Today’s world is all about “right now” – and when that immediacy involves digital devices – it’s all about simplicity and minimal clicks to serve your needs. When you combine this immediacy with using digital images, it’s all about Instant Image ID for creative pros and ensuring Every Image Gets Its Credit for content creators.
Today, PicScout unveiled a new ImageExchange UI that is simpler to use, displays more information immediately, reduces the need for certain clicks, and dramatically expands visibility for licensable images buried deep in search engine results pages.
ImageExchange for Firefox now shows a right side-panel which populates as soon as you open a page containing images. When the panel is exposed, a counter clearly informs you of the number of licensable images found; when it’s not exposed, you can also see the image count in the bottom right and with one-click, expand the panel to see the images. When designers use sites such as Google Images (which seemingly has an almost infinite number of pages), as they scroll down the Google results page, ImageExchange continues to identify licensable images and the results appear in the right side panel – now making it even easier for designers to find that “perfect” image by allowing searches to go well beyond page one or two of a search result.
Theses user experience enhancements are the continuation of what will be a series of feature additions planned for ImageExchange. PicScout routinely holds focus groups with creative professionals to hear their input regarding the product.
So far, creative pros are telling us this is just what they needed to end the hassle of finding licensable images on non-traditional websites. They can easily license images they like or they can bookmark them for future use. As an added benefit, they can recommend this free tool for their clients to download, so they can find licensable images they like to be incorporated in work being created for them.
To build upon this feedback, we are now launching a Creative Pro Advisory panel, where members will participate in monthly conference calls with discussion topics ranging from brainstorming ImageExchange feature enhancements to testing non-public versions of the add-on, and more! We ask panel members to commit to serving for a one-year renewable term. Members will be identified as part of the Advisory Panel, and will receive gifts and goodies from PicScout. So if you’re a creative professional that licenses or researches images as part of your profession, and you want to influence future versions of ImageExchange, send us an email with 2-3 sentences explaining why we should select you for the ImageExchange Advisory Panel.
To download the new ImageExchange add on, please visit: http://www.picscout.com/imageexchange/
[...] UI By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 18th, 2010 • Category: ArticlesEarlier this week Picscout announced a major overhaul of its ImageExchange Firefox extension to improve the UI and make it easier to locate images available for licensing through the [...]