Picomark is a collaboration tool to facilitate communication between freelance designers and their respective clients. Designers can upload and organize their designs to Picomark, and invite clients to share, present, to gather feedback. The application supports rich collaboration features such as real-time drawing, chat and messaging, and commenting tools to pinpoint any necessary details.

The initial idea came from my friend who was working as a freelance designer at that time. He once commented on his annoyance at all the email conversation with his clients with file attachments and confusing feedback discussions. He mentioned that a tool to improve the communication and collaboration aspect would be something he would definitely use - he became (and still is) one of the very first testers for the product.

At the top-most level, the files are organizes into projects. Each projects can contain multiple files and subdirectories, and every invitees will have access to the entire project (rather than grannular access controls). The designs are mainly image and PDF files, and hopefully support for .psd and .ai files in the future. Each uploaded design files can be viewd in a workspace, the core feature of Picomark. The workspace feeatures tools such as drawing, commenting, and chats where every participants will be notified in real-time.

This project is still under active development (with daily pushes), with beta version launching very soon. The current alpha version is still rough around the edges with lots of polish left, but the main features have been done. Take a peek at www.picomark.com, or look at some of the design and development processes below!