Mobile Media

The Jamie Oliver app. Shows you all steps to make a recipe, the equipement and ingredients you would need to make the dish. Related videos on the skills required to make the dish (for example: knife cutting skills). High resolution images to show the step by step procedure. Ability to add items you require for the recipe to your shopping list. Shopping list has an ‘aisle-system’ to choose items from.

It’s pretty cool but might be loaded with a lot of features..

Icomania by Games for Friends GmbH
App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/icomania/id608197113?mt=8
Category: Games
Compatibility: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation), iPod touch (5th generation) and iPad. Requires iOS 5.0 or later. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.

This game is very simple in many ways. You don’t need a member account to play. You don’t need to read the rules to understand how to play. You don’t need to go through multiple pages to start the game–only one click. The graphic design, which is an integral part of the game, is also clean and eye-pleasing. The whole interaction system is quick and easy. I found myself played it for too long than I usually should.

Basically, this is another picture guessing game. However, the unique point that makes it stands out and became so fun is the pictures are simplified icons e.g. an astronaut on the moon in the Famous Person category for Neil Armstrong. There are multiple levels. Currently, there are many discussions, cheats and faqs coming out to feed its popularity.

I recommend this game as a great time-killer. You can play it for a couple of seconds and enjoy every single moment of it the same way you do for 30 minutes, like I did.

Design Iteration 2

Here are the design Mock-ups for Delish List Vegan dessert recipe App for the Motorola Droid phone.

Since I had missed the first two weeks of class, I am posting my ideas here today. (sorry for the delay)

1/ CuisineArt: tackles how to eat

So you want to try out some Indian cuisine but don’t have somebody Indian to accompany you. You aren’t sure what to order and you don’t even want to look foolish. Cuisine Art will you look like a Indian! This app will suggest people what to eat based on their taste buds. And yet the best authentic dish possible. So say you want to try something that’s not so spicy yet authentic so you just tell the app that and you have a list of dishes in front of you. The app will also suggest what drink to pair that dish with along with a dessert or an appetizer. Still worried about How to eat that stuff? Cuisine art will show you a demo video. Now you’re a pro at eating Indian food.

2/ FoodParty: common food interests

Usually when you talk to a new friend or a new date one of the questions that pop up in the first few conversations is, “So what kind of food do you like?” hoping to get along or at least have a couple of more interesting conversations based on common food interests. FoodParty has groups where people meet based on common food interests. It gives users the ability to chat and get along over a couple of food conversations. Once the users have spoken to each other they can create food events, potlucks, food parties, or even go on dates etc. A new way to socialize and make new friends!

3/ FoodAlarm:

For people for whom food is not a priority in their lives. For people who are so busy with work or school they completely forget they were supposed to eat two hours back and find themselves starving but stuck in the middle of work and have to make do with a cup of coffee or an apple lying in their bag. So guess what the app FoodAlarm does? That’s right, it reminds you to eat your food on time. Like a nagging mother or a nagging wife it is after your life to eat your food and to eat it on time.