In response to your comments about Duo, actually, the UI was quite simple. Where we went wrong with our execution was not grabbing the judges' attention in the first 2 minutes of their experience. Only two judges accessed our application, which means the other two scored us based on our documentation (or perhaps one of them was an outlier). Our document was good, but not great, and I didn't create the Duo video until after we submitted our app, so it wasn't included in the document.
For the two judges who actually did run Duo, we could've spent more time guiding them through a rock solid 3 minute experience rather than expecting them to be curious and explore freely. Although, even if we had done that and received perfect scores from those two judges, the scores from the other two judges (the ones who only read the document) would probably have been enough to eliminate us anyway. On May 13, 3:31 pm, Biosopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've tried not to go negative here because I still trust that Google > maintained a level playing field. > > That said, I was shocked to see 3 mobile-based weather apps win. I've > always considered weather forecasting to be a cross between the > psychic hotline & astrology. > > I've seen many cool ideas among the winners though so I'm still > patiently waiting to see what the big breakthrough is in weather > forecasting. I'm sure there's something I'm missing as all these > judges couldn't have been wrong. > > In the end though, a key element in the judging process seems to have > been how well the application's vision was executed. This explains > for instance why one app that I thought was guaranteed a slot (Duo) > didn't get in. It seems the initial UI was too complex so the more > interesting features were never accessed. I hope to see an updated > Duo entered into Challenge Round 2 though! > > As they say, brilliant innovations means nothing without execution. I > wish more of the people complaining about unfair treatment would > publish their applications more openly. Then again...it's often > easier to complain than to actually learn what went wrong so the same > mistake can be avoided next time. > > Me? I've put my app out for everyone to see (Pocket Journey) and have > received excellent feedback - both from people that thinks the idea > stinks and those that claim they'd install it themselves. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
