iPad – Graham Todman freelance UI / UX product designer

App design for iPhone and Android

Graham — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 21:43:23 +0000

Sensoria Apple Watch app design

Phrasewise English Learning app

Sensoria Fitness Wearables iPhone app

Connects to sensor filled sports wear for iPhone and Android

Justgo

Music posting app for DJs on iPhone

Grape

Location based social meetup app

Last.fm Scrobbler

Playlist app to help you discover you music collection on iOS (iPhone and iPad) and Android

Last.fm Festival Finder app

Uses your music taste and listening history to find the best summer music festivals for you

Last.fm Music Discover app

Explore your music collection via similar artists on WebOS

Time Out City Travel Guide apps

Find the best restaurant and things to do nearby on iPhone

Scrobbler tablet & mobile music app design

Graham — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:44:53 +0000

Features

Enhance your music collection on iPad & iPhone
Smart playlists created for your mood and favourite genres
Artist galleries and listening stats
Scrobble* music to your Last.fm profile
See who’s on tour

*scrobble: skrob·bul (ˈskrɒbəll) [verb]
To automatically add the tracks you play to your Last.fm profile with a piece of software called a Scrobbler
If I’m not scrobbling the music I hear, it doesn’t count!

Scrobbler tablet & mobile music app design – icon family V1

Graham — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:53:58 +0000

Following the iOS design principle of “do one thing really well” we decided to spilt the Last.fm service into three distinct apps which serve clearly different use: radio streaming, exploring and scrobbling your music collection, and finding events to see. This meant coming up with a family of icons that were different enough to be distinct, yet belonged together and clearly reflected the brand.

The solution was inspired in part by the style of exisiting brand illustrations, but simplified and using geometric shapes. Each icon has a loose concept:

Radio: (Obvious!) is personal radio, so radiating waves… no brainer.
Scrobbler: The Scrobbler enhances your local music collection with Last.fm UGC tagging data and creates automated personal playlists. The icon shows inverted triangles, representing focusing lots of music down to the point of the tracks you really want to listen to.
Events: The icon shows a horizon with points radiating out, representing the points of a globe where you can see your music live.

Scrobbler tablet & mobile music app design – wireflows

Graham — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:44:36 +0000

Launch flow and "music moods" playlisting using machine music analysis tags

Exploring local music collection with listening data sorting and meta.

Profile screen and music listening stats views

Wireflows for the local music library stats and playlists app I’m working on.

Smart playlisting music app – demo

Graham — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 15:39:42 +0000

I’ve been working with our MIR team (Music Information Retrieval) on the new instant playlisting engine, designed to provide instant playlists from collections of any size.

The guys have created a playlisting demo which you can try out against your Last.fm profile. Please ty it out give us your feedback. You can also read Mark Levy’s background to the technology on the Last.fm blog.

My part in this has been to think about the user experience and ensure that the catagories we choose to create fit with the natural expectation and behaviors that people use when making their own playlists. This engine will form part of a new iOS product I’m designing for Last.fm.

Scrobbler tablet & mobile music app design – sketches

Graham — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:52:33 +0000

Here are some sketches on an iOS app I’m currently working on, laying out possible ways to interact with your local music collection using listening data.

This first sketch was a quick pass of how to lay the app out using floating frames, before I moved onto simpler and more interesting interactions.

I like to sketch here…

or even better, here…

iPad app concepts for Time Out

Graham — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 13:10:32 +0000

User flows

iPad app concept sketches for Time Out

Graham — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 12:38:07 +0000

In my last few months at Time Out I was asked to create some concepts for a Time Out London iPad app. The designs were intended as a discussion point for possible commercial opportunities such as advertising and paid-for content, but also to have something visual to get excited about.

Time Out are the best known for providing “What’s on” information for London to help people find something to do, but they also have strong editorial content on life in London, such as: opinion pieces, cultural commentary and reviews.

The brief I was given for this app concept was that it should feel like a magazine, but have a prominent search facility, however as started mapping out the use cases (below) I quickly came to the conclusion to that there should be a browsable magazine style app (this was a whole year before Newstand and Adobe’s iOS publishing tools), and a separate productivity app for finding things to do. In general, apps are best when they are focused on one purpose or solving one user goal, which makes for a simpler UI. For me, the use case of a productivity tool and a sit back and browse a magazine felt somewhat at odds with each other.