From pixels to possibilities

Woman shopping for vitamins at a pharmacy, examining a bottle on a shelf lined with various supplements.

Helping GSK merchandisers build smarter shelf layouts with a tablet-first app.

iOS App Design + Development
GSK – Instaplan

Planning, positioning, and performance — in the palm of your hand.

A tablet-based planogramming tool to streamline shelf layout and merchandising efficiency.

Person holding tablet displaying Instaplan app interface for project management tasks.

The brief

Turning store shelf planning into a fast, digital, shareable process.

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical and healthcare companies, needed a better way for their merchandising teams to create, manage and share shelf layout plans across UK retail environments.

We designed and built Instaplan, a custom iOS tablet app that gives merchandisers a scalable digital toolkit for building planograms using a drag-and-drop interface. Users can take photos of real products, tag them with metadata, and build out tailored shelf configurations to share across regions and reps.

The result? Less manual paperwork, faster merchandising cycles, and a consistent retail presence across stores.

Person using tablet with inventory app in retail store aisle for product management and restocking.

Overview

Instaplan allows merchandisers to quickly capture product images, label and categorise them, and place them onto scalable virtual shelves. Layouts can be saved as templates, reused, or adapted by colleagues in other stores.

Designed for speed and usability in the field, the app works offline and integrates export and sharing functionality via email, helping teams stay connected without needing to return to HQ.
Tablet displaying a retail management app with product categories and a project layout on a store counter.
Instaplan was developed specifically for iOS tablets using Cordova and AngularJS, with an intuitive interface that supports on-the-go use by merchandisers with varying levels of technical ability.
Tablet displaying retail inventory plan ready for export, optimizing shelf management in a store environment.