In a competitive world, design will help you thrive.
In a competitive world, design will help you thrive.
In a competitive world, design will help you thrive.
Design deserves dedication
We believe that the best way we can help our clients is through dedication. Our core competency is designing modern digital services that need to be user-friendly, efficient and visually attractive. All these lead to our clients running a better business.
To be truly great requires passion, creativity and persistence – and deserves dedication.
So day after day, week after week, we are reading and researching, playing and exploring, taking things apart and putting them back together again. Designing and redesigning. Prototyping, testing and iterating until it’s ready. We design by facts and user research.
All in the name of creating services and experiences that will enhance the user experience.
Our core strengths are Design & Research:
Design deserves dedication
We believe that the best way we can help our clients is through dedication. Our core competency is designing modern digital services that need to be user-friendly, efficient and visually attractive. All these lead to our clients running a better business.
To be truly great requires passion, creativity and persistence – and deserves dedication.
So day after day, week after week, we are reading and researching, playing and exploring, taking things apart and putting them back together again. Designing and redesigning. Prototyping, testing and iterating until it’s ready. We design by facts and user research.
All in the name of creating services and experiences that will enhance the user experience.
Our core strengths are Design & Research:
Design
Keywords: User Experience (UX), User-Centered Design (UCD), Interaction Design (IxD), User-Interface Design (UI), Usability, Visual Design, Graphic Design, Brand Design
Let’s be honest. Everybody wants great design, and those who don’t have it, try to copy it. Now ask yourself: do you want to be the one who offers great design, or the one who just copies it? Yes. We thought so.
Design
Keywords: User Experience (UX), User-Centered Design (UCD), Interaction Design (IxD), User-Interface Design (UI), Usability, Visual Design, Graphic Design, Brand Design
Let’s be honest. Everybody wants great design, and those who don’t have it, try to copy it. Now ask yourself: do you want to be the one who offers great design, or the one who just copies it? Yes. We thought so.
In design, our fields of specialization are:
Human interaction is the foundation of a digital product. It is the bridge, or language, between the machine and the human.
Even the slightest misunderstanding causes problems. Problems that affect the users and consequently the entire business. These problems end up costing businesses a significant amount of resources.
Our experience and research show that the more businesses invest in professional design, the higher the Return on Investment (ROI).
For this reason, Product Design is one of our fields of specialization.
How your users will benefit:
- Improved ease-of-use
- Tasks are done faster and more effectively
- Shorter learning curve for the service
- Improved usability for all users, young and old – and whatever the device
- The users make less mistakes
How your business will benefit:
- Less resources go to fixing problems, leaving more for development and innovation
- A well-designed digital service is structurally streamlined. This economizes development costs and maintenance resources directly
- Less resources are needed to educate and support your users
- Increased value, reputation and interest of your service
- Your service is easier to sell or market
If you want to see examples on how we have done this in the past, please contact us! We are always happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
The way you choose to create your vision is critical to how it will succeed.
The best way to create a vision is to design it first.
This might sound self-evident, but when we look around us, we see plenty of badly or inadequately designed examples. The reasons for this vary, but the usual suspects are priorities or values, resources and skills.
If good design was easy, everyone would do it. For this reason, our mission is to dedicate to design – because design deserves dedication.
We are specialized in helping clients who have a vision for a digital service and need help to design it.
Our promise is to help you identify any missing or incomplete features in your vision or service, and to design your vision into a user-friendly digital service with a great user experience. This will minimize the risk of coming out with an incomplete service, which is far more costly to fix afterwards. Our design process is cost-effective, agile and creative.
How your users will benefit:
- Your users will appreciate a well-designed service
- Fewer users will be frustrated with missing or incomplete features
- Improved user experience and satisfaction
How your business will benefit:
- A well designed service is cost effective. Fewer resources are spent on fixing problems, making more resources available for innovation and new projects
- A well designed service has a higher chance of success
- Increased value, reputation and interest in your service
- Your service has a higher sales and market value
If you want to see examples on how we have done this in the past, please contact us! We are always happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
Everything we do carries a message. Every message leaves an impression. The visual impression you make is crucial for the outcome of the communication.
