Summary
Giraffe with Calf is a cross-platform mobile app that was commissioned by a well-known zoo to help fans track the pregnancy of one of their giraffes. I worked with E7 Systems to design and build the customer-facing mobile application. It is part of a custom CMS built to allow content managers to customize their app and post new content on the fly, without requiring any App Store or in-app updates.
Tech Stack
The app is built with Ionic 2 and relies heavily on a modular set of custom components built for reuse and extensibility. It features HTTP response caching, YouTube integration, and custom media galleries.
Accomplishments
- Designed app UI and UX.
- Built app to integrate directly with a custom CMS.
- Worked with development team to implement custom SDK.
- Developed YouTube integration to display a live stream in the native YouTube app, with an in-app fallback.
- Built photo gallery and integrated image zoom and pan.
- Developed form for users to ask the zookeeper questions.
- Designed and coded custom parallax effect for the home page hero image.
- Implemented client-side push notification registration logic.
Image Gallery
Home page and hero image (left), home page, scrolled (right)
Side menu navigation
Questions and answers
Content page with embedded YouTube video, scrolled