Apr
26

VDCI

Vector Disease Control Int’l

Vector Disease Control International offers mosquito control and public health services to counties, large cities, and small towns in the US and internationally. VDCI is the leading provider of Emergency Response mosquito control services in the wake of a natural disaster or disease outbreak.

Making paperwork processes portable
Historically the burden of paperwork tracking and collection was handled with traditional pen and paper by field technicians, after which the back office would enter this info by hand into a dated yet functional Access database. As VDCI continued to expand into new regions, this system was no longer tenable for their organization’s size. Implementing a digital paperwork and mapping system allowed for greater efficiencies in both front and back offices. 

Field Optimizations with Auto-Fill
VDCI’s mobile app is able to auto-fill and carry over various form fields in order to optimize the time field techs spend on paperwork compliance. Dozens of form fields no longer need entry or action depending on context.

Field GPS Mapping
Each pesticide activity is mapped to a corresponding GPS point or polygon, allowing field technicians precise location insights for past treatments and future areas of interest. The app is also designed to function and safeguard data when offline since many treatment sites are in extremely rural areas. 

Improved Workflow and Transparency
Digitizing the VDCI workflow process allows for greater visibility for customers, management, and partner labs for each state of treatment or compliance. 

Mobile App + Spray Truck Hardware
The VDCI app was later modified to also handle data from physical spray trucks through a bluetooth connection.

The ability to correlate locations with requested spray sites through the use of geofences and loud chime notifications allows the VDCI spray team to be even more precise with their applications without referencing printed map books.

The automatic collection of live spray data provides extremely detailed reporting to local municipalities.

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Dec
20

Agent Legend

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Agent Legend

This companion app connects to your Agent Legend account and helps you easily manage conversations with your real estate prospects from anywhere. 

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Prospect Communication History
Keep track of who you’ve reached out to and what was discussed in one place. Prospect conversation histories include calls, texts, and voicemails, as well as Agent Legend campaigns and general notes on a potential client.

Synchronized Activity Threads
Keep your phone activity and Agent Legend account activity in sync. See interactions in a clear, concise timeline format so that you are always up to date with the latest developments in a conversation.

Instant Notifications
Get back to potential prospects the second they respond with push notifications.

Custom Outbound and Inbound Calling with Twilio
Access critical client information BEFORE or during a call. Have seamless context no matter how many clients you’re juggling.

Client Feedback

It was an absolute pleasure doing business with Lunar Lincoln. Communication was clear and direct. Designs were beautiful and functional. Work was done quickly with no long, drawn-out processes. As a small business owner and developer who wanted to get good things done ASAP, LunarLincoln was the perfect fit!

—MARK RAMOS, CTO, AGENT LEGEND

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Dec
16

Paul C. Buff

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Buff Flash Control

Paul C. Buff, Inc. provides affordable, reliable, and versatile photography lighting equipment to photographers of all skill levels. The Buff Flash Control app helps photographers take control of their lighting setups directly from their phone.

Connect to Multiple Flash Units
The Buff Flash Control app can discover and connect to multiple flash units of varying types and models using bluetooth via a smart Hub. This multi-connectivity allows photographers to make adjustments to individual flashes from one location.

Flash Unit Adjustments
Not only can a photographer view the current settings for a flash unit (type, flash power, modeling light power, color, and action settings) they can also adjust these individually.  A user can turn on or off individual lights or make minor tweaks in their setup – turning a lamp up or down and adjusting the modeling light from auto to tracking. 

Saved Setups
A user can also save the settings for a specific group of Flash units as a Setup. This allows them to dive into a particular configuration of flash power and devices when needed in the future, minimizing setup time when switching between sessions or locations.

Client Feedback

We felt that LunarLincoln really took the time to understand the use case scenario of the app. Sure it looks great but not only did they make the app aesthetically pleasing, it’s so functional and very user intuitive. Something big for us was communication, and LunarLincoln absolutely delivered. They were available when we needed them and were great about keeping us updated with throughout the development process. They did such a great job with this first version of our app, that we are already working with LunarLincoln on phase two. Their professionalism, attention to detail, and great attitude, took a big project and made it digestible, fun, and exciting!

—ANTHONY ROMANO, MARKETING MANAGER, PAUL C. BUFF

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Dec
15

Objective Zero

Objective Zero

Objective Zero connects US military service members and Veterans to a nationwide peer support network via secure voice, video, and text. Register as a user to connect with the Objective Zero Ambassador network, or serve as an Ambassador to receive calls and texts from Veterans.

