Thanks so much for the designs, everyone! You guys are brilliant!! I'll definitely be coming back here for the UI design of my next iPhone app.

I have loved #4 since the first time I saw it. kotan, can you give me a 512x512 version of that? I'd like to make that the winner. Thanks.

P.S. I really appreciate all of you contributing. If any of you have an iPhone and are interested in the app, private message me your email address and I will send you a key to get a free copy of my app when it goes live on the app store. Thanks!!!

Wow, great job kotan & brittany. Really, really impressive.

Brittany - Your road in #12 is great, it's exactly the road I was picturing when I asked for that. And I like your people more there too. 5 stars! Your #18 and #19 people lost their flair, lost their life a little.. It doesn't have to be with arms but I'd like to be sure the people look alive..

Kotan - Thanks for the green distant end person. And your new design with the two people passing something back-and-forth is very cool. I just think its going to be so tiny on the iphone that we can't get down to that level of detail with the ball having something inside it. Good idea though and thanks for trying something passed back and forth. I should say that it's really only a one-way operation.. person 1 sends the notice to person 2 who follows the route to person 1. It's not really back-and-forth.

I thought I might like the concentric circles emanating out from the people but I don't, sorry for the bad idea. That's not going to work. And no need to have more than one person on either end.

My favorites so far are #4 and #12. Nice job both of you!

These are really amazing designs, thanks so much folks!

If anyone is looking for a different theme to play with, here are some other elements of my app that you could experiment with:

- one user sends the invitation to the other "through the airwaves"
-- maybe concentric circles from one to the other?
-- maybe the a sync logo or a "connected to wireless network" logo?

- one user sends a picture of his location to the other user
-- not sure if you can show a scene and then an even smaller representation of the scene beamed across from one person to the other? that might be asking a lot in 57x57..

- the users will probably drive from one place to another in a car

Again, I am super happy with the themes that are coming out here first from kotan and then adapted by brittany. I think so far kotan's is the most beautiful and elegant. But if anyone else is out there wanting to participate and stumped for an idea, maybe some of the above will spark your imagination.

kotan - I think it looks really good, even that small. Thanks for the resize + iphone view. When the tiny red character got shrunk down and lost a little detail, he kind of looks like a little tiny demon (which I dont care for as much). Maybe the red character would look a little better without the face highlighting.

brittany - The line (and the line + arrow) you added is nice. I like the thickness. It might even be thick enough to be a road. Would you mind adding a dashed yellow line down the middle of it, simulating a road? That would be interesting to see... Also, your people look kind of fat - I prefer a slimmer character. :)

wow you guys are crazy talented!

kotan - I love #4, that's awesome! You don't have to give me a preview (if you are concerned I will screengrab it and run) but do you think you can pull that off in iphone icon size? I am eyeballing it as a little too big in current size. If you have an iphone even and could give me even a low-rez look at it on the iphone screen, that would make me feel better about it because I love the idea and the swoopty and the shiny and the happy. It's beautiful, I just want to be sure it would be just as amazing in the tiny tiny iphone screen icon (probably only 56x56 is viewable all the way around).

kotan - I think your #1 is clever too, it really does a nice job of showing distance between people and showing a route / road between them. I think there is maybe just a little too much going on though. I think I prefer simplicity of your #4, when comparing the two.

brittany - You did a nice job with the theme of (I view it as) a horizontal target and two things together in it. If its possible to pull off happy people (see comments above) in such a tiny space, I think I prefer that. If it is not possible to use people, I prefer pins to arrows. I'm going to attach another file to this contest that is a PNG of the exact pin I am using in the app. I prefer people but if you or anyone else has a clever design idea to use a pin, you can use the exact one I am using.

Thanks so much for the designs so far. Looking forward to seeing other clever ideas!

added 4 screenshots from the app to help you understand guts of it and shows the in-app look and feel

Good question!

Yes, the app allows an iphone user to send their current location + satellite image of their current location + user-snapped camera view of the current location to a friend via either text message or email. When the friend receives it, they can easily get Google directions to that location.

I wrote this app when I had to keep giving directions to my buddies who had iphones. My brother recently tried to come to my house but went to 38th Ave NE instead of 38th Ave SE. And I could never describe where in Seahawks Stadium I was sitting to my friends to meet. (before app:"south entrance, 3rd concourse, by the exit" after app:click, click, send)

With this app, there is no way someone can be confused about where to meet because app provides GPS loc, satallite image view of location with user having dragged a pin to the exact location, and user provided picture snapped of the location.

I will attach screenshots of the app to give you a better idea.