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Here’s 3 things that made my app third place in an international student competition

Rafael Melo on December 12, 2017

I won third place at IEEEmadC 2017 (Mobile Applications Development Contest) among equally great 40+ apps developed by students all around the worl...
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Jess Lee

Great tips & congrats!

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Thorsten Hirsch

Your final version looks really impressive! Could you please elaborate on how you learned to design like that within a month?

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Rafael Melo

Thanks!! As I said I'm not a designer, so it's all about the knowledge I gained based on my researches. About The map: I changed it using material design, flat colors and less detailed stuff. For the name on the top I used a little typography study that says some titles must be different from the rest of the app content. The user experience helped me to put my important information centered, simple, and as large as possible to people understand. But what I think is most important is that I read articles saying to always use references. I downloaded A LOT of random beautiful apps and saw what I liked in most of them and them adapted something from each one. I learned that every good design is born out of references. Also a gray background is better than a colorful one, it's better to let the details be responsible for the colors. All that came from Google, YouTube and from very harsh critics on my layouts

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Gabriel Fellone

Great app!
Parabéns pelo trabalho.