The summit opens at nine. By quarter past eight, the queue at the front desk wraps round the lobby.
Two volunteers are flicking through a printed list, writing names on sticky labels by hand. And someone important has just been spelled wrong.
if you've been to a conference here, you've stood in this line.
Most check-ins still run on paper.
Conferences across East Africa still check people in from printed lists and manual name lookups, with generic badges produced hours before the doors open. When something goes wrong at the desk, there's no system to fall back on. Organisers deserved better, and so did the people standing in line.
Badrica is a product of Pinnisoft Ltd. The implementation is confidential; the journey every design and engineering decision was built around is not.
From list to lanyard in five steps.
I worked on the product design and front-end. The Badrica apps are built in Flutter and the website in Next.js, which I designed and built myself, from Figma to live in one week.
From Figma to live.
live: run your event, not your check-in desk
the landing and services pages, side by side on the canvas
real events, real posters. proof beats promises
the share card, with a badge that looks a lot like me
Check yourself in.
register, grab your e-pass, and wait for the printer.
- 1Register
- 2E-pass
- 3Desk
- 4Badge
- 5Access
- 6Network
East Africa Summit · Day 1 · 8:14am
You're on the list. Who are you?
Has run events for
I'd do again
Treating the printed badge as the product. If the badge gets the name, tier and access right, everything downstream just works.
I'd do differently
I'd put a big, friendly “reprint” button on the desk UI from day one. Lanyards snap. Coffee spills. People sit on things.
