--- title: Sketches and ideas date: 2011-09-29 aliases: - /posts/sketches-and-ideas.html --- Although I was traveling yesterday, I sketched some small mockups for the Contacts app. The idea for the app had come when the genius Lucas Tieleman explained to me how he keeps a small book with notes about everyone. Yesterday he sent an email with the notes he had about me: it’s fun and only freaked me out a little bit (not as much as I expected). He’s a very early adopter of new technology, and he wanted this on his iPhone. One of the things he suggested was adding a game element. I’m not sure if that’s a good idea: although it would be fun at first, I think game elements get annoying later. One “game-ish” option would be to have a calendar view showing how many notes you made that day, and when you see it you will want to have at least one note a day (hopefully). [Eelco](http://tupil.com) also pointed out [With](http://with.me/) by Path. Just like [Hashable](http://hashable.com/beta): while there is great inspiration in there, I think they both focus way too much on social networks and sharing. Especially for the purpose I had in mind (taking notes about people) this is scary. As Lucas also noted: some if this stuff is really private. Today I’ll probably start a new XCode project and quickly implement an app that’s usable for me, and iterate upon that. For now, here’s two of the sketches I made yesterday (although they are already outdated): ![](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1264810/blog-content/IMG_1192.jpg "Check In Screen")![](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1264810/blog-content/IMG_1193.jpg "Person Screen")