THE UHLE COLLECTION @ BERKELEY

In the month view it is difficult to determine where the range of the day takes place along the circle. There are 7 lines to represent each day but what time of day does the line represent? Is it noon or the start of the day? There should be some indication of the range.

On the concentric circles, the week view only tells the days of the week and not the date. While a user can calculate the date from the range offered to the right it might be useful to include the numerical date next to the day. Example: Mon 14

It is difficult to tell what numerical date corresponds to each of the days. For instance, on the week of 3/13/05 there is a photo on Saturday but without rolling over the image I have to mentally count ahead to determine that Saturday is on the 19th. Perhaps at each circle along the line there should be a numerical date.

When switching between the Month, Week and Day views in the drop down option there is no indication of where I will be going. I assume that I will be within the range that I am currently using but I don’t know exactly which day or week or month range I will end up in. For example, starting at the month view (2/27/05-3/27/05) I select day view from the drop down menu. I end up at 3/11/05. How would I know that before doing that?

Grouping pictures and organizational problem. Some of the pictures are in the same area in very unorganized fashion and they look very clutter.  Either some of the pictures can be put it in the one folder or could be organize different way to avoid placing the pictures on top of each other.

More indication of what the view represents (might have DAY or WEEK, etc., as a title or something), what filters are currently applied.

In the day view the times are shown as Midnight-11:59am and Noon-11:59pm. It might be useful to describe these times as Morning and Afternoon (or Evening)…or emphasize AM and PM so people are clear on the distinction.

In the close up view there should be a way to view all the photos in the photobin, or advance to the next item in the photobin rather than open them all individually.

Font sizes and colors are not easily readable.

What is the difference between an "album" and the "bin"? Do we need both? Can you save an album, but not the bin? What are the different properties of the two?

It is not quite easy to relate the relationship between terminology and graphic representation of bull’s eye system. What is our mental model of time? For example, in the day view, we could perceive bull’s eye representation to be as a clock and time descriptions (6pm, midnight, 6am, noon) to be placed very differently (similar to clock-wise orientation, like midnight to be north side, 6am to be at the east side, so on) than what they are presented on the interface now.

The idea of having your photos in "piles" on the screen is interesting and may be useful, but I found myself wanting to drag them around—the reasoning behind the positioning of the photos on the bullseye is not entirely intuitive.

The concentric circles go in the order of later time to more recent time. This corresponds to more recent times having a smaller circle as they approach the center. Would it make more sense to have the larger circle represent the most recent time? I guess this depends on what photos users find more important.

On the close up window, should it say “close window” instead of close?

Overlapping thumbnails in the circle are very cool but it is very hard to use. I had a hard time knowing what pictures I was selecting.

There are options to create an album but I’m not sure where to view an existing album. I see that I have albums for Cat Photos and Vacation but I don’t know how to see them. Would this be a photo bin option or a menu link?

In the enlarged view what does the plus do? Does it add an image to an album or does it allow the user to create an album?

I wanted clicking on a photo to bring up the details, not add it to the bin

What does the "Friends" filter mean? People who have access to the photo? People who are in the photo? People who were with you when you took the photo? People with whom you want to share the photo? It seems to be conceptually different from the other two filters.

Why is there a Submit button at the top when using the drop-down menus dynamically changes the view?

It would be helpful if a list of email address appear on the menu when the user is ready to share the pictures with other users rather than try to remember the email address of receiver.

Would like to have an "add all" and "remove all" option for the bin—i.e. once you have filtered the main screen down to a set of pictures that you want (Venice photos from early February), you should be able to transfer them all to the bin at once rather than add them one at a time. Similarly, you should be able to delete all contents of the bin easily. What if I have several things in the bin and I want to select only some to add to an album? Will it have this functionality?

When going through a year month by month using previous is cumbersome. Should there be some sort of calendar choice? Also if a particular month or day or week has a lot of photos will this slow down the process of navigating as each page has to load? (Just a technical issue I guess)