Work
We believe Crowdsourcing is revolutionizing social and environmental causes–so much so that we created a video called “The Power of Everyone” for the Opportunity Collaboration conference. Take a look and seek out Adam Hevenor and TJ Cook at OppCol this year.
Late last year, during our customary time of introspection as a company, we decided to allow ourselves the indulgence of re-imagining our web presence to better communicate who we are, what we do, and the impact we’re having.
HiDef’s new site articulates our international reach and global perspective to potential clients and employees who have met us onsite, online, or through a third party site (such as through a blog post mention, a tweet, or a job posting). The site emphasizes original design, photography and illustration throughout, created 100% by HiDeffers. Continue Reading
One of the most important aspects of developing and iterating high quality software is understanding at a deep level how your users use the software. By carefully analyzing how specific features are used, how the users interpret certain visual cues, how intuitive the overall tasks we’re asking them perform are, and a host of other observations, we can fine tune and improve the overall experience for the users.
As part of an exciting ongoing project, we were tasked with collecting and processing these observations in a very unique situation: rural communities in India. Continue Reading
When HiDef set out to build its first iPhone app, we never imagined it would become the world’s largest digital repository of normalized scripture content in the world. Today the app offers scripture in over 185 languages in audio and text. It’s the largest collection on the planet. Plus, it’s being used by millions in over 85 countries on both iOS and Android platforms.
This global reach is what gets us excited here at HiDef (we think the highly engaging, yet simple, multimedia interface is pretty cool, too). Apps are providing a more accessible and open platform for information than ever before, and to be involved in work that is leading that trend is what gets us up every morning (and keeps us up a few nights). Continue Reading
Faith Comes By Hearing has an ambitious goal of recording audio content for 2,000 languages around the world by 2016. In late 2009 an idea was born to create mobile applications that would allow people to listen to FCBH’s vast catalog of languages–wherever, whenever, with their smart phones.