A competition for UI designers (Android) is going to be announced within the next 24 hours. Stay tuned!

🏆 New contest for Android Designers!

Prize fund: at least $30,000 – from which the 1st place winner will receive $10,000 if any submissions qualify for the 1st prize.

Task: Develop a comprehensive concept of voice and video calls for Telegram X on Android that includes one-on-one calls, as well as group calls in voice chats.

Details: https://contest.com/docs/android-design-21

Deadline: 23:59 on August, 1 (Dubai Time)

Who can take part: Anyone.

How to submit: @ContestBot will start accepting archives with submissions closer to the deadline.

Suggested by @satuurn5,

'Feed is a new tab that allows you to watch all the posts from your feeds at once. You can sort the posts in the feed by date, views and comments. The feed supports folders, so you can group your channels by certain characteristics, such as a news channels or a sports channels. The concept also introduces the new #headlines feature, which groups all the posts in the feed for the day and displays them as scrollable cards with a picture and the first lines of the post. All of these features make viewing content from your channels as productive as possible and ensure you don't miss any news.'

Suggested by @iceled,

'In the current implementation, profiles on Android have several problems. For example, creating a Voice Chat is possible only through the pop-up menu. Also, the button to go to the discussion group of the channel and the button to open a chat with the person are similar, and this can be confusing for users.

Too many interface elements are being used, such as icons at the top (and there can be up to 3 of them nearby), a round icon for switching to a chat / discussion group, and a toggle switch for managing notifications.

In my implementation, many actions can be performed by clicking on the identical buttons, which greatly simplifies the user interface. For most actions in the profile, you will need to make just one click.'

Suggested by @menakhovsky, 'Long text is not designed to read from the bottom, so I suggest to make an additional button to scroll to the top of the post.'

🏆Android Design Competition 2021: Results

We are happy that 47 designers from all over the world chose to participate in the
Android Design Competition.

Unfortunately, none of the design concepts met the ideal submission criteria required for🥇1st Place.

Each of the🥈2nd Place entries would require a substantial amount of work and considerable polishing to make the submission suitable for use in future Android Developer contests.

Even though no submission could be awarded🥇1st Place, we decided to increase the prize fund by another $18,000 to properly reward all the efforts that went into this content.

Congratulations to the winners!

2nd PLACE – $2,500
🥈Grim Shark
🥈Clever Cow
🥈Happy Squid
🥈Mighty Unicorn
🥈Tactful Turkey
🥈Keen Pony
🥈Busy Phoenix
🥈Eager Jackal

3rd PLACE – $2,000
🥉Crazy Peacock
🥉Tall Mantis
🥉Kind Parrot
🥉Dreamy Leopard
🥉Mad Spider
🥉Cute Lemur

4th PLACE – $1,000
🎖Huge Puffin
🎖Groovy Ladybird
🎖Swift Shark
🎖Little Otter
🎖Groovy Fox
🎖Fit Wolf
🎖Stone Ant
🎖Holy Eagle
🎖Night Gnat
🎖Groovy Mink
🎖Savvy Swan
🎖Stone Swallow
🎖Hardy Bull
🎖Sunny Swan
🎖Sexy Leopard
🎖Tanned Cat

All the above winners also get the opportunity to prove their skill in the second stage of the design contest, which ends on January 22, 2022.

We invite all 30 winners of the design contest to take part in the second stage of the competition – to design the main screens of a native Telegram app for Windows 11.

Prize fund: 40,000 USD
Deadline: January 22, 2022 @ 23:00 Dubai Time
Who can take part: All 30 winners of the first stage
Announcement of results: January 30, 2022
Goal: Design main screens for the Windows 11 native Telegram app in accordance with the newest guidelines of Windows 11 and using the latest approaches of that platform (e.g. blurred backgrounds). The mockups and functionality shown should also be consistent with the Telegram apps on other platforms.

The screens that are necessary to design:

- Chat list with all types of chats shown (channels, groups, secret chats, bots)
- Chats with all types of messages shown (voice and video messages, videos, photos, polls, documents)
- The UI to send files/media and add captions to them.
- The UI to record voice and video messages.
- Voice/Video chats and 1-to-1 calls
- Main settings and Chat settings

To check out what a native Windows Telegram app looks like, you can try Unigram @unigramappx. It is possible that the best design solutions will be implemented into Unigram. To check the functionality of Telegram desktop apps, please refer to https://desktop.telegram.org

🏆 Design Competition, Round 2: Results

We are pleased to recognize the progress many designers achieved in the Second Round.

This round required designers to take on a different platform, and they delivered – bringing modern and fresh concepts to transform @unigram for Windows 11.

In total, 22 out of 23 participants have earned a prize. Unfortunately, we could not award Groovy Mink's entry due to it having an insufficient number of screens. Thanks to everyone for participating in the contest – and congratulations to the winners!

1st PLACE – $3,500
🥇Sunny Swan
🥇Mighty Unicorn
🥇Happy Squid

2nd PLACE – $2,000
🥈Groovy Ladybird
🥈Cute Lemur
🥈Busy Phoenix
🥈Clever Cow
🥈Groovy Fox
🥈Hardy Bull
🥈Mad Spider

3rd PLACE – $1,500
🥉Swift Shark
🥉Crazy Peacock
🥉Keen Pony
🥉Grim Shark
🥉Dreamy Leopard
🥉Sexy Leopard
🥉Tactful Turkey
🥉Night Gnat

4th PLACE – $1,000
🎖Holy Eagle
🎖Fit Wolf
🎖Stone Swallow
🎖Tanned Cat

Suggested by @gbotston and @Edu918, 'Concept example how you can install an NFT as your verified profile picture directly in Telegram.'

Suggested by @grshn

Suggested by @Meh7an,

'Revamped Profile Photo Privacy

This concept briefly shows how to manage your profile photos better, so you can have some of your photos available for everyone, and some tagged as “Private”.

In Telegram’s current format, all profile photos are counted as private, because if someone is not part of the privacy list that we have chosen, he will see no photos on our profiles.'

Suggested by @iceled (@iceDSGN)

Suggested by @grshn

Suggested by @iceDSGN and @marzaganoff, 'Folders Sharing: this feature helps to quickly and flexibly share multiple chats at once.'

Suggested by @yevhenyurchuk

Suggested by @corbee, 'Dynamic Color App Icon would be an excellent addition for Telegram Premium users on Android.'

Suggested by @corbee

Suggested by @azimin

Suggested by @SOUICC

Suggested by @VikaCry