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Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App by Albert Salamon

Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App by Albert Salamon is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Competition Category.


BronzeInterface· 2020

Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App

by Albert Salamon

Client: TTMM Sp. z o.o.

Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Interface Category

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The Design

About Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App

Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa app offers collection of clock faces, equipped with the weather feature, in a monthly subscription plan. The app presents clock faces in four categories: the Analogs, the Digitals, the Abstract and the Once. App has a clear view of a single clock face design together with all necessary informations on how to operate a given clock face. Clock faces have two extra views: the weather condition and the air quality view and special weather alerts. Alerts allow to be prepared for unforeseen weather conditions resulting from climate change on our planet.

The Recognition

About the Bronze A' Design Award

Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.

Interviews

Design Interview

What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?

Minimalism, simplicity, purism, hence the lack of unnecessary graphic elements is the mark of TTMM brand.

This is also the way to increases the legibility of the presented information, which is also our prerequisite.

This collection includes clear and functional designs as well as eccentric ones that require some guidance for the user at the start.

These completely new formal solutions require some effort in deciphering the riddle of time perception. They also spark a reflection on time itself, developing the overall human sensitivity.

I feel that this approach is unpopular nowadays, yet it establishes the TTMM audience as very exceptional, as people who see things in a different way.

What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?

The project combines 3 important values: 1. the TTMM brand – offering award-winning time face designs, 2. advanced weather features, 3. a convenient application in a subscription model, divided into categories, with user guidelines and a list of favorites including a quick option to upload designs and a search engine for additional design features. This personal collection, with its originality and functionality, easily competes with watch apps offered by Fitbit or Apple. The TTMM-S application brings selection, order and moderation of the abundance of designs – a clear advantage over overloaded app marketplaces.

The most important feature of the TTMM-S app is the Weather Alert, that warns of hazardous air pollution or UV radiation in the vicinity. TTMM-S clock faces are equipped with three types of alerts: dangerous weather conditions, very high UV radiation, or unhealthy air quality. When the outside conditions turn unhealthy or dangerous, the clock face will make the smartwatch vibrate and display a warning message.

What are your future plans for this award winning design?

I plan to develop it on Fitbit and / or other similar platforms. And in the future, I'd love to build my own hardware product to go with the software that I make today.

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Grand Interview

Your innovative approach to weather alerts in Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App addresses climate change concerns - could you elaborate on how this feature evolved from initial concept to final implementation?

5 years ago, I designed a time visualization called FEELTTMM for the Pebble Time smartwatch. It was a combination of large time digits combined with a single color that represented the perceived air temperature. Blue for frost, green for cold, yellow for warmth, red for heat, and burgundy for heat. This very simple solution dictated to the recipients how to read the temperature of Time. The idea of ​​this single project was the seed for the entire TTMM-S for Fitbit collection. According to climate.org on my birthday, the average global temperature rose by 1.18 degrees Celsius. It's getting hot - right?

The fusion of sci-fi movie aesthetics and electronic music influences in Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App creates a unique visual language - what specific elements from The Day After Tomorrow, Waterworld, and Kraftwerk's Radioactivity shaped your design decisions?

This is an extremely important question - thank you. The mentioned film productions alarmingly aim at the possibility of a catastrophic future of our World. They are an inspiration as a WARNING that the "future" is already TODAY (we are watching it) and if we do not take care of it, TOMORROW may not be our space-time. The film works with images, the music with melody and I combined clear ALARMS with an abstract (not of this earth - not of this era) visualization of time. The combination of modern (future) style of TTMM time visualization (e.g. DOMINUS) with an alarm about e.g. tsunami or high level of UV radiation or polluted air overthrows our illusory support in technology, they can confuse the recipient and I hope bring reflection on the state of the Earth's ecosystem and show that we live in the FUTURE. But I do not know if the recipients or design critics have such a sophisticated reflection on TTMM projects.

How did your experience in developing Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App's subscription model at $0.99 monthly challenge traditional smartwatch app pricing structures, and what insights did you gain about sustainable app monetization?

It was an experiment. I didn't achieve subscription success (80 subscribers - they must be true TTMM fans - Thank You All) or return on the project. There could be many reasons for this: lack of advertising, high price compared to free competition and lack of a large enough audience appreciating the design and benefits that the app brought.

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Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa app offers a special collection of ttmm clock faces, equipped with the weather feature, in a monthly subscription plan. The weather subscription plan gives access to weather info, uv index and detailed air quality.

Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa app is designed in a minimal style for comfortable exploration and use. The app presents clock faces in three categories: the Analogs, the Digitals and the Abstracts. It has clear and elegant view of a single clock face design together with info on how to: read time, set weather features and operate a given clock face. Via the favorite list you have fast and easy access to upload your chosen clock face. All the clock faces have color presets and complications settings that are controlled through a tap-to-change on screen feature. Some designs are additionally equipped with a stopwatch, a timer, an alarm or a torch feature.

The weather subscription plan gives access to weather info, uv index and detailed air quality as well as to the unique weather and air quality alerts. Some clock faces are equipped with the uv as background feature allowing for constant monitoring of uv level radiation.

Clock faces are equipped with two extra views: the weather condition view (equipped with uv index, air quality index and weather icon with temperature) and the air quality view (presenting aq index and detailed informations about presence PM 10 and PM 25 particles in the air in your area).

Clock faces are equipped with unique weather alerts. These alerts help you prepare for or avoid unhealthy environment. You can choose from three types of alerts: dangerous weather condition, very high uv radiation or unhealthy air quality. The clock face will display a message when the outside conditions turn unhealthy or dangerous. Yes, the climate of our planet is changing, be aware, be prepared!
Dimensions & Packaging
Ttmm-s app have 99,9 Mb. Single clock face code take up from 300Kb to 1Mb.
Tags
ttmm, ttmm-s, ttmmaftertime, Fitbit, Fitbit Versa 2, Fitbit Versa, Fitbit Versa Lite, made4fitbit, clockface, watchface, time, clock
Production Technology
All clock faces were designed in Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer All bitmaps were edited in Adobe Photoshop. Production and presentation files were made in Sketch app. Programming was made with Fitbit sdk in Fitbit Studio software.
Design Challenge
The application had 3 challenges: 1. to redesign and add to existing very graphic designs, a presentation of weather information (temperature and icons) and to design legible views with weather and weather alerts. 2. to design a modern application layout that will allow space for all necessary information about the operation and settings of clock faces and will have a simple yet unique interface. 3. to propose an affordable financial purchase model. The Ttmm-s app is the only app on the clock face market for Fitbit Versa smartwatches which offers a monthly subscription plan (for just 0.99$). This solution covers the monthly cost of weather services and allows users to pay for the application only for the time they want to use it.
Research
Our planet's climate is changing. Weather services and sensors technologies provide a lot of information about the quality of the weather, air pollution and ultra violet radiation. A smartwatch is a great place to inform us about the weather or warn us about threats, e.g. excessive uv, dangerous air quality or weather events. Organizing and providing this information in clear views will help us live better and prepare for the future. Because I did not find any clock face applications that would combine good modern design and information about air quality and weather alerts, I decided to design such an application for myself and make it available as a product.
Inspiration
The inspiration for collection comes form three different areas: sci-fi movies, electronic music and the idea behind Tokyo Flash Japan. The movies that inspired me the most are: The Day After Tomorrow, Waterworld and Hbo's Chernobyl mini series and the music that influenced me during my work was the album Radioactivity by Kraftwerk.
Project Duration
The project started in January 2019 and was released in April 2020 in Warsaw, Poland. The programming took place in Poland.
Operation Flow
All the clock faces can be uploaded to Fitbit Versa through the Ttmm-s app available for Apple devices with iOS. With the app you can view the design, read the description, start the subscription plan and upload clock faces and prepare a favorite models list which facilitates swapping between clock faces. After the upload, the user can set colors, activate chosen complications, turn on weather views and activate weather alerts or chimes. All clock faces are equipped with the tap-to-change on screen feature allowing for setting the complications.
Patents
TTMM clock faces design © Copyright by Albert Salamon 2020. All rights reserved. TTMM name and TTMM logo are registered trademark of TTMM in European Union and other countries.
Team Members
Brand and product design: Albert Salamon
UX design: Leszek Juraszczyk
Fitbit programmer: Piotr Kaminski
Fitbit programmer: Wiktor Hołubowicz
Fitbit programmer: Gregoire Sage
iOS programmer: Rafał Gorczynski
iOS programmer: Arkadiusz Banas
Consulting: Marcin Berendt
Image Credits
Fitbit Versa smartwatch Images by Fitbit, used under Fitbit Copyright License. Apple iOS name and iPhone images by Apple used under Apple Copyright License.

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