5 recent business requests we had in web and mobile design here in Miami

Fall is here in no time and we just left behind a fast hot summer. The Labor Day week-end at Rapids Water Park in West Palm Beach was fun!

But, of course, this week is back to work.

We have just started to work on a new hair salons management solution where we got the usual requirements with find, get to the store, make an appointment, manage the appoints calendar, provide a payment solution, provide reports, users and staff management etc. Normal requirements such as responsive design, mobile ready, secure, easy to use were on the table.

The graphic design / front end of this solution is very pretty and very clean so keep an eye open on this one as we lately had quite a few requests for mobile business calendars management.

But other than that you may ask us "what's shaking"? Here are a few things where we see action:

1. iOS development with full stack

There is a severe shortage of iOS programming resources in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale areas. And especially a shortage of developers with 5+ years of experience and experience in databases and web services as well. In other words it is hard to find full stack programmers with iOS.

Recruiters are scrambling around. Competent developers are jacking up the rates. And companies ready to hire push for good deals.

As a shop with competent expensive iOS developers it feels really good to be in such a sellers market.

2. Angular.js and Mongo DB

Since Google released angular.js (which takes care of a lot of your heavy lifting in front end development) there are many companies jumping the wagon and looking for good people. The more complex your front end is, the more need for angular.js you have. And there are not many people around who can program in that either.

Same thing with this very interesting object document oriented database technology called Mongo DB. Designed to allow for large, horizontally scaled databases and for increased performance and agility and adopted by some large organizations such as E-Bay, Forbes, Craigslist and Microsoft, Mongo is definitely growing and makes a lot of buzz in the community.

3. Content that involves users and drives business

There are a lot of online marketing companies out there. And there are a lot of strategies to drive traffic. But what a lot of customers complain is that their old sites conversion rates are not good. Other companies actually require some kind of content/marketing strategy as part of the presented technical solution when we send our bids.

Hence the need to produce great content that involves people who are landing on your website and actually makes them interact with your site / pick up the phone and call / start a chatting session with questions etc.

We are getting quite a bit of traction in that area as well by partnering with a three very competent video production, graphic design and SEO/PPC companies in town.

4. Agile development with continuous integration of new features

Agility is not just an edge anymore. When you are in the software development business it became a lifestyle.

Something different that we see lately is a lot of interest in emerging back end technologies that naturally allow for pivoting and agility. One of them is Mongo DB. Just been to a seminar and there was a lot of great stuff presented there. The community of developers and users was very engaged and you can tell why.

5. Mobile financial applications

We are constantly asked to send proposals for business applications for marketing and real estate companies. And they all involve implementing payment solutions.

But lately we had some interesting requests from pure financial companies, i.e. companies that are involved in the financial services industry. Secure, easy to do, flexible, comprehensive, mobile payments solutions are growing as banks and investment groups are starting to discover and appreciate the mobile technologies.

Make it a great day!

Adrian Corbuleanu
Miami Beach, FL
http://wittywebnow.com