Re: How to present images in various sizes?

I think there are a lot of solutions for you, it depends a lot upon some
more details, but just asking that won't help you much.

I recently worked on a very large media repository that often had multiple
sizes for some of the images that were being stored.

One of the ways we worked to combat this issue was to have a smaller
thumbnail on a results page.  A mouse-over event provided additional
information--certain attributes of the image and some useful metadata for
the users.  Granted, technology was not necessarily a constraint at this
point, and your situation could be different.  If you're able to provide
something such as this (ie an RIA/DHTML display on a different layer),
then you may try to provide more information when a user drills into a
specific image, if there's such an option.

Perhaps a simpler option is to display a single thumbnail and display
available sizes as links below a main thumbnail?  Are those associations
available to you?  Is there a naming convention in place that allows for
ease of discerning this information?

Hopefully there's something useful in everything above; I certainly
appreciate the challenge you're facing.

--Russ

On Tue, May 22, 2007 3:58 am, Jan Alfbo wrote:
> I'm currently working on a project that has left me struggling with a real
> design problem.
>
> I have to present a lot of images in different sizes (120x600, 250x250,
> 120x60 etc) on a resultpage.
>
> I have of course suggested to present a miniature picture of these images
> to
> get them in the same size. However that doesn't seem to be an option since
> the most important thing to the user is being able to see the whole image
> at
> once to decide whether or not that particular image is of interest.
> This will leave the resultlist very cluttered and hard to overview (in my
> opinion).
>
> I've been looking for design patterns for this kind of problem but the
> common standard to present images seems to be by doing it the Google way
> (Google image search)
>
> Does anyone have an idea of how to solve this problem? Are there any
> websites out there that has an image gallery with various sizes and that's
> still usable?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
> Jan Alfbo
> Interaction Designer
>
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