Mobile App Case Study : UK City of Culture 2013

UK City of Culture 2013

Platforms

iPhone & iPod Touch

Released

May 2010

Client

UK City of Culture 2013

Features

  • - History of the City
  • - Social Media Integration
  • - Cultural Attractions
  • - Videos Gallery

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Overview

What our client had to say

The Derry/Londonderry UK City of Culture bid team engaged with Paper Bag to design and develop an iPhone app to support its bid.

The bid teams main objective with the app was to integrate with their existing social media streams.

This provided a single of point of reference for interested parties to follow the bid progress and a new innovative way for people to discover what the city had to offer.

The app provided a centrally integrated interface to bid information streaming the data from their official Facebook, Twitter and RSS feeds. Furthermore the application provided history of the city, photo galleries, top cultural attractions and a convenient way that allowed users to engage with bid team and share their cultural stories of the city.

The app was an important social networking that showed that the city was at the forefront of digital technology and ultimately assisted Derry/Londonderry to become the inaugural UK City of Culture 2013.

Paper Bag where contracted to develop an iPhone application to support Derry~Londonderry in it's bid for UK City of Culture 2013. Paper Bag met with the bid team and very quickly came up with an outline concept and approach. Four weeks later the iPhone app was launched on the AppStore the same day the bid document was submitted to the Department of Culture Media and Sport. The application provided a single integrated interface to bid information and the Facebook and Twitter feeds from the bid team. The application was an important social networking tool which also showed that the City was at the forefront of new digital technologies. Paper Bag delivered on time and to budget in a professional manner which ultimately assisted Derry~Londonderry to become the inaugural UK City of Culture in 2013.

Sean Currie
Programme Manager at UK City of Culture 2013

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