Work

A selection of projects delivered by hsolutions, from online commerce to embedded systems. Some are recent, others go back several years: they are here because they show concretely what we can do.

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Bucher + Walt online catalogue: Products, Services and Info tabs, a clothing category tree and filters by price band and brand.

Online commerce

B2B online ordering for a distributor

An online ordering and catalogue system for the dealers of several major brands distributed in Switzerland. The catalogue exposes items, their variants and their availability; dealers order directly, filtering by range, price and brand.

Liquid Force site header: wakeboarding and kiteboarding photographs flanking the brand logo.

Web & portals

Brand sites for a multi-brand distributor

Several brand sites built for a single Swiss distributor, each with its own visual identity on a shared technical base: product ranges, the dealer network by region, contact details and links through to the brands’ international sites.

Store locator: search by town and radius, a Google map with markers and a “Flyer Centre Genève” tooltip, and the list of 17 results on the right.

Web & portals

Web platform for Dakine Switzerland

A set of web modules for the brand in Switzerland: a map-based store locator with search by town and radius, opening onto a detail card listing the ranges actually stocked; rider team pages; news and an events calendar, all driven from one administration.

Business applications

An opinion survey across a panel of about a thousand

An opinion survey run for Dakine on our hSurvey platform, across a panel of roughly a thousand people. Both the technical side and the scientific design of the questionnaire — question wording, pacing, data analysis — were handled by hsolutions in order to maximise the response rate.

Screen from the “Win a trip around the world” game: an illustrated world map, a dotted route between continents and a thumbnail of a snowboarder at Verbier.

Games & training

Online prize game for a sports brand

An illustrated prize game built for a marketing campaign: the player follows a route across a stylised world map for the chance to win a trip. A light mechanic, designed to be shared and played straight in the browser.

The “Global Processing System” interface: a navigation bar with Reconciliation, Contracts, Finance, Accounting, Risk and Stats, above a profit-and-loss screen with a date range and a USD/EUR breakdown.

Finance & accounting

A single view over credit-card processing

A solution reconciling merchant data, VISA and Mastercard data and bank data into a single overall view. The interface brings together reconciliation, contracts, accounting, risk management and statistics, with results reported per currency.

Thirdman home page: the line “We search, you select, we bid — for you”, a sign-in form, and on the right a lot on sale with its estimate in pounds and its auction date.

Web & portals

Tracking auction sales worldwide

A two-part technical solution: an engine that continuously collects sales, lots and images from many auction-house sites, and a full client-facing site — bid tracking, notification of every action to the parties involved, and distinct roles and access levels.

Assembly-game screen: the steps Winding, Barrels and gear train, Escapement and regulation, Power reserve and Calendar, with golden gears laid on a movement plate and the message “BRAVO! Continuez…”.

Games & training

A 3D watch-assembly game for fine watchmaking

A game and training tool built for a leading fine-watchmaking house: the user assembles Calibre 675 part by part, from the winding mechanism to the calendar. Components are viewable in real-time 3D; the whole is multilingual, with a set of training films played through a built-in viewer with subtitles.

Gaming platform interface: a “Hottest kites & boards” banner, a numbered “1 Choose, 2 Bet, 3 Sign in, 4 Play” path and the choice of prizes.

Games & training

Online gaming platform

A complete site for online play, with a four-step path — choose, bet, sign in, play — available in web and mobile versions, and a catalogue of prizes to win.

Business applications

Centralised point-of-sale system for a retail chain

For a Swiss fast-food retail chain: design of the network and functional architecture, development of the till software with receipt printers, stock management and inter-site transfers, then rollout, operation and ongoing evolution of the system. All data — deliveries, sales, losses, unsold stock — feeds a central analysis.

Finance & accounting

Invoicing and accounting for an international organisation

Development and then long-term stewardship of a complete invoicing and accounting system for an international organisation, including day-to-day operation and successive evolutions of the system.

Planetis Distribution home page: the blue-and-red chequered logo, a note on the sales and distribution service for intergovernmental organisations, and an introduction to the catalogue of over 30,000 titles.

Online commerce

Online distribution of international organisations’ publications

A distribution site for publications and information products issued by intergovernmental organisations. The catalogue covers tens of thousands of titles and electronic products, browsable by publisher and by subject, in French and English.

Vita Verdura site header: the logo, the Shop, Practical and Ethics sections with their descriptions, the product search bar and the start of the catalogue.

