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Nasa wants you to design its smartwatch app

Nasa has issued an interesting challenge to the world and it has nothing to do with engineering, rocket science or mathematics. Instead, it needs a UI designed for its smartwatch app.

In the brief submitted on freelancing website Freelancer, the guidelines ask for no coding from submissions but rather wireframe images and examples of how you envisage navigation through the app should work.

Nasa outlines some of the features they want for the UI; these include having colour-coded warnings and caution alerts, a timeline for astronauts to view the agenda for the day and the ability to view past and future timelines.

At present Nasa is using iPads and laptops to fulfil these tasks but those can probably be a bit cumbersome when you’re performing maintenance on the ISS solar array in the icy cold of space. To get around this Nasa has decided to go hands free and has asked designers to use the Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch as a basis for their design.

In return for your efforts Nasa is offering up $1 500 (R19 180) and the prestige of knowing your design is being used in space everyday. If you think you have what it takes to create something beautiful and functional then head over to the Freelancer page, you only have 4 weeks left to submit your artwork.

[Image CC –  Tyler]

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