Talk about the UX of location in iOS apps

I spoke about Grade Spotter and “the UX of location in iOS apps” at NY Location-Based Apps Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/LocationApps/events/97621842/

Transcript

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