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7 Great Ways to Learn Code for Womens Entrepreneurship Day

November 30, 2016 / / 0 Comments
It's never too late to get involved with coding! — Photo by ivke32

A coding plate-form  — Photo by ivke32

The tech industry is one of the fastest growing industries, but only 28% of proprietary software jobs are held by women. The industry is slowly changing, and diversity initiatives are supporting women to get jobs and rise in company ranks. At Oursky, we have women across all our teams and leadership whom have helped shape our inclusive company policies. For Women Entrepreneurship Day (Twitter #choosewomen), we wanted to share the awesome organizations — founded by women! — that help women and girls take off as awesome developers.

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5 Tips to Resolve a Conflict

November 29, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Let’s face it; with the exception of maybe Bill O’Reilly, no one likes to argue. Be that as it may, that’s not to say we shouldn’t be prepared for conflict it does inevitably erupt. You and a co-worker are having a dispute over the assumptions and logic for your build? Your cat won’t stop lying down directly on top of your keyboard as you write this article ? How do you deal with it? Continue reading

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10 Motivational Quotes from Women in Tech

November 16, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Oursky’s female team members are in every position in the company: development, project management, QA, design, business development / sales, and marketing. We’ve all had different experiences as women in tech, so we’re sharing a few quotes that inspire us. Hope you like them!

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9 Startup Lessons from Isaac Lidsky’s TEDTalk

October 25, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Even after creating award-winning apps featured in Apple App Store, Oursky’s team still faces the same startup hurdles every time we create a new in-house product. In addition to our many client projects, Oursky has developed in-house products such Shotbot and MakeappIcon. Upon reflection, we realised that many of the ups and downs we faced could be addressed by Isaac Lidsky’s TEDTalk about facing your fears: “What reality are you creating for yourself?”  Here are some of our startup reflections based on his advice. Continue reading

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How we figured out period leave without a single meeting

September 29, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Normally, we talk about code at Oursky, but a discussion about period leave in Hong Kong this spring got us thinking about our team culture. Our first question was, why is this even a debate? Do all companies need to have meetings and legislature to figure this out?

Oursky has 12 female team members who make up about 25% of the company. We solved the problem with a simple e-mail update to the entire company. Not all important issues need discussions before implementing a solution if you have the right company culture. We’d love to share with you how we solved this problem before it even became one. Continue reading

Ready Grow your Clientbase? 5 Ultimate Project Management Templates

September 8, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Just wrapped up your latest contract and swamped with potential clients? Do you want them, but not sure if you can take the extra load? We currently have 13 active projects and 18 open products. We’d love to share with you how we do project management.

First thing: we just use simple spreadsheets.

We’d love to share with you the 5 simple templates that help our teams every day.

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A Guide to Web Design Process (With a Free Template)

September 6, 2016 / / 0 Comments

In addition to our reputation for clean and sturdy code, Oursky is known for our thorough design process that produces products such as Cococolor and Artstack. In this post, we’re annotating  our internal web design guideline document for you to use.

We’ve refined this process of the years and going on our ‘don’t repeat yourself’ rule, we’d love to share our process transparently with you. These web design best practices are applicable for client and in-house products. Below, we’ll show you the web design for Skygear‘s sign up web portal (try our BaaS for free!).  to show you how we do things in-house.

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Why Side Projects Help Companies: 10 Ways it Helped Mine

August 30, 2016 / / 0 Comments
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I got an e-mail in the middle of the night. I opened it to discover that the Android version of our Chima Open Door app was finished.

“As long as it’s not something your boss told you to do, the job gets done so fast.” Recently, I joked about one of our new side projects, Chima Open Door, on Facebook.

This post is about our latest side project, Chima Open Door, why I support my team to pursue their own projects, and how projects like this benefits Oursky as a company. Continue reading

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5 Logo & Icon Tips for Visual Identity (With a Product Case)

August 25, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Where do you start for visual identity? So much meaning is crammed into a name, logo, and 16 x 16 icon. If you want a quick review of some design principles, check this article on effective logo design. Today’s post is a transparent sharing piece  on how we developed the toaster logo for an Oursky in-house product, MakeAppIcon.

The first iteration of MakeAppIcon (MAI) was a simple web app that helps users make icons for various platforms. We were sick of resizing, so we created an app that would help us do that. We don’t get too hung up on names, so we just used something people could remember. People remember smart and short, or descriptive and obvious. We went with the latter, and with the name decided, we moved on to visual identity. Continue reading

5 Front-End Design Essentials for Developers

5 Front-End Design Essentials for Developers

August 23, 2016 / / 0 Comments

Oursky has a lot of pixel lovers. Even though majority of our staff are developers, we take pride in our UI. In fact, our designers are perfectionists that not only design great front-end interfaces, they make sure our developers implement them properly.

Below, we’re sharing our internal design 101 guide that our designers created for developers. We hope it helps your implementation too! Continue reading

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