The competition is getting fierce! With only 12 finalists remaining from the initial 24, some of our contestants are truly taking that to heart, and creating some wonderful things.
Development manager John Casasanta has written a blog post with some tips for contestants, and one thing I’ve personally seen dramatically influence votes are mockups. Simply put, a picture can be worth a thousand words, and a mockup just as many votes. Since round 2, I’ve noticed a very cool new mockup from Richard Whitelock for Whistler (to note, I did add this to voting later on), some visualization from Bogumil for his very visual RSS reader, Herald, and perhaps most impressively, an awesome video mockup from Kevin illustrating the full screen mode in Hijack.
But for those who aren’t the greatest artists, don’t despair… there are other ways. Such as Stick-It’s Anders Melin offering his MacBook for a designer partner.
Then there’s Russell, pimping out Ground Control with a possible t-shirt. With three weeks to go, it’ll be interesting to see what contestants will come up wtih next!
