facetune · two jobs, one calm canvas.
A self-initiated home-page redesign. People come to Facetune to do one of two things — shoot a photo with a filter, or edit one they already took. The new home makes both obvious within a second.
from gallery wall to single canvas
Open Facetune today and the first thing you see is a grid of everything in your recent screenshots — chat logs, loading screens, blank captures, the occasional photo. The shoot-a-new- photo button hides in the top-right corner. “Quick Start” floats as a four-tile menu mid-page. A horizontal “Hair & Beards” carousel peeks above the fold. Three or four homes stacked on top of each other.
The redesign keeps every feature and pulls them into the two jobs they actually serve. Your recent photos collapse into one swipeable stack you can triage; the shutter sits dead center in a thumb-reachable pill, flanked by edit tools that pre-select when you open a card. The home stops shouting and starts answering.
ideate → wireframe → ship
I open Facetune most days and noticed I always do one of two things: shoot a quick photo with a filter, or fix a photo I already took. The home page doesn't help with either — it shows me a wall of screenshots and a hot-red NEW badge on Collage.
One photo at a time, not a grid. A swipeable stack for the current photo, an Apple-Photos-style scrubber underneath to jump through the roll, and a bottom pill with a real shutter as the largest target on screen.
Built as a real swipeable prototype: the front card drags and tucks back into the deck, the scrubber cycles continuously, the search popover filters by Skin / Face / Eyes / Hair, and the iOS-26-style keyboard slides up for it. The two jobs read in under a second.
what changed, and why
- 01.Recent photos flood the home as a 3-column edit grid — screenshots, chat logs, blank captures and allA single swipeable card stack of recent photos. Drag to triage; the front card is the only photo competing for attentionMost of what’s in the camera roll isn’t worth editing — the home shouldn’t pretend it is.
- 02.Shoot-a-new-photo lives as a tiny camera glyph in the top-right cornerA real shutter sits dead-center in the bottom pill — the largest, most thumb-reachable target on the screenCapturing a new photo is one of two jobs people open Facetune for; it should be impossible to miss.
- 03.“Quick Start” floats as a four-tile menu mid-page, with no clear hierarchy between actionsA categorized, searchable list behind a single tap — keyboard slides up, tabs filter by Skin / Face / Eyes / Hair, each row has its own glyphPower users want every tool one tap away; new users want a quick name to scan. The popover serves both without shouting at either.
- 04.“Hair & Beards” carousel sits below the fold, dressed up as contentHair becomes a regular category in the action search; it’s discoverable from the edit flow, not from a content shelfA feature shouldn’t cosplay as a magazine spread.
- 05.No way to scrub through nearby photos without leaving the homeAn Apple-Photos-style thumbnail strip under the stack — swipe to fly through the camera roll, tap to bring a photo to the topTriage and edit happen on the same screen. The user never loses their place.
- 06.Settings sits next to the wordmark, competing with the brand for first-impression attentionSettings shrinks to a small gear in the corner; the wordmark stands alonePeople come to Facetune to make photos, not to configure it.
- 07.Collage gets its own primary tab in the bottom nav with a hot “NEW” badgeCollage is one of four small icons flanking the shutter — present, but not louder than the main jobPromoting a secondary feature to peer status with the primary one trains users to ignore both.
- 08.The home asks the user “what do you want to do?” via competing menus and shelvesThe page reads top-to-bottom as one thought: category filter → current photo → nearby photos → edit / open editor → shootEvery glance should answer ‘what now?’ in under a second.