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WDM trails

Mobile Development

No map? No problem.

A natural waterfall? Interpretative Animal Mounds? In West Des Moines? You bet! Check out these points of interest and many others with this interactive trail map. The city of West Des Moines needed a better way to update their trail maps and turned to Shift to develop an app that people can take with them when they explore. No more outdated paper maps for this tech savvy city!
Greater Des Moines Partnership

Web Development

Be in the “Pin” crowd

The Greater Des Moines Partnership wanted people to show them what they love about Greater Des Moines by pinning it to an interactive board. We developed the GDMPin-Crowd to help build a list of regional activities that promote economic development, regional business and their Capital Crossroads initiatives.
Wellmark

Facebook Application

Making health insurance cool

In an effort to dispel common myths about health insurance, Shift created a custom Facebook game in conjunction with one of our partners - Lava Row – and their client Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield. The game encouraged young professionals who have transitioned off their parent’s insurance plans to better educate them selves and to understand their insurance better. And by playing, they were entered to win tickets to the 80/35 music festival. How could you go wrong?
Dwolla

Mobile Development

Cash Is Sooo 2010

With the peer-to-peer payment platform developed for Dwolla, consumers use their phones instead of their wallets and businesses save money on every transaction. It all happens behind the scenes thanks to a Shift-developed iOS application that connects to a back-end API.
Thinciowa

Web Development

What’s the big idea?

Thinc Iowa was…as there’s no such thing as business as usual anymore. Big companies want to innovate like the small guys. Startups want to succeed like the big guys. Getting them all together in the same room to share was the idea behind Thinc Iowa – a conference developed by our friends at Silicon Prairie News. They needed a cool site to promote this event that featured – get this – Ben from Pinterest. Needless to say, it was a hit and we loved being part of it.
My Color Finder / BHG.com

Application Development

No more sample cans!

Why run to the store to purchase sample size paints when you can just paint from the comfort of your own home? The Better Homes and Gardens team came to Shift when they needed help updating their out of date and hard to use color selection tool. Shift completed a redesign from the bottom up that made the new tool tablet friendly (why not paint from your couch?) and allowed you to mask and paint your own rooms. Yep, it’s cool!
Jackie O Page Takeover / Hyperion Books

Web Development

Historic conversations with a JFK

In 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy recorded seven historic interviews about her life with John F. Kennedy. 50 years after his death, Hyperion published those interviews. Hyperion needed a custom page takeover that lived up to the book, and Shift developed one on their site that lived up to the hype.
Bookify

Mobile Development

Book Selection With Personal Style

Using an application developed by Shift for Hyperion Books, users create an avatar of themselves from a selection of elements, then get matched up to books based on those elements. So if you see yourself as a sword-wielding prince, adventure books will be recommended by the application. The app is driven by the Hyperion book database with tags that match up with the selected avatar parts.
Disney

Mobile Development

D23 Event

Disney (yes, that Disney), was hosting an event and needed a way to keep attendees abreast of conference information, locations and updates. Shift jumped in and set them up with a mobile website that allowed all users – regardless of phone type – to see the day’s activities.
Greater Des Moines Partnership

Facebook Application

Politics Just Got Fun

Whenever there’s a presidential election, you can count on it starting two years early in Iowa, the state that’s the first in the nation to help select candidates. It’s very easy for Iowans to get tired of politics well before the caucuses are held, so the Greater Des Moines Partnership asked Shift to help keep interest high. The result was a monthly social media game promoted and played on Facebook. Through quizzes, challenges among friends and more, the game kept the caucuses top of mind in a fun, fresh way.
University of Iowa

Web Development

A Winning Combination

There are 99 counties in Iowa, each with a University of Iowa I-Club to support the university’s athletics, and each with its own calendar of events and set of donors. Shift helped the University of Iowa Foundation organize these clubs through a multi-tenant website. Each I-Club has its own area within the site, and through a multi-tiered e-commerce system, making contributions has never been easier for members.
Greater Des Moines Partnership

Mobile Development

Get a move on

We again partnered with the Greater Des Moines Partnership to develop a mobile wellness site that promotes and encourages users to participate in wellness events by allowing browsing, check-ins, and social gaming features (including badges) to drive interest. Instead of searching the web for all the wellness events in the area, we developed a mobile web application to bring content to any phone, any where.