System and method for customizing photo product designs with minimal and intuitive user inputs

A method for generating a photo product design, the method comprising:

• storing two or more photo product designs in a photo product customization system;
• accessing a database within the photo product customization system associated with a user,
• displaying a first photo product design on a first design panel on a user interface of a computing device associated with the user, wherein the first photo product design is automatically created based on information in the database associated with the user;
• displaying a second design panel on the user interface, wherein the second design panel includes one or more selectable objects each representing a photo product design different from the first photo product design, and wherein the first design panel and the second design panel are concurrently displayed on the user interface;
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• in response to detecting a selection of a selectable object from the second design panel, automatically changing the photo product design in the first design panel to a second photo product design corresponding to the selected selectable object in the second design panel.

A system for customizing a photo product design, the system comprising:

• a computing system including a processor, and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to:
• store two or more photo product designs in a photo product customization system;
• access a database within the photo product customization system associated with a user,
• display a first photo product design on a first design panel on a user interface of a computing device associated with the user, wherein the first photo product design is automatically created based on information in the database associated with the user;
• display a second design panel on the user interface, wherein the second design panel includes one or more selectable objects each representing a photo product design different from the first photo product design, and wherein the first design panel and the second design panel are concurrently displayed on the user interface;
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• in response to detecting a selection of a selectable object from the second design panel, automatically change the photo product design in the first design panel to a second photo product design corresponding to the selected selectable object in the second design panel.

A computer-readable storage device storing data instructions that, when executed by a processing device of a computing device, cause the computing device to generate a user interface for display on a computing device associated with a user, the user interface comprising:

• a first design panel displaying a first photo product design and one or more first images displayed within the first photo product design, wherein the first photo product design is automatically created based on information associated with the user stored in a user database;
• a second design panel displaying one or more selectable objects each representing a photo product design different from the first photo product design stored in a photo product design library, wherein the one or more selectable objects are represented by pictures of different photo product designs;
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• a photo collection panel displaying one or more images, wherein the one or more images may be selected for inclusion into the photo product design displayed in the first design panel.