come up with a display that's between square and 3:2 ratio. If square is 600x600 and 3:2 is 900x600 in-between could be 750x600, in a 750x750 square grid. That is, a little bit cut off from left and right, and some black bars at top and bottom. Actually, provide code for all three options and make it a user setting. For non-standard ratios, do basically the same thing. The calculation would be: square size is (width + height) / 2.

Full image

Use the "m5" format, which has the photos resized to 1920 as its largest dimension. This corresponds to 1920x1280 in the standard 3:2 aspect ration. This format should have enough resolution to cover modern phones, without overwhelming the network. The photo archive should have all photos pre-generated in "-m5" format.

Logged-In Users

Long term, I want to offer more to logged-in users. This will mean a restructuring of the whole photo archive system. The Users page collects some thoughts and ideas.