NAJ2 Entry

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Pocket Billiards (16.05.2024)

Pocket Billiards, a (fictional) billiards game for the Nokia 3410.

While colour is a big aspect of billiards, it's not as critical as the numbers, which are present here. If this mockup were an actual game, the size of the balls relative to the screen would necessitate scrolling. This, by no means, is an ideal approach, but for a tiny, 1 bpp (bits per pixel) display such as the Nokia 3410, it works well enough.

I could see some white-collar workers playing it on their Nokia 3410s if this were a real mobile game in 2002.

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Tomboy (16.05.2024)

I was in a mood to draw a tomboy-like character today and I figured this image would not only make a good submission for the jam given how many of the participants seemingly prioritise full-screen images, but that it would also call to mind the skater culture of the early 2000s when the phone was released.

However, I don't think it's the Nokia 3410 that the character is holding and listening to music from because the buzzer on that phone, while nostalgic, is rather harsh on the ears.

(Now that I think about it, this picture looks like it could go well on a printed T-shirt.)

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Modernised System UI (19.05.2024)

Ah, the early 2000s, back when mobile phones all had keypads! The interface of the old Nokia 3410 is remembered fondly for how simple it was for its time compared to the other smartphones around (I think), but as nostalgic as it is, its UI design is undeniably dated. So I decided to make a mockup of what the menu of this classic phone might have looked had it used the same design philosophy we use in the 2020s as of this submission, which you're seeing in this section.

This is the home screen of the modernised design. The battery and Internet connection indicators are now shown on the top side of the screen as small icons and text (so is the service provider name, the fictional "Keicom" in this case), the watch and date is prominent and the "Menu" and "Names" prompts are now a grid icon and a phonebook icon respectively.

Speaking of grid icons, here's how I think a grid-based menu would look in the context of the Nokia 3410. Each feature is now selected using the keypad (either double-pressing the key or pressing the "Menu" key on the left takes you to the desired option), numbers 1-9 representing each feature on a given page. The up and down keys are still in use, but here they'd serve to scroll up or down to a different page.

Oh, yeah, the "Extras" feature is removed here, too, with the gadgets that were within it now being their own menu options, such as the "Composer" option shown here.

Alternatively, if you wish to use the original list menu configuration, you would have gone to the "Profiles" (now "Personalisation", represented by the pencil icon) feature to switch your menu profile between "Grid" and "List". This is the list configuration, now with 4 items onscreen at a time in contrast to the original design's 1:

I'd love to show more of this UI design, but that would run up the common-sense entry limit of a dozen and take me extra time; I'm adding this one postmortem with 10 days to go. Perhaps in a different project.

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Puffin (23.05.2024)

My eighth and final submission for the jam - the puffin.

A piece that I guess conveys the impact mobile networks have on the world, the majesty of nature and, given how puffins can, apparently, sometimes be seen in Finland, the homeland of the Nokia company (who used to run a pulp mill before transitioning to electronics and the radio and networking industries, leading up to the jam's topic, the Nokia 3410).