Bronze Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design · 2020
Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App
- A' Design Award 2020 Bronze Winner in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
- Awarded April 15, 2020
- CLIENT: TTMM Sp. z o.o.
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 23,270
- Verification code 4909E54717 · Verify this award
About Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App
Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa app offers collection of clock faces, equipped with the weather feature, in a monthly subscription plan. The app presents clock faces in four categories: the Analogs, the Digitals, the Abstract and the Once. App has a clear view of a single clock face design together with all necessary informations on how to operate a given clock face. Clock faces have two extra views: the weather condition and the air quality view and special weather alerts. Alerts allow to be prepared for unforeseen weather conditions resulting from climate change on our planet.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa app offers a special collection of ttmm clock faces, equipped with the weather feature, in a monthly subscription plan. The weather subscription plan gives access to weather info, uv index and detailed air quality.
Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa app is designed in a minimal style for comfortable exploration and use. The app presents clock faces in three categories: the Analogs, the Digitals and the Abstracts. It has clear and elegant view of a single clock face design together with info on how to: read time, set weather features and operate a given clock face. Via the favorite list you have fast and easy access to upload your chosen clock face. All the clock faces have color presets and complications settings that are controlled through a tap-to-change on screen feature. Some designs are additionally equipped with a stopwatch, a timer, an alarm or a torch feature.
The weather subscription plan gives access to weather info, uv index and detailed air quality as well as to the unique weather and air quality alerts. Some clock faces are equipped with the uv as background feature allowing for constant monitoring of uv level radiation.
Clock faces are equipped with two extra views: the weather condition view (equipped with uv index, air quality index and weather icon with temperature) and the air quality view (presenting aq index and detailed informations about presence PM 10 and PM 25 particles in the air in your area).
Clock faces are equipped with unique weather alerts. These alerts help you prepare for or avoid unhealthy environment. You can choose from three types of alerts: dangerous weather condition, very high uv radiation or unhealthy air quality. The clock face will display a message when the outside conditions turn unhealthy or dangerous. Yes, the climate of our planet is changing, be aware, be prepared! - Dimensions & Packaging
- Ttmm-s app have 99,9 Mb. Single clock face code take up from 300Kb to 1Mb.
- Tags
- ttmm, ttmm-s, ttmmaftertime, Fitbit, Fitbit Versa 2, Fitbit Versa, Fitbit Versa Lite, made4fitbit, clockface, watchface, time, clock
- Production Technology
- All clock faces were designed in Adobe Illustrator and Affinity Designer All bitmaps were edited in Adobe Photoshop. Production and presentation files were made in Sketch app. Programming was made with Fitbit sdk in Fitbit Studio software.
- Design Challenge
- The application had 3 challenges: 1. to redesign and add to existing very graphic designs, a presentation of weather information (temperature and icons) and to design legible views with weather and weather alerts. 2. to design a modern application layout that will allow space for all necessary information about the operation and settings of clock faces and will have a simple yet unique interface. 3. to propose an affordable financial purchase model. The Ttmm-s app is the only app on the clock face market for Fitbit Versa smartwatches which offers a monthly subscription plan (for just 0.99$). This solution covers the monthly cost of weather services and allows users to pay for the application only for the time they want to use it.
- Project Duration
- The project started in January 2019 and was released in April 2020 in Warsaw, Poland. The programming took place in Poland.
- Operation Flow
- All the clock faces can be uploaded to Fitbit Versa through the Ttmm-s app available for Apple devices with iOS. With the app you can view the design, read the description, start the subscription plan and upload clock faces and prepare a favorite models list which facilitates swapping between clock faces. After the upload, the user can set colors, activate chosen complications, turn on weather views and activate weather alerts or chimes. All clock faces are equipped with the tap-to-change on screen feature allowing for setting the complications.
- Research
- Our planet's climate is changing. Weather services and sensors technologies provide a lot of information about the quality of the weather, air pollution and ultra violet radiation. A smartwatch is a great place to inform us about the weather or warn us about threats, e.g. excessive uv, dangerous air quality or weather events. Organizing and providing this information in clear views will help us live better and prepare for the future. Because I did not find any clock face applications that would combine good modern design and information about air quality and weather alerts, I decided to design such an application for myself and make it available as a product.
- 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: The Day After Tomorrow, Waterworld and Hbo's Chernobyl mini series and the music that influenced me during my work was the album Radioactivity by Kraftwerk.
- Image Credits
- Fitbit Versa smartwatch Images by Fitbit, used under Fitbit Copyright License. Apple iOS name and iPhone images by Apple used under Apple Copyright License.
- Patents
- TTMM clock faces design © Copyright by Albert Salamon 2020. All rights reserved. TTMM name and TTMM logo are registered trademark of TTMM in European Union and other countries.
Colors of Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App
Design Interview about Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App
Minimalism, simplicity, purism, hence the lack of unnecessary graphic elements is the mark of TTMM brand.
This is also the way to increases the legibility of the presented information, which is also our prerequisite.
This collection includes clear and functional designs as well as eccentric ones that require some guidance for the user at the start.
These completely new formal solutions require some effort in deciphering the riddle of time perception. They also spark a reflection on time itself, developing the overall human sensitivity.
I feel that this approach is unpopular nowadays, yet it establishes the TTMM audience as very exceptional, as people who see things in a different way.
This is also the way to increases the legibility of the presented information, which is also our prerequisite.
This collection includes clear and functional designs as well as eccentric ones that require some guidance for the user at the start.
These completely new formal solutions require some effort in deciphering the riddle of time perception. They also spark a reflection on time itself, developing the overall human sensitivity.
I feel that this approach is unpopular nowadays, yet it establishes the TTMM audience as very exceptional, as people who see things in a different way.
The project combines 3 important values: 1. the TTMM brand – offering award-winning time face designs, 2. advanced weather features, 3. a convenient application in a subscription model, divided into categories, with user guidelines and a list of favorites including a quick option to upload designs and a search engine for additional design features. This personal collection, with its originality and functionality, easily competes with watch apps offered by Fitbit or Apple. The TTMM-S application brings selection, order and moderation of the abundance of designs – a clear advantage over overloaded app marketplaces.
The most important feature of the TTMM-S app is the Weather Alert, that warns of hazardous air pollution or UV radiation in the vicinity. TTMM-S clock faces are equipped with three types of alerts: dangerous weather conditions, very high UV radiation, or unhealthy air quality. When the outside conditions turn unhealthy or dangerous, the clock face will make the smartwatch vibrate and display a warning message.
The most important feature of the TTMM-S app is the Weather Alert, that warns of hazardous air pollution or UV radiation in the vicinity. TTMM-S clock faces are equipped with three types of alerts: dangerous weather conditions, very high UV radiation, or unhealthy air quality. When the outside conditions turn unhealthy or dangerous, the clock face will make the smartwatch vibrate and display a warning message.
I plan to develop it on Fitbit and / or other similar platforms. And in the future, I'd love to build my own hardware product to go with the software that I make today.
It took me almost 1 year, working extensively, supported by a team of programmers.
This collection was created as a selection of the best TTMM designs created over the years. I have experimented with various forms of clock-face design from very clear and functional to very abstract and artistic. Observing my clients' choices, I made selections and improvements. Today, the latest collection with 66 clock faces has been reduced to the top 12.
TTMM-S for Fitbit Versa is a software product dedicated only to Fitbit Versa smartwatches. I would love to create my own hardware product which will be a "work in time" and will serve people. I am also thinking of a product with high standards of privacy, where the data belongs to the user only. Such a product is anti-commercial and requires a wise and humane investor. I would love to meet one like that.
Two huge and important problems - lack of good clock faces projects and bad clock face galley store.
HYPERATTRACTIVE! Most clock faces are made by programmers for whom the meaning, sense, visual value and form of the project are in the background (because they are not educated designers). They compete in the coolness and attractiveness of the offered products in order to attract the attention of recipients and sell as much as possible, e.g. they add animations that do not improve the quality of the project but are an attractor function. I decided to design a beautiful, characteristic, useful and comfortable collection. TTMM watches are balanced, calm and modest.
