We also improved the performance, changed the layout to remove unnecessary space, and re-arranged menus and buttons for more efficiency when working with Picturepark. Most notable performance improvements*:

• Loading Times: The interface loads 3x faster.

• Paging: Browsing from image to image is 1.8x faster.

• Metadata Creation & Update: Adding Layers and updating fields is about 2.9x faster.

To achieve such improvements, we changed the rendering and loading of thumbnails in a significant overhaul. We migrated most UI sections from an older Angular JS to the latest Angular version.

You can find videos of the most important UX changes here: https://picturepark.com/preview.

* Performance varies depending on your internet connection and your Picturepark setup. We achieved the listed performance improvements with 260 Mbps uplink.

Redesigned Content Browser.

The main menu navigation has been shortened to only the most important areas. The Content Browser and the search experience have been reworked so you can find faster what is relevant and keep a better overview of where you are: the currently active channel, your search terms and suggestions, as well as other options.

The reworked menus allow faster execution of tasks, e.g., change views, sort order, or show/hide overlays (in the top left, bottom right, and bottom left corner of the thumbnail) with relevant information (configurable).

Collections

Collections have been removed from the main menu and integrated directly into the sidebar of the Content Browser so you can access it any time when working with content. Here you can create, access, modify or remove your sophisticated personal collections, e.g., for projects, tasks, or campaigns.

Shares

The new side-by-side layout for shares gives you a faster overview of share details (recipient, date, description) and your shared content. New overlays on shares in the share browser inform you about contained items, the share type (share, embed), and whether or not the share/embed is expired. Additionally, you can expire a share from the toolbar or the context menu.

Schemas & Access

We grouped all schemas (Lists, Layers, Field Types, Virtual Types) in Schemas. Administrators can add fields, change field settings, update Display Pattern, or change ownership or permissions. The functionality is as it was before. In Access, we grouped managing users, roles, and permission sets. The functionality is as it was before.

We arranged the top navigation that better indicates where you are currently working, e.g., Files > Image.

Other

Transfers have been removed from the main menu as they brought confusion to users. You can still access import collections from the import notification in the new notification center.

The settings area remains unchanged in layout and functionality.

In Help, you find links to the manual, your system information for support requests, and other information about software licenses in use. Here we introduced the new side-by-side layout, which is also better suited for mobile views.

This way, you see the content and the metadata much better all at once. On the right side, metadata, permissions, references, and statistics appear as tabs. Functional buttons such as “Edit” are prominently placed on top of the metadata.

In this view, editing (or controlling) takes the blink of an eye.

• Metadata: You can update all metadata fields from all layers at once.

• Metadata: You can see a preview of an image and update its metadata in the same view.

• Permissions: You can see the permissions while still seeing the content preview.

• References: You can see all referenced and linked Content Items. You can see Shares or Embeds that contain the content.

• Statistics (NEW): See downloads, shares, embeds of the content with the content.

Shortcuts

Further improvements for editing metadata are the new keyboard shortcuts:

• Add (Insert): CTRL + I

• Edit: CTRL + E

• Save: CTRL + S

• Paging: ALT + arrow left / arrow right

On Apple devices use Apple Key instead of CTRL.

Smarter List Editing.

In this new three-column layout, you see the list and its list items. The sidebar is your editing area where you update the selected list item. Moreover, when you search through all lists, you can see the list items and their lists as clickable links.

What should I use lists for?

• For tags and keywords.

• For smart tags with synonyms, translations, and more details like links to Wikipedia pages.

• For products with all product details.

• For events and event details.

• For campaigns and campaign details.

• For licenses and their license agreements (NDA’s).

• And much more.

For everything tag - the smart one!