Soaking up some much needed Vitamin D. (at Alki Beach Park)
New look…new work.
Slowly but surely, I’m moving over to my new brand, and new vision for my career and business. To commemorate it, here’s the first look for an app I hope to develop very soon…Liqr. It’s your mobile digital bartender.
Keep a detailed snapshot of your liquor collection with you, on the go. Add detailed notes from your wine club. Plan the perfect spread for your next party. And, of course, share your collection with your friends. Right now, it’s just in a conceptual state, but I hope to begin to bring it to life very, very soon.
As for the new look to the blog? Well, there’s more to come on that later.
Working on some app ideas before settling down to watch the game. #365create
Stepping things up this weekend, and am very close to having my new website finished. Here’s a sneak peek.
Badges, badges badges. This is an idea I’m thinking about implementing into my VegasMate redesign. Since it’s a location-aware app, it would be cool to collect badges from the casinos and hotels users visit.
Today’s #365create piece is an app icon for Surprize, the location-aware iPhone app I helped create at Startup Weekend last year. While the momentum from Startup Weekend waned, and Surprize was beaten to market by similar apps such as Wrapp and Karma, I’m still very proud of what we created in that two-day crunch. But of course, I’m never happy, and now that I’ve got a year of app design under my belt, I’m redesigning the UI for Surprize. Maybe it will someday see life again…
I didn’t get around to posting yesterday for my #365create project, so you get two shots today.
This weekend, I took the sketches for VegasMate I was playing around with earlier this week, and cranked out a redesigned detail screen. As I mentioned in my earlier post, VegasMate is a deep and robust app, and there’s a lot of functionality buried in there that even I didn’t know about. With this, I’m trying to put more of the good stuff front and center, while allowing power users to get to the information they need the most.
I might continue to play around with this concept-I’d like to see how a couple of the other screens might work, but I’m pretty happy with where it is right now.
Melissa has several ideas for iPhone apps-so many that she has an Evernote list full of them. One of them is a gift-giving app, so I was playing around with some iconography.
1. Single-page sites
2. Infinite scrolling
3. Persistent top navigation (sticky nav)
4. The death of web 2.0 aesthetics
5. Typography returns
Reblogged from uxrave
While I love working for UIEvolution, there’s a lot of my work that I can’t show or talk about due to NDA’s. So I’m taking a lot of what I’ve learned, and applying them to pet projects that I can show and talk about.
This is for a design of one of my favorite iOS apps, VegasMate. I love the app, but it’s not the best looking, so I thought I’d take a stab at redesigning it for fun. Next step will be taking the screens into Illustrator, getting the layout correct, then into Photoshop to make it all swank and Vegas-worthy. Stay tuned.