EXCESS, SHIPPING, REJECTION! Today, a huge problem is the overproduction of clock faces and other digital products (applications, movies and music). Proper organization and presentation in the clock face gallery is necessary to see and understand the nature of the projects, so as not to overdo the recipient and discourage with excess. Today, the native Fitbit app presents a stream of thousands of clock faces crammed together. Reviewing 5,000 projects is a waste of human life and is a contradiction to caring for human health. In my opinion, it causes stress and discouragement. My answer is a separate TTMM-S application containing a collection of well-designed and presented clock faces. The TTMM-S application addresses the problem of organization, search, presentation and the list of favorites, which enables the optimal use of the necessary projects. The TTMM-S application also solves the big UX problem of the original Fitbit application in which it takes many clicks to find what you are looking for or to upload a clock face. I made the TTMM-S application for myself to save myself time. I believe that this is a human approach and it is good for business.
HYPERATTRACTIVE! Most clock faces are made by programmers for whom the meaning, sense, visual value and form of the project are in the background (because they are not educated designers). They compete in the coolness and attractiveness of the offered products in order to attract the attention of recipients and sell as much as possible, e.g. they add animations that do not improve the quality of the project but are an attractor function. I decided to design a beautiful, characteristic, useful and comfortable collection. TTMM watches are balanced, calm and modest.
EXCESS, SHIPPING, REJECTION! Today, a huge problem is the overproduction of clock faces and other digital products (applications, movies and music). Proper organization and presentation in the clock face gallery is necessary to see and understand the nature of the projects, so as not to overdo the recipient and discourage with excess. Today, the native Fitbit app presents a stream of thousands of clock faces crammed together. Reviewing 5,000 projects is a waste of human life and is a contradiction to caring for human health. In my opinion, it causes stress and discouragement. My answer is a separate TTMM-S application containing a collection of well-designed and presented clock faces. The TTMM-S application addresses the problem of organization, search, presentation and the list of favorites, which enables the optimal use of the necessary projects. The TTMM-S application also solves the big UX problem of the original Fitbit application in which it takes many clicks to find what you are looking for or to upload a clock face. I made the TTMM-S application for myself to save myself time. I believe that this is a human approach and it is good for business.
The inspiration for the collection comes from three different areas: sci-fi movies, electronic music, and the idea behind Tokyo Flash Japan. The movies that inspired me about the weather issues are: The Day After Tomorrow, Waterworld, and Hbo’s Chernobyl mini-series, and the music that influenced me during my work was the album Radioactivity by Kraftwerk.
TTMM’s abstract designs are more than just a display of time – they are “digital jewelry” that the user can host on the device and adjust to their look, mood, or to the occasion. These “faces of time” also bring a reflection on the passing of time. This set of values distinguishes TTMM projects from the competition and allows to build a loyal group of users. So the recipient thinks about what he is looking at, asks himself questions, feels and experiences, has a reflection on time - and has time for it.
There are several points of difference:
1. design quality with rich user experience
2. weather views and alerts are a unique feature on the market
3. highly specialized functions and well designed exceeding the standard offering of Fitbit and iWatch
4. the subscription model is also one of the kind
5. the brand and products with several design awards
1. design quality with rich user experience
2. weather views and alerts are a unique feature on the market
3. highly specialized functions and well designed exceeding the standard offering of Fitbit and iWatch
4. the subscription model is also one of the kind
5. the brand and products with several design awards
Brand name TTMM - is the genotype for all TTMM products. TTMM is a composition of a decomposition of time: TIME – a word and a HH:MM code. The name mechanical pronunciation represents the progressive digitalization of our times.
TTMM logo is built on overlapping T and M letters. It expresses the explosion of meaning in time. Kind of tree or a processor of time.
In TTMM-S the "S" suffix stands for the subscription model of purchase.
TTMM logo is built on overlapping T and M letters. It expresses the explosion of meaning in time. Kind of tree or a processor of time.
In TTMM-S the "S" suffix stands for the subscription model of purchase.
