Mobile App Developers - Thumbmunkeys UK

Bumblebee

Conservation Trust

A mobile app with AR to explore the UK’s eight most common bumblebee species.

Android

ios

Project Overview

Promoting bumblebee conservation with an educational app created for the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

What’s that bumblebee is an interactive app that helps people identify and explore the various bumblebee species in fun ways, like bringing a 3D bumblebee to their garden or living room using AR.

People can learn about bumblebees in detail, identify and compare the various species, explore in AR and share pictures.

UI-UX DESIGN Native ios & android development

UI-UX DESIGN

Native ios & android development

Design and implementation

Designed in the brand colours and visual language of Bumblebee Conservation Trust, we built an app that creates engagement and inspires curiosity.

Explore the world of
bumblebees

The app serves as an interactive guide to study the UK’s eight most common bumblebee species. Users can use the app to identify these species buzzing in their garden or local park.

Tail color

Bumblebees fall into three rough groups based on tail colour – white-tailed (includes off-white through to yellow), red-tailed, and ‘uniform-tailed’ bees.

Banding

Bumblebees fall into three rough groups based on tail colour – white-tailed (includes off-white through to yellow), red-tailed, and ‘uniform-tailed’ bees.

True or cuckoo bumblebee?

Bumblebees fall into three rough groups based on tail colour – white-tailed (includes off-white through to yellow), red-tailed, and ‘uniform-tailed’ bees.

Identify and compare
bumblebees

From kids to wildlife amateurs, anyone can explore the bumblebee species in detail using illustrations, images, maps and other information presented lucidly and minimally.

Explore bumblebees in AR
and sharing pictures

Users can bring bumblebees into their living room through augmented reality (AR). Users can scale, rotate and walk around the 3D bumblebees, and further take photos and easily share them.

Bumblebees into one’s world via AR

The app takes fun and education to the next level by allowing users to bring the bumblebees into their worlds to study them in 3D, click pictures and share their version of the blended reality.

They got the look and the feel right. The branding was spot on from the get-go.

Initial engagement with the app and the response on social media has been positive. Thumbmunkeys Ltd was easy to get in contact with and worked quickly to release the platform in response to COVID-19. They supported their partners and worked hard to represent the organization properly.

Andy Benson

Education Officer