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This is the UK’s most comprehensive exhibition and museum listings app; helping you discover world-class exhibitions, museums and stunning country homes near you. Finding great art wherever you are and whatever your interest has never been so easy:

- Search for the best exhibitions wherever you are across the UK
- Discover over 700 museums and galleries using postcode, location or free text search
- Create a wishlist of your must-see exhibitions and places you’d like to visit
- Set calendar reminders
- Recommend your favourites
- Check for National Art Pass discounts wherever you are

The Art Guide app and is brought to you by the charity behind the National Art Pass, a card which gives you free entry to over 240 museums, galleries and historic houses across the UK as well as 50% off entry to major exhibitions.

Our client wanted a prototype solution for car dealers that would allow their clients to apply for a car loan with a real-time credit decision. We prototyped a mobile app based on qualitative user research. Other services included recommendations on infrastructure and UX. The solution has since launched.

United Ideas redesigned a website to increase conversions. The team used mock-ups to plan the overhaul, which included informational and contact features.

Key features:

• In-house built Audio Fingerprinting technology, which enables movie recognition like Shazam
• Large database of movies and their fingerprints
• Searching & learning algorithms
• Build a prototype of custom hardware based on ARM Cortex-M7 which enables our solution to work without even smartphone or internet

Background info

It’s like a guide dog but instead of guiding blind people through the streets it guides them through the movies. How come?

It helps visually impaired and partially sighted people to watch movies. Audio description translates pictures into words. Maybe it doesn’t make the blind see the movie, but it makes them feel the movie. And if something feels the same, it is the same.

Most cinema theaters in Poland are not ready to screen audio described movies. What is worse, cinemas have different equipment, different projectors, different soundtrack formats, different everything.

Since it is a mobile app, it works regardless of the equipment in theaters. Movie Guide Dog outsmarts the formats, projectors and stuff. It lists movies that have audio descriptions available. Then you download the description and go to the movies. The dog has very good ears, so it synchronizes the audio description with the movie soundtrack. And ta-dam! You watch the movie.

Movie Guide Dog is cheaper than any cinema equipment, but it requires some training. The app must be blind friendly and synchronizing audio descriptions with movie soundtracks will take some technology. We will run and train the dog in Poland because we live here, as do 145 000 visually impaired and 700 000 partially sighted people. But when it’s ready, it’ll be a platform available to anyone. For free.

United Ideas developed iOS and Android apps on Unity to boost brand engagement. They contributed to wireframe development and design brainstorming and delivered both apps on time and budget.

The apps have attracted a significant number of users in a short time (300 000 downloads in 2 weeks) and garnered positive reviews on the App and Play Stores. Despite initial communication missteps, United Ideas fixed all bugs that arose and handled a short time frame. Customers can expect a flexible, fast development partner.

United Ideas designed and developed mobile and desktop apps that allowed users to migrate music across multiple streaming platforms.

The apps have been downloaded nearly 600,000 times and migrated nearly 1 billion individual tracks. United Ideas built a strong partnership by following through on every promise and engaging the client in the entire process. Their transparent, efficient methodology set them apart.