Consumer Shopping Tool for Android and iOS

ShowUhow, Inc.'s web portal is a consumer shopping aid that streams Video Product Guides (VPGs) and provides access to warranty and support info for a wide range of retail products. ShowUhow needed an Android/iOS developer to bring that experience to smartphones. Art & Logic's expertise helped to make ShowUhow Mobile a solid, polished app experience. The app supports easy product lookup by scanning a bar code via the phone's camera, and automatically displays a rich collection of product-specific videos and other consumer information.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Android  Video  RedLaser  Lifestyle  Retail  Consumer Products

Design Your Own Baby Bedding

Babybedding.com is a web site for configuring custom baby crib bedding. Art & Logic built the component that lets users select from hundreds of fabric patterns to create personalized bedding for new family arrivals. Real-time image updates give immediate feedback about how the final product will look as the user makes choices in the software.

TAGS:  Web  Flex  Retail

Candy Themed Game

CandyWarehouse.com hired Art & Logic to develop Truffle Shuffle, a candy-themed "match 3" game. The game is written in JavaScript, which allows it to run on iOS and on the web.

TAGS:  JavaScript  HTML  jQuery  Retail  Games  Food

Boccia Titanium iPad App for Universal Watch Company

Universal Watch Company hired Art & Logic to develop a virtual jewelry catalog for their line of Boccia watches and jewelry. This free application allows them to reach a new market in a contemporary and effective manner, and even supports direct product purchase from within the app.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  Objective-C  Cocoa  Xcode  iPad  Tablet  Retail  Fashion

Daily Bargains Website Built with Ruby on Rails

Art & Logic was hired to develop Sieze the Deal, a website that delivers regional targeted marketing to users in the form of a "deal of the day". Affiliated vendors offer substantial discounts on products and services in exchange for a guaranteed bulk sale. Users can select their target region and view the deal of the day for that area. They are encouraged to purchase the deal of the day and spread news about it to social networking websites in order to encourage more people to make purchases. more...

Art & Logic was hired to develop Sieze the Deal, a website that delivers regional targeted marketing to users in the form of a "deal of the day". Affiliated vendors offer substantial discounts on products and services in exchange for a guaranteed bulk sale. Users can select their target region and view the deal of the day for that area. They are encouraged to purchase the deal of the day and spread news about it to social networking websites in order to encourage more people to make purchases. A minimum number of purchases is required in order for the deal of the day to be accepted. Art & Logic also developed the administrative back-end, which allows maintaining the bargains by area, user account information, and more. The web application is built with Ruby on Rails, with a MySQL database backend.

TAGS:  MySQL  jQuery  Ruby on Rails  Retail  Marketing  Business  Advertising

Custom Wall-mount Entertainment Center Design Software

Vantage Point Media hired Art & Logic to create an interactive Flash application to allow visitors to their site configure the Evo Wall System product. The Evo Wall System consists of mounting hardware, horizontal and vertical mounting rails, decorative tiles, shelves, white boards, chalk boards, and numerous other options to be released to market. WallCustomizer is a Flash application with a sliding list of Evo System components represented as thumbnail images. more...

Vantage Point Media hired Art & Logic to create an interactive Flash application to allow visitors to their site configure the Evo Wall System product. The Evo Wall System consists of mounting hardware, horizontal and vertical mounting rails, decorative tiles, shelves, white boards, chalk boards, and numerous other options to be released to market. WallCustomizer is a Flash application with a sliding list of Evo System components represented as thumbnail images. User select a tiles which are placed on the wall by the application. Colors, wood grains, textures, etc can be selected by the user. Components may be dragged from a sliding list and placed on the grid. In addition to the Evo System components users can also select items such as flat panel TVs, DVD players, speakers, etc. and place them on the wall grid. When satisfied they can save the design and print out a shopping list of components required to construct the layout. In addition to the Flash front end, A&L also produced a web admin interface for maintaining the components in a MySQL database that were accessible to the Flash application.

TAGS:  Web  MySQL  PHP  Flash  ActionScript  Retail  Manufacturing

Oakley Custom CMS

Oakley hired Art & Logic to develop key portions of their website using PHP/MySQL. Developed components included administrative tools, reports, and a custom content management system. Given the enormous load on the Oakley site, the key challenges were to develop a system that could handle this much traffic while also providing the flexibility for Oakley to update the site frequently. There's quite a bit of complex business logic that's not immediately apparent from looking at the site. more...

Oakley hired Art & Logic to develop key portions of their website using PHP/MySQL. Developed components included administrative tools, reports, and a custom content management system. Given the enormous load on the Oakley site, the key challenges were to develop a system that could handle this much traffic while also providing the flexibility for Oakley to update the site frequently. There's quite a bit of complex business logic that's not immediately apparent from looking at the site. For example, specials on sunglasses in Australia occur at a different time of the year than specials here in the U.S., because of the opposite seasons in the southern hemisphere.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  MySQL  PHP  Retail

Order Sticky Photo Prints from Your iPhone

Your Photo On Canvas hired Art & Logic to build an iPhone-based ecommerce portal to allow users send photos over a wireless connection for printing onto special light tack adhesive-backed paper. Sticky photo prints can be applied to almost any clean, dry surface.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  Cocoa  Web services  Retail  Photography  Printing

3-D Wedding Cake Design Software

Topplestone, LLC hired Art & Logic to create Wedding Cake Design Pro®, a Windows desktop application that allows users to create custom wedding cake designs. Brides-to-be can choose from hundreds of design elements to create realistic three dimensional designs, print the results, and give the design to their local bake shop for a truly unique and personalized wedding cake.

TAGS:  Windows  Python  3D  wxWidgets  Ogre  Lifestyle  Retail

Web portal for mobile devices

MallTV, LLC hired Art & Logic to translate their MallTV WAP application for use on iPhones. Since Safari on the iPhone does not support Flash, the implementation uses Javascript although the resulting interface looks and behaves just like the Flash version. MallTV is a portal for cell phones and television and links users to popular third-party third-party websites. A&L created scripts to parse throught ESPN's mobile content and convert it to the MallTV matrix format, now called MallMobi. The ESPNMall pages are updated every 30 minutes and cached on the MallTV server. more...

MallTV, LLC hired Art & Logic to translate their MallTV WAP application for use on iPhones. Since Safari on the iPhone does not support Flash, the implementation uses Javascript although the resulting interface looks and behaves just like the Flash version. MallTV is a portal for cell phones and television and links users to popular third-party third-party websites. A&L created scripts to parse throught ESPN's mobile content and convert it to the MallTV matrix format, now called MallMobi. The ESPNMall pages are updated every 30 minutes and cached on the MallTV server. The Matrix is dyamically created depending on the number of links found on each ESPN page that are associated with numbered keys on the phone. In order to maintain capatibility with the Blackberry, iPhone, and Treo, text was converted to images for the interface because it was discovered that not all devices support all font sizes. Separate versions were created iPhone, and MobilePC/Blackberry/Treo.

TAGS:  iOS  Mobile  iPhone  Smartphone  Objective-C  JavaScript  HTML  BlackBerry  Safari  WAP  Entertainment  Retail  Broadcasting  Marketing  Advertising  Sales