Posts Tagged ‘Competition’

We have 3 year-long licenses to JustProto (worth $588 each) to giveaway – Comment to enter

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This weeks competition comes from our old friends JustProto. They are kindly giving away 3 year long Plus licenses (worth $588 each!) to there feature-rich wireframing and prototyping application. All you will have to do is either leave a comment below or you can tweet about this post, using the hashtag #speckyproto.

Anyway, here is a short message about JustProto:

Message from the JustProto team

Like many products, JustProto was born out of frustration with existing solutions on the market. DeSmart (our company) has been around for eight years and we’ve worked on a ton of projects, large and medium sized. Like most of you, we usually just make do with whatever works best in a situation – after all, nothing’s perfect.

JustProto Homepage

Still, when we looked around the wireframing world, we realized we weren’t the only team that needed a fully collaborative, affordable online solution to our prototyping needs. We also realized that there really wasn’t one that ticked all the boxes for us. So, in 2008 our CEO, Piotr Duszynski, and Wojciech Skowronek, our lead programmer, knuckled down and started building JustProto. Around nine months later at the TriCity BarCamp on January 28, 2009, DeSmart gave birth to a happy, healthy baby app that we named JustProto. We brought JustProto into the world to help ourselves and others like us – and we hope it can help you too!

Lucy In The Sky, With Wireframes

The first thing we knew we needed to do was put it “in the cloud” as the kids say these days. Wireframing is crucial enough to the development process that it deserves a serious online solution, and that’s what we think (and hope!) we’ve provided. We also thought that if we were going to stuff it into a cloud then we should go the extra mile and make sure that it was fully, wholly collaborative.

That’s why JustProto includes so many features intended to streamline workflow across the room or across the globe. With JustProto, you can wireframe interactively in real-time with other designers and developers, who have full access to edit whatever they want, and you can chat with one another in the application, leaving a record of what you talked about for future reference. You can then share out totally functional previews to clients to review, allowing them to experience the wireframe as you intend it. No more asking people to install custom software or emailing around exported files.

With JustProto, the entire world is only a link away from your prototype at any time.Take a look what you can create using JustProto – here’s an amazing Gmail prototype: Gmail Prototype.

JustProto Gmail prototype

We Say Thank You, SpeckyBoy Community!

Few months back together with SpeckyBoy we set up a competition and got an amazing amount of feedback. Your thoughts and comments and suggestions became new features that are rolled out on a continuing basis. JustProto’s a great product right now, but the world keeps moving, so it’s not done – and it never will be. It will continue to evolve with you.

That’s a promise from us to you.

So, as a thanks for helping us making our wireframing tool better with your suggestions, we decided to run another competition. We have 3 year long Plus licenses worth of $588 each up for grabs. Below there’s the instruction on how to enter :)

How to Enter & Rules

To enter this competition all you will have to do is either leave a comment below or you can tweet about this post, using the hashtag #speckyproto. The competition will run for the next seven days, ending on the 12th of December 2012. Winners will be chosen at random and will be contacted via email within a couple of days of the competition ending.

Best of luck to everyone :)


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Giveaway: Comment to Win 2 x $100 Sticker Mule Credit *Winners Announced!

If you’re following Fudgegraphics on Twitter or like it on Facebook then you will know that I’ve recently got my first sticker sets from Sticker Mule. If not, then you can have a look at them here. I’m super thrilled with the outcome which makes this post even more special. Today, 2 lucky readers get  a chance to win $100 worth of free stickers. Sticker Mule make custom stickers which are fade, scratch and water resistant.  The turnaround time is super fast too. Just upload your artwork, pick your size and shape, and they’ll send you a free online proof. For more info make sure to follow @stickermule

Sample Images:

Sticker Mule Stickers

Sticker Mule Stickers

The prize: $100 in store credit from Sticker Mule.

Giveaway rules

  • 2 winners will be chosen at random
  • Leave a comment on this post to enter
  • Only comment once
  • Use a valid email so that we can contact you
  • Spam comments are not eligible and will be removed
  • This giveaway ends Thursday, 1st December 2011 at 23:59 (UK time)
  • Winners will be announced on the blog and contacted via email

Best of luck!

Winners Announced!

It is with great pleasure that I can announce the 2 winners of $100 worth of Sticker Mule credit. Congratulations to:

1) Heber
2) Luke Baker

Find a screenshot below of the random SQL query result used to determine the lucky winners.

Sticker Mule Winners Screenshot


We have Three Usability Testing Packages ($741 Value) from UserTesting.com to Giveaway – Comment to Enter

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What would you test with inexpensive usability testing? UserTesting.com wants to hear the creative ways you’d use their service. You can leave a comment below with your idea, or for extra credit, you can tweet your ideas with @usertesting. We will review all entries (comments and tweets), and award prizes to our 3 favorites.

