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09.05.21thu

iPhone App Icon: Twist It!

Twist It is a gimmicky app for the iPhone. The point of the app is to pretend your phone is the grip of your bike and Twist It to hear your bike rev up. Again, the app developer needed an icon that visually explains what this app does.

I created the generic grip in Photoshop horizontally level. I created a flat layer, adding monochromatic noise, and used the warp tool to “wrap” the layer around the grip for a more realistic feel.

09.04.13mon

Ideas!

We launched our latest free project today. It’s a simple little web app that Craig and I made to help us keep track of project ideas. Since the concept worked so well for us, we decided to make it available for everyone.

It’s pretty simple. For each app idea you have, simply enter five things: name, description, price, dev time, and type (iPhone or web app). Then drag them around on screen in the order you think they should be done. That’s it! It also has some nice features like collaboration and notifications.

More information and a fully working demo are available here.

09.02.16mon

iPhone App Icon: zCalc

The primary use of zCalc is to determine how much material one needs given the dimensions of an area. The developer asked if I could make a suitable icon. I felt the icon should incorporate a tape measure and, logically, a calculator.

I grabbed my tape measure out of the garage and sketched several angle shots. None of the initial concepts gave the user any indication of what the app did, and the more detailed ideas were too difficult to see when sized down to standard icon size.

09.02.14sat

About Darren Beckett

I am 50% of Threemagination, an “ideas studio” in Southern California, owned by myself and my friend, Craig. My role in the company mostly deals with the interface design, but I also have been known to dive into the code. This is a journal that talks about some of the fun stuff I’ve been working on.