A total overhaul of the phone-scale interface for Lightroom's incredibly deep editing capabilities. This work was a part of a comprehensive effort underway to modernize and simplify Lightroom applications across the desktop, web, and mobile. 

Design: Ryan Hicks, Eric Tscherne. Leadership and foundational Lightroom direction: Matthew Richmond, Ned Wright, Andy LeMay. Prototype development: Chris Chirogene.

The new mobile interface is built around a bottom-up task bar which contains controls for grouped tasks mirroring their counterparts on the larger desktop and web surfaces: adjust lighting, adjust color, manipulate detail (blur, sharpening). This early hypothesis was designed around a master-slider for each class of attributes, with more-granular controls as a secondary extension. Swipe actions pull down the grid-strip and rating information for browsing, a pull up reveals deeper and more-granular editing controls.

A landscape exploration kept the layout and rotated some elements where possible: