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Nominated in 7 categories at the TelecomCity Catwalk 2011 awards!
September 2nd, 2011 by Screen Interaction
The TelecomCity Catwalk11 event is an international meeting point for the IT- and telecom industry’s leading players and their customers. Each year they get together to network and discuss business opportunities, current fashion and future trends within the mobile industry.
Screen Interaction are nominated in seven categories:
Commers: NRJ radio station with ”NRJ Wake-up Call”: Mobile app that wakes you up in time for the radio station NRJ´s daily prankcalls at 07:15.
Band & Finance: Payson with”Payd by Payson”: A service that enables the transfer of money to friends on Facebook.
Construction: Assa Abloy with”Mobile Keys”: A virtual key stored on an NFC enabled mobile phone to unlock doors.
Mobile Marketing: NRJ radio station with ”NRJ Wake-up Call”: Mobile app that wakes you in time for the radio station NRJ´s prankcalls daily at. 07:15.
Effectivity: ”Reseräkning”: A mobile app that keeps track of travel expenses and creates expense reports that can be sent directly to the payroll office via your cell phone.
The winners are annouced at the Catwalk event in Karlskrona 14-15 September. Let’s hold thumbs and stay tuned for the results!
Second place in the BlackBerry Challenge Final 2011
August 26th, 2011 by Screen Interaction
After two hectic days at Media Evolution in Malmö the Screen Interaction team is back home to the office. We did a great job and Reseräkning finished on second place in the BlackBerry Challenge Final 2011!
The team has been really dedicated to the task and worked extremely hard both day and night. A big thank to Andreas, Alice, Fotios and Petter and also to Joacim, Wisam, Emil, Fredrik and everyone else that’s been involved in Reseräkning in some form!
Qualified finalist to this years BlackBerry Challenge
August 18th, 2011 by Screen Interaction
Yesterday Andreas Åhlund and Joacim Gamme held our pitch for BlackBerry Challenge in Malmö. Today we received the news that Screen Interaction qualified as one of the five finalist to this years BlackBerry Challenge. Great job guys!
The BlackBerry Challenge is to develop an innovative application for the new BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The rules are simple, submissions will be judged based on:
- Quality and use of development best practices
– Level of visual appeal
– User experience
– Creativity and innovation
– Nordic connection
The Jury consists of members from RIM, Kvittar and Media Evolution and the winning application will win a pre-installed slot on all BlackBerry PlayBook in Scandinavia! We will tweet and report live from the event next week so stay tuned! Read more about the Challenge and the Media Evolution Conference next week here.
Back in the office!
August 15th, 2011 by Screen Interaction
The Screen Interaction office is now full with people again after a couple of weeks of vacation. The summer sun seem to have treated us all really nice and at the office a lot of new exciting things takes place.
We’re just about to finish the development of an interactive children book based on the Swedish best-seller ”Wilda Wilmas Pruttar” by Lullaby publishing. End-user testing with children from the target group has resulted in some new ideas and updates. The iPad application will soon be submitted to iTunes AppStore and we will publish a case study with the evaluation when it’s gone live! We thank Fotios, Fredrik, Leah and Patrik at Screen Interaction for an excellent job on this project!
One of our internal project ”Reseräkning” was ported for Android HoneyComb Tablets and BlackBerry. The Google HoneyComb interaction model was of course applied! Thank you Emil and Joacim for great work on Reseräkning!
We’re also working on a new web portal for people who want to contract UX Designers, Interaction Designers or Usability Experts. The site ranks, sorts and list all the available agencies in this field in Sweden and contains a blog administrated by the agencies together that will highlight news and trends from the Interaction Design world. The site is in beta-testing right now and we expect it to go live later this fall. Keep your eyes for more information about the site soon! Thank you Teresia and Wisam, keep up the great work!
Right now we’re starting up a couple of new, interesting projects that we will work on during Q4 to continue to develop our expertise in user experience, application development and design for mobile devices.
Screen Interaction wish everyone a great week-end and hope to hear from you soon!
Free-to-play Revenue Overtakes Premium Revenue
July 7th, 2011 by Screen Interaction
Free-to-play games are taking over Apple’s App Store, based on data released today from mobile analytics firm Flurry.
About 65 % of the revenue from the top 100 grossing games in the App Store in the U.S. came from the free-to-play business model, where a user plays for free and can buy virtual goods with real money. For only six months ago, only 39 % of the revenue from the top 100 games were free-to-play.
In the old paid world of video games, success was measured by multiplying the number of units sold by the unit price, the traditional retail model. In the new world of digital games distribution, it’s all about how many players you can keep engaged with your free game, followed by how many compelling spending opportunities you can provide them.
The power of free-to-play is that more people will likely try out a new game, and revenue grows since those larger numbers of players can spend different amounts based on how engaged they are. Some players will spend tens of thousands of dollars in a game that they really like.
Flurry data shows that the number of people who spend money in a free game ranges from 0.5 percent to 6 percent depending on the quality of the game and its core mechanics. Although this means that more than 90 percent of players will not spend a single penny, it also means that players who love a game spend much more than the 99 cents that is the usual price for a paid download.
Interesting shift! Read the full article here.
Get Payd by Payson!
July 1st, 2011 by Screen Interaction
Payson chose Screen Interaction as Technology Partner for the development of their new innovative money transfer service called ”Payd by Payson”.
