Scrnshots.com for Sharing Screenshots
Ethan Eismann pointed out a useful site, called Scrnshots, that allows you upload, comment and tag screenshots. I love these types of community sites that help open a discussion around design. They make it super easy for you to contribute by providing a desktop application(shown below) that allows you to make screenshots and upload them all from your toolbar. You can also share your screenshots via links or embedded widgets.
What’s interesting is I was just talking to some designer’s at EffectiveUI about creating a site very similar to this, but with some additional functionality. I’ll probably end up using this site a lot, but there’s some features I think would really make Scrnshots stand apart from something like Flickr.
I’d like the ability to post iterations and have them be connected. I’d love to be able to post a sketch, get feedback, post a refined mockup with revisions, get more feedback, refine, get feedback, etc. Then, at any point someone could review the entire process I went through from sketch to final execution. Being able to see the thinking that went into something is where most of the value lies.
Being able to have comments point to specific parts of the screenshot would be cool too, kinda like ConceptShare. Maybe even a comparison overlay view to to get down to the details.
I can really see this site used for a variety of things, like filing bugs, reviewing designs, concepting, etc. In some cases, maybe I’d like to make some things private. Then I can share designs for internal purposes.
Scrnshots is one of those site I could browse for hours, kinda like LogoPond. Now all I need is some time to find and upload a bunch of designs that never made it beyond the concept phase.
July 23rd, 2008 at 8:41 am
Iterations on designs would be awesome, both from the point of view of the designer refining, and for the reviewer watching designs mature. It would also be nice if the images posted were mostly posted by the owner of the image, but I understand wanting to share if you come across a brilliant design somewhere. Great ideas to expand on their current concept. I’m still playing around with the service to see how useful it’ll be to me.