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iSENDu – design history

August 26th, 2009 by Martin No Comments

When we started the development of iSENDu, we envisioned really something different. Our very first attempt was to share contacts. That’s it, no clipboard or images. Just a single contact.
In order to get an idea, how things would look like, we made this video to get an impression about the usability. It is our first video that we ever created for an application. You will notice a slightly different style in comparison with our promotion video :-) .

Sneak Preview of new iSENDu interface

August 14th, 2009 by Martin No Comments

We have put a lot of effort into the redesign of iSENDu. To give you an impression about our work, we want to share our current design for the main iSENDu icon. As you see in the picture of the new main icons, we kept the original idea and moved away from “iPhone-type” symbols. Instead, we introduced an abstraction that represents the peer and which hopefully does not raise Apple’s

RectangleIPhoneSimilaritySymbolTrademarkIssue or RISSTI (we love acronyms)

again.

We will continue our work during the weekend and post videos of our design process and early prototypes during the next days. In the meantime, enjoy your weekend!

A rounded black rectangle…

August 11th, 2009 by Martin 4 Comments

… and a white rectangle is an iPhone. At least according to the employee that reviewed our application at Apple. We have already a fix for this problem and decided not to use a rounded black rectangle with a white one in it. Because that is way too much iPhone. Instead, our iPhone application that transfers data between iPhones won’t make use of iPhone symbols like the two rectangles. We are submitting the changes later this week and hope that our application gets the approval this time.

These were the corpora delicti which prevented our application from being accepted by Apple: