A great tool for viewing design comps on your iPhone—take the mystery out of mobile design and view it real-time.
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Goodby, Silverstein & Partners teamed up with Hipstamatic to release the Dalí Museum Goodpak in celebration of the grand opening of the new The Dalí Museum. All proceeds from the 99¢ Salvador lens+film add-on for the popular Hipstamatic iPhone app will go to The Dalí Museum, which opens in St. Petersburg, FL on 1.11.11.
Projeqt aims to enable people to share their stories by providing a simple way to create a website viewable on any device. TBWA created the publishing tool and used it to build their own website.
IDEO’s vision of the Future of the Book.
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Google just released Google Goggles for iPhone. It’s been out for Android for a while and is now available for iPhone users. Read more on Google Mobile.
Bartab is a new iPhone app that plays on the social nature of drinking, allowing users to buy real drinks for their Facebook friends:
Steve Johnson, a San Francisco entrepreneur, created a new application for Facebook and mobile phones called Bartab that allows users to send a real drink to a friend via their mobile phone, bridging the divide between social networks and the real world.
Bartab works by allowing a user to buy a $1 drink voucher good at 60 bars in San Francisco. The recipient receives a drink ticket via a text message or iPhone application. They just show the ticket to a bartender and then pay a $1 pouring fee and get the drink for a fraction of what it normally costs.
(via SF Gate)
Inspired use of online social networks to make offline social experiences a lot more entertaining.
As with other online/offline apps that deal with discounting, however, it will be interesting to see how Bartab handles coupon expiration, fraud, etc.
In celebration of the opening of their Mobile Division, digital production shop Pirata released this awesome multiplayer boat racing game that uses iPhones and iPod Touches as controllers.
After downloading the app, users goto this site, sync their devices with their selected team, and start the race.
The Pirata team explains the game in this demo:
Find the app for download here.
Interesting to consider what else might be possible using synced smart phones.
Ever wanted to leave a trail breadcrumbs through the city for your friends or to keep for later use? The folks over Urban Informatics have created an app for that: Dispomaps.
DispoMaps enables you to share your current location on an online map with anyone. The map is constantly updated as you go, using your iPhone’s GPS.
DispoMaps is easy to use. Launch the app, switch Location Sharing to “ON,” and decide how you want to share your location: via SMS, email, twitter, or facebook.
Your recipients will be sent a link to a unique web page displaying a map of your real-time location. Once you have arrived at your destination, you can easily dispose of your map by switching Location Sharing to “OFF.”
Lots of potential uses. Here are a couple that come to mind:
1 – Travel efficiencies/Mass Maps: Monitor your daily movement vs. others and then add efficiencies.
2 – Shared Explorations – Friends can literally follow in each other’s footsteps. Or, if meeting, they can easily locate each other, making meeting up easier than ever.
3 – “A night with [insert celebrity]” – Now Kim Kardashian can take her Twitter audience along with for a night on the town.
Foot note: One of the coolest features of the app is the disposability of the maps. Maps are made and can be shared and then easily deleted through the app. This could make for some very interesting time-sensitive, live events.
Comcast’s new ‘Xfinity Remote’ app, includes an ‘invite friends’ feature so you can watch live TV with others.
More from Engadget here
Translating a web site experience into an iPhone app requires a complete rethinking of the architecture and redesigning of user interfaces so they work within a tiny screen and mobile context. Introduce the iPad device into the mix with its larger size and yet to be defined usage patterns and you suddenly realize that you don’t need to translate what you’ve done on the iPhone app — you need to start the process all over again.
Kayak wrote about the challenges of taking their existing iPhone app and redesigning it for the iPad.
