Credit: Noy Nesher

Seeking Inspiration

Dribbble is a place to show and tell, promote, discover, and explore design. It’s the goto website for many people seeking inspiration — as illustrated above by Noy Nesher. Illustrations, animations, application interfaces, web designs, logo designs — You name it!

For a long time, I’ve been on the hunt for a new project. I develop mobile apps in my free time, so naturally, I am constantly on the lookout for some fresh interface illustrations or concepts to jog my foggy mind.

As a matter of fact, Noy’s artwork is the one that re-inspired me to write this article, which had been waiting to be written for quite some time now.

And so, the inspiration for Wakey was indeed conceived during endless hours of scrolling through Dribbble’s amazing collection of illustrations and designs. Endless hours of scrolling — repeatedly coming across a certain animation posted by Daniel Koveshazi, which seemed to always capture my attention for a few seconds, as I was getting ready to continue my everlasting scroll.

It was cute. It was cheeky. It was perfect!

That dribbble shot was in fact a fictive landing page concept, Daniel had illustrated and animated, then uploaded to Dribbble. For some reason though, every time I’d seen it — I would think on how great this could be as a “snooze” animation. For months on end, that snooze reference kept on popping into my head every time I was on dribbble-land for one of my hunts.

Daniel’s Dribble Shot: “Coming Soon”

I don’t know why it took me as long as it did to contact Daniel. After all, this is what Dribbble is all about — “connecting with designs and creative talent around the globe” — It even says so on Dribbble’s about page. But this time, I did. I reached out to Daniel via Dribbble’s messaging feature, and waited for his response.

I wasn’t very patient though…

By the time I had contacted Daniel for the first time, my mind was already exploding with ideas & possibilities…