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Beta Testers are Gooooo!

We would like to begin by apologising for the lack of progress updates for Onotate. It’s been a busy few months of tinkering, hard thinking & coffee abuse but we are finally rolling out our private beta release. Anyone who signed up to be notified of updates will soon find an invite waiting for them in their inbox!

To date we haven’t released much information about what exactly Onotate does so now would be a good time to divulge a little bit about how it works and why we created it.

The creative process for a design project is never simple, most projects go through numerous stages and iterations before completion. Feedback or approval is often sought at various times throughout the process from many different sources. After a while it begins to become tedious and challenging to effectively manage the creation and iteration of several stages of design concepts. Most designers will also have more than one project on going at any given time, making it essential for them to stay on top of their workload, but still distribute and collaborate as necessary.

This is when the real challenge begins: Emailing off a concept to one person, presenting a print out to another. Idea’s get thrown around, changes are suggested, the design you worked so hard on could be rejected in mere seconds and then it’s back to the drawing board. Keeping on top of all these things can be a challenge at the best of times. Interpreting someone’s vague critique even more so. How do you deal with these misinterpretations, and expectancies not being met?

As a web design company ourselves we struggled with this and kept thinking, surely there must be a better way? We looked around the web and despite the plethora of annotation apps, none did it the way WE wanted, so we took it upon ourselves to create a solution for our own problem.

From this Onotate was born… an app created by designers for designers.

Built to help us manage the stages of the creative process, present our work and most importantly add in-line annotations & moods to help express opinions and emotions in relation to specific design elements. Furthermore we have developed a system which allows the upload and presentation of multiple pages to be quick and painless.

Onotate does all this and more, we really love the application we created, it’s solved our problem and hopefully it will solve yours too. If you are one of the lucky few to have already received a beta invite then we would appreciate any feedback or bug reports to help us get everything just right.

If you are still refreshing your inbox in anticipation then we have included a sneaky peek to wet your appetite!