Fort Vancouver National Park Case Study

Our Work Fort Vancouver National Park

Ft. Vancouver National Park

Fort Vancouver National Park, in an effort to engage park visitors through technology sought to have a mobile app developed that would allow visitors to interact with physical locations throughout the park. The app would act as a virtual Park Ranger guiding visitors through the various way points and landmarks to deliver an interactive educational experience. To fulfill the requirements of the grant proposal, user interactions would need to be archived and accessible for analysis.

Plan & Execution

The right tools for the job.

Being a grant project, we have limited resources and strict guidelines to adhere to–budget constraints, hard-data reporting mechanisms, scheduling, and content production. As a result, the project will require exceptional attention to detail in the planning and discovery phase. An ideal approach is to have the same code base for both Android and iPhone platforms, and for this reason we plan to leverage the Phonegap and Sencha Touch technologies.

A first-of-its-kind app, the app requires multiple design phases including regular user testing intervals and UI functionality reviews.

A strong development plan.

Throughout this project we ventured to Fort Vancouver National Park conducting on-site interviews and beta testing with visitors to guide the subsequent development phases. Utilize Node.js, Phone Gap, SPA, PHP, MySQL and jQuery.