Designs we like

This post isn’t exactly about mobile, but seeing as the Miyowa office has recently been so abuzz with all things design, I wanted to share a few of the cool things we’ve been looking at.

A while ago, when the developers emerged from tirelessly building, testing, re-testing, re-adjusting, tweaking and perfecting the R.A.B framework, and produced the final, optimized InTouch5™ Rich Addressbook architecture, it was time for the team to really get down to ensuring that every aspect of the end-user experience was at its very best. Not only, of course, the scenarios and sequences of how to use the application – that’s been an ever-evolving key concern from the get go – but also the details of the ‘look & feel’.

Over the past few months, the team have been musing over inspiration from far and wide.

While I don’t want to give too much away about the final design of InTouch5™ R.A.B interface (available for the end user in Q3 2010), I thought I could at least share some of the images we found, and appreciated along the way. Suffice to say the inspiration gathering process was pretty extensive, so I just want to dip in to some of it, and that’s not to say they represent the look we’ve finally gone for. First up, I had a rummage in to the folder marked ‘Geometric Shapes’ and today I thought I’d share some of the content we sourced from the city of Melbourne.

If you’ve never been to Melbourne you’re missing out on an incredibly good-looking city that’s somewhat of a treasure trove of very, very cool design. Here are some images of things we liked:

The recent re-branding of the city:

Melbourne’s Capitol Theatre:

Melbourne’s VCA

Melbourne’s TCA

And….not from Melbourne at all, but just because they’re pretty awesome, and I wanted to include them too, some origami shoes from the French graphic artist Ndeur.

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