Dexigner: Who, What, Where in the World of Design
Dexigner is an elegant app that delivers the latest news and information about events, exhibitions, conferences and competitions from the world of design -- products, graphic design, fashion, architecture, digitial design and the arts.
Dexigner isn't the product of a brainstorming session to come up with some great ideas for an iPhone app, but rather it's the logical outgrowth of a network of websites serving the design world since 2001.
Through a combination of directories and maps, the app lets you find places and people around the world: designers, studios, galleries, museums.
Using the iPhone's GPS features, Dexigner can, with your permission, tell you about news and events in your particular geographic location.
The screens of the app, with their white text on a black background, are finely designed, as you would hope from app concerned with design.
For most information you retrieve, phone numbers are included for one-touch calling but, disappointingly, no web addresses are provided. This is a surprise as web addresses are included on the Dexigner website.
The lack of web addresses compounds another shortcoming in the app: the paucity of visual samples -- of a designers work, of a exhibition's exhibits and so on.
Even without this, however, Dexigner is still an immensely useful and well-crafted app. But it could be better. Hopefully it'll be addressed in a future, or paid, version. [PAB]
Dexigner
Released: Jul 04, 2009
Version: 1.0
Price: Free
Seller: Levent Ozler
App Store Link
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