Press Release
Bronze A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Goes to Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App by Albert Salamon
The international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition recognizes Albert Salamon of Ttmm for interface, interaction and user experience design
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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App by Albert Salamon of Ttmm, designed for TTMM Sp. z o.o., has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category. The result belongs to the 2019 - 2020 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.
What the Bronze A' Design Award Means
The Bronze A' Design Award is given to outstanding designs that showcase a high degree of creativity and practicality. It recognizes the dedication and skill of designers who produce work that stands out for its thoughtful development and innovative use of materials and technology. These designs are acknowledged for their professional execution and potential to influence industry standards positively. Winning this award highlights the designer's ability to blend form and function effectively, offering solutions that enhance people's lives and wellbeing.
More 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.
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 8 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2011 - 2012 and the 2019 - 2020 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/97560
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/97560
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!97560
- Laureate Profile: https://designers.org/d/111600
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://ttmm.is/ttmm-s/
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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+39 031 4491953
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App
- Function
- App
- Category
- Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- Indian Red, Gray, Silver, Lavender and Medium Turquoise
- Images
- 5
- Client
- TTMM Sp. z o.o.
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Albert Salamon
- Country
- Poland
- Brand
- Ttmm
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2019 - 2020
- Design ID
- #97560
Credits
- Team
- Leszek Juraszczyk, Piotr Kaminski, Wiktor Hołubowicz, Gregoire Sage, Rafał Gorczynski, Arkadiusz Banas and 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.
Design Details
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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$).
- Realization and 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.
- Operation and Interaction
- 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.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in January 2019 and was released in April 2020 in Warsaw, Poland. The programming took place in Poland.
- Specifications
- Ttmm-s app have 99,9 Mb. Single clock face code take up from 300Kb to 1Mb.
- Keywords
- ttmm, ttmm-s, ttmmaftertime, Fitbit, Fitbit Versa 2, Fitbit Versa, Fitbit Versa Lite, made4fitbit, clockface, watchface, time, clock
