Mobile Media

 

 

Spelltower: A little bit like Ruzzle but sometimes its nice to play games that look good.

http://spelltower.com/ And love their website too.

    

 

I have had this app for a while but recently rediscovered how much I love it. It is beautifully designed and does exactly as its name entails. It acts as a photo booth, taking multiple photos adding them to a photo strip upon completion. You can choose whether you want color, Black and White, etc and of course once finished you can export to various social media and also print.

Find Free Wifi around the city! Check out the article about GoWex happening in NYC.

http://www.gowex.com/en/gowex-will-light-new-york-with-one-of-the-biggest-free-wifi-networks-of-the-world/

Here’s some apps that I’ve brought up:

• Mailbox
• Moves

Also, Jorge mentioned the photoshop mirorring app Skala

Pandora App :

 

I am one of those weird people that dont like to keep music on my phone. I prefer listening to the Pandora App.Just like the original Pandora you can create Stations and sort through them.Users are able to listen to all of their stations from their mobile phone, tablet, or e-reader. Users can also create new stations, and rate songs using thumbs up and thumbs down. Pandora on mobile devices is fully integrated with Pandora on the web, so everything users create and personalize on their device appears next time you’re back on the web.Overall I love the app but I dislike the fact that you cant go back and re-listen to past songs. Also sometimes the song skips forward in the middle of it and you cant finish it.

 

 

Bloop is a game that was featured at IndieCade East, which is why I actually am able to talk about an apple app. Bloop is a multiplayer game (up to 4 players, either every man for himself or teams of 2). Each player is assigned a color, and the object of the game is to tap on your color square whenever it appears. This means that you will be touching everybody’s hands quite a bit. The description of the app on the iTunes store is “WARNING: HAND COLLISION IMMINENT.” And you can’t just tap everywhere, because it’s really easy to give points to somebody else that way. I thought it was interesting to see a local iPad game that allows 4 people to play on it at once. Another strategy would be to shove someone else’s hand away, or bump them so they press the wrong square. It’s really fast paced so that might be hard to pull off.

During the user testing for the prototype for my application I didn’t take any pictures but just took down notes while people were testing and giving me their comments. I got a few suggestions like:

1/ Remove Facebook login, it seems unnecessary since the app does not have any social feature. If Facebook connect os really required then there should be a way to see friends’ activities, maybe a competitive aspect to see who skipped their meals, when did they skip, etc.

2/ Instead of having the “setting-the-alarm” system maybe there can be a way for the user to log in every time they east something and if they haven’t logged in a meal into the app in the last 4 or 5 hours then the alarm starts to ring.

3/ The avatars need to be more “designed” and various other personalities need to be thought of.