Brightec Team

A photo of Ben, Brightec's Product Manager

10 minutes with Ben

Meet Ben, Brightec’s Product Manager

Software Engineer Mo smiles at the camera

10 minutes with Mo

Meet our curious and determined Software Engineer, Mo

Our mobile app developer Dan smiles at the camera

10 minutes with Dan

Introducing Dan; our fun, adventurous and passionate nomadic Software Engineer

Josh, Steve, Annie and Simon at the awards ceremony

How it feels to work from an award-winning studio

We are so proud that our new studio has been awarded Best Working Environment (Silver) in the UK Company Culture Awards.

Rhys and Steve laughing as they work together

How Creativity in the Tech Industry Makes Life More Fun and Mental Health More Stable

In this blog post, we'll explore the importance of creativity and innovation in the tech industry, to celebrate World Creativity & Innovation Day this Friday (21st April).

10 minutes with Seun

Calm, curious and playful, meet Seun

Head shot of James smiling holding a book

10 minutes with James

His Uncle invented the Black+Decker Jigsaw; a claim to fame that has us in pieces. But it's no puzzle where our Head of Design gets his creativity from…

A photo of a lady testing the functionality of an app on her phone

What makes QA so important?

It’s all very well having the best idea for an app, but you’re going to need your final product to match that great idea you had at the beginning. That’s where QA comes in.

Some of the Brightec team working at their desks

App Designer and App Developer Jobs at Brightec - Come and Work with Us

Technology is in a constant flux of evolution and we always want to stay ahead of the game. So much so that we’re jumping the gun with this one…

10 minutes with Jonny

Meet our down to earth developer with a passion for coding and capoeira

10 minutes with Alistair

Meet our Android-enthusiast, Alistair

What is the point in blogging as a software developer?

Here we explore some key reasons why every Software Developer should blog

10 minutes with Rhys

This budding photographer never loses focus, whether chasing sunsets or revamping development processes within the team.

10 minutes with Caz

Not all heroes wear capes, some wear dinosaur-print yoga leggings, and a bobble hat (indoors)

10 minutes with Georgia

Meet Georgia, our globe-trotting Head of Operations

10 minutes with Nick

Don’t forget you’re in good company

A head shot of Chris looking at a screen

10 minutes with Chris

Meet our Technical Director Chris. He'll hate that we've written an entire blog about him.

10 minutes with Andy

Brightec wouldn’t exist without Andy, and his garden shed

10 minutes with Josh

No one could forget Josh, our Creative Director at Brightec.

10 minutes with Rob

Meet Rob. The latest talented developer to join our team.

Remote Team Activities

Remote working games and working from home activities for you and your team.

The team proved once again that they’re outstanding in a field.

Brightec's Summer Get Together

A photo of Elle smiling in conversation with a team member

10 minutes with Elle

Say ‘aloe’ to our plant loving designer, Elle

In Depth

Brightec bags awards galore

We’ve recently been recognised for six separate industry awards.

We offer insights into key issues to consider in the early stages of enterprise mobile app development.

Enterprise Mobile App Development: 5 ways to plan for success

We recently recorded a Horizon CIO podcast that showcases our customer-centric work with World of Books.

Brightec takes to the airwaves

We recently helped our ecommerce friends further develop their brand identity.

Brightec brand collaboration

A chance for us to inspire the next generation of mini innovators

Brightec teams up with MakerClub

10 minutes with Dave

A man of few words, Dave has the ability to deliver one-liners with a straight face and continue as if nothing untoward just occurred

It’s been an exciting week here in the office as we’ve opened our doors to film cameras for the first time.

Bringing the Brightec story to life

It’s been a busy and exciting year for the Brightec team. As we deck the halls, munch mince pies and prepare for the Christmas break, we thought we’d take a look back at some of the best bits of the last 12 months.

Brightec in 2017

Mobile App Development Agency of the Year 1

We were hoping that our expertise in mobile app development would earn us more trophies for the cabinet.

