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General
Your dog has a carbon pawprint
Buried in TreatMyPet2, past the meds and the reminders, is a screen that estimates your pet’s carbon footprint. Pawprint. I’m keeping the pun; it’s earned.
Warrimoo Blog
Thoughts on AI, tech & building things.
Thoughts on AI, technology, veterinary software, and building things that matter — from the team at Warrimoo.
General
Streaks without the shame
Duolingo’s streak has a body count. People do French at 11:58pm on their honeymoon out of fear of a cartoon owl. As behaviour design goes it’s brutally effective, and both...
General
Why my apps don't want your email address
Install the average app and before you’ve done anything useful you’ve handed over an email address, a password, and permission to be “kept in the loop”.
Engineering
Sharing an offline app without selling out
I’ve spent two posts on this blog bragging that our apps don’t need the internet. So naturally, the most requested feature for TreatMyPet2 is sync.
Veterinary
The quiet work of a seizure diary
Some features get jokes written about them. This one doesn’t.
Veterinary
What your vet actually wants to see
A standard vet consult runs about ten or fifteen minutes. Here’s how the first five usually go.
Engineering
How I test a pet app
Medication software has a low tolerance for “mostly works”. A social app that glitches loses a like. A meds app that glitches double-doses a cat. So testing is where an...
Engineering
Designing for someone who forgets the app exists
Most app design assumes the user remembers your app. Remembers installing it, remembers what the icons mean, remembers where the back button went. Design for someone with early dementia and...