Talk about the UX of location in iOS apps

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1. Talk about the UX of location in iOS apps NY

   Location-Based Apps Meetup with @KennedysGarage

2. Kennedy Professional Hacker UX Strategist Mobile UI Designer Co-Founder of

   @GradeSpotter Co-Founder of @StatusChart
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4. Grade Spotter a restaurant inspection guide for your iPhone.

5. Quick Stats - Launched on April 9th, 2012 - Total

   of 5k+ unique visitors to the site - Over 2k downloads - Total Cost: ~$250 - Total Gross Income: ~$50

6. Technology - Rails - Google Maps - EC2 - Solr

   - geolocation search - Search by Restaurant Name

7. Search - Auto searches bounding box of the map -

   You have the ability to search by restaurant name - If no results of search term within your location - Uses Google maps to see if search term is a location - If valid lat/long is returned use solr to find nearest locations, sorting on distance.

8. We are Slackers We update the data bi-weekly, but haven't

   touched the actual app itself... in 9 months.

9. Let's talk about maps

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15. Demo

16. Thank You @KennedysGarage You can find this presentation at https://speakerdeck.com/kennedysgarage