Press Release
TTMM for Fitbit Clock Faces Apps by Albert Salamon Is Granted the Golden A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
Albert Salamon of Ttmm acknowledged for interface, interaction and user experience design by the international grand jury of the 2017 - 2018 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 14, 2018 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that TTMM for Fitbit Clock Faces Apps by Albert Salamon of Ttmm has been granted the Golden A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category. The award was conferred within the 2017 - 2018 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined 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 Golden A' Design Award Explained
The Gold A' Design Award is granted to designs that demonstrate a high level of innovation and a significant impact on their intended audience. Recognized as a major achievement by the A' Design Awards, these designs are characterized by their visionary approach and the exceptional skill of their creators. Winners of the Gold A' Design Award are noted for their ability to push the envelope in art, science, design, and technology, delivering solutions that not only meet but exceed expectations. These designs serve as benchmarks for excellence, encouraging further innovation and inspiring future generations of designers.
About TTMM for Fitbit Clock Faces Apps
The TTMM is collection of 21 clock faces dedicated for Fitbit Versa and Fitbit Ionic smartwatches. Clock faces have complications settings just with a simple tap on screen. This makes them very fast and easy to customize color, design preset and complications to user preferences. It is inspired with movies like Blade Runner and Twin Peaks series.
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
Albert Salamon of Ttmm is a winner of 6 A' Design Awards, including this recognition. The awards span the editions from 2011 - 2012 to 2017 - 2018 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. The competition 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. Entries typically include websites, mobile applications, software interfaces, game interfaces, wearable interfaces and virtual reality interfaces. Awarded interface designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interface
About A' Design Award & Competition
A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade organized annually since 2008. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The A' Design Award has a philanthropic mission 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. Entries are peer reviewed and anonymously evaluated 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. The A' Design Prize granted to eligible laureates 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, the upload of a work and the 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. Further information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com
Press Resources
- Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/63938
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/63938
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!63938
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/111600
- Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.ttmm.is
Media Contact
Giulia Ferrari, Press Office
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- TTMM for Fitbit Clock Faces Apps
- Function
- Clock Faces Apps
- Category
- Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- Black, Dark Slate Gray, Lavender, Dim Gray and Light Gray
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Albert Salamon
- Country
- Poland
- Brand
- Ttmm
- Recognition
- Golden A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2017 - 2018
- Design ID
- #63938
Credits
- Team
- Albert Salamon, Programmer: Gregoire Sage
- Image Credits
- Fitbit Watch Images by Fitbit, used under Fitbit Copyright License.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- The TTMM is a collection of 21 original clock faces dedicated for Fitbit Versa and Fitbit Ionic smartwatches. Thanks to smartphone connection clock face not only shows time but also date, week day, heart rate, steps, activity time, distance, calories, floors, temperature in your city and battery status. TTMM clock faces have complications settings just with a simple tap on screen. This makes them very easy to customize color, design preset and complications to user preferences.
- Inspiration
- The inspiration for TTMM collection comes form movies like: 2001 Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and Twin Peaks. Great influence for me was Tokyo Flash Japan portal, Nooka brand and TTMM for Pebble collection.
- Research
- I made my own clock faces market observation and analyze and was discovered that there was so little original thinking and design. Mainstream projects are imitations of mechanical clocks and 80' quartz lcd screens. The reason of that situation is that clock faces were made by enthusiasts programmers. That is why I experimented a lot and inventing new design of the 21 century era finding balance between readable design and inventing new form of meaning the time.
- Challenge
- The main challenge was to use fonts in proper weight and scale to be readable and easy to tap to set the complications like color presets or specific informations. To save the space for graphic icons or descriptions I decided to use my own symbols legend made from specyfic letters e.g. % = battery . = steps : = heart rate * = calories + = floors To some models I add some useful features like torch or stopwatch and timer. Those extra functions and tapping interface (compare to buttons settings in Fitbit app) makes TTMM clock faces easy and fast to operate and save user a lot of time.
- Realization and Technology
- All clock faces were designed in Adobe Illustrator. All bitmaps were edited in Adobe Photoshop. Programming was made with Fitbit sdk in Fitbit Studio software.
- Operation and Interaction
- TTMM clock faces can be uploaded to Fitbit Ionic or Versa through TTMM app for Android and iOS. In TTMM app you can view design, read description, buy and upload clock faces and prepare your favorite models list. After upload user can set up complications with just a simple tap on screen such as: date, heart rate, steps, activity time, distance, calories, floors, temperature, weather conditions and battery status. This user friendly interface makes the customization of your clock face productive and smooth.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in December 2017 and finished in February 2018 in Warsaw in Poland. Programer works in France.
- Specifications
- Clock faces code for Fitbit are from 7Kb to 900Kb
- Keywords
- clock faces, time, clock, minimal, Fitbit Ionic, Fitbit Versa
