Press Release
ttmm for Pebble Watchfaces Apps by Albert Salamon Receives the Silver A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
Albert Salamon of Ttmm recognized for interface, interaction and user experience design by the international grand jury of the 2016 - 2017 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 19, 2017 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that ttmm for Pebble Watchfaces Apps by Albert Salamon of Ttmm has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category. The recognition forms part of the 2016 - 2017 A' Design Award & Competition and was reached 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.
What the Silver A' Design Award Means
The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.
About ttmm for Pebble Watchfaces Apps
TTMM is a 130 watchfaces collection dedicated for Pebble 2 smartwatch. Specific models show time and date, week day, steps, activity time, distance, temperature and battery or bluetooth status. User can customize type of information and see extra data after shake. TTMM watchfaces are simple, minimal, aesthetic in design. It is a combination of digits and abstract infographics perfect for a robots era.
About Albert Salamon
Albert Salamon is a Polish graphic designer based in Warsaw. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Industrial Design Department, where he later lectured in visual communication for eight years. Albert has worked commercially across many areas — logos, visual identification systems, city information systems, books, posters, packaging, websites, mobile apps, and clockfaces. Since 2013, his work has focused on designing watchfaces for smartwatches, with more than 200 designs across Pebble, Fitbit, and CMF platforms. At TTMM sp. z o.o., founded in 2019, Albert is the founder and chief designer.
About Ttmm
TTMM is a Polish design studio creating minimalist watchfaces for Pebble 2 Duo and Fitbit Versa. iF Design 2021 and Red Dot 2020 winner. By Albert Salamon since 2013.
Award Record
This recognition makes Albert Salamon of Ttmm a winner of 5 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2011 - 2012 and the 2016 - 2017 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.
About the A' Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Award
The A' Interface Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good user interface designs by the best UI/UX designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interface designers, interaction designers, user experience designers and digital product designers from all countries. Typical entries include websites, mobile applications, software interfaces, game interfaces, wearable interfaces and virtual reality interfaces. The awarded interface designs are published at https://designers.org/design-category/interface
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/57428
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/57428
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!57428
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/111600
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.ttmm.eu
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- ttmm for Pebble Watchfaces Apps
- Function
- Watchfaces Apps
- Category
- Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- Dark Slate Gray, Black, Lavender, Light Slate Gray and Dim Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Albert Salamon
- Country
- Poland
- Brand
- Ttmm
- Recognition
- Silver A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2016 - 2017
- Design ID
- #57428
Credits
- Team
- Artur Salamon, Elijah Kang and Gregoire Sage
- Image Credits
- "Pebble 2" by Pebble, used under Pebble Copyright License
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The TTMM it is collection of 130 absolutely original watchfaces dedicated for Original Pebble and Pebble 2 smartwatches. Thanks to smartphone connection TTMM not only shows time but also date, week day, steps, activity time, distance, temperature in your city and battery or bluetooth status. User can customize type of information and see extra informations after shake. TTMM is simple, minimal and aesthetic. It is a combination of digits and abstract infographics - pure time signs for a robot era.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for TTMM collection comes form Future and sci-fi movies like: 2001 Space Odyssey, Star Wars and Predator. Great influence for me was Tokyo Flash Japan portal and Nooka.
- Research
- I just made my own watchfaces market observation and analyze and was shocked that there was so little original thinking and design. Mainstream projects are imitations of mechanical clocks and classic CASIO like lcd screens. The reason of that situation is that watchfaces were made by programmers. New e-paper technology provides us with a new "space"; the opportunity is priceless and we need to take advantage of it in the right way. That is why I experimented a lot and inventing new forms of the 21 century era.
- Challenge
- Pebble smartwatch has extreme low black and white 144×168 pixel screens resolution and e-paper technology show graphics thanks to reflected light. So design needs to be readable in good and poor light conditions. That is why I used pixel perfect graphic and fonts. To preserve battery life I avoid unnecessary animations. In some design battery consumption is very high and it expresses metaphor that life needs an energy like in MOMENTTMM.
- Realization and Technology
- TTMM collection was designed in Adobe Illustrator. Fonts for watchfaces were prepared with Type Tool 3. All bitmaps were edited in Adobe Photoshop. Programming was made with Pebble SDK and XCODE.
- Operation and Interaction
- TTMM watchfaces can be uploaded to Pebble watch through TTMM app for Android and iOS. In TTMM app you can view design, read description, buy and upload watch faces and prepare your favorite models list. You can use watchface settings to choose color version (black or white) and setup extra information such as: date, steps, activity time, distance, temperature, battery and bluetooth connection status. Extra information you can see after shake.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in March 2016 and finished in March 2017 in Warsaw in Poland. Programers work in France and USA.
- Specifications
- Binary apps for Pebble are from 50Kb to 550 Kb
- Keywords
- watchface, smartwatch, time, clock, minimal
