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When Webflow Works: Breaking Barriers for Creatives, Marketers, and Developers

Discover how Webflow empowers our creatives, marketers, and developers with design freedom and seamless collaboration.

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What Does Being a “Top Workplace” Mean to Us?

Hansonites reflect on what being named to The Blade's Top Workplaces of 2015 means to them.

As you may have heard, Hanson was recently named to The Blade's Top Workplaces (for the second year in a row). Because this award is based on employee surveys, we wanted to hear what being named a top workplace means to our fellow Hansonites. (Spoiler alert: a lot of us feel lucky to be part of this team!)

Through the Looking Glass: Developing Hanson’s First Glass App

Hanson developers Richard Carhart and Joel Lanciaux talk about their experience developing Hanson's first Google Glass app.

My colleague Joel Lanciaux and I got the opportunity to develop Hanson’s first Google Glass app. So we thought we’d take a few minutes to talk about what we learned from the experience. What follows is a loosely-edited transcript of our conversation.

Technology

Apps

Google

En Guarde! Couch Knights and the Oculus Rift at PAX East

Hanson software engineer David Williams writes about his experience testing the Oculus Rift dev kit 2 and Couch Knights at PAX East 2014.

While there were a lot of cool things demoed at PAX East 2014, the most exciting part of my experience there was getting to try the latest version of the Oculus Rift. The Oculus Rift, for the unaware, is a head-mounted virtual reality display. VR headsets have been forgotten about or made fun of since the mid-90s (rightfully), but the Rift shows that technology can now do the concept justice.

Technology

Emerging Technology

Virtual Reality

3 Approaches to eCommerce Architecture

John Ewing, managing director of engineering at Hanson Inc., presents the pros and cons of 3 approaches to ecommerce architecture.

Thinking about jumping into the world of ecommerce? It’s all about the architecture. The best way to approach it depends on a lot of factors, like whether you have an existing site, the state of your product catalogs, how much custom functionality you need, and what your budget and technology resources are. We work closely with clients to recommend the very best solution for their unique needs, but if you’re still in preliminary thinking mode, here are some broad tips to get you started.

Technology

Engineering

eCommerce