Enjoys...wine, food, music and friends, under the shade of a large tree.
Despises...scalloped potatoes, and buffoon mayors
One day...will open a zen meditation and skydiving centre on a Caribbean island.
Thinkers, coders, designers and friends – joyfully creating the web and mobile world.
It takes great people and ideas, plus a little elbow grease and know-how to create something that wins the day.
We love what we do here at TWG. So each day we bring all of our creative energy to work, designing and building applications to help our clients succeed. Since 2002, we’ve helped organizations from large businesses to startups, plan, design and engineer better digital tools, enabling better delivery of their products and services. All along we’ve been fine-tuning our process, learning what works best for the variety of projects that we see each day. The end result is a long list successful business outcomes for our clients.
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The TWG Team
Thinkers, Coders, Designers & Friends.
Our mission is to be the best software company in the world to learn, work, create, and grow at.
It’s a mission that requires real emphasis on our culture and on the quality of people we work with. We ask the brightest, most passionate coders, designers and thinkers to join TWG, and we constantly work to create an environment that lets them flourish. It’s a place that fosters the free exchange of ideas between designers, developers and business leaders.
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Dominic
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Jeremy
Enjoys...travelling to explore the best local food and wine spots
Despises...bad coffee –– there is no excuse
One day...he will drive a food truck in San Francisco with a killer mobile app
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Oleg
Enjoys...riding his bike, being surly
Despises...writing bios
One day...he will ride so fast he flies like E.T.
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Stephan
Enjoys...Cellphone computers, fresh music and fancy sandwiches
Despises...People traffic and tough plastic packaging
One day...will find a way to merge brunch and coding into an olympic sport
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Matt
Enjoys...making music, coffee, code, playing piano, water with a hint of lemon
Despises...small towns, bio-writing under pressure, drivers when biking
One day...will visit the world
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Jacob
Enjoys...playing the banjo, mountain biking and hiking, especially in the fall.
Despises...it when the Greyhound is late on his daily commute to Guelph.
One day...he will play the banjo well, and will have a stoop from which to play it.
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Andrés
Enjoys...the grin on a client's face while discussing a job well done.
Despises...mobile phones not left on vibrate.
One day...non-vibrating phones will be illegal & I’ll ride the big waves in Hawaii.
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Rob
Enjoys...Advance warning, proactive planning and unbridled passion.
Despises...That vigilante justice is not accepted in popular society.
One day...Just you wait and see...
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Derek
Enjoys...long walks on the beach, 90s-era action movies and high-fives
Despises...video taken portrait mode
One day...I’m going to Disneyland!
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Kelum
Enjoys...going to the gym and lifting large amounts of weight off the ground.
Despises...salad.
One day...I will learn all the Vim commands
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Eric
Enjoys...road bikes, strong coffee, live music and weekend adventures.
Despises...bad drivers and dirty dishes. Seriously.
One day...I'll book a ticket with Virgin Galactic. Space: the final frontier.
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Cliff
Enjoys...downward dog
Despises...guys with dark beards and dark tshirts on bikes
One day...Woof.
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Jack
Enjoys...Soccer in the park on a hot summer day, finishing projects, chocolate
Despises...Slush, blank stares, spicy food, being cold
One day...I will build my own house
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Tom
Enjoys...great teams, actionable metrics, ales, Man City as Champions, karaoke
Despises...gantt charts, cream soda, root beer, Dr. Pepper, character limits
One day...all you see before you shall be mine
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Shiera
Enjoys...Singing, music, traveling, drawing, David's Tea, pushing pixels and amazing cheese
Despises...Grey skies and bad attitudes
One day...I will sail around the world and cook with a chef from every country
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Brian
Enjoys...making stuff, solving problems, dangerous amounts of Red Bull
Despises...those who don't adhere to 'walk left, stand right'
One day...will find out he's really a robot
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Michael
Enjoys...building things, online, offline and in between
Despises...heights, squeaking shoes, coriander, time-zones
One day...will build a treehouse, a really cool one, with a slide.
