Roberto M. Paura and Sofie Di Bartolomeo Is Honored with the Bronze A' Design Award for Delate Mobile Application in Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design

Roberto M. Paura and Sofie Di Bartolomeo acknowledged for mobile technologies, applications and software design by the international grand jury of the 2019 - 2020 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 23, 2020 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has confirmed the Bronze A' Design Award in the Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design category for Delate Mobile Application by Roberto M. Paura and Sofie Di Bartolomeo, designed for Delate Srl. The recognition forms part of the 2019 - 2020 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 scored 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.

Regarding Delate Mobile Application

Delate is the first app that provides a platform in which every minute of delay is turned into a point that can be accumulated and used to access deals on several product and services. The app monitors the commuter journey and calculates the minutes of delay caused by the train. An intuitive and clear design that offers profits without requiring any active action from the user and that offers a reward system that encourages its daily use by transforming discomfort into an advantage.

About Roberto M. Paura and Sofie Di Bartolomeo

During my first year of specialization in System Design, I started working in Smart-I Srl, a company involved in the increase of efficiency of public lighting and data collection, through a special sensor: SmartEye. In 2014, I graduated with honors at my specialization course. In the same period I strengthened the collaboration with Smart-I, becoming System Designer and Art Director for the company. My tasks at Smart-I consist in improving the design of the camera and the optimization of its internal components. I'm also the person in charge of the creation and the implementation of the interfaces system (UI/UX) and for corporate communication. Today, I'm the CPO of the company.

Award Record

This recognition makes Roberto M. Paura and Sofie Di Bartolomeo a winner of 6 A' Design Awards. The awards were granted between the 2014 - 2015 and the 2019 - 2020 editions of the A' Design Award & Competition.

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://dezigners.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://dezigners.org/98350
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/98350
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!98350
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/137920
Further Information from the Laureate: http://delate.app/

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: Delate Mobile Application
Function: Mobile Application
Category: Mobile Technologies, Applications and Software Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Software and Electronics & Appliances
Colors: Cornflower Blue, Dark Slate Blue, Midnight Blue, Gainsboro and Steel Blue
Images: 5
Client: Delate Srl

The Recognition

Laureate: Roberto M. Paura and Sofie Di Bartolomeo
Country: Italy
Recognition: Bronze A' Design Award
Edition: 2019 - 2020
Design ID: #98350

Credits

Team: Sofie Di Bartolomeo, UX, Roberto Maurizio Paura, UI, Andrea Provenzale, Backend Developer, Marco Giannone, Business advisor, Marco Maisto, Marketing advisor, Roberto Serritella, Frontend Developer.
Image Credits: Roberto Maurizio Paura

Design Details

Unique Properties: Delate is a system that commuters can use to collect the lost time caused by the trains. Through the app, the users can keep track of the state of the journey and in case of delay they earn points to be spent on deals present in the marketplace of the app. It is the ultimate tools to refund users with discounted products and services offers by third part brands and to turn an inconvenient into an advantage.
Inspiration: Delate was created for all those commuters who constantly suffer from train delays. Normally the commuter is given a refund after a certain amount of train delay or based on the ticket price that needs to have a minimum value. Our goal was to give to the commuter the refund of the single minute caused by the train and the chance to turn the discomfort into aimed discounts on product and services.
Research: We have calculated that Italian railway commuters lose an average of 3500 minutes per year due to train delays. Therefore we have designed a system that rewards the commuter for each minute of delay caused by a train, to give value to the lost time. Through deep analysis and collaborative process between UX, graphic design, development and accessibility we have conducted user researches followed by prototype testings to assess the accuracy of our design, hierarchy of contents and interaction in order to create and easy and complete experience.
Challenge: We wanted to design an app that could be adapted to each country that has a problem with train delays. For this reason, it was very important to keep the user interface and UX as minimal and intuitive as possible. Another aspect that was really important for the app was the structure of the marketplace, that needed to have a great variety of companies both physical and digital in order to cover different audience taste and to be always updated and appealing for the users.
Realization and Technology: The UX and UI for Delate were designed in Adobe Illustrator, organized on Axure and then handed off to the development team. Available on mobile, Delate was built using Html, CSS and Javascript. Relevant libraries that have been used include Polymer, Vue.js and Redux. In addition, Dalate uses the open-source database of Viaggiatreno to track the movements of the trains in real-time.
Operation and Interaction: Our navigation structure was developed following an extensive amount of tests. We had prototyped out a considerable number of variations of the UI, and put countless iterations in front of the app's users to gauge a better understanding of how they interact with it. Through the monitoring of the train journey, we gained strategic insights about how the system was consuming the phone's battery; when then the users collected points we tested how clear was the process to redeem deals on the marketplace, which brought us to design the use of the app as intuitive as possible, with a reduced consumption of energy.
Project Duration and Location: Delate was launched in November 2019.
Keywords: Mobile, iPhone, Commuters, Train, Geolocalization, UI, UX.