Here’s your chance to be part of the Nokia Nseries innovation process by designing a homescreen widget for the forthcoming Nokia N97, which is available during the first half of 2009.

How To Participate?

Download the design package here, design your widget and upload it for others to rate. Keep visiting the site to log your opinions on others’ offerings because the ten highest-rated designs will go in front of a panel of judges selected from the Nokia Nseries team. The panel will choose the best home screen widget based on creativity, usability and quality of design.

What is a Widget?

A widget is a time-saving element of the device’s user interface, a visual building block that provides an easily accessible single interaction point with an application, which holds and processes data. There are thousands of types of widget.

Prize

The winning designer will receive a Nokia N97 pre-loaded with a working version of the winning widget.

Deadline

The closing date for the competition is February 27, 2009. The winner will be announced on this site on March 13, 2009.