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Chris
Enjoys...the smiles of his wife and two girls, technology that changes the world
Despises...middle of the night wake ups, food that he likes but shouldn't eat
One day...he will be the first ever to go straight from agency ball to the NBA.
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Scott
Enjoys...banging bits together until you get something amazing.
Despises...needless complexity.
One day...I hope to visit Mars and complain about the slow wireless internet.
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Emerson
Enjoys...Writing computer codes, beards, office dogs, hoppy beers
Despises...Bees, business jargon, and people who use the word 'bro' too much
One day...Will find the time to learn Adobe Illustrator
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Holly
Enjoys...Cups of tea, David Attenborough, pop music, adventures.
Despises...Flat tires, the rain
One day...I'd like to open Toronto's first cider bar
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Rebecca
Enjoys...Naps, long walks on the beach
Despises...Limp handshakes, peanut butter
One day...Will retire at a young age.
Choose Your Own Adventure?
The TWG team is a mosaic of nationalities, skills, personalities, bonded by a common love for the web and mobile space. If you’d like to choose your own adventure, and write your own story, we invite you to give us a shout at jobs@twg.ca.
Our Services
For the web and mobile space, we provide strategy, design, web and mobile development, as well as ongoing application hosting and support.
Our tight-knit team of twenty can cover a lot of ground. From application research and strategy, architecture and design, to prototyping, test-driven software development, documentation, UAT, staging and live deployment. We’re a full-service web and mobile shop. Contact us at hello@twg.ca or 416 850 2500 to get the immediate answers to your pressing questions.
Strategy & Design
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Solution Design Workshops
- Business model canvas, Lean Canvas.
- Customer problem, segmentation, solution modelling and costing.
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User Experience & Design
- User focused design.
- User testing and validation.
- Responsive interface design.
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Analytics
- Conversion strategy and outcome measurement.
- Search Engine Optimization backed up with measureable results.
Web & Mobile Development
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Web application development
- Test-driven software
- Content management systems
- Custom applications
- E-commerce systems
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Mobile development
- Apps for iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows 8
- Responsive, cross platform mobile-web applications
Support & Hosting
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Application Support
- Application maintenance and support.
- On-call emergency support.
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Application Hosting
- Scalable, reliable hosting on cloud or dedicated hardware in a co-located data centre.
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Infrastructure Support
- Server and process monitoring and logging.
- Hourly backups, Snapshots, and daily backups.
- Recovery response.
Our Process
We’re a team of committed digital strategists and engineers. Over the past ten years we’ve honed our process to successfully ship complex and customized web + mobile projects within project budget and timeline. Here is a brief breakdown of the parts of our process.
Interested in talking about your project, or process? Contact us at hello@twg.ca or 416 850 2500.
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Discovery & Definition
Lets see if we’re the right dance partners by starting with a discussion of the problem you’re trying to solve, and ways you might tackle it. Sometimes we’ll run a workshop to help define your MVP (minimum viable product), other times we can move quickly to scoping your project. The deliverable is an estimate and timeline.
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Planning & Design
Next, we dig deeper into planning and lay out a project roadmap, functional grouping and delivery dates. Having this foundation provides the grounding that a client and production team need as they embark on an Agile development process. Our design approach focuses on reducing obstacles and confusion, providing an intuitive a path from A to B for every interaction.
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Agile Development
We’ve spent ten years improving our craft, and today we use an Agile development approach called ‘Scrum’. It divides projects into short, demonstrable periods of work - letting you provide frequent feedback. Together we focus on identifying the highest priority requirements, and we ensure that with fixed budgets and timelines the best possible outcome is delivered.
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Tech Mentorship
Whether we bring your technical team in-house to fully incubate them in application development or we set up weekly sessions to on-board and mentor your team on the system code base, TWG takes an active role in transferring our experience to your team so that you can successfully run your application.
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Long Term Support - DR BFF
You’re the experts of your business, and we like to think we’re pretty good at what we do too. TWG gladly rides shotgun with you, helping to support and host your application on a range of cloud-based or co-located hardware-based server configurations.