Here are the Three Usability Testing Packages UserTesting.com are offering to the winners:

2nd runner up – 1 Free UserTests (a $39 value)
1st runner up – 3 Free UserTests (a $117 value)
Grand Prize – 15 Free Tests (a $585 value)!!!

Usertesting.com

All about Usertesting.com

Ever wonder what your website users really think? Are your designs easy to use and intuitive? Usertesting.com’s remote usability testing answers these questions and more as everyday people visit your sites, perform tasks and record their thoughts.

In as little as one hour you can have impartial feedback on any website (including mobile sites and apps) that can be used over and over again. The tester is given a set of instructions to follow and questions to answer and you can even ask follow up questions after the test is over.

Usertesting.com

Some Ways To Use Usability Tests

Test a competitor’s site

Ever wonder what your users think of the competition? Conduct Usertesting.com tests on any website, including another company’s. Then take that information and improve your own site.

Show a client how their website really works—and pinpoint where it doesn’t

Have you worked on a site that needed major changes, but you had trouble convincing the stakeholders to buy in? Run a usability test to show what impartial people think of their interface. Nothing motivates a team like watching a website visitor gets lost or frustrated.

Compare before and after

Clients often question whether a redesign is an improvement. Measure the impact with usability test videos of real people using their site before and after.

The Details

This competition will run for the next seven days ending on the 30th of October 2011. All you have to do to either leave a comment below or tweet (using @usertesting) your creative idea.

Best of luck to everyone:)


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Competition: We Have $150 Worth of Credits to SohoOS to Giveaway

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This weeks giveaway comes from the very useful SohoOS, a free all-inclusive business management tool that will help you take your business operations to the next level. They have kindly donated $150 worth of credits (3 winners will each receive $50 worth of credits).

All you have to do to do is tweet (with the hashtag #speckysohoos) your favorite SohoOS features.

Here is an example of what you could spend your $50 prize on:

1. Send SMS worldwide ($50 = 833 messages)
2. Hold local and international voice calls. (e.g. 50$ = 1300 minutes of voice call inside the US (rates very according to destination))
3. Send faxes worldwide. ($50 = 333 faxes)
4. Buy business documents templates. ($50 = 50 documents)

SohoOS

About SohoOS

SohoOS puts everything that you need to succeed directly at your fingertips so your business can grow and thrive almost effortlessly. From a unified contact system through inventory management to billing and accounts payable, SohoOS can handle it all both on the web and on your mobile.

SohoOS

SohoOS Features

  • Unified Contacts – Manage all of your contacts, clients, vendors and leads from one central location.
  • Invoices and Billing – Request a payment directly by sending out the invoice attached with a link for direct payment.
  • Communication – Local & international calls, FAX capabilities, SMS, mass email campaigns, as well as video & audio conference calls.
  • Business Inventory Management – The business inventory management tool puts stock control at your fingertips
  • Freelance Arena – Get full view and direct access to the most updated project board information out there.
  • Social Business Community – Manage all of your contacts, clients, vendors and leads from one central location.
  • Document Management – Manage all your documents from one concise filing system.
  • Document Templates – Database of over 700 legal forms, documents, and business templates.
  • Project Management – Create new projects with start and end dates, allocate a budget, assign milestone and responsibilities, and grant access.
  • Customized Reports – Get the inside scoop on how your business operates.
  • Marketing – Maximize the potential of your business by tracking the full life cycle of your marketing activities.
  • Mobile – You can easily access your business from wherever you are.

Want to try SohoOS? You can try it free here: Try it Now.

The Details

This competition will run for the next seven days ending on the 23rd of October 2011. Winners will be chosen at random and all you have to do to enter is tweet (with the hashtag #speckysohoos) your favorite SohoOS features.

Best of luck to everyone:)


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Solo Competition Winners Announcement

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On the 23rd of Spetember we published the giveaway of three yearly licenses to Solo (worth $120 each), a project management tool for the modern freelancer.
The competition has now ended and it is now time to announce the winners. Thanks to everybody for all the comments.

We could only pick three random winners, so, if you are not a winner this time please try again with one of our future giveaways, your luck may just be in :)

The Winners

Winner Name: Sis Kuneva
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Winner Name: Erick Pérez Castellanos
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Winner Name: Kim M. Vivancos
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All about Solo from Thrive

At Thrive they have all been freelancers, consultants and employed designers themselves. They know how easy it is to get wrapped up in a project and push the financial stuff to one side. This is where Solo comes in. It’s an all-in-one tool which will help you easily manage your projects, track time and invoice your clients.


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