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Before patients trust your app with their health, they need to trust you with their data. HIPAA is how you earn that trust. In 2025, building a HIPAA compliant app is the foundation of credibility for any mobile health or research platform. For universities, hospitals, and grant-funded teams, the stakes are exceptionally high. A single… Read More
In December 2012 we released Etchings 1.5, which includes translations for 7 additional languages: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. It’s been out for a few months now, giving us a chance to reflect on our effort and observe the results. Read more
Recently we ran an Instagram contest to promote our Etchings App for iPhone and iPad. To help us run the contest we used Statigram which is an Instagram web viewer and social analytics tool for contests & community management. Statigram has over 3.1 million users so their contest platform seemed to be the best way… Read more
In partnership with the East Coast Music Association, MindSea designed and launched an innovative app for iPhone and Android music fans. Co-written by both teams, this case study describes what we did together. Read more
With the latest release of Etchings, we wanted to support high resolution output. This means reading high-res versions of images from the camera roll, but not blowing our memory limits if the user selects a 30MP monstrosity. We came up with a way to get a smaller version of any ALAsset without having to first… Read more
This year, MindSea created an iPad app for CanaDream, one of Canada’s largest Recreational Vehicle rental companies. We’d like to share some insights into our process for designing the app to meet CanaDream’s goals, for the interest of other developers and potential clients. Read more
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