Charting Time: Building a Specialized Watch Face for Nurses
Most watch faces can be used by anyone, but designing a specialized nurse watch face requires a completely different approach. Typical watch faces show the time, the date, and complications or other stats that are pretty much standard across the board. From there, it usually comes down to personal style, readability, or just having those same familiar features arranged in...
QR 21: Developing What Might Be the Most Geeky Watch Face Ever
QR 21 watch face - The geekiest watch face ever for Wear OS
4 Reasons Why Peek Hour is the Best Accessible Watch Face for Low Vision
Finding a truly accessible watch face that remains readable in every environment is often more difficult than it should be. For many, waking up in the middle of the night to check the time means squinting at standard digital displays that appear as an unreadable, glowing blur. True accessibility in watch design should not just be a feature. It should...
Radical Time: Our First Production Watch Face is Now Live on Google Play!
We are thrilled to announce a massive milestone for Second Hand Labs: Radical Time has officially launched into full public Production Access on the Google Play Store. It marks the very first watch face we have released to the general public under our newly established Second Hand Labs business profile. The Art of Non-Linear Time Most watch faces are perfectly...
“Six Seven” (6-7) watch face. Embrace the madness and become a “legend” to kids everywhere
Six Seven! Whether you have kids in your daily life or not, you have probably noticed that the younger generation is completely obsessed with the numbers “Six Seven.” For the uninitiated, here is how the phenomenon works: Whenever the numbers 6 and 7 appear together, kids will draw out the words (“six seeeeven”) and do a specific back-and-forth hand pivot....
Free Wear OS Watch Face: Get “Peek Hour” ($1.99) for $0 – Beta Test
I’d love for you to try out my new free Wear OS watch face, Peek Hour. It features a bold, high-contrast design that really stands out on your wrist. Why you’ll love Peek Hour: Designed for readability and battery life, Peek Hour features massive, high-contrast digits that make checking the time instant. It is fully compatible with the Samsung Galaxy...