Evidence Me by 2Simple 4+

I love being able to see things from my child’s school. The only down falls of this app are not being able to scroll through photos and the app also auto closes after viewing 2 or 3 different observations. There is some room for improvement!

For the amount of money a school is paying to use this system the app is horrifyingly amateur.
It’s slow, fumbly, and ignores basic UX/UI considerations. It’s something I’d expect a high school IT class to produce on a short deadline.
Little to no refinement of design, handling of images is atrocious (which is awful for a system predicated on sharing visual *evidence*), response is slow. There needs to be a complete overhaul of this app to make it function if they expect to last more than a few more years.
Management of a parent’s account and profile should be entirely in the hands of the parent/caregiver, not the school. Uploading a profile image to identify the parent should be possible in app (and even though it’s only available through web it doesn’t work!), many of the top level options in the settings are irrelevant or ‘set once’ considerations and shouldn’t be where they are.
Cannot imagine how this company managed to secure the contracts they have other than absence of competition with sufficient ISO certification to obtain public sector tender.

- Photo upload is using original documents, instead of the edited version, so any edits you made on your phone are disregarded (like rotation, cropping etc)
- Photo gallery is painful to navigate. Why can't I swipe between photos? There are drop-in components for these things!
- Images are "stretched to fit" all over the place. This could not be more simple to fix.
- The whole "creat an observation" journey and screen needs some love. Just look at any social media app and how they create and display posts. You can basically copy that.
- Asynchronous file upload for images. I imagine that impact would have a larger impact, but would significantly improve the UX.
- Seems like pushing new observations also takes a long time. What's the reason for rate limiting this?

My child's school uses this app and I'd like to not resent this app for years to come. I've been designing and developing mobile apps in regulated industries for 15 years and I would be more than happy to help you improve this app. Just let me know.