SCAN 3 iPad App
National Center for Drug Free Sport
In an industry where a mistake can cost someone their livelihood, Drug Free Sport uses SCAN 3 to provide drug testing that’s fast, secure, convenient, and—above all—reliable.
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The National Center for Drug Free Sport (DFS) does drug testing for major sports organizations like the NCAA and NFL. Their staff and worldwide network of sample collectors use SCAN 3 to schedule, manage, perform, and report on their work. It’s at the core of DFS’s business, replacing the 10-year-old SCAN 2 system, which served fewer customers and ran on decade-old handheld PCs rather than iPads.
Each of DFS’s customers has unique sampling requirements and a specific workflow. The SCAN 3 iPad app accommodates them all—guiding collectors through each workflow and helping them gather the correct data. It then encrypts the data and syncs wirelessly with DFS’s servers when a network connection becomes available. DFS staff use the web app portion of SCAN 3 to schedule collections and report their results.
Chris Guinty, COO
Coordinating Stakeholders
Technical Specs
Atomic designed the system architecture and wrote software and firmware for:
Phase 2: Developing a Full-feature Workshop Experience
With the Learning Map developed into a digital product, Root wanted to further help users dive into their organization’s strategy, financials, or processes with a second release. Among other features, they sought to create a kind of a virtual whiteboard, where everyone’s voice could be heard in a fun, engaging, and meaningful way.
Atomic’s Software Design Practice Lead in Ann Arbor, Bryan Elkus, led design work on the project. He saw the user experience of going through the Learning Map activities as a type of collaborative online challenge.
Under the guidance of Atomic's Software Consultant & Designer Bryan Elkus, the project emphasized collaborative user experiences, akin to an online group challenge, focusing on:
- Consultants facilitating onboarding, ice-breakers, and exercises.
- Client company employees engaging in organizational change.
Atomic Object Software Consultant & Developer Matt Soto his development work focused on delivering Root’s vision of polish, complex features, and emphasizing a business model around the digital product.
Root's VP, Nate Butki says Atomic’s consultative approach helped the project team uncover and address underlying needs rather than merely executing requests.
“Atomic didn’t want to just figure out what we wanted and give it to us—but rather figured out the need and helped us with it,” he said. “If they had listened to us and spit out exactly what we asked for, they would have only gotten 80 percent of it. Atomic’s team asked the questions and pushed us further.”
Technical Specs
Atomic designed the system architecture and wrote software and firmware for:
Phase 2: Developing a Full-feature Workshop Experience
With the Learning Map developed into a digital product, Root wanted to further help users dive into their organization’s strategy, financials, or processes with a second release. Among other features, they sought to create a kind of a virtual whiteboard, where everyone’s voice could be heard in a fun, engaging, and meaningful way.
Atomic’s Software Design Practice Lead in Ann Arbor, Bryan Elkus, led design work on the project. He saw the user experience of going through the Learning Map activities as a type of collaborative online challenge.
Under the guidance of Atomic's Software Consultant & Designer Bryan Elkus, the project emphasized collaborative user experiences, akin to an online group challenge, focusing on:
• Consultants facilitating onboarding, ice-breakers, and exercises.
• Client company employees engaging in organizational change.
Atomic Object Software Consultant & Developer Matt Soto his development work focused on delivering Root’s vision of polish, complex features, and emphasizing a business model around the digital product. Root's VP, Nate Butki says Atomic’s consultative approach helped the project team uncover and address underlying needs rather than merely executing requests.
“Atomic didn’t want to just figure out what we wanted and give it to us—but rather figured out the need and helped us with it,” he said. “If they had listened to us and spit out exactly what we asked for, they would have only gotten 80 percent of it. Atomic’s team asked the questions and pushed us further.”
Nate Butki, Root VP
Taste-testing the Product in the Field
Delivering A Great Product and An Empowered Team
By getting to share their decades’ experience with agile practices, Atomic’s team got to watch the counterparts at Root develop new skills over the course of the second engagement.
Soto says he loved watching Root’s inherently collaborative culture adopt the agible practices they were learning.
“After a few months, they loved how easy and smooth it was to make last-minute changes, to pivot in another direction, and use feedback to spend their time where it was most impactful,” he said.
Root’s Jared Page says the agile approach to product design, development, and management he saw during the engagement had a profound impact.
“One of my favorite things about this project is that everyone got better—better at our jobs and better with communication; it just feels cool,” he said. “Sometimes you work for a year and don’t know if you’ve improved but everyone could look back on this project and say they’ve improved. This project changed the way I will work forever.”
Results
- DFS has strengthened their position as industry leaders, and their competition is trying to copy the features and advantages of SCAN 3.
- SCAN3 has been free of critical system failures. During the first year using the application, DFS never reverted to their backup process due to an application fault.
- Training has shown that people can learn the SCAN3 system easily and quickly use it in real scenarios.
- SCAN3 allows DFS to collect data faster, get samples to laboratories faster, and provide their customers with faster, more comprehensive results.
Atomic took the time to understand our business—how we operate, our clients’ needs, the language of our industry—which is huge for us. We started calling Atomic Object ‘Drug Free Sport North.’ I couldn’t be more pleased with the results and with the relationship we have.
Coordinating Stakeholders
A Partnership with a Storybook Ending
The team’s careful project management, client communication, cutting-edge architecture, and cohesive design strategy helped the team ship the product on time and on budget.
Reflecting back on the multi-year, high-profile project, Robinson said Atomic helped his company arrive at a special moment in time.
“We'd never done anything this big. Ever,” he said. “We’re live across all the major pillars Atomic said they would deliver on. It was delivered on time, on budget, to expectation, live. Not three or four milestones late with people leaving and the platform half-baked and full of bugs.”
StoryLoom began open-beta in December 2022. A global launch is scheduled for the spring of 2023.
“We’ve been given a rare opportunity," said Robinson, "to find success by chasing opportunities Starship Enterprise-style: going where people aren’t—pushing boundaries.”
Chris Guinty, COO
Atomic provided native iPad app development for SCAN 3 using RubyMotion and ReactiveCocoa. The team also developed an administrative web app and an API.
The Atomic Team
Here are some of our current Atoms who worked on this project. Click their photo to read their bios!
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