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After months of work and buildup, MDA has finally launched and we’re all psyched to see what kind of app ideas you come up with! From the start, MDA has been conceived as a community project. While the apps that we will develop and release are an important part of the equation, your submissions and discussions leading up to the development are equally critical. I hope all of you are planning to submit some great ideas to the contest, and I wish you the best of luck.
Whenever I look at an app or consider an idea for development, I think about more than just the core function itself. The implementation and user experience are both vital to an app’s success. If the idea combines a great function with a user experience that complements and humanizes the function, all the better. Experiences like the cover view of Delicious Library or the worm hole interface of the recently announced Time Machine allow the user to identify with the software and have fun while accomplishing a real goal. Apps like these, that innovate equally in interface and function, are the ideal contestant for MDA. Again, good luck — and go submit your idea now!
Austin Sarner
AppZapperAustin Sarner has been developing in Cocoa for a while now and making Mac apps for even longer. His most notable contribution to the Mac shareware scene has been AppZapper, although he has also worked on a number of other freeware and shareware projects, including the much anticipated upcoming Disco. When not coding, Austin meticulously juggles his time between his other passions: Ukranian Nationalist folk music and keeping his hair straight.
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