Local Buddy is the winner of Creative Idea for Mobile City Guide -category

Local Buddy by Timo Pietilä et al. is the winner of Mobile City guide category in the new media and media-art challenge Live2011.com Grand Prix.

Local Buddy is an innovative city guide concept for the new generation of smartphones. It makes use of advanced features such as GPS tracking, touch screen and digital compass to locate and guide users to interesting places in different cities around the world.

Local Buddy stood out of its competitors with its innovative and intuitive UI design. Local buddy makes use of a radar and compass hybrid UI, while simultaneously offering a possibility to use a map. Overall the concept was solid and aspects such as user created content and revenue logics were taken well into account.

Concept design: Timo Pietilä
Programming & Software Design: Olli Raivola & Timo Härkönen
Producer: Bertta Häkkinen
UI and usability consulting and design: Joel Hakulinen
Graphic Design: Hanne Zenjuga