Thememory: Experiencing Thematic Photos in Daily Practice

Thanks to the advanced digital technologies, people can take pictures everyday to record their lives. However, many people almost have no time to browse these tremendous amount of photos and no good way to revisit the treasured photos. Though many methods can display the photos, people still need to allocate a specific timeslot to browse them. To address this problem, a novel design concept, The memory, is developed to utilize users´ photos to synthesize program themes, so that the photos will become a part of users´ working space and evoke their valuable memories while using their computers. As a user-centric design process, we first recruited 10 professional designers to design program themes according to our described concept, which were further ranked by 31 recruited users. The top ranked templates were implemented according to the extracted design guidelines through the ranked results.