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We start each engagement by understanding your business goals and what you want your app to do. Here’s where we blue-sky it and just generate tons of ideas, getting the bad ones out of the way.
Once the approach and ideas have been curated, we go away and come up with user-flow charts, sketches and wireframes, and even an interactive prototype so everyone can see how it works before a line of code is written.
Once a low-fidelity prototype is approved, we combine it with beautiful visuals. Using moodboards to establish a visual concept, and then fully rendered design comps, you get to see your app’s beautiful interface.
You’ve seen your application on the screen and understand how it will work. Next, we put together a detailed function specifications document that will serve as everyone’s guide, essentially an instruction manual of how every piece of the app will work.
Our experienced software developers will architect the application in detail, planning the classes, databases and methods for tighter, more organized development.
Each member of our team specializes in various aspects of application development, whether it’s PHP and MySQL, HTML5, CSS3 or Javascript/AJAX/Jquery. We also use Beanstalk and Subversion for efficient versioning and back-ups.
Everyone’s got bugs, and so does software. That’s why we have a tight bug testing process, using both internal and remote testers to track and prioritize bugs, ensuring they get found and corrected earlier in the process.
ExpressionEngine is a powerful yet simple-to-use commercial-grade content management system (CMS) that empowers thousands of companies worldwide to easily manage their websites. We use EE as our CMS of choice, and make use of third-party modules as well as our own custom built ones. We even wrote the guide for clients that is widely used by hundreds of EE developers.
Our in-house coding tool-kit, CI is an open-source PHP framework with a light footprint. Meaning it gives us what we need without getting in the way when we need to create powerful, custom applications.
A combination of version control mixed with web-based collaboration tools, and the ability to deploy multiple versions of software easily, Beanstalk is our central code repository that keeps our work safe and centralized.
The de-facto Javascript library, JQuery and it’s many plugins allow us to create robust, interactive, beautiful web interactions that are cross-browser compatible. It’s AJAX library also makes for sleek transitions and intuitive functionality.
Yeah, we know. Not very modern or techy is it? And yet it’s the simplest and most proven way of getting good ideas out there. Our motto is; If it can’t work on paper, then it can’t work in code.
Slickplan is a great tool for creating site-maps and user-flow charts, while Invision let’s us take our wireframes and design comps and quickly create interactive prototypes that clients can click through before a line of code is written.
The time-tested, vetted and insanely expensive suite of Adobe products, such as Fireworks, Illustrator and Photoshop allows us take low-fidelity sketches and turn them into beautiful, breathing, high-fidelity designs.
The gold standard in website traffic statistics, we intall GA on every site and can help you navigate the sometimes-confusing waters of GA to uncover what data really matters and can be used to improve your site.
Useful for conversion rate optimization, we use Website Optimizer to split our traffic and offer up variations on a landing page to see which version turns more clicks into customers.
In addtion to being a great blog for ongoing learning about the ever-changing world of search-engine optimization, this app helps us run and manage SEO campaigns giving us helpful data around backlinks and keywords.
CM is everything we could want and more in an email marketing tool. It allows our clients to log in and create campaigns from one of the templates we’ve designed, manage a subscriber list, view it in a variety of email clients, and then send out the campaign, receiving reports on open and bounce-rates, and a whole lot more.
As a unique way to highlight and promote their company’s larger incentive packages, we built Fraser & Hoyt Incentives a custom branded HTML5 app to showcase several distinct travel locations complete with interactive videos and pictures.
Launching in 2013, we have built our own SaaS-model app for creating beautiful, custom proposals.
Visit WebsiteWe designed a new responsive website for Rentals Your Way that showcases their beautiful vacation properties in Mexico and Colorado and includes photo galleries, advanced search and booking through the third-party Escapia platform.
Visit WebsiteWe were engaged by the Department of Education to plan and design a fun HTML5 mobile app for youths planning their career.
We designed a SaaS application for organizations and non-profits to easily create their own community boards.
Medmira develops 3-minute rapid-diagnostic testing solutions for infectious diseases. We worked with them to complete a full re-brand including identity design and visual language for their collateral. We also developed a responsive website, including content, videos and photography.
Visit WebsiteAquatera is a waste-management and water-utlity in Alberta. For them, we created both a public-facing website and a robust, custom-built extranet with discussions, file-manager, booking engine, live chat and more.
Visit WebsiteWe’ve been working with Stan Kutcher’s team at the IWK for a long time, building and maintaining their web assets. Our latest challenge was an intricate e-learning system for parents, teachers and health-professionals.
Visit WebsiteThe National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health is a federal organization that needed a great website and a large community with advanced functionality.
Visit WebsiteWe designed and planned a large SaaS app for painting professionals to quote their jobs easier and more accurately.
We designed and built our own social search monitoring application that uncovers influence, trends and sentiment.
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The Hydrostone Market
Halifax NS, Canada
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