For designers looking to reference their natural environment for color inspiration, the Colordot app engineered by Devin Hunt makes use of a smartphone camera to pull surrounding color and turn the shades into palettes that can be used for a multitude of design purposes. The app aids consumers that want to replicate a specific colors in their natural setting through the use of simple and seamless technology.
Colordot is an intuitively designed platform that has an easy to understand interface that lets users construct color palettes based off of the objects, landscapes and items they see in their surroundings. Using a smartphone camera, the app captures a photo of an object the user would like to replicate the color of and then creates a palette with an accompanying color code that can be used for typography, graphic design or illustrative work.
Surrounding Color-Capturing Apps
The Colordot Pulls Palette Shades From the User's Environment
Trend Themes
1. Color-capturing Apps - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop an app that not only captures surrounding colors but also suggests complementary color palettes for cohesive design work.
2. Natural Environment Inspiration - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create a platform that utilizes augmented reality to overlay color palettes directly onto real-world objects, allowing designers to see how different colors would look in their environment.
3. Simple and Seamless Technology - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Design an app that combines image recognition and machine learning to automatically create color palettes from any image, making color inspiration effortless and fast.
Industry Implications
1. Design - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Develop new software that integrates with design software, allowing designers to directly import color palettes from color-capturing apps into their design projects.
2. Smartphone Technology - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Build smartphone cameras with enhanced color accuracy and the ability to capture precise color data, opening up new possibilities for color-capturing apps and related industries.
3. Augmented Reality - Disruptive innovation opportunity: Create an augmented reality platform that not only allows designers to capture surrounding color but also provides real-time color analysis and suggestions for design projects.