I have been working on the SKETCH program for a year. This is a great tool for designing multi-view interfaces. It not only allows to quickly design and prepare documentation for programmers, but also to prepare all the necessary production and promotional and advertising assets. It is just epic!
TTMM-S is a contributor to our visual culture with a bold new way of thinking about face time design. TTMM-S is reaching beyond trends in shaping the perception of time. Moreover the weather alerts – especially those concerning the quality of the air – address the climate change problem and the effect it has on peoples’ lives.
Today, in the era of COVID-19 infections, some studies show the relationship between the possibility of increased infections and polluted air. If TTMM-S products could help minimize this factor, it would be a very important thing for me if it happened.
Today, in the era of COVID-19 infections, some studies show the relationship between the possibility of increased infections and polluted air. If TTMM-S products could help minimize this factor, it would be a very important thing for me if it happened.
In the project, I used my own - unique, accumulated through many years of experience in the analysis and creation of watch faces micro-interfaces for smartwatch screens. This experience covers many fields: user interface design, user experience design, graphic design and branding. I am one of the few designers in the world who have received so many international awards including the Red Dot. I recognize my position as an expert.
The UX design of the TTMM-S application was designed by Leszek Juraszczyk, responsible for an orderly and clear presentation of various watch application designs.
Marcin Berendt advised me in the field of brand strategy and product marketing.
The following programmers also participated in the project: iOS: Rafał Gorczyński and Arkadiusz Banaś. Fitbit programming: Piotr Kamiński, Wiktor Hołubowicz and Gregoire Sage.
The UX design of the TTMM-S application was designed by Leszek Juraszczyk, responsible for an orderly and clear presentation of various watch application designs.
Marcin Berendt advised me in the field of brand strategy and product marketing.
The following programmers also participated in the project: iOS: Rafał Gorczyński and Arkadiusz Banaś. Fitbit programming: Piotr Kamiński, Wiktor Hołubowicz and Gregoire Sage.
Projects created today use a multitude of technologies that have to meet each other, talk to each other and cooperate seamlessly. Finally, the software meets the hardware and the hardware meets the user, as there is a smartwatch on the user's hand displaying information, which is used by the user to make everyday decisions. In case of weather - this information is taken from specialized weather services, which display precise information about the presence of harmful particles in the air and, if necessary, alert the user to take care of his health based on his current location. This process happens underneath the "watch face". It is amazing what one can do with the available technology nowadays. It can surely say that technology is the essence of TTMM products.
Our planet’s climate is changing. Weather services and sensors technologies provide a lot of information about the quality of the weather, air pollution, and ultraviolet radiation. A smartwatch is a great place to inform us about the weather or warn us about threats, e.g. excessive UV, dangerous air quality, or weather events. Organizing and providing this information in clear views will help us live better and prepare for the future. Because I did not find any clock face applications that would combine good modern design and information about air quality and weather alerts, I decided to design such an application for myself and make it available as a product.
The application had 3 challenges: 1. to redesign and add to existing very graphic designs, a presentation of weather information (temperature and icons), and to design legible views with weather and weather alerts. 2. to design a modern application layout that will allow space for all necessary information about the operation and settings of clock faces and will have a simple yet unique interface. 3. to propose an affordable financial purchase model. The TTMM-S app is the only app on the clock face market for Fitbit Versa smartwatches, which offers a monthly subscription plan (for just 1.99$). This solution covers the monthly cost of weather services and allows users to pay for the application only for the time they want to use it.
TTMM projects are ahead of their time and a good way to check and confirm this, is by participating in design competitions. For years, I have been submitting TTMM designs to the professional jury's evaluation, and the A Design Award is one of my choices.
I am learning transparency in communicating feature-rich TTMM projects.
This requires discipline, synthesis, simplifications and a balanced selection of descriptions and graphics for presentation to facilitate the concept and use of TTMM designs.
This requires discipline, synthesis, simplifications and a balanced selection of descriptions and graphics for presentation to facilitate the concept and use of TTMM designs.
