Design 3 tips on how to perform a user test Conducting a user test requires some skill and knowing this, Altitude Labs wants to guide you through your User Testing experience. It is not just about throwing out questions and listening to participants. More great reads
Design User testing: Why is it important? What is User Testing? User testing is a technique and process of discovering the limitations of design and validity of your product and/or prototype. When a solution is found, design does not
Design Reinventing Hong Kong payment apps A thought experiment with the Octopus app. Why are we rethinking the Octopus app? The Octopus card is an icon of Hong Kong’s efficiency & innovation. At the time of writing, the
Engineering Learn to love web scraping with Python and BeautifulSoup The Internet provides abundant sources of information for professionals and enthusiasts from various industries. Extracting data from websites however, can be tedious, especially if you need to repeatedly retrieve data in the same
Digital Transformation 3 pitfalls to avoid when building data science into your business Most executives already agree that the insights from data science can lead to better business decisions. Many businesses have the data ready to be analysed along with the right data systems and tools
Design UX design with microinteractions We love apps. We use them everyday. We open Instagram and double tap on a photo of a friend. We open Twitter and pull down the feed to see the latest tweets. It
Digital Transformation Tailored product recommendations for your online store customers In our last article, we wrote about how data science can be used to boost sales for online stores. This article is about a tool that integrates with your online store and helps
Digital Transformation How data science can multiply your e-commerce store sales Looking for ways to boost the profitability of your e-commerce store? We have been working with a handful of online retailers of ranging sizes to tackle this problem using data science. This article
Engineering iOS+Objective-C: Create a real time photo filter app Introduction In this tutorial, we will create an iOS app with Objective-C which apply vignette effect and a cold-color filter and display the result in real time. The application will look like this:
Design Field report from Business of Design Week 2015 The Business of Design Week is an annual week long design event organised every December by the Hong Kong Design Centre. I was so thrilled to be able to join this amazing talk
Engineering Integrate SMS verification with Sinch in 10 minutes SMS Verification: Solution to Prevent Spam As sms verification is a simple and effective solution to prevent spam and fraud account, there is increasing popularity to use SMS verification in mobile apps, these
Engineering Create a chatbot with Slack and Botkit Last week, Slack announced an $80M fund to invest in startups that build software with Slack integration. It also launched the Slack App Directory, which allow developers to upload Slackbots and Slack integrations.
Engineering Top 4 Xcode plugins to boost your work performance Alcatraz is an open-source package manager for Xcode. It allows you to discover and install plugins, templates and color schemes. Here the top 4 plugins which can shorten your development time when code
Engineering How to setup your app on a subdomain using Route 53 from AWS One of our clients told me they want to set up their marketing pages on their main domain name - brandname.com and www.brandname.com, and have their web application (that we
Engineering I bought a domain for a website. Now what? Setting up your new domain name When you purchase a new domain, you need to set it up to point to your web server (where your website is hosted). Here’s a quick
Culture We won the DBS Hong Kong hackathon We had a blast at the DBS Hackathon held at the Hong Kong Science Park last week. Victor, Barry and I worked alongside five DBS bankers over three days of hacking. We were
Culture TEDxHKU: From Wall Street to web & mobile apps I had the opportunity to give a TedX talk at HKU about my switch from finance into developing websites and mobile applications. Videos are still in the making but, in the meantime, here
Culture We won best UI/UX: Hacking Health We pulled together a team and took part in the Hacking Health hackathon this weekend. Eugene, Harry and I came up with a Tinder-like mobile app for healthcare education where people answer a
Culture Internship at Altitude Labs Are you a college student who is keen to get exposure in the world of tech startups? We accept internship applications from all over the world for design, engineering and business internships on
Engineering Inheritance, cascading, and specificity in CSS explained Introduction If we boil down web development into its core components, it’ll probably look something like this: HTML represents the structural layer, CSS represents the presentation layer, and JavaScript represents the behavioral
Engineering Ghost blog images not working after move to subdirectory? As search engines mostly regard subdomains as a separate domain in ranking algorithms, we moved our Ghost blog from a subdomain to a subdirectory to optimise our search engine performance. Ghost v0.4
Engineering What is the JavaScript event loop? Introduction If you’re like me, you love JavaScript. Yea, it’s not the perfect language but seriously, is there even such a thing as a perfect language?! So despite it’s flaws
Engineering The module pattern in JavaScript Introduction If you’re reading this post, I’m assuming you’re interested in JavaScript. It’s the lingua franca of the web and while its simple to start learning JavaScript because of
Engineering How Ghost themes work Ghost is a blogging platform that has been gaining traction of late. It is fast, lightweight, open-source and focused on content publishing. The first question people often ask about Ghost is: how is
Digital Transformation Embracing Agile software development Why Agile software development is essential for digital transformation and designing and developing great websites and mobile apps. Adopt Agile today.
