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Gorgeous UI! This is an interesting case because I've always wondered how users interact with drag and drop ui in the browsers. Are users accustomed to the con

Gorgeous UI! This is an interesting case because I've always wondered how users interact with drag and drop ui in the browsers. Are users accustomed to the concept or does it confuse them because traditionally browsers haven't supported drag and drop? I bet there a risk for a conflict in the user's mental models! I wonder how drag and drop would compare to the traditional approach to upload images: 1. click the Browse Image button 2. Locate images 3. Select Images 4. OK image selection Like I said, would love to see some stats on browser drag and drop. EDIT: Using Chrome, I tried to drag and drop an image on a web site to Pasteboard and it didn't work. Kinda obvious since it's a clipboard object but it would be really cool if it worked (not sure why you would like to host an image that's already on the web but it's the idea that counts, I reckon).

ferongr 14y ago
>Using Chrome, I tried to drag and drop an image on a web site to Pasteboard and it didn't work. This action has been working for quite some time on Google Images [1] (drag and drop an image from a different tab to the search bar) so it's probably a design oversight. Regardless, I personally find drag and drop between different windows I haven't prepared in advance a real bother. I'd rather have the OS filepicker pop-up on click, navigate to my images, switch to icon previews and select the image there. [1] https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi
JoelBesada 14y ago
I'm planning to add some more Google Analytics tracking events to get some more data on how the site is being used, I don't have any data to give you at this moment. About being able to drag images from another website, I decided to wait with implementing that feature since the main point of the app is to upload images that aren't already hosted somewhere else. The only use case it would have is if you'd like to crop the image before sharing it with others. I might add some analytics to track that too, to see how many there are that actually are trying to do that.

ferongr 14y ago

>Using Chrome, I tried to drag and drop an image on a web site to Pasteboard and it didn't work. This action has been working for quite some time on Google Images [1] (drag and drop an image from a different tab to the search bar) so it's probably a design oversight. Regardless, I personally find drag and drop between different windows I haven't prepared in advance a real bother. I'd rather have the OS filepicker pop-up on click, navigate to my images, switch to icon previews and select the image there. [1] https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi

JoelBesada 14y ago

I'm planning to add some more Google Analytics tracking events to get some more data on how the site is being used, I don't have any data to give you at this moment. About being able to drag images from another website, I decided to wait with implementing that feature since the main point of the app is to upload images that aren't already hosted somewhere else. The only use case it would have is if you'd like to crop the image before sharing it with others. I might add some analytics to track that too, to see how many there are that actually are trying to do that.