Independent

Wallz App

A small product about visual choice.

My role: Lead Product UX/UI Designer / Co-founder
Project period: Sep 2013 — Sep 2014
Platform: Consumer / iOS
Focus: Browsing, collections, and preview

01 / Problem

Help someone judge an image on their own screen.

Wallz was an independent wallpaper app built around browsing collections and previewing how an image would feel on a phone.

Help someone judge the image on the screen where it will live.

02 / What exists today

Browsing, categories and settings surround the images.

The recovered originals show the gallery, category navigation, search and product settings. They preserve the design, but not a separate before-version of the experience.

The interface surrounds the material people came to see.

03 / What’s wrong

The interface can get in the way of the material.

Wallpaper is chosen visually. Navigation needs to support browsing and preview without competing with the image; this is the rationale of the work, not a documented research result.

Navigation should support the image rather than compete with it.

04 / What I explored

Keep browsing tactile and make preview part of the choice.

The documented direction uses gesture-led browsing and preview before committing. The original visual refresh and navigation designs survive; a history of rejected concepts does not.

Keep preview inside the act of choosing.

05 / Low-fi architecture

Move from collection to image to preview.

This explanatory flow connects the browsing and preview scope supported by the source material.

System flowHow the pieces connect

Inputs

Wallpaper collections
Images

The interaction

01Browse a collection
02Explore an image
03Preview on the phone

Outputs

Choice in context
Selected wallpaper

Preview → return to the collection → keep exploring.

06 / Wireframes

Keep the controls close and the image in charge.

The reconstructed wireframes explain the interaction in the site’s visual language. They are new explanatory artifacts, not historical research prototypes.

Wireframe sequenceExplore the sequence

01 / 03

Let the collection lead

Collections

Collection 01

Collection 02

Collection 03

Collection 04

01A simple image grid gives the visual material most of the screen.

Reconstructed from the documented design; sample content is illustrative.

07 / Solution

Let the images lead.

Navigation and collection controls support the material people came to explore. The original gallery, navigation and settings mockups below show the design in detail.

The wallpaper gallery and visual refresh: image browsing takes the main stage. Original on Dribbble ↗

Original Wallz category navigation on an iPhone — The original category menu places browsing destinations in one vertical list. Original on LinkedIn ↗

Original Wallz iOS settings with premium, review and support options — A companion menu groups premium options, reviews, and support. Original on LinkedIn ↗

08 / Research

The original work is available; a study record is not.

The archive does not include participant findings. A useful next evaluation would cover browsing continuity, finding a category and understanding what the wallpaper preview represents.

The original screens suggest specific browsing tasks to evaluate.

09 / Outcome

An independent product contribution preserved in the original designs.

The images establish the browsing, navigation and visual-design work. They do not provide measured adoption, retention or task-success results.

The surviving designs show the independent product contribution.

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