Press Release
A' Design Award in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Goes to YouMap Social Media Map by YouMap and Miquido Team
The international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes YouMap and Miquido Team for mobile technologies, applications and software design
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
COMO, Italy, April 28, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that YouMap Social Media Map by YouMap and Miquido Team, designed for Miquido, has been granted the A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was decided through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.
The A' Design Award Explained
The Iron A' Design Award is awarded to good designs that meet the rigorous professional and industrial standards set by the A' Design Awards. This recognition is reserved for works that demonstrate a solid understanding of design principles and show creativity within their execution. Recipients of the Iron A' Design Award are acknowledged for their practical innovations and contributions to their respective fields, providing solutions that improve quality of life and foster positive change. These designs are a testament to the skill and dedication of their creators, showcasing their ability to address real-world challenges through thoughtful design.
Regarding YouMap Social Media Map
YouMap combines social media and maps. This app enables its users to create a map of important moments in their lives by marking places or events. A map is a geospatial data collection where users may add social posts and import data such as photos. Users can share their maps with others or join already created maps, where they can add new content. They can control how information is shared on the maps by using configurable fields, such as value sliders, star ratings, multi select, and other areas that can all be edited. YouMap is a one of a kind experience for creators and communities.
About YouMap and Miquido Team
Miquido is a full-service software development company with over 10 years of experience. They are among the top 5 android and iOS development companies on Clutch and Miquido provides Web & Mobile development, Aritifical Intelligence and Product Design & Strategy services. They were covered by Forbes and named the Top Mobile App Development Company in the UK by numerous rankings. They were choosen by brands like Abbey Road, Skyscanner or HelloFresh. In their work they adhere to the principle of total transparency and long-term business partnerships.
Award Record
This recognition makes YouMap and Miquido Team a winner of 1 A' Design Award.
About the A' Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design Award
The A' Mobile Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good design in mobile industry by leading designers and brands worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to mobile designers, application developers, software engineers and user interface designers from all countries. Typical entries include smartphones, tablets, wearables, mobile applications, mobile games and mobile software. The awarded mobile designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/mobile
About A' Design Award & Competition
Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://designers.org/138293
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/138293
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!138293
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/328193
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://youmap.com/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
Designers.Org
Via Leone Leoni 32, 22100 Como, Italy
press@designers.org
+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- YouMap Social Media Map
- Function
- Social Media Map
- Category
- Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software and Electronics & Appliances
- Colors
- Snow, Lavender, Light Gray, Silver and Dark Slate Gray
- Images
- 5
- Client
- Miquido
The Recognition
- Laureate
- YouMap and Miquido Team
- Country
- Poland
- Recognition
- A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2021 - 2022
- Design ID
- #138293
Credits
- Team
- Marta Stec, Ewelina Knotek, Łukasz Grobelny, Stephen Constantine, Michael Milner, Mateusz Jurkiewicz, Anna Karlińska, Ewa Zielińska, Karolina Olejniczak, Antoni Matusz, Oliwia Łakatosz and Szymon Matysik and others
- Image Credits
- YouMap on multiple screens, Marta Stec, 2022.; Floating Buttons, Marta Stec, 2022.; My world, Marta Stec, 2022.; Place, Marta Stec, 2022.; Creating a map, Marta Stec, 2022. Video credits: Tutorial video - You Map App, Marta Stec, 2021.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- Most social networks give a premium to popularity. On YouMap the most important person is the one on the ground with the information you need. A patented visualization system displays information ephemerally to track fast moving events. Thousands of posts can be shown on a city block without any data overcrowding. Built for live reporting, our flexible moderated communities have customized post flows to give YouMap the purpose our users choose.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration behind YouMap was the desire to help others following the Black Lives Matter protest in Baltimore, Maryland. This crisis along with other major global events illustrated the need to address problems with our current social media platforms. Specifically, the inability of social feeds to paint the bigger picture, and better utilize information from the human crowd to share useful insights and information to others.
- Challenge
- YouMap’s 4 approved patents reflect considerable design challenges. We aimed to bring value from unstructured data locked in the human crowd. Data on most social platforms is unstructured, limiting value. YouMap’s content blocks structure human data like an API would. It was a challenge to display thousands of posts without crowding. This was overcome by gathering cues about a post’s importance and showing more important posts at a higher zoom resulting in a 30,000 foot view of our human world.
- Realization and Technology
- We used the following tools: Sketch, InVision, Adobe After Effects, Miro and Zeplin.
- Operation and Interaction
- Maps are the basic foundational component in YouMap. A map in YouMap is a geospatial data set where social postings are made and where data is imported. Our user onboarding includes a series of interactions that result in a tailored experience facilitating both fun exploration and . As such, a user is able to interact with map creating tools that enable customization based on the user’s needs.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project has been going on in Cracow since 2019.
- Specifications
- The app is a native app, currently only available on the iOS platform.
- Keywords
- social media, map, social media map, community, templates, posts
