Safecast
Safecast is a global project working to empower people with data that is accessible and easy to understand.
- Our Role
- Co-founding members, Design, Development, Build
Shortly after the the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster on 3/11/2011, our team recognized a lack of consistent data regarding radiation levels. In response, Uncorked Studios launched RDTN.org – a site designed to collect and display aggregate radiation levels. The first version of the site launched within 72 hours. The site evolved into Safecast— a global organization that combines the efforts of a group of volunteers, as well as numerous technology and disaster experts.
Before RDTN rebranded to Safecast, the group raised $36,900 on Kickstarter for the creation of a large network of standard Geiger counters to collect valuable data for the website aggregation.
With a our first face-to-face meeting in Tokyo, the Safecast team recognized the importance of having a brand presence. As a part of that brand, Uncorked developed a logo for the organization. This work, alongside the new name Safecast, brought shape to a group built upon providing accurate data to people who had one basic question - Are we safe?
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Barbird
Within one week Uncorked built an interface for BarBird to look at and feel like their product had been realized. After four more weeks of rapid development BarBird went live.
- Client
- BarBird
- Our Role
- UX, iOS Development
- Year
- 2010
Are you sick of those Happy Hour spreadsheets your friends in finance all love to send around? So were the founders of BarBird. BarBird was a web-based service with a robust API-driven backend to help thirsty locals find their way to just-tweeted deals and specials. They turned to Uncorked Studios to create an iPhone app to distribute the gold from the data mine technology they’d built up. BarBird pulls Twitter streams from thousands of bars and restaurant venues to provide nightlife seekers advice, deals, and insider perspective on what’s happening nearby right now. The app created by Uncorked lists and maps current tweets to guide people to bars, pre-filtered into groups.
- Two views (List View & Map View) with filters for Happy Hours, Specials, Live Music, No Cover, Ladies Nights and Tonight Only
- Google Maps-like interface, with clickable pins representing venues near the user that pop-up tweets about what’s happening
- Time-aware pins in Map View fade as Tweets age and time stamps change color in List View
After contributing to their core product, BarBird updated their website to reflect the simplified Uncorked mobile concepts, released an Android version, and updated the iOS app. Uncorked Studios creates products built to grow and BarBird is clearly doing that.
So cheers, BarBird. Here’s to you!