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Private Communication
The Objective Zero app was built from the ground up with privacy in mind. We crafted a custom solution that connects service members and Veterans without exposing their personal contact information. Users are able to call, video chat, and text each other directly through the app without needing to rely on 3rd party methods for communication.

Call Forwarding
The backend for Objective Zero intelligently routes unanswered calls to a larger network of Veterans with its call forwarding feature. If a call for help is not answered after a number of rings, the Objective Zero app tries to reach other Veterans who may be available. If a Veteran cannot be reached within a short period of time, a user is forwarded to nationally recognized hotlines for immediate assistance.

Streamlined Interface
After inheriting the nearly completed app, LunarLincoln worked closely with Objective Zero to tie up loose ends and prepare the app for launch. Once the app was launched and some feedback was gathered, the interface was overhauled in both apps to provide a richer experience for Veterans and ambassadors on the platform.

Client Feedback

Partnering with LunarLincoln was the single greatest decision Objective Zero ever made. We took a chance on transferring our half-finished app to LunarLincoln, and within weeks, they took our project from dream to reality. They instantly understood our vision and flawlessly delivered a mobile app that met all our needs and more. As a direct result of their efforts, Objective Zero was able to bring powerful suicide prevention technology to the hands of Veterans who need it most. And all within our budget and on time!

Working with LunarLincoln was a success, because they go the extra mile in everything they do. From user experience design to software development, LunarLincoln was with us every step of the way. There are plenty of talented development firms out there, but LunarLincoln set themselves apart in the way the listen and communicate. Their ability to fully integrate with the Objective Zero team was beyond parallel. This project was deeply personal for us, and we knew from day one that LunarLincoln felt the same way.

As we continue to grow, LunarLincoln remains at the forefront of bringing our vision to life. We feel honored to have the skilled and passionate team at LunarLincoln on our side and consider them a natural extension of our team. To anyone considering working with them, do it and don’t look back.

—KAYLA BAILEY, CO-FOUNDER & CIO, OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION

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Dec
15

GoNoodle

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GoNoodle

More than 12 million kids get active with GoNoodle every month to become their strongest, smartest, bravest, bestest selves. GoNoodle turns movement into a game with hundreds of custom-created videos and interactive characters.

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Featured by Apple – the GoNoodle app is used by hundreds of thousands of kids
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  • Customizable Avatars
    Kids and parents alike can create lively Champs from a pool of colorful bodies, eyes, smiles, and hairdos. These Champs can be tailored to wear the coolest costumes from head to toe.

  • Video Streaming
    With hundreds of videos to dance and sing to – video streaming is a key element of the GoNoodle iOS app. Children can watch videos to collect energy for new Champ costumes.

  • Animated, Dynamic Graphics
    Watch your custom Champs jump, dance, and hop! We implemented fully articulating models for the Champs that allow them to be dynamically animated.

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From day one, LunarLincoln understood how we work, made our goals their goals, and fit seamlessly and awesomely into our process to build an app we’re really proud to share with our users.
Christy Frink
Product Owner

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Dec
14

Gif TV

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Gif TV

The Gif TV is a small phone stand and app that plays a nonstop stream of your favorite gifs.  Users can set up a “TV channel” of their favorite GIFs from the Gif TV app and then play the channel full screen on their phone. Simply slide the phone into the stand and voilà – Gif TV.

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Have you ever spent hours trying to find the perfect gif to send to friends? Do you share the same choice image-nuggets over and over? Do you wish your full-time job was running the Ministry of Gifs twitter account?

The App
Gif TV is powered by a mobile app for both iOS and Android devices. Similar to a real TV, you can set up a “TV channel” of your favorite gifs or watch a friend’s channel. You can even create channels based on tags. #kitten #excited #oprah #fail. The Gif TV app is built with Flutter and the Giphy API.

The Stand
The Gif TV stand is made of .125in birch plywood, laser cut into a sturdy and dare I say, stud-ly stand. It comes with additional spacer pieces for a custom fit to your device. Simply slide the legs together along with the faceplate and you’re ready to go.

The Gif TV
Buy the stand. Download the app onto your phone or an older phone you have laying around. Set up your gif “channels”. Play a channel full screen. Slide your phone into the stand. Voila – A Gif TV.

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Dec
14

Metric for Emma

Metric for Emma

Metric is the mobile component of Emma’s email marketing service. Emma works toward making the email marketing experience more approachable and more personable. Since launching in 2003, their focus has been on great design and simple but powerful features that help marketers do more than “blast” their email list.

