Bryan Feddern
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Getty Images Mobile App

Getty Images: Helping form an Agile, multidisciplinary mobile team and DESIGN feature work on the core business app

MY ROLE: Product design, Content strategy, UX Design (information architecture, usability testing, site mapping, prototyping), Interactive Design (interface design, visual design), Quality assurance testing
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Exploring a “Stories” Feature

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A walkthrough of final design features

 

REDESIGNING THE ACCOUNT PAGE

Despite our positive press, there were a host of usability issues that needed addressing. Our main issues involved the responsiveness in loading the constantly updating streams of images and working through some of the bugs related to working with Swift and Cloudkit for the first time. The novelty of the parallax effect and some of the original elements that stoked initial interest in Stream had seemingly worn off and I had a backlog of ideas that had been deprioritized. We conducted a series of usability studies as I worked to refine the app interface and then moved on to A/B testing of new work.
The new design resulted in a cleaner and more responsive experience. The initial loading screen showed a montage of our best images, creating a more consistent brand experience that we could update at slower intervals, the home page was a more elegant and easily navigated screen, and controls in the streams were standardized. The user control over notifications and slideshow options tentertainment app that

 
 

CREATING MORE ROBUST FILTERS

Despite our positive press, there were a host of usability issues that needed addressing. Our main issues involved the responsiveness in loading the constantly updating streams of images and working through some of the bugs related to working with Swift and Cloudkit for the first time. The novelty of the parallax effect and some of the original elements that stoked initial interest in Stream had seemingly worn off and I had a backlog of ideas that had been deprioritized. We conducted a series of usability studies as I worked to refine the app interface and then moved on to A/B testing of new work.
The new design resulted in a cleaner and more responsive experience. The initial loading screen showed a montage of our best images, creating a more consistent brand experience that we could update at slower intervals, the home page was a more elegant and easily navigated screen, and controls in the streams were standardized. The user control over notifications and slideshow options tentertainment app that

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