WHAT IT IS
The art of staying at the forefront of someone’s mind.
@2023
And we’re shit hot at doing it, and a bunch of other things too.
Crafting
an
identity
01
A strong brand is essential for success. A well-designed brand not only captures attention but also builds trust and loyalty among consumers. The process of designing a brand is a meticulous endeavor that involves careful planning, creative thinking, and strategic decision-making.
Defining
the
brand
02
Firstly, we need to clearly define the brand’s essence. We do this together in a fast paced workshop we call a Design Sprint.
This is how we get to learn about the journey, understand your business, identify the people who would benefit from its value proposition, and share in your vision. It gives us an opportunity to meet your team and key stakeholders and unify the vision and get everyone singing from the same hymn sheet - you’d be amazed how many times we’ve seen different people in different positions carry different perspectives of what the same company is striving to achieve.
The sprint is no waffle, no gimmicks, just a tool we use to get to the core of what you’re trying to achieve. Once complete, we’ll know:
• What your brand and product is
• Why it exists
• What sets it apart from the crowd
• Your values
• Who sees you
• The brands personality
• The competitor landscape
• Business goals
• The roadmap
After, we can then begin to make it a reality.
Strategy
&
Mantra
03
Once we’ve nailed the brand essence, we get to work on creating a comprehensive brand strategy. This strategy outlines the brand's positioning, messaging, and key attributes. It is were we will create a set of statements that act as the brand’s mantra - the words that the entire company will be chanting and championing going forward that encapsulate the brands identity.
Go
04
We’ve got our direction, we’ve got a holistic solution for our users problem, time to focus on step 1 of our golden path. This is where you will begin to see visual and experience design - the look and feel of what this product is going to become. We develop a visual language and style guide through a bespoke and scalable design system which is repeatedly used to flesh out the UI & UX of the product.
Prototype
05
Then we make it move. You’ll get to feel how the product moves & behaves reflecting the brands personality. You’ll gain a better understanding of the flows we previously set out and most importantly, we can put it in the hands of real users to see how they feel about it.
Learn
06
We listen to the feedback and study the analytics from the prototype and, if needed, iterate on the design to fine tune it ahead of it going into build. In the product process, each new idea is cheaper when it's made in the design stage. Changes in the development stage take a lot more time, effort, and planning. Therefore it's crucial for all parties that we're fully confident of what we commit to development, by testing & iterating early.
Implement
07
We then implement the flows into the system, the working files, and the prototype before handing it over to your development team. But we don’t leave it, we follow the build ensuring we conduct visual QA so the end result is as it was designed.
Repeat
08
Once step 1 of the flow is done, we move onto the next, and the next, and the next, until the flow we set out at the start is built. We are massive advocates for ‘just in time’ design. Where we focus our energy and efforts on designing in detail for the problem we’re about to face in the next sprint. This means the next set of designs are injected with the learnings we gain from the prototype made in the previous sprint cycle. Each flow we design becoming more user centric, and produced that bit quicker.
OUR TAKE
Design is more than aesthetics - it shapes everything around us. It plays with our emotions and forms our experiences. Therefore, we design responsibly. Crafting beautiful work that leaves people satisfied, and grows companies ethically.