#anysend

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AnySend OSX Design Study

With AnySend our goal was to create a way to send from anywhere to anywhere. This was an ambitious project: it required making OSX, Android, Windows and iOS Apps

On every platform, our goal is to achieve harmony with the platform, to implement design and features in a way that works the way that platform works. On OSX we chose a toolbar icon, but how to represent files to send?

For image content we could show the image directly, but what if you selected many different files?

Another cool feature is pushing websites from one device to another. What if we showed the website itself as a preview?

Finally what should we show in the default case?

We made lots more previews, what happens if the images are slow to render or the websites don’t load immediately or the images are odd sizes? At the concept stage we have to think about a lot of different scenarios.

In the end some of these special previews didn’t make the cut. Going from concept to reality, lots of things change.

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AnySend Icon Origins

A significant portion of our project time is devoted to icons. We almost always leave this to the end since it takes so much time but is only necessary if we release a project.

For AnySend we had multiple prototypes way in advance of any icon considerations. As we got closer to release, we started to brainstorm concepts for an icon to portray “send files”

One of our top concepts, despite its relationship to “send emails” was a paper airplane. We knew emails was a close relation, so we had the idea: what about a non standard paper airplane design?

We liked this concept at the big size. Paper airplanes are cool, and this is a cool design for a paper airplane.

But then we thought about the icon at the small size, since many times with an icon you are looking at the small size. That’s why a strong profile is important.

After looking at this concept at the small size, we cancelled this direction and left paper airplanes entirely but kept “paper” as a design idea for the final icon.

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AnySend Icon - Paper Bunny Box

When making AnySend we wanted to go with an icon that

Conveyed the idea of “sending”

Was different from common “email” icons

Had a distinct profile at a large and small sizes

We tried paper airplanes, but couldn’t make it work.

From paper airplanes, we went to other kinds of origami, and finally to the idea of an origami box-bunny.

We really liked this form and paper detailing, and we used this concept as the basis for all the final icons of Any Send

The origami bunny box is one of our favorite icons so far. In creating its final form we put another level of polish on it, but this original concept was where we made the design decision.

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AnySend for OSX, the First User Experience

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AnySend, envía y recibe archivos entre diferentes móviles a través de wifi

Bluetooth es un estándar que fue creado con intención de poder ofrecer una forma sencilla y directa de compartir música o imágenes entre móviles, pero lo cierto es que finalmente el proceso no es tan directo como sería deseable, y sus velocidades de transferencia son bastante lentas si necesitamos transferir archivos de un tamaño relativamente grande como puede ser un mp3 de alta calidad. Por eso siempre son útiles las aplicaciones que nos permiten realizar transferencias de archivos a traves de wifi como es el caso con AnySend.

Se trata de una aplicación para Android que ofrece un funcionamiento muy completo y versátil puesto que no necesita estar ejecutándose en primer plano sino que podemos dejarla abierta y en segundo plano y ella se encargará de notificarnos (mediante un sonido, vibración, notificación en la barra superior de Android y destello del LED) cuando tengamos un archivo para recibir desde otro móvil.

Está claro que los otros usuarios también deberán tener ambición instalada en sus móviles pero lo bueno de todo esto es que podemos crear listas seguras de usuarios desde los cuales sabemos que podremos recibir archivos sin riesgo alguno para la seguridad. En el caso de que seamos nosotros quienes deseamos compartir archivos tan solo debemos seleccionar a uno de los dispositivos que nos aparecen como disponibles y luego seleccionar los contenidos que vamos a enviar para lo cual además contamos con la posibilidad de crear una cola de archivos que serán enviados uno detrás de otro de manera automática.

AnySend es una aplicación freeware que ocupa 1,9 MB y es compatible con Android 2.1 Eclair o superior.

Más información y descarga: AnySend (Google Play Store)

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