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Sports Tracker, a legend in the fitness-tracking world, partnered with Reaktor to grow its user base on iOS with a relaunched app experience, designed from scratch. The team delivered superb usability both outdoors and in, modern maintainability, and an unwavering focus on what matters the most: your own stats, workouts, and photos. Project highlights: -Complete redesign, build, and relaunch on iOS -Ten-fold growth in user registrations -Modern technology stack for effortless updates -Growth-hacking for continuous improvement Our contributions: -Concept design -User experience design -Visual design -Quality assurance -Backend development -iOS development -Analytics & optimization -Growth-hacking Ten years since it first became available to consumers, Sports Tracker on iOS was starting to show its age. Together we reinvented the experience on iOS and came out with a modern app that focuses on the essential. At the heart of the new concept are your own workouts and content, providing a motivational boost with social interactions, and goal-setting. The redesigned visuals allow content and photography to take center stage, and a streamlined experience makes the app easy to use, even while out in the sunshine or on the trail. To deliver on the concept, the team introduced rigorous agile development methods and a modern tech stack that made it possible to develop the new app quickly and efficiently. The new app is designed to support the formation of exercise habits and to make tracking your own progress extra-simple. Added workout analysis makes it possible to track progress over time, so you can look at a whole month or year in one view. You can also compete against their previous performance on the same route, and get detailed analysis on their performance, while notifications and the fun, lightly competitive leaderboard make it easier than ever to stay motivated. “Reaktor's use of the latest, tested agile methods was highly valuable for us – following their example, we’ve started using these across the company.” -Antti Sorvari, Head of Software Development & Co-Founder

At Reaktor, we think coding is fun. We also think that coding is something everyone should be able to try. That’s why we’ve created the Reaktor × LEGO® code school to teach the principles of programming to kids aged 7–12 with the help of LEGO BOOST robots. To make sure that kids get familiar with programming in a short amount of time, we redesigned the robot programming app from scratch to create a learning experience that is easy, effective, and – most importantly of all – fun. In 2014, we launched the Reaktor code school to teach young kids that programming is not some difficult task meant only for experts (in fact, the very first student was only four years old). Since then, hundreds of children have attended code schools all over the world – both held by Reaktor and by other companies inspired by us – and even the president of Finland has taken part. But something great can always be made even better. That’s why we partnered with LEGO Group. LEGO Group’s mission is to inspire the builders of tomorrow through creative play, which made them the first choice for us to create a more exciting and hands-on experience for kids. LEGO Group supplied us with the robots, but it was up to us to build the best teaching experience possible. With that in mind, we set about designing a super simple and easy-to-use app to teach kids the fundamentals of coding. Our goal was to create a total experience where the look and feel of the robots themselves were reflected in the UI and visuals. Reaktor was also responsible for creating the overall story, coding the app, and arranging the event – making this an end-to-end project for us. “This initiative represents the coming together of two major Nordic companies committed to educational good. LEGO’s mission is to inspire the builders of tomorrow through creative play, while Reaktor has a history of educating kids around the world to code since 2014”

In our rapidly evolving globalized economy, it is more important than ever to provide approachable access to future skills and technology by empowering those traditionally left out of these fields to say, “Yes, I can do this too.” At Reaktor Education, we believe that there is a better way to educate people from all demographics on a societal scale, using our combination of human-centered copywriting, design, and technology. We know that if we are going to reach people in their free time, where online learning happens, we have to compete with social media and video streaming. That’s why we make digital education approachable, easily digestible, mobile-first, and fun. Our course collaborations, built with global experts, are launched in conjunction with public grassroots campaigns aimed at democratising access to critical future skills for all citizens. Our first course collaboration, Elements of AI, has become an international phenomenon. Our education technology consulting enables the world’s top digital education providers to scale to millions of users, with state-of-the-art authentication, continuous data protection, and multi-platform integrations. Our partnership with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, automated data flow for over 50million students. From deep-tech backend frameworks to human-centered design, Reaktor is revolutionizing online education, tailored to modern lifestyles and built on the latest technology.

With near-real-time data on the water quality of the East River, our new pioneering dashboard demystifies what it means to interact with water in a major global city. What’s turbidity? What’s pH? How does sewage affect our ability to swim? Water quality data is complex but doesn’t have to be hard to understand. The nonprofit organization + POOL wanted to change New Yorkers’ dated perceptions on the city’s water quality (it’s much better than we think!) and came to Reaktor for a product that could visualize complicated live water quality research in an engaging, fun, and approachable manner. Our challenge was to combine multiple real-time data sources into one dynamic dashboard; to electrify the water quality information and help it reach the masses. The new, breakthrough water quality dashboard designed and developed by Reaktor for + POOL, in collaboration with the scientists at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, is a state-of-the-art data visualization tool. Our website informs the public on when the water in the East River is good, bad, or something in between, and represents a pioneering effort in bridging the needlessly-large gap between wild nature and urban habitat. The technology built by us also fuels a floating light installation in the East River that changes color based on real-time water quality.