Online commerce

Online shop for regional food produce

An online shop for fresh produce delivered to the door, built around a tree-structured catalogue — market, fruit, regional vegetables, groceries — with product search, organic filters and item pages naming each product’s origin.

Faircrafts Africa home page: a banner patterned with African fabric, a category column (batiks, karuni jewellery, Adéona boxes, soapstone) and a basket showing a total in Swiss francs.

Online commerce

Fair-trade online shop

An online shop for African crafts sold on fair-trade principles: categories by object type, a multi-currency basket switching between Swiss francs and other currencies, and a customer account.

Ekaï Sushi site header: the orange logo, the Our sushi, Our restaurants, Customer service and News menu, the towns served, and panels for home delivery and a new product.

Web & portals

Website and online ordering for a restaurant chain

The site of a restaurant chain operating across several towns in French-speaking Switzerland: menu, restaurants, home delivery and customer service, with new items and current offers brought forward.

TimeForYou Services client area: a French/English switch, the line “members-only client area”, and two columns — “Already registered?” and “First visit?” — each with an email field.

Web & portals

Client area for a concierge service

A members-only area for a concierge service, bilingual French and English: sign-in for existing members, registration for newcomers, and a route back to the main site.

Patient record interface: Patient search and Admin buttons with a drop-down menu (Interpreters, Referrals, Insurance, Consultation reasons, Discharge reasons), a red alert panel and a personal-details block.

Business applications

Patient record application

A web application for managing patient records: patient search, personal details and contact information, alerts flagging at-risk cases, and administration menus covering insurance, referrals, consultation reasons and discharge reasons.

A newsletter laid out in TPG Publicité SA’s livery: logo, the line “Septembre 2010 — Newsletter”, the company’s contact details and a panoramic photograph of Geneva’s bay.

Business applications

Client newsletters with hnewsletter

Our hnewsletter platform in real-world use: newsletters in each client’s own livery, sent to their mailing lists, with open and click tracking. Rendering stays identical whatever mail software the recipient uses.

The “Sources” page of the Manuel Bouvier site: text describing the search for gems worldwide, bowls of rough stones and a hand holding coloured crystals.

Web & portals

Showcase site for a jewellery designer

A trilingual site presenting a jewellery designer’s work: biography, activities, pieces, exhibitions and gemstone sourcing, with a layout that gives the photography room to breathe.

Site header: the line “Your Home away from Home… in Geneva Switzerland” on a red banner framing a photograph of the Jet d’Eau, above a menu of presentation, apartments, parking, useful, contact and downloads.

Web & portals

Serviced-apartment rental site

A site letting serviced apartments in Geneva to an international clientele: apartment listings, practical information and downloadable documents, with short and direct navigation.

Systems & embedded

Interactive connected coffee machine

Development, for a major brand, of an interactive coffee machine driven by a touchscreen and connected to the internet. The embedded software controls movements, pumps and recipes, on a system with no moving parts and therefore completely silent.

Systems & embedded

Quality-control aid for watch production

A prototype quality-control aid for watch production, tracking products along the line and recording the checks carried out for statistical analysis.

Systems & embedded

Voice-over-IP phone system for an SME

Installation and rollout of hPhone, our IP telephony solution for SMEs: a fully software-based exchange, desk or softphone handsets, sending and receiving faxes, voicemail reachable by phone, email or web, and an advanced console for the reception desk.

Infrastructure

Distributed, redundant hosting

Hosting for high-traffic websites spread across several load-balanced servers, with data redundancy — including dynamic data and databases under write load.

Systems & embedded

Interactive cross-platform screensavers

Development of interactive, animated screensavers delivered across a very wide range of devices — mobile phones, personal digital assistants and desktop computers on Windows, macOS and Linux. An in-house platform let a single version be written and then adapt itself to each device’s characteristics: cross-platform work done long before today’s tooling existed.

They have trusted us

Organisations and companies we have worked for, on one-off projects or long-running collaborations.

  • United Nations Publications logo
  • Jaeger-LeCoultre logo

    One of the finest watchmakers in the world

  • Blancpain logo
  • Patek Philippe logo
  • Garmin logo

    The world leader in GPS

  • Dakine logo

    The most fashionable sports and bag brand

  • Swissôtel logo
  • DSG logo

    The German school of Geneva

  • Thirdman logo

    The finest objects at auction in Europe

  • Ekaï logo

    Excellent sushi, healthy and fresh, in French-speaking Switzerland

  • Genprop logo

    Apartment rental

  • Echami logo

    Scaffolding, Geneva and Vaud

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