Rapid Prototyping
When we first started shaping Metric we hit the ground running by leveraging their existing iOS SDK. A couple of weeks into development one of our prototypes was shown internally. The reaction was very positive and we were asked when we could have a version of the prototype that used real data. When we told them that the prototype was already using real data, they were astounded. Using real data throughout the prototyping stage helped us quickly iterate over new features with confidence since we knew how our changes would work for a real users.

Custom Animations
Emma makes an extremely high quality product and we wanted to build a mobile app that matched that standard of quality. One way we accomplished this was by incorporating several custom animated elements throughout the app (with the help of a lot of math and drawing code). The extra polish gained from animating the loading indicators and mailing graphs really brought Emma’s personality to Metric. 

Material Design on Android
When it was time to build the Android version of Metric, LunarLincoln worked closely with Emma to make the app feel at home on Android. Using the latest material design guidelines we created an Android app that stands out from the pack. We even worked extra hard to implement the new material design interface on devices with older versions of Android so that Emma customers could experience the latest in UI without having to upgrade their devices.

With Emma’s growing interest in building out their presence on mobile, and a lack of mobile development knowledge on staff, LunarLincoln was an easy choice to work with. Jonathan Wiley and his staff has a deep understanding of mobile applications, with experience dating back to the very beginnings of both iOS and Android. Perhaps just as important as their expertise was how they conducted themselves and how they fit in with our culture and vision. They understood and embraced that at Emma, we place heavy emphasis on style, usability, and the voice of the brand. Without a doubt, this is why the project to build our email response metric app went so smoothly for both iOS and Android. Any small to mid size company looking for some assistance with native mobile app development would be smart to work with LunarLincoln. I can say with confidence, the team at LunarLincoln will stop at nothing to exceed your expectations and build something that will totally delight your users. Emma has been extremely happy with all of LunarLincoln’s work and I’d definitely recommend them to anyone shopping around for a top notch mobile dev shop.
Pete Peltier
Product Owner, Emma

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Dec
14

Little Doors

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Little Doors

Entertain, educate, and connect with your favorite toddler through Little Doors. Keep in touch with distant family and friends with short videos.

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Stay in touch

Have long distance family stay in touch with small ones by recording short videos or “doors”. Your favorite kid can watch them when they’re allowed device time and watch them more than once if they like (again! again!). Whether its a short hello or a funny face, remain present and active in your loved one’s life through Little Doors.

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Endless Entertainment

Tap doors to watch new videos or revisit old favorites. Check back often for new doors from Grandma or Aunt Laura. Need fresh doors right away? Download a door pack of your child’s favorite things.

Quality playtime, anytime

Record videos to teach your child through familiarity and repetition. A is for Abuela, G is for Granny, M is for Mama. Make learning and connection fun and engaging without a scheduled Facetime session or inconvenient time-zone window.

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Dec
14

Synchronous Health

Synchronous Health

Synchronous Health delivers behavioral health support in the exact moment it is needed most. Their network of behavioral health providers deliver counseling and coaching through telehealth video sessions and mobile support.

Synchronous Health is a behavioral healthcare platform that uses data analysis and predictive analytics to identify patterns of behavior. The platform is composed of a web portal for licensed therapists to review patient patterns and assign therapies as well as a companion app for patients called Karla. Karla provides the user with guidance and intervention at the moment they need it.

Karla as conversational support

Karla is a personal bot that serves as the interface for Synchronous Health. As a kind of data scientist, she manages, provides, and offers data to a user. Karla can ask and respond to questions offering support as well as a listening ear when a user needed it most.

Interactive Emotion Logs

Karla also features an interactive Plutchik wheel which allows users to log their feelings throughout the day. Counselors can review these touchpoints for discussion at their weekly or monthly telehealth sessions and prescribe relevant and timely interventions. 

Specialist Support

A user can opt to match with a human-support specialist in addition to Karla. Through a custom pairing process, SyncHealth works to match the user with the Specialist best suited to their needs. Specialists can be available to chat, assign activities, or program Karla to provide better asynchronous support.

Objective Data Collection for Contextual Support

In addition to this conversational therapy, Karla is designed to passively log a user’s data, through voice, cloud, mobile, desktop, and environment analytics and process the resulting data set through a custom algorithms.

Karla uses this data set to provide context and support to a user. Allowing them to revisit, review, and explore their habits and behaviors at any time through a system of data cards.

Counselors can receive alerts on potentially risky locations or behaviors in order to reach out to their client in the moments that matter most. 

Patient Management Portal

The Synchronous Health project has not only a consumer app (Karla) but also a web platform that allows counselors to assign, interact, and properly assess information the Karla presented about their patients.

We developed a design system and intervention library of scripts that allowed a counselor to create custom programs for each client. 

