MyGR6.com is a community-driven experience which invites Grand Rapidians to speak their minds—in only 6 words—about why they love Grand Rapids, Michigan. Though most of the graphic design elements were determined in-house at Amway, Icavia was responsible for the UX design and technical implementation of the digital experience.

The key feature of the site includes the ability for users to enter 6 words about their love for Grand Rapids. After the responses are submitted, they are updated in a live stream so that users can always see what others are saying about their great city. Each user can then print out their 6 words and showcase them in a window, their car, or on their desk at work. Their responses will be judged, and 6 winners will receive prizes that amount to over $10,000 each.

Surprisingly (even to us), it required a fair amount of technical wizardry to execute this twitter-esque campaign. Some of the technical achievements that were implemented include:

• ASP.NET MVC 3 and C# with Razor Markup
• HTML 5
• Mobile friendly (iOS and Android)
• Email verification with a print-ready page to share your 6
• User Experience (UX) tracking

There are already a few clients for the Harvest time tracking service available on iTunes, including an official one from Iridesco, but none that were all that simple. Our goal with this app was to distill its purpose down to its purest form – the ability to quickly add, view, and edit time entries and move on. You can view the Harvest Lite product landing page, or get it from iTunes now.

If you’re interested in trying it out but don’t have a Harvest account, get in touch with us at support@icavia.com. Or, you can sign up for a free account at Harvest – it’s a great service that we highly recommend.