Design Services

Service offering

Agency capability without the overhead

I'm a flexible design generalist that can add value immediately at any stage of the design and product life cycle.

Advocacy and Capability Building

Building design practice and levelling up internal design IQ for project stakeholders and sponsors.

Apps

Beautiful, usable and best practice application design for PWA and native apps.

Artwork and Media

Image manipulation, art-working, basic animation, vector asset creation and typical media housekeeping tasks.

Brand Development

Brand stories, messaging and art direction are created from scratch or used to uplift an exisiting identity.

Consulting and Facilitation

On or off-site design consulting, often to complement an existing team or to kick off or lead a new project.

Copywriting and UX writing

Storytelling that informs, entertains and converts.

Customer Research

User interviews, data collection and competitor analysis are just some of the techiques employed to clearly define user need, set expectations and define success metrics.

Design Audits

Design audits as quickly as 60 minutes to identity and prioritise usability issues and focus uplift opportunities.

Design Sprints

5 day Google Ventures inspired 'Design Sprints' devised and facilitated.

Design Systems

Granular, flexible and usable design systems that accelerate product development and ensure quality is retained at scale.

MVP / Proof of Concept

Minimum viable products and proof of concepts that are laser focused to qualify assumptions and deployed at speed.

No Code / Low Code Development

Using the latest no code and low code tools to solve client problems usually much faster and cheaper then custom solutions.

Pitches and Fundraising

Messaging, comms, decks and pitches designed to convey the vision and optimise for successful capital raising.

Rapid Prototyping

Concept apps and digital experiences created in hours that can be tested to qualify assumptions and build business cases.

Startup Advisory

Ideation, value prop design, go to market strategies, MVP's and more using Lean methodologies and an iterative approach.

Story writing and Task Specification

Clear, concise and illustrated task stories that your BA's and Devs will love.

Training and Onboarding

Training and mentoring of junior design resource or tailored onboarding for client teams into new systems and processes.

UI Design

Pixel perfect user interface and interaction design thats on brand and on budget.

UX Design

User experience design thats anchored in rigorous user research and adheres to solid usability principles and best practice.

Usability Testing

Testing of assumptions, workflows, screens, interactions and more - this can be done little and often or as a larger UT spike.

Webflow Development

Fast and powerful no code front-end web development without developers.

Websites

Fast and responsive end-to-end web design and build or optimise and uplift.

Typical Process

Start fast, finish first

Naturally every project has it’s own unique requirements but here's the typical end-to-end timeline for a website, application or MVP.

Discovery and research sprint

1-10 HOURS

Either in person or virtually we meet to discuss your business goals, user needs, success metrics and understand where you've come from and where you need to go.

UX Design and content strategy

5-40 HOURS

Creating wireframes, content maps and workflows we begin iterating to define your customer journey and how to most effectively solve your business and user goals.

Branding and visual design

5-40 HOURS

We develop or translate your unique brand story into a high fidelity solution using life-like concepts and prototypes - iterating and testing quickly to create bespoke design systems which are optimised for your experience.

No code / low code development

10-50 HOURS

Front-end web design and build using no-code tools like Webflow, Bubble and Airtable. Creating powerful, beautiful, responsive and CMS / Ecommerce enabled solutions that work elegantly across all screen sizes and devices for the best fit and finish.

Testing and handover

1-10 HOURS

This is where you get the keys. Webflow has a powerful and easy to use editor that allows you to make limitless content changes - minimising on-going development costs and empowering you to evolve with your customers.

Tools

Todays tools beat yesterdays team

The world is changing - design tools have advanced rapidly to become a force multiplier for small teams and solo agents.

Customer research

Dovetail to collect and synthesise all customer research in one place.

No code development

Webflow for powerful front end development without developers.

Design and prototyping

Figma for low and hi-fidelity design with multiplayer.

Artwork and media

A decade of Photoshop, Illustrator and inDesign experience.

3rd party integrations

Zapier to integrate client services with no code.

Databases

Airtable for collaborative, functional, scalable databases.

Docs and knowledge

Notion for note taking and collaborative documentation.

Video training

Loom for asynchronous show and tell.

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