Recommendations
General:
- Evaluate pages that also have upload/download mechanisms like https://send.firefox.com/
- Consider reducing text and reduce the logo size to make it easier to focus on the main task: Select or drop file, Download file.
Upload flow
- Firefox send directly uploads the file after selection, getting rid of step “Trigger upload”
Understand confirmation
- The primary action (download) should be easier to recognize
Preview
- Some of your filetypes can be previewed in browser (luckily the ones that are needed for quick uploads to social media), others could still be symbolized in an icon (using a free/libre icon library)
Visualization of metadata
- What about visualizing file+metadata directly? It could be some sort of table that appears “attached” to a preview of the uncleaned file. After cleaning, the cleaned version does not have it.
Tone down secondary actions
- If you want to give non-essential information (like “this metadata has been removed”) try to fold it away or use a lower (though still readable) contrast to distinguish essential from non essential information
Example from firefox send for putting infos “behind” a link: 