Press Release
TTMM for Fitbit Versa Clock Face Apps by Albert Salamon Is Granted the Bronze 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 2018 - 2019 A' Design Award & Competition
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COMO, Italy, April 25, 2019 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that TTMM for Fitbit Versa Clock Face Apps by Albert Salamon of Ttmm has been granted the Bronze A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category. The result belongs to the 2018 - 2019 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 Bronze A' Design Award Explained
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.
About TTMM for Fitbit Versa Clock Face Apps
TTMM clock face apps present time in a futuristic, abstract and minimal style. The collection of 40 clock faces designed for Fitbit Versa and Fitbit Versa Lite turns smartwatches into unique time machines. All models have color presets and complications settings that are controlled with a tap-to-change on screen feature. Some designs are additionally equipped with a stopwatch, a timer, an alarm or a torch feature. The inspiration for the collection comes from sci-fi movies and from the "Man Machine" and "Computer World" albums, composed by Kraftwerk.
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
With this recognition, Albert Salamon of Ttmm is a winner of 7 A' Design Awards. The awards span the editions from 2011 - 2012 to 2018 - 2019 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/73856
- A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/73856
- Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!73856
- Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/111600
- Further Information from the Laureate: https://ttmm.is
Media Contact
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Fact Sheet
The Work
- Project
- TTMM for Fitbit Versa Clock Face Apps
- Function
- Clock Face Apps
- Category
- Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Discipline
- Communication Design
- Industry
- Software
- Colors
- Black, Dark Gray, Maroon, Silver and White Smoke
- Images
- 5
The Recognition
- Laureate
- Albert Salamon
- Country
- Poland
- Brand
- Ttmm
- Recognition
- Bronze A' Design Award
- Edition
- 2018 - 2019
- Design ID
- #73856
Credits
- Team
- Gregoire Sage and Wiktor Holubowicz
- Image Credits
- Fitbit Versa smartwatch Images by Fitbit, used under Fitbit Copyright License.
Design Details
- Unique Properties
- TTMM is a collection of 40 clock face apps designed for Fitbit Versa and Fitbit Versa Lite smartwatches. It turns Fitbit smartwatch into a unique time-machine. All the clock faces have color presets and complications settings that are controlled through a tap-to-change on screen feature. Some models are additionally equipped with a stopwatch, a timer, an alarm or a torch feature. There is also a special clock face called the Onettmm, with 30 different clock faces in one, which allows the user to quickly change between the designs to adapt to the required mood or style.
- 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: 2001 Space Odyssey, Blade Runner and Interstellar and the music that influenced me during my work was the album "Computer World" by Kraftwerk.
- Research
- I made my own clock faces market observation and analysis. I used desk research and critical thinking methods, through which I discovered that there was very little original thinking in the design of the clock faces and that the Fitbit Versa smartwatch offers a good hardware environment for creating a new vision of time. I found that the most of the projects available for the Fitbit Versa smartwatch are mare imitations of mechanical clocks and 80'ties quartz lcd-like screens or just replicas of clock faces of the popular brands. During the design phase I experimented a lot with inventing new designs which balance out between functional design and original form giving a new meaning of time.
- Challenge
- The main challenges were to use fonts in proper weight and scale for them to be legible on a wrist-sized screen and to design the setting interface - the on screen tap-to-change feature - as a way to easy to adjust the display options: the complications or color presets. Moreover, to save the space for graphic icons or descriptions I came up with my own symbols to be used in the legend, such as: % for battery, . for steps, ... for distance, : for heart rate, * for calories, + for floors.
- 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
- All the clock faces can be uploaded to Fitbit Versa through the Ttmm app (available for Android and iOS). With the app you can view the design, read the description, purchase and upload clockfaces and prepare a favorite models list to facilitate the swapping between clockfaces. After the upload the user can set colors, display design and complications with the tap-to-change on screen feature. This user friendly interface makes the customization of the clockface very fast and smooth.
- Project Duration and Location
- The project started in December 2017 and finished in March 2019 in Warsaw, Poland. The programming took place in France and in Poland.
- Specifications
- Clock faces codes take up from 7Kb to 2Mb.
- Keywords
- ttmm, Fitbit Versa, Fitbit Versa Lite, made4fitbit, ttmmaftertime, clockface, watchface, time, clock