Throughout human evolution, we have been dependent on relying on our eyesight to find opportunities, detect dangers and appreciate beauty. Our surroundings in various shapes and colors communicate to us, and based on that, we make decisions and conclusions.
The same applies to businesses and its services. For this reason, visual design is one of our specializations.
How your users will benefit:
- In general, good aesthetics increase well-being and satisfaction. Making a digital service visually attractive improves the user experiences.
- Users will get a strong first-impression.
- It makes sure your digital service also looks modern. A service that looks out of its time easily gives the impression it is outdated.
How your business will benefit:
- A clear brand visibility.
- Your business values and culture are communicated efficiently.
- Research shows that users are more forgiving to visually good-looking services.
If you want to see examples on how we have done this in the past, please contact us! We are always happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
In design, our fields of specialization are:
Human interaction is the foundation of a digital product. It is the bridge, or language, between the machine and the human.
Even the slightest misunderstanding causes problems. Problems that affect the users and consequently the entire business. These problems end up costing businesses a significant amount of resources.
Our experience and research show that the more businesses invest in professional design, the higher the Return on Investment (ROI).
For this reason, Product Design is one of our fields of specialization.
How your users will benefit:
- Improved ease-of-use
- Tasks are done faster and more effectively
- Shorter learning curve for the service
- Improved usability for all users, young and old – and whatever the device
- The users make less mistakes
How your business will benefit:
- Less resources go to fixing problems, leaving more for development and innovation
- A well-designed digital service is structurally streamlined. This economizes development costs and maintenance resources directly
- Less resources are needed to educate and support your users
- Increased value, reputation and interest of your service
- Your service is easier to sell or market
If you want to see examples on how we have done this in the past, please contact us! We are always happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
The way you choose to create your vision is critical to how it will succeed.
The best way to create a vision is to design it first.
This might sound self-evident, but when we look around us, we see plenty of badly or inadequately designed examples. The reasons for this vary, but the usual suspects are priorities or values, resources and skills.
If good design was easy, everyone would do it. For this reason, our mission is to dedicate to design – because design deserves dedication.
We are specialized in helping clients who have a vision for a digital service and need help to design it.
Our promise is to help you identify any missing or incomplete features in your vision or service, and to design your vision into a user-friendly digital service with a great user experience. This will minimize the risk of coming out with an incomplete service, which is far more costly to fix afterwards. Our design process is cost-effective, agile and creative.
How your users will benefit:
- Your users will appreciate a well-designed service
- Fewer users will be frustrated with missing or incomplete features
- Improved user experience and satisfaction
How your business will benefit:
- A well designed service is cost effective. Fewer resources are spent on fixing problems, making more resources available for innovation and new projects
- A well designed service has a higher chance of success
- Increased value, reputation and interest in your service
- Your service has a higher sales and market value
If you want to see examples on how we have done this in the past, please contact us! We are always happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
Everything we do carries a message. Every message leaves an impression. The visual impression you make is crucial for the outcome of the communication.
Throughout human evolution, we have been dependent on relying on our eyesight to find opportunities, detect dangers and appreciate beauty. Our surroundings in various shapes and colors communicate to us, and based on that, we make decisions and conclusions.
The same applies to businesses and its services. For this reason, visual design is one of our specializations.
How your users will benefit:
- In general, good aesthetics increase well-being and satisfaction. Making a digital service visually attractive improves the user experiences.
- Users will get a strong first-impression.
- It makes sure your digital service also looks modern. A service that looks out of its time easily gives the impression it is outdated.
How your business will benefit:
- A clear brand visibility.
- Your business values and culture are communicated efficiently.
- Research shows that users are more forgiving to visually good-looking services.
If you want to see examples on how we have done this in the past, please contact us! We are always happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
Research
Keywords: User Testing, Usability Testing, Benchmarking, Service Design, User Research
Knowledge is power. However, gaining valuable information requires effort. Having quality research, in any project or situation, determines its success. For this reason, research is one of our fields of specialization.
