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The Mendel Art Gallery of Saskatoon and the MacKenzie Art Gallery of Regina jointly present the David Thauberger: Road Trips & Other Diversions retrospective, a touring Canadian exhibition.
The app is a companion for patrons of the galleries, providing additional content on select artwork and is powered by iBeacons — one of the first Canadian projects to do so. All graphic design and creative direction was done by Island of Saskatoon, but I take credit for a large part of the interaction design.
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As an avid fantasy football player, I'm constantly berating my lineup, and I'm not alone in these tendencies. I've wanted to get in to the fantasy football mobile space for a while — there are a ton of mostly-garbage offerings that I was sure I could improve on.
A full-fledged fantasy football app is quite a large project, so I figured I would start small. With this in mind I approached fellow fantasy football enthusiast Shawn Gryschuk to partner up and create an app to help crowd-source matchups.
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The Saskatchewan Blue Cross were looking for a way to bring their print-only existing strategy of encouraging kids to be active to a digital market, and this is the final product of my strategy on making that happen.
As the lead designer on the project at zu, I crafted the user experience, lead the creative design and helped develop the version currently available that is heavily marketed in local markets.
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I grew tired of constantly trying not to misplace the pencil and paper while trying to keep track of my son's score during mini golf, so I turned to using an app. Since all of the scorecard apps that were readily available were garbage, I made my own.
Strokes utilizes crowd-sourced golf courses to track the pars and locations of courses around North America, and allows you to track the scores of up to four players simultaneously. Fluid and intuitive gestures keep it easy for everyone to jump right in.
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Scorekeeper is an app for keeping track of scoring and gameplay while playing Ultimate (the sport). It was the experimental first step in creating an automated way of generating teams based on the skill levels of participants based on in-game statistics, and seeks to become the National (and International) solution to scorekeeping.
The app was designed by fellow Saskatoon company Island and was one of their first excursions onto the iOS platform.
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During the spring of 2013 Apple held a competition for students to create an app about yourself which they would use to award attendance for WWDC to students all over the world. The app serves to inform people of my qualifications, experience, personal life and skills, and helped land me in San Francisco for the unveiling of iOS 7.
You can check it out on Github, but keep in mind it was programmed in a weekend.
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klok was inspired by an Instructables clock that I saw posted on reddit. Wanting to target a large audience, I developed it for the six largest (using Arabic glyphs) languages on the App Store and fully localized the app in English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish.
The premise is a single sentence description of the current time in a natural language description, illuminated from a static choice of words, and works on both the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, in both portrait and landscape orientations.
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Future leader of the Saskatchewan NDP Ryan Meili decided it was time to bring politics to the mobile market. While a few other parties have applications, they're all pretty clunky and obviously non-native (via an HTML framework such as Phone Gap or Titanium).
Ryan wanted a way to stay in touch with people, so the app features push-notifications, a live news feed, ways to get involved with the party, integration with Flickr, as well a handful of other ways for you to stay up to date with Ryan's campaign.
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myViterra allows you to view real-time commodity prices at all of Vitera's elevators across Canada and the United States. You can track just the commodities that matter to you at only the locations that you want to see, minimizing your time spent tracking down information. The app utilizes local caching in case you don't have a connection in the field, and allows for the conversion between the most common units in North America. The app also has commodity price options based on if you're dropping it off or wanting it picked up.
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Everyone that's been to A Taste of Saskatchewan knows that the hardest part is trying to narrow down the 65+ menu options to figure out what you want to eat. I approached the people in charge of the event and a few weeks later one of Saskatoon's hottest apps was on the market.
The app features a live menu to stay current with menu options from all participating restaurants, a live Instagram feed of #saskatoon, map and user-location integration, as well as the almost week-long event schedule.
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Post My Ghost is the companion app to the television show The Other Side, which will air in the fall of 2013. Created by Angel Entertainment, Post My Ghost allows users to interact with the show's hosts, share their own supernatural stories, and read stories that others have submitted.
The show specifically deals with paranormal activity in Saskatchewan, so users can rate other posts, view them on an interactive map, and read blog posts directly from the shows stars.
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myMacKenzie is a companion-app meant to enrich your experience while roaming the galleries at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan. It allows for visitors to learn additional information about an exhibit, including letters from the artist, background information, additional photos and things that other patrons may have said about it.
You can also stay up to date on news surrounding the gallery, as well as get information on upcoming events and exhibits to better plan your next trip.
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The Heist™ by tap tap tap was king of the Top Paid charts almost overnight, and I saw an opportunity to help others solve the game's devious puzzles. I spent breaks between fencing my backyard piecing The Guide for The Heist™ together, and promptly released it with about a dozen other apps as competition.
It's still quite popular to this day - probably due to it being not only the most detailed, but also the most beautiful of the available options. If you need a guide for The Heist, check it out.
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The Beermometer spawned from a school-project that I saw through to completion. It utilizes the properties of temperature decay to let you know when your beer is cool enough to drink. It uses the current temperature of the beer, the type of beverage, and the temperature of the beer's environment to calculate how long it will take to be ready, and then sends the user an alert by either text message, email, push-notification or tweet. It also features live weather information in case you want to put your beer in the snow! (It also randomly tweets when a user uses it — check it out @beermometer.)
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Trade in Values Canada (TIVS) started as a side-project of mine in the summer of 2008, and has since become the go-to place to find accurate video game trade in values.
The website started as a way to replace a wiki of amalgamated entries from users, and has blossomed into a site which has peaked in the Alexa internet rankings inside the top 10 000 most visited websites in Canada. The app and website feature a complete API back to front-end delivery system, and has powered over 20 000 000 trade in value lookups on the iOS app alone.
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