Nail a Copper Plate to That Wood

As I am almost ready to publish my latest Android creation -- a cooking app called 'Pinch of Salt' (actually it is in Bulgarian and is an Android native frontend of a website called ShtipkaSol.com which means pinch of salt) I felt it has to have an About screen. The screen itself was not difficult to figure out (I men how should it look, what should it say...), but I had interesting time deciding on how this screen should be invoked.

My first thought was of course to have a menu -- this is how I did it in all of my previous apps. The problem with the menu was that it would contain only a single 'About' item with nothing else on it. So introducing an entire new interface component only to host an About icon seemed a bit too heavy for me. Plus, the menu wouldn't really be quite in harmony with the rest of the interface.

So I pondered a bit, looking for alternatives. And I have came up with this:

Now, it will likely go through several more refinements, but this beautiful copper plate nailed in the wood makes much more sense than a menu. The plate is 'engraved' with the app name (pinch of salt in Bulgarian) and has just the right amount of imperfections.

I love it.