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April saw the release of the long-awaited and freshly updated hospitality and restaurant app for the Luxury Restaurant Guide. Perfectly timed to coincide with the lockdown easing and re-opening of restaurants, the Luxury Restaurant Guide app is the digital destination for gastronomic fans and restaurant connoisseur alike. With a directory including some of the UK’s …

Lightflows welcome Harvey Massey-Ayling to the Lightflows team in a quality assurance role.  One of a number of new hires this year, Harvey joined the team in August. Having recently added Unity development to our services, the scale and complexity of our projects have increased. Harvey joins the growing team, helping bolster our testing services to …

Quality is paramount – Quality assurance can only be delivered by thorough process and product testing.  Testing takes time and effort and adds costs to projects, but is something we absolutely recommend to clients and something we at Lightflows build into our product and software development cycle. For a complex or business-critical web application the …

Progressive Web Apps, otherwise known as PWAs, are web pages or websites specifically designed to look and behave like native mobile apps. They are built to be responsive, high functioning, and to create a smooth user experience. The concept was first introduced by Google in 2015 and has become an entirely new software development paradigm. …

If you’ve ever answered the phone to an automated sales call, you might be forgiven for having a poor opinion of voice technology. In reality, voice recognition is an emerging technology growing in user base, supported hardware and integrations, and (most importantly) ability. We thought we’d explore what improving voice technology means for us as …

Over the years, WordPress has undergone countless changes, updates and patches. Gutenberg, however, has already made a name for itself as the editor with the power to either make or break the popular CMS. So, let’s dive in and explore how Gutenberg could forever change how we manage, upload and create content online. What Is …

Social media is a vital element of modern day marketing and brand awareness. Its speed and flexibility offers a unique way for businesses to communicate with their target audiences, and allows us to gain real insight into our customer base. If you choose to engage in social media marketing, you will quickly find that there …

Finding new ways to increase engagement; better business performance; and have more flexibility in getting results; are all business goals we continue to pursue on a daily basis. One way of achieving these goals is through implementing Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) for your website. What is an Accelerated Mobile Page (AMP)? AMP is an open-source initiative …

Of all the things that were announced at Apple’s WWDC, the new iOS 11 drag and drop features have particularly caught our eye. The main premise of drag and drop is nothing new. You’ve probably already used this feature yourself to organise your applications into folders on your iOS devices. However what’s new, is that …

We’d like to give a big Lightflows ‘Hola’ and warm welcome to our new member of the team, Luis. He’s not long moved over from Spain and we’re happy to have him as our new Backend Web Developer. Maybe he can teach us all a bit of Spanish too. To get to know him, we …