Hodfords

Picture This is one of the foremost collectors of posters, photography, antique books and maps in the world They commissioned Hodfords in 2003 to develop their first web presence and to implement the digital media strategy Picture This' business has gone from strength to strength and has transformed from a predominantly bricks-n-mortar one to a clicks-n-order one

Hodfords helped Picture This leverage the benefits of digital media Over the 23 years, Hodfords helped to transform the website several times to enable our client to stay at the vanguard of the digital transformation from maximising engagement with customers through the web to transacting through it

OneDay is a fast-growing property technology platform (PropTech) in Asia; the mobile apps were launched 2 years ago targeting the Hong Kong market In 2021, the app will be further developed and rolled out into several other countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Philippines, etc in Asia over the course of the next few years

Hodfords helped OneDay develop a native mobile app in iOS and Android that allows users to search for homes; for landlord the app affords the easy creation of property listing(s) to include videos and images to find tenants and buyers The app automatically searches for properties within a certain radius of the users' GPS location This has been well received in Hong Kong's high density housing because users can access useful information without having to click or type anything Additional filters are available for users to filter and refine their search results by price range, size, property types, etc

In 2022, Hodfords helped launch OneDay Vietnam (https://www oneday com vn/) Foody Pocket is a 360 degrees platform for the Food & Beverage industry; consisting of an Android POS (Point-of-Sales) terminal that allows restauranteurs to take orders for food and drink, a native mobile app for end users to order take away and a desktop version for the restaurant's head office to manage personnel, sales, reports, restaurants, stock, etc

Hodfords helped Foody Pocket develop a native mobile app in iOS and Android through which end users can order food from restaurants Once an order is placed with the restaurant and becomes ready for pick up the end user will receive a push notification to tell them to go the restaurant to pick up their food The same technology is being used by Food Courts so that users don't have to queue up to place orders and with the push notification technology they only need to go up when their order is ready

In addition to the mobile apps for end users, we developed a POS (Point of Sales) app that works on Android The POS app allows restauranteurs and waiters/waitresses to take orders, make reservations and close bills once orders have been completed

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is arguably Hong Kong's top university for technology and innovation They were celebrating their 25th anniversary and wanted to showcase their achievements over the 25 years through a mobile application

HKUST wanted a very polished mobile app that would work on mobile phones and tablets; HWANG Concepts was commissioned to create the brand strategy for the 25th anniversary visual identity and Hodfords was commissioned to build mobile apps for iOS and Android

One of the requirements was that the app had to work when the user was offline so all of the content had to be encapsulated into the app Hodfords created the bulk of the app using HTML5 + Javascript + Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) which were then accessed through a Webview window within the app The advantage of using HTML5 + Javascript + CSS was that the same content could be used for both iOS and Android saving the overhead of having to develop everything separately for 2 platforms; however the shortcoming was that this technology had limited interactivity