Month: April 2014

Minibar [#thursdayplays]

I just discovered this app. While I haven’t actually used it to order anything, I think the concept is awesome. It provides you with free delivery for your local wine & spirits orders. I wonder what the logistics are surrounding underage order (do they check for proof at time of delivery?). However, this seems very convenient for people that randomly get together…. but are too lazy (or drunk?) to go out and get their wine.

While the design is clean, I think the overall user experience could be improved upon. For now… there is enough information structured to start generating users.

Pose [#thursdayplays]

Pose is an app to follow and share fashion ideas/inspirations. It allows you to tag clothes/products and allows you to shop via the app. It is beautifully designed and has a lot of nice features that make organizing your inspirations easy and fun. This is similar to the app I am working to design for my final (I downloaded a lot of competitor apps as part of my research).

Timers By Nasa Trained Monkeys

For those who doesn’t know, Nasa Trained Monkeys is the company behind the top popular iPhone app “Pomodoro Timer.” (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pomodoro-timer-focus-on-your/id703145045?mt=8)

“Timers” is basically a simple version of “Pomodoro Timer,” if you don’t care much for the Pomodora technique but you need the easy-to-use timer feature.

Here is a link to the app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/timers-the-multi-timer-app/id744173946?mt=8

For April 17

  • Post either a link to your digital prototype or documentation from a paper prototype
  • Post 3-5 things that you learned from prototyping
  • Take what you’ve learned from wireframes and prototyping and make a design for you app to present. Post this to the blog as well.
  • Get in as many #thursdayplays as you can this week. There is another section of mobile media, and the one with more #thursdayplays will get to present to the other class 2 weeks later! We currently have 26 and the other class has 25, so get those posts in!
  • Also remember, you need at least one #thursdayplay for the second half of the semester anyways.

Rave: Wireframe Update

Rave’s wireframe reminds largely the same, considering the last wireframe presented was a third iteration. The fourth iteration has one minor update towards user experience mechanic on color selection screen.

Originally, the color selection screen is designed to have color block selector beneath the color block, adding playful flavor.

The downside is that it might ends up being too small if the color block is set to be very tiny. The new wireframes split the color selector’s action into two:

wireframe_v2_b3.1

When the color block in the on the top part of the screen, the selector will slide up similar to the iOS keyboard.

wireframe_v2_b3.2

 

When the color block in on the bottom part of the screen, the entire screen will shift up. The advantage here is that in either of these scenarios the user can see the color change of the block on the screen.