Hoffi were invited to attend a two day convention by the BBC and compete with other companies to develop an interactive advertising campaign for the programme Hinterland. Over the two days each company had to develop a prototype that would showcase their respective idea for the advertising campaign. We as a team at Hoffi…
During my last few weeks at Hoffi I was asked to do some exploratory work with the Web Speech API. They wanted to know if it would be suitable to future story based projects where users could tell the application what to do. To test the API I created my own speech to text web application…
While working at Hoffi I was asked to investigate the possibility of using mobile devices to control a computer’s web browser. This would involve developing a prototype which allows users to draw lines on a canvas from their mobile phones or tablets and then instantly update the canvas on the browser and other devices with the same line. I created…
While working for Hoffi I worked on a dot game using JavaScript. The idea is to collect the red circles by moving the grey circle (mouse position) as fast as possible. Once the red circles were collected they would surround and move with the grey circle at different speeds. This functionality was used in the development of Santa’s…
During my time at Cardiff University I created a mobile web application for Welsh for Adults. The purpose of this web app is to give users a free taster, a brief introduction at Welsh for Adults and try to persuade them to sign up for courses. Later in the year I was then asked to improve…
While working at Cardiff University I was asked to create a dashboard for the web development team which would display important site metrics. I created this dashboard using the Atlasboard graph package which runs on a Nodejs server. A lot of the data I needed to collect was stored on Google Analytics, but the…
During my placement at Cardiff University I created an iOS and Android application called Show me where. The application is aimed at helping autistic children describe parts of their body. It works by allowing users to slide different body parts across the screen onto a virtual doll and then outputs the relevant audio telling the user which…
In my spare time I decided to set myself a challenge to create a HTML5 reaction game within a week. The reaction game randomly generates a colour and displays it in a circle and then randomly positions the four available colours below it. The user needs to select the same colour from the bottom 4…
Here is a website I recently created for Prism Recruitment and Accountancy Limited. My client was in a rush to have the site up and running with all the existing content so I created a site using the Virtue theme on WordPress. I customised the layout and colour scheme using the clients feedback. I used the…
During my placement at Cardiff University I was asked to create a curriculum support website on WordPress using the Cardiff University Corporate Theme. The purpose of this website was to allow users to find out about the range of school related activities offered by Cardiff University. I created a taxonomy using the Types and Views plugins which allows…