The app offers the chance to input your flight details and it will advise you on how much liquid intake you need to have a pleasant flight. But it goes beyond that. The app provides health tips and travel information like exchange rates and world clock. It also keeps your itinerary for you, so provides a useful service that has no direct relation to the product. (via 1Above: Fighting In-Flight Dehydration and Building a Brand)
Kia Kaha Media publishes a number of monthly magazines and wanted to bring them into the digital realm. We built them an iPad app that allows users to look through their collection, preview and buy any issue.
We also built an end to end solution giving Kia Kaha Media the tools to export from inDesign, upload to our server, price in iTunes for in-app purchases and send push notifications to readers of each magazine.
Download the app from iTunes now.
We built BikeRide, a community based cycling iPhone app & website for RaboDirect. The idea is to bring together cyclists into a community where they can easily share their favourtie rides.
Users download the app, sign up and can start recording their own rides to share with the community straight away, or find rides that start nearby.
As users ride courses they get achievements, including the coveted yellow jersey for holding the fastest time on the course. There are also global achievements for holding the most of a certain achievements, such as king of the hill for riding the most extreme rides. (via BikeRide Crowd Sourced Cycling App | Judson Steel)
When things seem to be getting too complicated, cut through the fog by bringing things back to the most basic functionality and obvious facts.
We built the latest product in the FutureTech stable – Innov8nz a visual directory framework. Our solution consists of both a cloud based server and an iPad client.
It was important that the directory functioned using touch, pinch and swipe gestures that are natural to the iPad. The interface we created has a very spatial feel and users can pinch and swipe throughout this space to find relevant information. (via innov8nz Digital Directory | Judson Steel)
Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.
- David Karp