Research
Keywords: User Testing, Usability Testing, Benchmarking, Service Design, User Research
Knowledge is power. However, gaining valuable information requires effort. Having quality research, in any project or situation, determines its success. For this reason, research is one of our fields of specialization.
In research, our fields of specialization are:
Not doing usability research is like ignoring your bills. It’s costly. The purpose of usability research is to find real problems that your users encounter while using your service. Each usability problem causes varying degrees of damage, or actual losses.
The more precise the research, the more problems it will detect.
For this reason, usability research is one of our foremost specialities and is often used during a UX & UI Design design process.
How your business will benefit:
- Gained knowledge on where users encounter problems.
- Identifying possible critical usability problems that cause major damages.
- Easier prioritizing on which areas of the service should be developed.
If you want to see examples on how we have done this in the past, please contact us! We are always happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
When was the last time you sat down with your users, or customers, and got to know them better? Do you feel that your knowledge of the users might be outdated or partial?
Every responsible business understands the importance of knowing your user or customer. However, in reality, it’s often harder to do in practise. The reason is usually lack of time, skills, resources or there are simply too many types of users.
We are specialized in user research and can provide our clients vital knowledge when making design, strategic or business decisions.
How your business will benefit:
- Gained objective and neutral vital insights about your users/customers.
If you want to see examples on how we’ve done this, please contact us! We’ll be happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
You probably know most of your competitors; you look them up every now and then. You have probably also studied your competitor’s major numbers (financial, traffic and so on) and compared them with yours. This is all good, but it usually only gives the so-called helicopter view. Would you like to get to the core of all things, the users, and get detailed knowledge directly from them on what they think about you and your competition?
We can get objective and neutral detailed information about your service and business – directly from the users.
This knowledge is often critical in the design, strategic or business decision process.
How your business will benefit:
- Gained fresh and detailed information on when your service/business succeeds and fails.
If you want to see examples on how we have done this in the past, please contact us! We are always happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
In research, our fields of specialization are:
Not doing usability research is like ignoring your bills. It’s costly. The purpose of usability research is to find real problems that your users encounter while using your service. Each usability problem causes varying degrees of damage, or actual losses.
The more precise the research, the more problems it will detect.
For this reason, usability research is one of our foremost specialities and is often used during a UX & UI Design design process.
How your business will benefit:
- Gained knowledge on where users encounter problems.
- Identifying possible critical usability problems that cause major damages.
- Easier prioritizing on which areas of the service should be developed.
If you want to see examples on how we have done this in the past, please contact us! We are always happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
When was the last time you sat down with your users, or customers, and got to know them better? Do you feel that your knowledge of the users might be outdated or partial?
Every responsible business understands the importance of knowing your user or customer. However, in reality, it’s often harder to do in practise. The reason is usually lack of time, skills, resources or there are simply too many types of users.
We are specialized in user research and can provide our clients vital knowledge when making design, strategic or business decisions.
How your business will benefit:
- Gained objective and neutral vital insights about your users/customers.
If you want to see examples on how we’ve done this, please contact us! We’ll be happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
You probably know most of your competitors; you look them up every now and then. You have probably also studied your competitor’s major numbers (financial, traffic and so on) and compared them with yours. This is all good, but it usually only gives the so-called helicopter view. Would you like to get to the core of all things, the users, and get detailed knowledge directly from them on what they think about you and your competition?
We can get objective and neutral detailed information about your service and business – directly from the users.
This knowledge is often critical in the design, strategic or business decision process.
How your business will benefit:
- Gained fresh and detailed information on when your service/business succeeds and fails.
If you want to see examples on how we have done this in the past, please contact us! We are always happy to talk and tell you more about how we can help you.
Projects and costs
How do we define the scope of a project?
The size of the company is usually irrelevant. What is relevant is the scope of the project and its complexity.
Every digital service consists of subservices. These are important when defining the scope of a project. For example, a typical e-commerce is a digital service that consists of subservices such as:
- Items listing page: The page where the user can see and scroll many items.
- Item page: The page where the user can learn more about a specific item.
- Shopping cart page: The page that lists all the items that the user has added in the shopping cart.
Each subservice has its own purpose and consequently its own requirements.
