Hi all,
How exciting! - we have launched a new and improved iPhone version. If you like it, LIKE us on Facebook too!
What is new?
- Improved photo import.
- Performance improvement & bug fixes.
Below you can see the new features:
The photos view screen, now you can take a photo directly from the gallery.
The album screen, with it you can have an overview of the photos in an album you've created
The importing screen, it allows you to add photos to an album that were not photographed with PixMix. Now also in batch mode! - which is the obvious choice :-)
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
PixMix in a wedding event
In October of 2012 we set out to test PixMix in the field. We selected a wedding event as a testing ground to prove that PixMix can actually make a good event a perfect one! So how did we do? - read on an find out...
Our purpose was to test the willingness of
people to use PixMix, to test PixMix’s usability, to get some user feedback on UX and
general application concept and to test PixMix’s web gallery
as a live wedding slideshow.
The wedding had circa 250 people in the ages of 20 to 80. The average age was around 40 with an even number of women and men.
We have prepared a colorful roll-up sign to inform the
wedding guests about PixMix. The sign also included a QR code with a download
link to the application. Any device with a QR scanning app can scan the code and
directly reach the AppStore/GooglePlay.
Get PixMix now!
We had a person (Gale) standing close to the roll-up sign to
answer any question the guests might have. Gale was also an observer, keeping
an eye on how the guests were coming along with their first PixMix use. This would
be a unique opportunity to observe usability issues if any were to pop-up.
We had another person (Oliver) in charge of the Laptop that
run the live (streaming) web album. PixMix sets up a live web album for each
album a person creates on the mobile device. This web album has two modes: a gallery
mode – where one can browse through photos like a gallery and a live-stream
mode -where all the photos in an album are circulated on the screen. Each newly
added photo is then automatically added to the live gallery and presented on
the screen.
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The dancing couple in front of the live web gallery |
We've got very excited reactions about the concept. We were pleased to see that most of the guests quickly understood the idea behind PixMix. Wedding guests that showed interest also quickly downloaded the app and started taking photos with it, thus adding their photos to the wedding’s album. We were pleased to see that the wedding guests quickly grasped how to use PixMix – so it must be as easy as taking a photo on your mobile phone! The main event, from PixMix’s point of view, was the dancing party after dinner. Most of the pictures were taken at that time. The dancing area had two large screens where the live web album was projected on. The ability of the wedding guests to instantly view their own photos projected live on the screen, created a great interaction with the app.
PixMix worked flawlessly during the event. Photos taken on different mobile devices were synchronized instantly to all devices sharing the wedding album. The album’s live web gallery was automatically synced. When photos were added by the wedding guests, the live slideshow was updated on the screens.
And still there were few issues we would like to share with you. At the time of the wedding
we had no available PixMix app for iPhone. We estimate a double amount of wedding
album collaborators, if such an app would have existed at that time. Not all people were
interested – most of the guests were more interested in congratulating the soon
to be married couple than to download an application they never heard about. Some photos went out
smudged due to poor lighting conditions (evening time).
Oh yes… and they lived happily ever after! ;-)
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