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		<title>Snac Inc</title>
		<subTitle>Website design and interactive development, 2008</subTitle>
		<story>
			<p>Snac Inc is in the mobile phone apps business.  To put it simply, they basically make non-iPhones more iPhone-like.  And the mechanism by which they smarten up these ordinary phones is their website.</p>  
			
			<p>The main challenge posed by this site was how to make the process of adding snacs (apps) to phones as intuitive and quick as possible.  It was important that the entire process happen on one screen and that the user not have to traverse deep navigational hierarchies.</p>
			
			<p>The solution comes in the form of the user's My Snacs page: a <link href="javascript:open_win('../images/snacinc/snac.03.jpg?',882,1012,150);" opens_in_new_window="1">three-tiered system</link> consisting of 1) Category, 2) Snac Listings, and 3) Phone Desktop.  Through this system the user can easily parse through the long list of snacs and add them to his/her phone without leaving the page.  To get more info about a particular snac, the user calls up a translucent <link href="javascript:open_win('../images/snacinc/snac.04.jpg?',882,1012,150);" opens_in_new_window="1" >detailed information window</link> which, because of the translucency, the user is able to discern that he/she is still anchored to the page.</p>
			
			<p>Another goal of the site is to present a cleaner, more intuitive approach to mobile phone apps than their competitors: <link href="http://www.zumobi.com" opens_in_new_window="1" target="_blank">Zumobi</link>, <link href="http://www.widsets.com" opens_in_new_window="1" target="_blank">Widsets</link>, and <link href="http://www.plusmo.com" opens_in_new_window="1" target="_blank">Plusmo</link>. </p>
		</story> 
		<category>Design</category>
		
		<copyrightYear>2008</copyrightYear>
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		<moneyShotCaption>Smarts for your not-so-smart phone</moneyShotCaption>
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		<multimediaLinks>
				<link opens_in_new_window="1" href="http://www.mysnacs.com" target="_blank">
					Launch site (login required)
				</link>
				<link opens_in_new_window="1" href="javascript:open_win('../../viewport.img.php?images_id=162',1600,1100,150)">
					Launch slideshow of the site
				</link>
				
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