La marque de voitures Volkswagen a décidé d’être partenaire de Discovery Channel à l’occasion du 25ème anniversaire de la Shark Week, retransmise sur la chaîne du 12 au 16 août. Cette collaboration a permis de voir la création d’une Beetle spécialement conçue pour rouler en milieu aquatique au milieu des requins.
It’s not very clear if the Uniting U disk can compartmentalize your files as per sharing and non-sharing files, but what it can do is increase the storage. In the era where we talk about terabytes, small USBs with GB storage may seem misplaced. However when it comes to the majority population, then simple GBs suffice. So for their sake and the sake of expansion without fuss, the Uniting is the way to go.
The Uniting U disk is a 2012 iF Design talents entry.
Designer: Shiyu Xia
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Color-coded shopping results in an iOS app
LuxeFinds, the online luxury shopping engine for women, has produced a mobile shopping app that searches the web for lifestyle goods based on color. By taking a picture of an article of clothing or selecting a color from a color wheel, shoppers can find an exact match from LuxeFinds’ massive database. The app, which launched today, aims to help shoppers match clothing to their current wardrobe and fix the common problem of inaccurate colors that tend to crop up with online shopping.
While husband-and-wife team Phyllis and Philip Cheung founded LuxeFinds as a site for women, their app caters to men and children as well with results for clothing, cosmetics and fragrances. Colors can be selected by taking a photograph, or by using LuxeFinds’ color wheel and swatch selector. From there, the app returns a curated selection of items matching the selected color. Shoppers can buy, save or push the items to a number of social channels.
While color-based search options exist across the web, we appreciate the strategic application to styled shopping. The uncluttered interface is easy to use, and LuxeFinds does a spot-on job of curating the mess of items online, presenting users with a kind of color-coded luxury megastore.
The LuxeFinds “Ultimate Color Shopping Engine” is available for free through the iTunes App Store.
Se lavorate per la maggior parte della giornata su una scrivania, può tornarvi utile Moshi Moshi Curve Bluetooth. La base integra uno speciale dispositivo per collegare il vostro mobile-phone e comunicare attraverso la classica cornetta. Un’idea sicuramente già vista ma funzionale. La trovate qui o qui.
Anyone familiar with this site knows we have the deep love for our Cupertino Bros but the recent addition of camera accessibility to the lock screen of our iPhone has mixed us up a bit; sure, the utility is awesome but the execution doesn’t have the ol’ Apple Intuition. This was a purely internalized conflict till it was surfaced by Brye Kobayashi‘s proposal for a different implementation in our discussion boards—what do you think, better or worse?
See the full proposal in the thread here.
Anyone familiar with this site knows we have the deep love for our Cupertino Bros but the recent addition of camera accessibility to the lock screen of our iPhone has mixed us up a bit; sure, the utility is awesome but the execution doesn’t have the ol’ Apple Intuition. This was a purely internalized conflict till it was surfaced by Brye Kobayashi‘s proposal for a different implementation in our discussion boards—what do you think, better or worse?
See the full proposal in the thread here.
Reporting by Yin Ho
The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona started this week, with three of our winning apps, car-pal+, Cash Hound and Social Mints, on display as a part of the Microsoft showcase. They are loaded on Windows Phones for conference-goers to play with. And, as of last week, car-pal+ is now available on the Windows Marketplace! This last article in the Fast Track to the Mobile App series covers the development process of car pal+ and Blackbelt.
For the design competition, Alan Asher and Chris Barlett of car-pal+ wanted to create an app that would be useful to a large audience and could be developed over a short timeline. The audience they decided to build for were car owners, with specific app functionality for fuel and maintenance tracking. Since neither were familiar with the Windows Phone platform, they spent time playing with the phone in stores, watching YouTube videos on phone how-to’s, and getting a feel for the Metro user interface style before they began designing. They first diagrammed their high-level workflow on paper, and then wireframed their app screens.
After playing around with the Windows Phone Software Development Kit, the two decided to work on the application without the help of a Microsoft developer. Though neither had developing experience, they found the existing documentation on AppHub and MSDN pages incredibly helpful, and decided to pursue a learning opportunity. With full-time jobs, the two met via Skype nightly to work on the app. With an eye towards having it in the Marketplace by the end of February, they decided to roll out their app in phases, adding fuel price and enhanced maintenance features with time. They expect to release an update for car-pal+ within the month.
Mark Salerno of Blackbelt is currently working with a Microsoft developer to complete his app. The level-up business productivity app takes the form of a game and requires two operating screens: one for a supervisor and another for the player. Like a referee or ‘sensei,’ the supervisor can set objectives, create incentives, and monitor the productivity of their ‘players.’ The player’s portal is where they can view their ‘mission’ and meet goals to advance through (in the spirit of martial arts) different ‘belt’ colors.
Blackbelt Sensei
With our Fast Track to the Mobile App program drawing to a close, we are proud to take a look at our winners, notables and finalists in the newly launched Fast Track Gallery.
Three winners, car-pal+, Cash Hound and Social Mints completed their apps in time for the Mobile World Congress taking place in Barcelona next week. These three apps will be included in the featured apps on the demo Windows Phone devices Microsoft will be showing at the event February 27-March 1. The other 2 winners, Blackbelt and Bridge, are currently looking for partners and in development.
We are also proud to announce our 13 notables! Travel Trove, Project Mosaic, 1tap2send, YouTube Download, Meeting Planner, Get Reimbursed, MetroDiff, mHealth, SMS Scheduler, TASKMASTER, SlickFlow, Days Until and Draw & Tell are all available in the App Hub.
Check out our Winners, Notables and Finalists Gallery at
fasttrackapp.core77.com
Reporting by Yin Ho
Two of our winners apps are now available in the Windows Marketplace! For apps to qualify for World Mobile Congress promotion, they had to be in the Marketplace by February 8th. With this installment, we’ll go through Social Mints and Cash Hound’s final polishing steps to have their apps ready and certified, as well as giving a brief update of Black Belt, car pal+, and Bridge who are on a parallel development path.
The perfect, robust app may seem unachievable when faced with the time constraints our winners had. Keeping versions and updates in mind is an important facet of a development schedule. The objective is to create an excellent v.1 that can scale and grow new functionality, if added. For Cash Hound, Geof Harries and Michael Johnson’s app on cash flow management, they wrote all the features their app should have one day on a whiteboard. They then identified what was absolutely essential for a first version, and focussed on those features.
With that core functionality working, the next step is final user testing: handing the phone over to individuals to see if what the designers and developers have been aiming for is shining through. That user experience feedback gives designers a perspective on what works (e.g., if the planned route to get from point A to B is indeed the one a user takes) and what could use improvement. With that knowledge, designer/developers decide on what interface and functionality changes this version requires.
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