As a rule of thumb, our design studio can have up to four subservices simultaneously. Larger projects are carried out upon agreement.
What do we mean with a project’s complexity?
Each digital service is unique. For example, designing a basic corporate website can be done with less background research whereas software solutions for more specific purposes (e.g. the medical industry) require more time.
What kind of projects do we like to do?
We have no preference on what kind of digital services our clients have. We work best with customers who value design and apply it in their business.
Since we are specialized in the certain disciplines mentioned above, our clients get the most value out of placing us in their most critical parts of the digital services.
What kind of team do you have?
As a modern 21st century studio, we don’t all work in the same building (or even live in the same countries), but we bring the best talent together for every project.
For each and every project, we use the right experts for its specific needs. These are experts we've worked with before. They can be freelancers, entrepreneurs or businesses.
We believe this is a new and an alternative way to build a world-class team.
Projects and costs
How do we define the scope of a project?
The size of the company is usually irrelevant. What is relevant is the scope of the project and its complexity.
Every digital service consists of subservices. These are important when defining the scope of a project. For example, a typical e-commerce is a digital service that consists of subservices such as:
- Items listing page: The page where the user can see and scroll many items.
- Item page: The page where the user can learn more about a specific item.
- Shopping cart page: The page that lists all the items that the user has added in the shopping cart.
Each subservice has its own purpose and consequently its own requirements.
As a rule of thumb, our design studio can have up to four subservices simultaneously. Larger projects are carried out upon agreement.
What do we mean with a project’s complexity?
Each digital service is unique. For example, designing a basic corporate website can be done with less background research whereas software solutions for more specific purposes (e.g. the medical industry) require more time.
What kind of projects do we like to do?
We have no preference on what kind of digital services our clients have. We work best with customers who value design and apply it in their business.
Since we are specialized in the certain disciplines mentioned above, our clients get the most value out of placing us in their most critical parts of the digital services.
What kind of team do you have?
As a modern 21st century studio, we don’t all work in the same building (or even live in the same countries), but we bring the best talent together for every project.
For each and every project, we use the right experts for its specific needs. These are experts we've worked with before. They can be freelancers, entrepreneurs or businesses.
We believe this is a new and an alternative way to build a world-class team.
Evolve through design
As the end-users are the heart of any business, focusing on user-centered design is essential. We help our clients run their businesses by creating digital services that are efficient, user-friendly and visually attractive.
Research shows that design helps businesses create services with better market value and minimize unnecessary financial losses.
We are well aware of the challenges in running a successful digital service. It is a complex anatomy – managing business, technology and projects all at once. In all of this complexity, competent design management might often be too laborious.
Therefore we exist.
A design studio specialized to help our clients with:
- Increasing efficiency in a task-oriented digital service. For example, users finish their tasks faster as the service is easier to use. Less time is spent on user guidance.
- Decreasing the learning curve and improving ease-of-use to enable the user to be proficient.
- Modernizing, branding and visualizing the digital service to communicate company values and apply good aesthetics to increase credibility and user satisfaction.
- Identifying areas in your service that need updates or are missing. It also helps businesses prioritize development areas and give more confidence knowing what kind of services to develop to meet the users' needs.
Evolve through design
As the end-users are the heart of any business, focusing on user-centered design is essential. We help our clients run their businesses by creating digital services that are efficient, user-friendly and visually attractive.
Research shows that design helps businesses create services with better market value and minimize unnecessary financial losses.
We are well aware of the challenges in running a successful digital service. It is a complex anatomy – managing business, technology and projects all at once. In all of this complexity, competent design management might often be too laborious.
Therefore we exist.
A design studio specialized to help our clients with:
- Increasing efficiency in a task-oriented digital service. For example, users finish their tasks faster as the service is easier to use. Less time is spent on user guidance.
- Decreasing the learning curve and improving ease-of-use to enable the user to be proficient.
- Modernizing, branding and visualizing the digital service to communicate company values and apply good aesthetics to increase credibility and user satisfaction.
- Identifying areas in your service that need updates or are missing. It also helps businesses prioritize development areas and give more confidence knowing what kind of services to develop to meet the users' needs.
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