Have you ever lend out cash to your friends or payed their dinner and hoped to get the money back later but it never happened? -Yes, you probably know what I’m talking about. With the Payd application you can pay for your friends and make a transaction back to your bank account. The only thing you need to know is your friends Facebook profile name. How does this work? Download the iOS application from iTunes and try it out!
Payson is one of Swedens most leading companies in secure online and card transactions. Payson’s payment solutions is being frequently used in the e-Commers industry and by private people.
Get the app from iTunes AppStore here!
Meet the Playbook
June 28th, 2011 by Screen Interaction
With the launch of the new BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet just around the corner, RIM held an inspiring seminar called ”Meet The BlackBerry PlayBook” in association with Adobe® at the residency of TAT in Malmö, Sweden.
Screen Interaction was one of the invited companies to participate and got a first glance of the new product. Beside the design and business track seminars, we also had the chance to play around with the BlackBerry PlayBook™ tablet. (watch a video here)
Beside the 7.5″ LCD multi touch display, 1 Gb of RAM, 1 Ghz Dual-Core processor, WiFi, Dual HD Cameras, a light weight design and long lasting battery – The BlackBerry Playbook™ was simply fun! The gesture oriented interaction design model and the raw performance in combination brought a whole new meaning to the definition of Multitasking.
From a development point of view, BlackBerry has also opened up the doors pretty wide with it’s collaboration with Adobe. Developing apps for the platform is made easy x 100. With Adobe’s deep integration to the PlayBook™ OS, apps can be made in Flex and exported as Air applications. The tablet also has an Android-player which enables Java-based applications for Android to also run on the platform.
Finally we are looking forward to the launch of the BlackBerry PlayBook™ and have already started to work on a new application concept for the PlayBook. Stay tuned for more information after the summer!
App Distribution Becomes a Global Game
June 23rd, 2011 by Screen Interaction
Distimo Publication has recently conducted a study on the global app distribution and reporting a power shift impacting the developers how to monetize their apps.
The major findings are:
-The download volume in Asian countries grew significantly in the past six months in the Apple App Store for iPhone. While other (Western) countries saw a decrease in download volume during the same time frame. China recently became the second largest market after the United States.
The download volume in South Korea is remarkably high despite the relative small size of the country’s population. Moreover, because the Games category is absent in the Apple App Store for iPhone in South Korea, all downloads are allocated to non-Games, while in other countries the Games category is without exception, the largest. This makes South Korea an especially interesting country for publishers and developers in the non-Games categories.
The download volumes in Asia increased in general, however, the proportion of paid downloads and the overall revenue still lag behind that of the United States and Europe. Moreover, while in-app purchases became an important monetization method over the last year in many countries, it has not yet in Asia. Thus, developers have to look for other ways of monetization such as advertising.
A comparison of the most popular categories between the United States and Asia revealed that there are no significant differences between content preferences. Hence, iPhone developers could offer the same type of applications in both Asia and the United States.
The majority of the most popular iPhone applications in Asia is only popular in Asia, but in some Asian countries worldwide popular applications prevail. Examples of regional popular only content are KungFu Food-Panda, and Birzzle. In general, localization appears to be key to becoming popular especially when considering countries like China, South Korea, and Japan. In countries like India and Indonesia, localization appears to be less important.
Grab the full report here!
Reseräkning iPhone application
June 23rd, 2011 by Screen Interaction
Tired of all the administrative work that business expense reporting involves? In that case, Reseräkning is the application for you! The iPhone application, now available on iTunes AppStore, makes business travel and expense reporting fast, easy and secure!
In total, 235 million businesses related travels are made each year in Sweden. Most people that makes business trips on a regular basis have experienced that the trips requires a lot of administration. Tickets must be booked, receipts need to be saved and a travel expense needs to be registered and sent in before a certain date for approval. We at Screen Interaction decided to put an end to this time consuming task with a clever app that takes care of everything for you.
Reseräkning is an iPhone app that provides information about the levels of travel allowance for business travels for Swedish professionals. The application gives easy access to the current regulations and provides information about the travel costs. The user can also calculate travel insurance and export the document for approval on the fly.
Reseräkning will help you to avoid unnecessary trouble and instead focus your time on the actual work. This will save time, money and effort for both you and your company!
The application is now available on iTunes AppStore. Get it here!
Reseräkning will soon be available also for Android!
Here are some screenshots:
Visit to ReadSoft in Helsingborg
June 22nd, 2011 by Screen Interaction
May 17-18, 2011:
ReadSoft invited Screen Interaction to come down to their office in Helsingborg.
The challenge: to redesign one of their business solution applications – to make it more user-friendly, attractive and in-line with how we designed one of its counterparts, ReadSoft Online (an invoice processing web application tool and service).
The time ticker: 2 days.
The result: We not only managed to improve the interface and look and feel of the product, but the team (ReadSoft + S.I.) came up with a solution that combines their related business solution packages into one! This will make things a lot more efficient, practical and easier for the more common end-user.
All in all it was a successful and highly enjoyable trip. Those of us from S.I. in Stockholm reveled in the relaxed and positive environment and attitudes of our hosts and team members at ReadSoft… as well as in the quintessential sea-side charm of Helsingborg.