Brightec wins Agency of the Year (Small) at the UK App Awards 2017

How to set up a colour style guide for a project in Xcode.

Xcode : Setting up a Colour Style Guide for a project

We use personas as part of our design to keep the process user focused. For many clients, the persona is a new concept and they’re greeted with a mix of enthusiasm and scepticism. So what are they and how should you use them?

Using Personas

Is user research a waste of time and money? We explore this issue.

The why and how of user research

I’ve read countless posts since Monday night when Chelsea brilliantly ended Spurs’ title dreams

Leicester v Chelsea - lessons we can learn

How we use Usability Testing as part of our design process

Usability Testing

How to set up your project to work with iBeacons

How to turn an iPhone into an iBeacon

A review of the recent Digital Pharma Europe 2016 conference

Digital Pharma Europe

At the heart of interactions on tvOS lies the Focus Engine.

tvOS Focus Engine

Our highlights from the recent Apple TV Tech Talk event in London

Apple TV Tech Talk London

We took a look at how 4 different apps make use of new UX & UI opportunities on tvOS

Four apps maximising UX on Apple TV

We attended the increasingly popular and influential TEDx Brighton event

TEDx Brighton Reviewed

Interact 2015

Ed attended the UX conference Interact 2015 and penned his thoughts.

10 minutes with Steve

With a career chronicle more varied than most and a love of Sci-fi, we’re honoured to have kept Steve grounded on planet Brightec since 2015

What are the key implications for developers that came out of WWDC 2015?

In Depth

Implications of WWDC 2015

In summary - WWDC 2015

It's that time of year again. So what did we learn from WWDC 2015?

We got our hands on the much vaunted Apple Watch. Here’s our preliminary thoughts

Straight out the box - Apple Watch

Working with CoreGraphics can be a developer's nightmare. It’s our bogey-man hiding under the bed.

IBDesignable and IBInspectable with CoreGraphics

Apple Spring Forward Reviewed

‘Anyone want any cold pizza?’ Our thoughts on the Apple Spring Forward Event.

We got our hands on the new Amazon Fire Phone and subjected it to an 'out of the box' review.

Straight out the box - Amazon Fire Phone

PreferredMaxLayoutWidth: Everything You Need to Know

In this article, we explain one of the most confusing UILabel properties - preferredMaxLayoutWidth.

10 minutes with Jotham

Drum roll please. Our Head of Product quite likely never feels full, but Jotham is overflowing with ideas to turn your project visions into accessible digital products that people will love to use.

Content delivery apps compared

What are the best content delivery platforms for applications?

Objective-C code is Shakespearean English and Swift is the latest London Cockney slang?

Objective-C code in a Swift project

Remember those days, the good ol’ days; when there was just one device, with one screen and one resolution?

One layout to rule them all

This is the final post in the series - ‘Evolving the Dev Process’.

Android

Branching Strategy

What’s the difference between code standards and code style?

Code Standards

How quickly can a developer start contributing good code?

Code Style expectations

This is the first of a four part series - ‘Evolving the development process’. Part 1 looks at CI (Continuous Integration).

Why Continuous Integration?

A tableview which could be scrolled both horizontally and vertically?

UICollectionView Tutorial: How to Create Sticky Headers with Horizontal and Vertical Scrolling

Review of the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch launch

Would there be an ‘iWatch’? What would the iPhone 6 deliver?

Organise

Code Style Guide

Is there really anything worse than someone else’s code?

The problem came to light when we needed to set a number of marks on a music player...

How We Created a Custom Slider with Marks for iOS

What are the trends in this ever-growing app world and how might they affect the apps we use?

In Depth

What Mobile App Trends Can We Expect to See in 2014?

iOS 7 Custom View Controller Transitions and Rotation

Custom iOS7 Transition
iOS 7 introduced a whole bunch of new APIs for developers to sink their teeth into but one of the standout APIs is the ability to create custom UIViewController transitions. Unfortunately it's also one of the most confusing.