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Research-Led Product Design & Enterprise Design Systems
Design decisions are cheapest to change before they are code. We front-load the research, prototype the risky flows, and test them with people who match your actual users β then hand engineering a tokenised system rather than a folder of static screens. Every deliverable is built to be implemented, not admired.
Ecosystem matrix
The stack we build on
Mainstream, well-supported technology chosen so your team can hire for it. We will justify any choice on this list, and we avoid exotic tools that create a dependency on us.
Figma
FigJam
Principle
Maze
Hotjar
Storybook
Design Tokens
Framer
Axe DevTools
Dovetail
Deliverable blueprint
Tokenised handoff for engineering, WCAG 2.1 AAA compliance, interactive design library.
Sub-services deep dive
4 specialist capabilities
Expand any capability for its core scope, architectural blueprint and typical delivery window.
Structured research that separates what users say from what they do, producing evidence your team can point at when priorities are disputed.
Core capabilities
- Moderated interviews and contextual enquiry with real users
- Evidence-backed personas rather than invented archetypes
- End-to-end journey maps with friction and drop-off annotation
- Opportunity backlog ranked by impact and implementation cost
Architectural blueprint
Research plan β interview and analytics synthesis β journey map with quantified friction points β prioritised opportunity backlog.
Delivery timeline
3β5 weeks
Interviews, empathy mapping, journey maps
Clickable prototypes realistic enough to test with users and to settle internal disagreements before engineering commits a sprint to the wrong answer.
Core capabilities
- Card sorting and tree testing to validate navigation
- Low-fidelity wireframes for rapid structural iteration
- High-fidelity interactive prototypes with real content
- Motion and micro-interaction specification for engineering
Architectural blueprint
IA validation β wireframe iteration β high-fidelity prototype β usability test β refined specification for build.
Delivery timeline
4β8 weeks
IA, wireframes, high-fidelity Figma prototypes
A single source of truth shared by design and engineering, so a colour or spacing change propagates everywhere instead of drifting across products.
Core capabilities
- Token architecture spanning colour, type, spacing and elevation
- Component library with documented states and usage rules
- Storybook implementation matched one-to-one with Figma
- Contribution model and governance so the system survives
Architectural blueprint
Token source of truth β platform-specific build outputs β Figma library and Storybook in lockstep β versioned releases.
Delivery timeline
8β14 weeks
Atomic UI kits, tokens, Storybook
Diagnosing why an interface underperforms using observation and session data, then redesigning the specific points where users give up.
Core capabilities
- Heuristic evaluation against established usability principles
- Session recording and heatmap analysis of live behaviour
- Moderated and unmoderated testing with recruited participants
- Prioritised fix list with predicted conversion impact
Architectural blueprint
Behavioural data capture β friction diagnosis β redesign hypotheses β validated fixes released behind experiments.
Delivery timeline
3β6 weeks
Heuristics, heatmaps, moderated testing
How we engineer
A four-stage accelerated lifecycle
The same sequence on every engagement, whether it runs six weeks or two years. Each stage has an exit condition, so nobody discovers a disagreement in month four.
STAGE 01
Discover
We map the business outcome, constraints and existing estate before proposing anything. Discovery ends with a costed plan, not a sales deck.
1β3 weeks
STAGE 02
Architect
Rendering strategy, data model, integration contracts and the non-functional requirements are settled and documented as decision records.
2β4 weeks
STAGE 03
Execute
Fortnightly increments against a visible backlog, with working software demonstrated every cycle rather than status reported.
6β24 weeks
STAGE 04
Scale
Load testing, observability, runbooks and knowledge transfer β then either you take it in-house or we operate it under an SLA.
Ongoing
Featured case study
Enterprise logistics platform
Before → After
Support tickets about 'how do I' questions dropped by two thirds. That was the whole business case.
— Director of Product, Enterprise logistics platform
Task completion rate — before
58%
after
94%
Time on core task — before
6m 20s
after
1m 45s
Support tickets — before
1,180/mo
after
390/mo
SUS score — before
51
after
86
Engagement tiers
Indicative pricing
Published because opaque pricing wastes everyone's time. Figures are in USD and indicative; a fixed quotation follows discovery.
Design Sprint
$22,000
Fixed scope Β· 4 weeks
Research, prototype and test one critical flow before committing engineering time to it.
- Stakeholder and user interviews
- Journey map with friction analysis
- Interactive prototype of one core flow
- Usability testing with 6 participants
- Prioritised recommendation report
Product Design
$68,000
Most selected Β· 12 weeks
End-to-end design for a full product surface, delivered as an implementable system.
- Everything in Design Sprint
- Complete product interface design
- Component library with tokens
- WCAG 2.1 AA conformance built in
- Storybook-ready specification
- Design QA during implementation
Design System
Custom
Multi-quarter programme
A governed system serving multiple products and teams across platforms.
- Everything in Product Design
- Multi-platform token architecture
- Full component library with documentation
- Contribution and governance model
- Team training and enablement
- Quarterly system health review
Answers
Frequently asked technical questions
Five to eight participants per distinct user group surfaces the large majority of usability problems, which is enough to act on. Larger samples are for measuring, not discovering β we scale up only when you need statistical confidence in a specific metric.
Yes, and we prefer to when the brand is sound. We treat existing guidelines as constraints and flag only the specific places where they create genuine usability or accessibility problems, with evidence rather than opinion.
A Figma library with published components, a token file that builds to CSS variables or platform equivalents, documented interaction and motion specs, and a Storybook implementation. Not a folder of flattened screens.
WCAG 2.1 AA is our baseline on every project, at no extra cost, because retrofitting it costs several times more. AAA conformance is available where regulation or audience requires it and we will tell you what it constrains.
Yes. Roughly a third of our design engagements hand off to an internal or third-party engineering team. We stay available during implementation for design QA, which is usually where fidelity is won or lost.
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