Planitar (iGuide)

iGuide — immersive property visualization and measurement platform offering 3D tours, accurate floor plans, and detailed spatial data for real estate and property management.

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iGUIDE is a property visualization and measurement platform: 3D tours, accurate floor plans, and spatial data for real estate and property management. I'm on the Data Acquisition team, which owns the PLANIX app that operators use to survey a building.

Native iOS

LiDAR capture on ARKit

I built native ARKit modules and integrated a proprietary spatial-measurement library. Depth from the phone's LiDAR feeds it, so the floor plan draws while you walk the room.

Survey

See where every scan looks

I built the cone of perception on the 2D map, the numbered scan markers and jumping between them, and tags during capture.

Cameras

Three cameras, one app

The app drives the PLANIX R1 and PLANIX Pro. I also worked on the RICOH THETA plugin, the software that runs on the 360 camera itself.

Tooling

Consistent by construction

Templating scripts generate navigation, components, and icons, so every new screen starts consistent and development moves faster.

Role

Data Acquisition team. Keep capture working in the field, and make it better.
  • Built native iOS ARKit modules and integrated a proprietary spatial-measurement library for accurate interior measurements
  • Created templating scripts for navigation, components, and icons to speed development and keep it consistent
  • Led company-wide demos and engineering presentations for releases, features, and optimizations
  • Wrote the app and brand onboarding documentation

What I built

Features an operator touches on every survey, plus the modernization underneath them.

Features

  • Cone of perception on the 2D map, showing where the active scan is looking
  • Scan number markers on the map and the interaction to jump between scans
  • Tags during capture, including tag creation
  • Settings, including the capture guidance controls
  • Authentication, iOS mobile capture, Firebase remote config, Sentry and Heap analytics

Modernization

  • Android edge-to-edge
  • Migrated state management to Redux
  • Brought the navigation hierarchy onto React Navigation standards

LiDAR capture

Capture on iOS runs on ARKit. Depth from the phone's LiDAR feeds the measurement library, so the floor plan draws while you walk the room.
LiDAR capture: a phone sweeping a room, the point cloud landing on the walls, and a floor plan forming

Cameras

The app drives the PLANIX R1 and PLANIX Pro, and I also worked on the RICOH THETA plugin side, the software that runs on the 360 camera itself.
PLANIX R1 cameraPLANIX Pro camera

Camera UI redesign

I redesigned the camera screens: the navigation, the data shown during capture, and the capture features. This is a proposal I drew and shared with the team and our designer, not the shipping UI.

Camera UI redesign on a RICOH THETA

Mobile redesign

A first draft I started on my own, to collect my ideas and pin down what I think the app should focus on. Not the app as it ships.

When I join a company I learn the product, then redraw it as a way to simplify what I see and get my thinking out early, before I know the codebase well enough to be told what is hard. Nobody asked for it. The current iGUIDE PLANIX app is on the App Store and Google Play; screenshots of it are below so the two can be compared.

The app today

Screenshots of the shipping app, taken on my phone at the time of writing. Several of these features are mine: the cone of perception on the 2D map, the numbered scan markers and the interaction around them, tags and tag creation during capture, and the settings page.

Devices: paired cameras and phone LiDAR
Devices: paired cameras and phone LiDAR
Projects: saved, queued, and uploaded
Projects: saved, queued, and uploaded
Settings, which I built
Settings, which I built
Survey: capture with the live floor plan and the tag control
Survey: capture with the live floor plan and the tag control
Survey: my scan number markers and cone of perception on the map
Survey: my scan number markers and cone of perception on the map
Capture guidance settings, which I built
Capture guidance settings, which I built

My redesign

Same product, redrawn as a first pass. I started from the current design to understand the user story and where the experience had room to improve, then worked to simplify and target it. The navigation, project list, and device flows below are proposals, not finished work.

Redesign: home and project list

Redesign: home navigation, project list, and settings

Redesign: project detail

Redesign: devices

Tech stack

Mobile

  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Redux
  • React Navigation

Native

  • Swift
  • ARKit
  • Kotlin
  • C++

Services

  • Go
  • Firebase
  • Sentry
  • Heap