Presenting and visualizing image results for professional image searchers: A field evaluation.

Creative professionals such as journalists and copywriters are an important group of users who need to search for images as part of their work task. We describe the design and evaluation of a `high density' image search interface targeted at this user group. We use a field evaluation together with a qualitative approach with creative professionals to gather feedback on the high density interface design. Our results show that creative professional viewed the interface favourably because they were able to get a quick overview of research results. We make suggestions for the appropriateness of high density interfaces for different work contexts, and further work in terms of layouts of images in high density interfaces.