Dominus plus Clock application.

All my life I dreamt about designing my own clock. Thanks to Apple my dreams come true.

My idea was to design something having a lot to do with ”digital matter”, with simple interface. Of course I also wanted to do something beautiful for everyday use.

I am going to develop Dominus for other platforms such as Android, Windows Phone, Pebbe and Mac.

I wanted to visualize Time differently than global companies such as Apple have done so far - imposing a functional standard of readability and an impersonal style of visualizing time on recipients. Time is something personally unique to me. The pioneers in the field of personal visualization of Time were Kisai (Tokyoflash) and Nooka. The design spirit in these two companies encouraged me to search for and select my own - personal - development. Since the project was intended for mobile devices with iOS, its basis and point of reference was the iPhone and iPad screen. The basic value of the digital matter of the screen is a pixel, so I thought about abstracting it and scaling it to a circle. This resulted in the invention of structures that could represent mental representations of numbers, which are the basis for reading clocks and thinking about time. I made an intuitive decision to encode pairs of numbers in the form of 3 groups of characters. The first character encoded the hours and contained a graphic representing the numbers from 1 to 12. The second character encoded the tens of minutes from 0 to 50. The third character encoded the value of minutes from 0 to 9. Under the hour I placed a thin flashing line to separate the hours from the minutes as it was in digital clocks in the form of “:” and to emphasize the otherness of the seconds, which seem to be a pulse. The name Dominus Plus is a combination of the words DO, MINUS and PLUS to express the passing of Time, which in my opinion brings a loss and at the same time seeing a benefit in this loss. In this, in my recognition of the passing of Time, the essence of life is contained.

Wondering whether Time could have "its own" color, I decided to introduce two colors, green and gold. I assigned them two separate values ​​of time experienced by a person: AM for youth and PM for maturity. The colors change at noon and midnight, marking two moments - birth and growth, and maturity and decline and end. If the clock were used by a person who was colorblind, the AM designation in the form of a small dot lights up on the left side of the screen, and the PM designation appears on the right side of the screen.

The decision to choose corner navigation was dictated by the fact that in the central part of the screen, the user can adjust the brightness of the screen in the TIME view and perform settings in the TIMER, ALARM and SETTINGS views. Thanks to this solution, touch functionality was preserved, which was variable depending on the view.