Baldy
May-10-2005, 12:56 PM
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....we promised to develop a smugmug logo developers could use on their products. And we mocked up concepts but I got busy and sat on them for 3 weeks.
Being the open company we are, we thought you'd like a say-so in this. So here's what other companies do:
http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/21757084-L.jpg
Quite boring, if you ask us, but as usual Apple has great style and simplicity.
A similar concept for us would be our logo and the words, for example, "smugmug developer." (Are you nodding off?)
More edgy:
http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/21756919-L.jpg
Or a button concept:
http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/21756916-L.jpg
And finally, the personalized style:
http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/21756917-L.jpg
You would provide the piccie that falls inside the white border.
What word to use?
Before anyone gets too excited about a word like master, here's the deal:
(1) The word we choose has to be clear enough to the people who are deciding whether to use the product. On that point, your interest and ours are the same. Developer is the clearest, but also the dullest. Innovator is one we're comfortable with.
(2) You'd probably like words like Master... We love the idea of a memorable word with character, like Apple uses for their Genius bar. It's brilliant.
But we don't want to mislead potential customers or get sued. What we need to show is it's an application developed by someone else, not us, but that it's smugmug compatible. We can't really imply that everyone who develops is a Jedi Mastah.
Your thoughts.
Being the open company we are, we thought you'd like a say-so in this. So here's what other companies do:
http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/21757084-L.jpg
Quite boring, if you ask us, but as usual Apple has great style and simplicity.
A similar concept for us would be our logo and the words, for example, "smugmug developer." (Are you nodding off?)
More edgy:
http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/21756919-L.jpg
Or a button concept:
http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/21756916-L.jpg
And finally, the personalized style:
http://cmac.smugmug.com/photos/21756917-L.jpg
You would provide the piccie that falls inside the white border.
What word to use?
Before anyone gets too excited about a word like master, here's the deal:
(1) The word we choose has to be clear enough to the people who are deciding whether to use the product. On that point, your interest and ours are the same. Developer is the clearest, but also the dullest. Innovator is one we're comfortable with.
(2) You'd probably like words like Master... We love the idea of a memorable word with character, like Apple uses for their Genius bar. It's brilliant.
But we don't want to mislead potential customers or get sued. What we need to show is it's an application developed by someone else, not us, but that it's smugmug compatible. We can't really imply that everyone who develops is a Jedi Mastah.
Your thoughts.