In January I woke up in the middle of the night really mad at my iPhone camera. I couldn't stop thinking how complicated it is to do basic tasks while shooting photos: framing, adjusting the brightness and color etc.

All night I kept getting up and writing down ideas about how the camera app could be easier to use.

Here's the result — a proposal for a smartphone camera interface that uses exclusively easy and obvious gestures, and an app that embodies the principles.

My hope is that the app will succeed, but also that other camera app programmers will pay attention and adopt some of these principles.

In the past few months I've taken many pictures that I never could have gotten with the regular camera app:

• nicely framed images of friends rock climbing

• a super zoomed-in and contrast-boosted photo of a fish that I wanted to identify

• hundreds of artistic black-and-white photos

• some weird photos of brutalist architecture with neon colors overlaid

If users like the interface, the next step will be to add RAW support and really concentrate on the quality of the images.

Let me know what you think!