Moonpig
Clean design and ease-of-use combine to create a Top 10 iPhone experience
Let's Toddle!
Photo capture and customisation with Facebook sharing for iPhone
Dis.cuss.it Moderator
Enable website moderators to manage user generated content on the move
Coffee Barista
Rich content and interactivity optimised for both iPhone and iPad
Tingo
Word game with Push Notifications and Game Center integration.
Monarchy Explorer
Super-rich user interface and content relationships to increase discovery
Surname DB
Slick usability and fast performance to deliver a great iPhone reference tool
HTC
Design and development for HTC mobile, web and email channels
Mosaic Island
Delivering a new website to align with the aspirations of a fast-evolving company
Legal 365
Our focus on user experience ensures a simple feel to a complex system
Beautiful status pages
Perhaps due to the success of services such as Get Satisfaction, there seems to be a growing trend for the more “in touch” software companies to provide public visibility on the progress of software features. At the functional end of things is the Dropbox approach which enables users to add new or vote for requested features. However, I came across two much more beautiful examples recently. The Free Agent Central Depot page, which presents new service features as “Still at depot”, “En route” or “Arrived”. Similarly, Cultured Code – developers of the rather marvellous Things task list manager – present their status page as an airport Arrivals Board, where new features can range from “Full speed” to “Landed”, or even “Grounded” when a feature or project has stumbled to a halt.
I’m sure there are further examples of this approach for us to admire as designers, but more importantly as an end-user this public visibility of behind the scenes project status feels more inclusive, makes me aware that the company are a bunch of people rather than a faceless software house and that it’s worthwhile caring not only about your product but also the process involved in communicating, creating and developing it.