I believe that the role of competitions such as the A Design Award is not only to select, reward and promote the best projects, but also to notice, highlight and promote innovative and culturally and environmentally important projects. I consider TTMM to be such. Today, the excess of awarded projects makes them irrelevant to each other and increases the information buzz.
Grand Interview about Ttmm-s for Fitbit Versa App
5 years ago, I designed a time visualization called FEELTTMM for the Pebble Time smartwatch. It was a combination of large time digits combined with a single color that represented the perceived air temperature. Blue for frost, green for cold, yellow for warmth, red for heat, and burgundy for heat. This very simple solution dictated to the recipients how to read the temperature of Time. The idea of this single project was the seed for the entire TTMM-S for Fitbit collection. According to climate.org on my birthday, the average global temperature rose by 1.18 degrees Celsius. It's getting hot - right?
This is an extremely important question - thank you. The mentioned film productions alarmingly aim at the possibility of a catastrophic future of our World. They are an inspiration as a WARNING that the "future" is already TODAY (we are watching it) and if we do not take care of it, TOMORROW may not be our space-time. The film works with images, the music with melody and I combined clear ALARMS with an abstract (not of this earth - not of this era) visualization of time. The combination of modern (future) style of TTMM time visualization (e.g. DOMINUS) with an alarm about e.g. tsunami or high level of UV radiation or polluted air overthrows our illusory support in technology, they can confuse the recipient and I hope bring reflection on the state of the Earth's ecosystem and show that we live in the FUTURE. But I do not know if the recipients or design critics have such a sophisticated reflection on TTMM projects.
It was an experiment. I didn't achieve subscription success (80 subscribers - they must be true TTMM fans - Thank You All) or return on the project. There could be many reasons for this: lack of advertising, high price compared to free competition and lack of a large enough audience appreciating the design and benefits that the app brought.
Detailed information about PM10 and PM25 particles is useful and sometimes crucial for people struggling with respiratory diseases and allergies. They can also pose a threat to healthy people who exercise in an unfavorable environment. COVID studies have shown that poor air quality contributed to increased transmission of the COVID virus. The data on which the TTMM-S application is based comes from external measurement stations, scattered around the world. Their accuracy depends on GPS data and the frequency of data updates. The style of the alarms is balanced (very simple - color and text) without excessive scaring, easy to read. Language localization has been developed for seven languages.
The team worked according to the guidelines of my idea. The tap-to-change function allows the user to immediately obtain the selected type of information (date, biomedical data (calories, number of steps taken, distance, weather conditions, temperature, UV radiation and air quality). This is a great convenience and acceleration in user-device communication. Disabling unnecessary functions of the selected clockface is done on the phone screen, ensuring readability and comfort of selecting the necessary functions.
The background function with the index as UV is a creative transformation of the FEELTTMM project created years ago and mentioned above. The only serious problem is the multiplicity of communication links and data exchange between them. Clockface sends a request to the TTMM-S application, which, knowing the user's GPS location, downloads current weather data for the indicated location via the Internet and sends it to clockface. To optimize the device's battery and data consumption, this communication takes place in 30-minute intervals. The weakest link in this communication is the Fitbit device's Bluetooth transmission, which is based on third-party phone protocols and resources (Apple, Google, etc.).
Organizing projects into three groups allows you to organize and direct the recipients' thinking to read time in a specific way. This makes it easier to understand and learn how to read time visualizations. This division also makes it easier to choose a specific project, which is made based on the recipients' preferences.
The solutions used in the TTMM-S project will find their imitators - perhaps Apple or Google are already working on similar solutions and will introduce similar services to their smartwatches.
TTMM-S is a project for the FUTURE available today. It contains design solutions that are ahead of their time and an innovative practical approach to the problem of weather changes and the protection of human health and life. The project was also awarded in the IF Design Award competition and received the Red Dot Award confirming world quality.
The development and miniaturization of electronic devices and the evolution of power sources will allow for the placement of sensors measuring air temperature, UV radiation and air quality inside smartwatches. By sending data to the Internet, it will be possible to create a precise map of weather changes and air pollution. The key issue will be privacy, ownership and use of data.