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Winners Announced: socialmedian iphone application design contest - socialmedian

Submitted by Jasongoldberg

Aug 15, 2008

Summary

We are ready to announce the winners of the socialmedian iphone application design contest.

Designers were given 1 week to dream up and represent the ideal socialmedian user experience on the iphone. We received 9 entries in the contest. Each of the entries were really well done. The typical entry contained more than 10 pages designed. We are very thankful to all of the designers from around the world who put a lot of effort into the contest.

We have two prizes:
1. A public vote. Winner of the public vote will get $500 and a free iphone.
2. socialmedian team judging. Winner of the socialmedian team judging wil get $1000 and a free iphone. Note: If the socialmedian team independently chooses the same as the public vote, then there will just be a single winner of $1000 + a free iphone.
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Jasongoldberg,

Aug 15, 2008

As noted, the grand prize winner will receive $1000 + a new iphone 3G. The grand prize winner was determined by a vote of the socialmedian employees. Each employee got one vote.

The winner of the grand prize -- and it was by a wide margin -- is entry #3.

Jasongoldberg,

Aug 15, 2008

The Public Vote:

* The public vote took place here on socialmedian. socialmedian users were asked to vote by leaving a public comment with their preferred choice.
* In all, 159 comments were left and more than 100 votes were tabulated.
* We noted in the rules on this page that we would only count "legit" votes by real socialmedian users. This has turned out to be more of an art than a science.
* The results: It is clear from the public vote that there are two designs that socialmedian users/voters prefer most: Design #2 and Design #7. The challenge came in determining which votes were from legit socialmedian users (who had been participating in socialmedian beyond just leaving this one comment) and which were just from people who only registered for the purpose of voting in this contest. As it goes, if we tabulated the results one way, #2 would win, another way and #7 would win, another way #2, another way #7 -- we looked at it several ways.

So, here is what we have decided to do, and this decision is final. The value of the prize for winning the public vote was $800. We have decided to award both designs #2 and #7 as the co-winners of the contest and each will get a $400 prize.

Jonprice,

Aug 15, 2008

So if you incorporate any elements of these designs in your iPhone app how will you be compensating these designers? I don't recall you publishing any T's & C's for this contest, which seems like a major oversight.