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User experiences everyone will love

From idea to handover, we create beautiful designs with all your users in mind

User Experience and Interface Essentials

The spark. Amazing experiences start with understanding the user, their journey and the solutions to help them on their way.

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Our research-driven design process

We don’t just throw things at the wall and hope they stick (as much fun as throwing sticky things at walls is), we have an air-tight process that touches all parts of the build journey, and holds close collaboration with your project team at its heart. Here’s what we mean:

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UX preparation

Project discovery and problem definition happens here. We dive deep into your business, customers, and industry, then plot the path to defining and delivering on project goals.

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UX research

The fun begins with user research (not that prep wasn’t fun…). Developing personas, building out scenarios and mapping user journeys.

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Architecture & flow

Time to visualise the actual flow of the solution. We’ll start to see some flowcharts and sitemaps of the product or service at this stage. Things are getting serious now.

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UI design

Thinking more about the look and feel, how things work and function together, building out design and interaction systems, wireframes and prototypes. That kind of thing.

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Development

Bringing the experience to life. Guided by our proven best practices, our developers and designers get into creation mode, building the backend and frontend of the product.

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UX consulting

We continue to work with you to ensure the experience keeps on delivering. Before handover, we’ll set up custom analytics, helping you use data to make better decisions and working with you to put those decisions into action.

How we build things with a user-centric approach

We take a collaborative yet objective user-centric approach to delivering your project, and that’s important.

Area experts

Yes, we’re collaborative, but we each have our own unique skill set. We’re a clever bunch of strategists, research experts, UX and UI designers, and developers. And we work closely with your experts for their unmatched insight and inner workings knowledge.

Unbiased and empathetic

We make it our business to get to know your customer inside and out in an unbiased way. It’s important to have a fresh perspective when it comes to your customers and their needs. The best experiences are born from this.

Unique solutions

We’ve tried to find a non-cliche way to say unique solutions for unique problems, but it’s annoyingly succinct. It’s true. Your project never gets the copy/paste treatment. There really is a unique solution out there, and we’ll build it.

Strategic thinking

We know how to connect the dots between business goals and user needs. We love creating shiny new things, but the products and experiences we create work hard (really hard) to get your users taking action.

A partnership approach

We’re transparent and share our learnings along the way. This is your baby, after all. We create project teams with people from your team and ours. This part is pretty fun!

Small yet mighty

Smaller teams work fast, experiment more and can change directions quickly. Our small team gives great results without endless back-and-forth. That means more results for your money.

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Let’s build something!

Ready to get serious? Let’s chat about what you’d like to get off the ground and how we can work together to make it happen.

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