Portfolio SAM RUSTON

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1 Portfolio SAM RUSTON

2 Weather Timeline ANDROID APP DESIGN & DEV Yet another take on a weather app. It removed the traditional approach of having separate screens for now, soon and later and condensed the info into a single timeline. It was picked for editor's choice and is one of the top weather apps on the Play Store.

3 Flight Tracker ios APP PROTOTYPE This is an interactive design prototype for a flight tracker for ios. The aim was to give the user information regarding their flight as quickly as possible so they can read it in a rush. This is provided using big bold typography and colour to indicate status. These card components are great in-app and can be embedded in widgets/notifications too.

4 Helping Yorkshire Poundies WEBSITE & LOGO REDESIGN The new logo scales better, is more legible and contains delightful details such as the entire logo forms a dog with the bottom of the P being a front paw and the counter of the P being a heart. The goal of the redesign was to increase donations and provide a better browsing experience for adoptable dogs. This was done by drastically simplifying the site, providing donate buttons in key areas of the website with high contrast and providing a sidebar of portrait shots of dogs to give them personality and friendliness.

5 Ticket Alert ANDROID APP DESIGN & DEV This screen for adding a ticket website uses a hero image to demonstrate the behaviour of the app as it is an unfamiliar concept to most. The demo and add ticket buttons have the same colour to solidify this connection further. A non-standard close button is at the bottom of the screen so users don t have to reach to the top of the screen for this commonly used action. Donation ANDROID APP PROTOTYPE This is a prototype for a donation screen. Each donation is given a ball and dropped into a physics simulation to give liveliness and emotion to a screen that would otherwise be a dull list of numbers. The balls can be dragged and thrown in a game like manner which evokes involvement and donations from users.

6 Luci ANDROID APP DESIGN & DEV Luci is a lucid dreaming journal. The aim was to provide a welcoming experience to lucid dreaming that provided functionality for experts whilst remaining inviting to beginners. It uses a dark theme with 2 accent colours for a lucidity scale (not lucid very lucid) that blend together to form an ethereal combination (a nod to the weird realities of dreams). On top of the UI design there is Luci itself, who is an animated companion who provides helpful demonstrations in the app.

7 Reddit Redesign UNOFFICIAL WEBSITE REDESIGN Breaking news has been promoted as Reddit is a popular source for news New content indicators so don t have to constantly check Key action given more importance on the page Now uses a fixed width for easier reading on large displays Reddit is for communities, so this feature has been pushed front & centre Removed sharp corners to seem less imposing to new users Moved uncommon actions to a separate expandable menu to minimise cognitive load Same compact list that existing users have come to love & expect from Reddit Minimalist colour scheme to give focus to the content and allow greater flexibility with subreddit customisation

8 CoinCalc ANDROID APP DESIGN & DEV CoinCalc was one of the first converters to embrace material design. Each currency is assigned a colour that is used throughout the app to increase speed and recognition when there are hundreds of currencies to choose from. Even the swap button s arrows depend on the colours of the currencies to better convey its action. A large keypad with lots of whitespace and no clutter means typing is a lot faster.

9 Hurry ANDROID APP DESIGN & DEV Hurry is a complete re-imagining of a countdown app with the premise that a countdown app should make you excited for events instead of just a list of names and dates. It has striking gradients (usually a no-no on Android), gif backgrounds and animations that will keep you pumped for your favourite upcoming events.

10 My Pollen Forecast ios APP DESIGN My Lightning Tracker ios APP DESIGN This app was designed to condense a lot of information into a user friendly manner so the user would not be otherwise annoyed by checking their allergies. Whitespace sets a calming tone with colours to identify significance. A dark muted map brings focus & removes unnecessary detail. Bespoke pins provide context and a larger tap area. The dialog shares elements with Apple Watch design to provide synergy between the 2 interfaces.

11 What People Say Marques Brownlee, MKBHD Rich Fulcher, Material Design Lead My favourite app of 2018 and 2017 is actually Flamingo for Twitter. Taken as a whole, all of this attention to the little details results in a richly satisfying experience. Ryan Whitwam, Tested Abner Li, 9To5Google Countdown apps are not usually something I think of as innovative, but leave it to Sam Ruston, developer of Weather Timeline to prove me wrong. Created by a single developer, Weather Timeline is one of the best examples of Material Design on Android. Preshit Deorukhkar, Beautiful Pixels Ryne Hager, Android Police Much like his other apps, Flamingo sports a bold and striking UI. It s got a very fun and cheerful feel to it and is one of the nicest Twitter apps for Android that I ve played with. It's hard not to get all fanboy on this, but it looks awesome, with bold use of color and shapes. It might be a bit too high-contrast for some, but it's a very striking look. I wish that Sam Ruston was my interior decorator.