Seven years later, it was fun to review some of the lessons and fun bits from the Y! Photos redesign as applicable to Flickr. In 2005, we were targeting IE 6 and Firefox 1.5, so the landscape has changed a lot in terms of support and performance. A continuous joke I had with the team was that I had built this before, in 2005: The project was an adventurous redesign of Yahoo! Photos, and joking aside, it actually did share a lot of design and interaction elements in common with what we were about to build. Could the grid handle selection and editing of 1,000 items? 10,000 items? I was cautiously optimistic. The next step was to start building a prototype in plain old HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and then figure out how many photos we could potentially get into the thing before it broke down. Initial discussions about the new Flickr uploadr weren’t too detailed, because I think everyone already had a pretty good idea of what we wanted to see in a browser: Something more desktop-like, feature-wise (like our older XUL-based Flickr Uploadr application) that would load and show photo thumbnails in a grid arrangement, with a desktop-like selection and batch editing model. The new uploadr has also simply been fun to work on there are numerous interesting challenges in terms of UI, interactions, performance and sheer scale on the front-end that we had to feel confident in tackling before we were able to commit to moving forward with the project. It’s powerful, it’s got a dark background, and it’s fast.
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The product is an ongoing work in progress and enhancements are still being added, but the core is quite well-established and the experience is a significant upgrade over the one provided by the previous web-based uploadr.
We’re stoked to see it out there, and user feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. In April 2012, Flickr started rolling out its new web-based upload UI to the masses. It’s a little lengthy, but don’t worry, there are pictures! This article goes into some of the details behind the “grid” – the area where photo thumbnails are shown – and sheds a little light on some of the thinking and logic behind the scenes. The new Flickr Web Uploadr is the result of a good amount of prototyping, research and good old-fashioned testing across the team that built it.
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