2015
Image Quilts
An iPad app for creating visual image quilts through keyword and color-based image search.
Role
UX/UI Designer
Platforms
iPad
Duration
~3 days
Scope
UX Structure & Flows, UI Design, Visual Style, Interaction Design
About the Project
Image Quilts was an iPad app for creating visual compositions from multiple images displayed together on a single canvas. Users could search by keyword, explore results in color or grayscale, refine searches using specific colors, replace individual images, invert the composition, and save or share the resulting quilt.
Challenge
Create a simple visual tool for exploring large sets of images and turning search results into editable compositions. The experience needed to support discovery and customization without making the interface feel heavy or overly technical.
Approach
I designed the UX structure, user flows, wireframes, UI design, visual style, prototyping, and interaction design around a direct canvas-based workflow. Search, color controls, image replacement, zoom, inversion, saving, and sharing were kept close to the main composition so users could experiment without leaving the canvas.
Outcome
The final product brought image discovery and composition into a focused iPad experience, allowing users to create, customize, save, and share image quilts from search results.
Product Overview
Creating image quilts
Image Quilts let users build visual compositions from multiple images on a single canvas. Users could start with a keyword search, explore the generated quilt, zoom into individual images, replace results, and save or share the final composition.
Keyword search with color and grayscale viewing options.
Search Refinement
Search by specific colors
Search results could be refined using custom colors, giving users another way to shape the visual character of the composition beyond keywords alone. Multiple colors could be selected to influence the resulting image quilt.
Visual Controls
Invert the image quilt
Users could invert the resulting composition to quickly produce a different visual treatment without rebuilding the quilt from scratch.