Cricut Design Space Photo Edit Tool & Project Description

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My role: 

I served as the lead designer and researcher. I also worked closely with my product manager, fellow designers, and the in-house development team. 

The Overview: 

When Cricut launched the Cricut Community, it was a place where crafters could share their projects. To do this, the crafters needed a feature to highlight each project before publishing it to the Cricut Community.

The Problem: 

There was a disconnect where a user would design a project, and they wanted to share it with the Cricut Community. They would have to go over the community section of the site to upload their finished photos and create directions for the project. Lastly, they would have to go back to Cricut Design Space to get the ID numbers for any images they used from the Cricut image database. Because of all the back and forth, that was happening; it made it very time-consuming and frustrating for the end-user even to publish a project. 

The Solution:

We create a feature inside of Cricut Design space where members could complete the list below:

  • Upload/Drag and Drop finished photos

  • Conduct light edits (Reposition the image, delete an image, resize the image, sort the photos)

  • Have a form to explain how they designed the project

  • Add light taxonomy (I.E., card, holiday, color)

  • Add the skill level (I.E., easy, hard)

  • Add Completion Time (I.E., Less than 15 min)

  • Show the images and fonts used in the project if they are from the Design Space catalog

Once the user is happy with their final product, we gave the user the option to publish their project to the Cricut Community landing page. The project is saved inside of the user’s Design Space profile (See the Cricut Design Space Profile Project). The profile keeps all the user's projects. They can share as many projects as they want to the Cricut Community.

Case study:

I’m happy to set up a time to walk through a deep dive into this project.