Google: Pixel Screenshots
Searched and Rescued
In a student partnership with Google Creative Lab*, our team worked to bring Pixel Screenshots more recognition. As a new feature exclusive to the Pixel 9 series, Pixel Screenshots itself should be worth the upgrade.
With most smartphone users holding a dense archive of screenshots, important information often gets buried, along with its intention. Soon, the beloved screenshots become unrecognizable from the other 500 files that were meant for the trash bin long ago. Don’t worry… Pixel Screenshots will help you find them.
Gremlin Mode
| In-app game
We wanted to find a way to get people to interact with the app more often than they need to, so they learn it and form a new habit. And while we might be worried that people won’t use the app, we’re really worried about what happens to the screenshots when they are forgotten.
Inspired by Chrome’s Dino Dash, Gremlin Mode is a wave-based game integrated into the Screenshots app. And, just like Dino Dash – “Pixel Screenshots runs on device – no internet connection needed.”
Click through to see gameplay walkthrough + game promotion.
Inevitably, this game would be picked up by the internets: let’s embrace that. PewDiePie is the internet’s favorite Pixel Fanboy on r/pixel_phones and has a huge following.
Let’s leverage his favor of the Pixel and the size of his platform to encourage people to engage with Gremlin Mode.
*I understand that Google has agreed that, subject to my execution of this agreement, it will allow me, after completion of the Lab, to include my finished Work, which may incorporate Google logos or products, in my personal portfolio, solely for purposes of promoting my portfolio, and strictly provided that (i) any inclusion of such Work is clearly and prominently labeled as student work made for representational purposes only and not commissioned by Google; and (ii) if requested by Google, I will immediately remove such Work from my portfolio, including from any websites and social media that include such Work.
Credits
Gabriella Manuli, David Ballowe, Josh LaJoie, Walid Al-Tinawi, Alex Ward