5/15/14
Neal Oh: Bejeweled
This game app in my opinion, is one of the best game ever. Bejeweled made by Pop & Cap Games is a puzzle action game where you match 6 different gems. There are 5 different modes, Classic is where you just match gems to get to the next level, another one is Zen (don't know the difference from other modes), Butterflies(what a strange mode), classic mode, and Diamond Mine. For my personal opinion, I like Diamond Mine mode because I have to mach the gems as much as possible to get a highest score as possible before the timer runs out. This mode gives me a challenge and make it a little bit intense later in the game. The game is fun and straight forward. It's free to download. And the music is very relaxing and enjoyable. I'm hoping in the future, that they up date new modes in the future.
Thursday App: Fooducate
Fooducate is an app that tracks the user's process of losing weight. It is unlike other apps because it shows calories and nutrition of food in a easily digestible design. For example, the grade of the food is a, a-, b and b-. The user can immediately tell whether the food is a healthy option or not. It also shows healthier alternatives. My favorite part is that in the end of the day, it gives the user an assessment of both quality and quantity of foods the user has eaten.
Thursday Apps: Plates
Plates is an app that allows multiple people to split their dinner bills with ease. It allows multiple people to easily figure out their individual dinner bills along with tax and tips by punching in the subtotal, tax and prices of each guest's meal. Each bill for each guest appears on their own plate in the end.
It allows the user to enter and drag items to individual plates, which makes the app fun and easy to use as opposed to the typical stern and serious look of finance-related utility apps. The fun and interactive experience of the app avoids the awkward situation at the table about who pays what.
Presentation: https://www.dropbox.com/s/d2jvnicu5t3ylff/parcey-presentation.pdf
Parcel App: https://www.flinto.com/p/19f44eb4
Parcel App - Parcel Arrival: https://www.flinto.com/p/949bead7
Parcel App: https://www.flinto.com/p/19f44eb4
Parcel App - Parcel Arrival: https://www.flinto.com/p/949bead7
5/8/14
4/30/14
Feeling inspired by this Safety Web Application!
http://www.elle.com/news/lifestyle/kitestring-founder-stephan-boyer
Stephan Boyer, the founder of Kitestring—a new service that alerts your emergency contacts if you don't respond to its check-ups—is a true gentleman.
4/21/14
4/17/14
Here is the link to the first design presentation of the GuessWHO? app. :)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8q07r2acm1fjye9/guess%20who%20design%20views.pdf
#thursdayapps: Relay!
Relay is my current addiction. Instead of typing, this application allows the users to stop texting and start sending GIFs. It has a huge archive for GIFs that you can save as your favorites. They recently added a feature of making your GIFs that I haven't used yet but I am glad I have this option.
Special Features:
1) The Huge Archive
2) Making your own GIFs
2) Unlimited Group chat members
When designing a new application for the iPhone, developer need to know how to make it easy for users to interact with the commands as seamlessly as possible. And I think Relay managed to do that and make it fun.
Special Features:
1) The Huge Archive
2) Making your own GIFs
2) Unlimited Group chat members
When designing a new application for the iPhone, developer need to know how to make it easy for users to interact with the commands as seamlessly as possible. And I think Relay managed to do that and make it fun.
First Round of Designs
Last week's prototype: https://www.flinto.com/p/3e63a360
This week's prototype: https://www.flinto.com/p/6e402c79
New Character Designs:
Thursday App: Akinator
Akinator is a game app that asks you to think about a character, famous or not, fictional or non-fictional, and then asks you 20 questions in which he tries to guess who the character is. It is quite accurate for such a game, and is extremely fun!
Pros:
Extremely addictive.
Unexpectedly massive list of characters available.
Cons:
Design is not as modern
Requires data to work
There is also an online version of the game that could be found here: http://en.akinator.com/
Pros:
Extremely addictive.
Unexpectedly massive list of characters available.
Cons:
Design is not as modern
Requires data to work
There is also an online version of the game that could be found here: http://en.akinator.com/
#thursdayapps: Good Weather.
Unique Feature Games. This app is designed so that each particular condition unlocks a special mini-game where you get to play with the components of the conditions.
Features Celcius or Fahrenheit • 5-day forecast • Current conditions along with temperature, precipitation chance, cloud coverage percentage, and wind speed • Cities/Location
Pros
Pros
- Simple, clean, iconic and aesthetically pleasing representation of the current weather conditions along with temperature, precipitation chance, cloud coverage percentage, and wind speed.
- You can also tap the temperature to bring up the five-day forecast, but the pictorial conditions (icons) are the definite highlight of the app. The designers used information hierarchy wisely.
- Each condition has a different background color. I find this helps with differentiation, and I could almost tell which color denotes which condition.
- Each particular condition unlocks a special mini-game where you get to play with the components of the conditions. For example, when it’s sunny, you can play a Doodle Jump style endless jumping game with the sun. There are different games for snowing, raining and cloud shooting game. I’m not spoiling the surprise, you should download the app and discover what games there are.
- The app keeps track of your high scores for each mini-game and levels you’ve unlocked so far. Each one features an exquisite visuals and soundtrack, making it a joy to play.
- The app supports multiple cities with accurate and updated statistics.
- Games can be played even if there’s no Internet connection
- 3 preloaded weather conditions from 3 different cities (Oz, Winterfell and Neverland), which mean you have 3 unlocked games from the get go.
- Succinct instructions for games, they are simple enough to figure out what to do.
- For kicks, you can type in any imaginary cities in popular books/movies. I did that. I typed in Narnia and it gives me perpetually sunny. Free cities - overcast. Westeros - didn’t work.
Cons
- There’s no predictions on hourly weather for the day. I was wondering if it’s going to stay, for example Sunny the whole day, or just at that particular moment of the day.
Smile factorGood Weather makes me want to check the weather every day to find a new form of conditions, and unlock a new mini-game. Because of that, I don’t really mind that I’m unclear or unsure if it’s going to stay sunny, overcast, etc for the whole day or just at that particular moment.
The VerdictThe app displays really simple weather info, it gives what you need for a quick glance, and draws you in with the allure of the games. Each one isn’t much by itself, but together the collection provides plenty of enjoyment. The only extra to add now would be Game Center leaderboards and achievements to tie to the mini-games, and daily conditions.
The VerdictThe app displays really simple weather info, it gives what you need for a quick glance, and draws you in with the allure of the games. Each one isn’t much by itself, but together the collection provides plenty of enjoyment. The only extra to add now would be Game Center leaderboards and achievements to tie to the mini-games, and daily conditions.
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