Rationale

With my webapp I wanted to create an app experience that would make people want to go outdoors and experience the outside world. I definitely think it is a genre in the app/webapp market with some gaps ready to be filled.

I think I managed to succeed in doing this by integrating a facebook like social side which tracked how many 'critters' you had seen or what tracks you had run/walked/completed. There was also the added photo sharing social element which everyone seems to love to do these days - maybe in a future app update I could add photo filters!

It was great that I managed to get the app working on a hosted server and was able to capture input from both the microphone and camera for my search section - though the search is not linked to any database so it's not a 'live' sear per say.

The ability to recognise wildlife in images (that your friend had uploaded) and then provide you with a fairly succinct set of information on it - then link you to where you yourself can see that wildlife was a nice touch I think.

Some things I think could have worked better:

I think the colouration is a little heavy feeling. Starting out I had wanted to go for something light and refreshing feeling - I think I got close but maybe an opaque background nature image rather then solid green may have worked better.

I would have liked to get the camera section working where you could A) take photos and save them to your account, and B) use AR to show you how to find the critter in realtime and in real size.