A Thousand Words

UX Prototype

Adobe XD is a tool for designing and prototyping user experience for web and mobile apps. During one of their XD Daily Challenges, I created a prototype for an image sharing app.

The ask

I created this project while trying out some of the new auto-animate features in Adobe XD. The prompts were to design an experience for pull-to-refresh and drag-to-rearrange. 

My Role: Art Direction / Design / Animation

Screenshots of popular photo sharing apps: Instagram and VSCO

Developing the brand

The idiom “a picture is worth a thousand words” was the (obvious) inspiration for the name.

Even though this is just a concept for a photo sharing app, I found it helpful to think about the brand and what would make it different from Instagram. Nick Stamas’s project Over Instagram got me thinking about where Instagram falls short. A Thousand Words would be a photo sharing app for photographers: both professional and aspiring.

Hero animation

Time to focus

The stark black-on-white layout allows the images to be the primary focus of the app, as they should be.

Centering the circular logo allowed me to use it as a branded preloader for the pull-to-refresh interaction.

Desktop version of app showing the drag-to-rearrange animation.

Underexposed

I used this project to experiment. There are still a lot of screens and user flows to explore, but it’s a start.