Dec
13

Compass

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Compass

Compass employs the powerful native sensors in your phone to give you perspective on your daily routine and habits. Learn more about what makes you tick, get insights, and replay your day. Compass is the first endeavor of the Existence platform for Healthways.

Background
Compass is a lifelogging application whose goal is to improve your well-being. Healthways, the largest independent global provider of well-being improvement solutions, assembled a team to build an app that solely uses the devices we carry every day to passively track our habits and behaviors in a manner that was kind and frictionless. Compass gives you the ability to see how each of your activities relates to other areas of your life. Instead of opening your fitness app for exercise data, and your photo app for friends and food photos, and your calendar app for your upcoming meetings – open one app that places it together. Did you take a lot of photos at that meeting yesterday? Did you spend your whole day hiking when it was 60 degrees out last week? Compass can show you all of this in a single elegant interface.

Frictionless Lifelogging
Too many apps these days require constant connection and attention. Log this, track that. Healthways wanted to remove the friction and user bias that comes with manual entry/reporting systems. We showed them how they could leverage the sensors already in the iPhone to track several dimensions of a user’s life without the user having to input anything into the app. In fact, there’s not even a way to input data into Compass. Simply install it and check back later to see your results.

This is a Compass Insight Card from a photo taken in fall of 2015. It’s tagged with passively collected data (the walk around the park (31 min), the great baseball weather (78°), and the city the game was in (Nashville).

Groundbreaking Code & Algorithms
Compass pushes even the latest iPhones to their limits. It fully leverages the iPhone’s sensors and native APIs to give the user a complete picture of their life. We use the Motion Coprocessor for activity, GPS for location, Healthkit for heart rate readings and blood pressure, Photos for your memories, and EventKit for your scheduled appointments. We take all of this data and compress the hundreds of thousands sensor readings into relevant sessions by filtering out noisy and inaccurate data so you get a clear view of your activity. In addition, we also wrote a ton of algorithms to intelligently analyze this torrent of data to offer you personalized insights into your life.

Innovative UI
For Compass, we wanted a unique UI that would allow a user to travel through time and visualize their various daily activities in a single place. To accomplish this we built a custom interface that mimics circular orbits around a planet. Scrubbing the orbits lets you move backwards into the past or even forwards into the future. Your daily activities, such as when you took a photo or when you had your highest heart rate for the day, are shown in orbits around a planet that shows your physical activity and location through time. Watch as your life cycles with the sun, the weather, your sleeping patterns, and timeless spinning of your place on earth.

The way you display all this information is genius
Gordon Bell
Principle Researcher, Microsoft & Lifelogging Pioneer
Client Feedback

Our experience working with LunarLincoln began when a mutual acquaintance recommended Jonathan Wiley to provide consultative services regarding a mobile application our innovation team was considering to build. While our team was initially considering building the innovative new product in-house, coming out of that meeting Wiley’s deep knowledge and pleasant demeanor immediately made our team reassess the idea that working with an external partner may be our best course of action. Through additional vetting of Jennifer Bennett and the rest of the team at LunarLincoln, we realized that we’d found a gem of talent in the middle of Tennessee and knew that they were who we wanted to partner with.

Out of the gate the entire LunarLincoln team was more responsive, engaging, and thorough than any other vendor that I worked with during my tenure at Healthways. Their attentiveness to details from scoping projects to capturing meeting notes allowed us to always have a running record of what we planned to do and how we were going to get there. As all great tech projects do, our team eventually ventured off scope and began pushing the bounds of the technical limitations of the phone. Thanks to LunarLincoln’s thoroughness in record keeping, at all times we were able to assess what we agreed upon, what needed to be done next, and how much room in the budget we had to get there.

The real benefit in working with the team at LunarLincoln is not just in their attention to detail, but in fact the opportunity to work with world class developers and designers that are able to maintain focus and move projects along like professional project managers. Our development requirements were stretching the limits of our operating system’s capabilities and every time Wiley and the developers solved our problems, we asked them to push the limit a little bit further. Simultaneously Jennifer was helping us build a UI and UX unlike anything else seen on the market. I can honestly say that the only limitations we ever faced were the restrictions placed on us by the operating systems of our phone and even then their team was able to build hacks to address our needs.

The final and ultimate complement I can pay the LunarLincoln team is that working with them is simply a pleasant experience. From scoping projects to developing to new experiences to dealing with our own high maintenance team dynamics, they managed all of the hurdles we threw at them timely, efficiently, and with a smile on their faces. I can’t recommend them highly enough for projects simple to complex.

Harrison Thomas, Director of Corporate Development, Healthways

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