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A retail bank that had grown by acquisition and had four visual identities running at once.
Brand
Repositioning a developer tool that had been selling itself to the wrong buyer.
Product design
A trading dashboard for people who watch it for eight hours without looking away.
Build
A garden supplier whose whole year happens in eleven weeks.
Brand
An identity for a clinic group that had to work on a leaflet and on a hospital sign.
Campaign
An enrolment campaign that had to run in six languages on the same budget as one.
Product design
Making an admin console legible to the person who inherits it, not the person who built it.
Build
A booking flow for patients who are booking while in pain.
Brand
An identity for a furniture maker whose work is the argument.
Campaign
A launch campaign built entirely from the manufacturing footage nobody had used.
Build
A reporting tool rebuilt so the export is the product, not an afterthought.
Product design
Course software for tutors who are not going to read a manual.
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Meridian came to us with four identities, three tones of voice and a mortgage application that asked for the same address on two separate screens. The work started as a rebrand and turned into a rebuild of the application flow, because the brand problem and the product problem were the same problem.
We ran a two-week audit across every customer-facing surface, then set one identity and one component library that the four internal teams could all build against. The mortgage flow was rewritten around a single record, which is what removed the duplicate address screen and eleven others like it.
The identity shipped first so the teams had something to build against, then the platform work landed in three releases across the following two quarters.
TechFlow was priced for engineering teams and marketed to procurement, which meant every deal was a translation exercise. The naming, the site and the pricing page all spoke past the person who chose the tool.
We rewrote the positioning around the engineer, rebuilt the site to lead with the API rather than the org chart, and set a type and colour system the in-house team could extend without asking us.
Vertex is used by desk traders for a full shift, which changes what good looks like. Contrast that reads well in a screenshot is exhausting after an hour, and an interface that announces every change is unusable when forty things change a second.
We reset the palette for long viewing, moved alerting to the periphery, and rebuilt the order ticket so the destructive action is never where the muscle memory for the safe one lives.
GreenLeaf does most of its trade between March and May, so the site has to hold up on the Saturday morning the weather turns and do nothing expensive for the rest of the year. That shaped every technical decision.
We built it on static rendering with stock checked at the edge, so a spike costs bandwidth rather than database connections. The catalogue is editable by the two people who run the business, without a deploy.
Nova runs seventeen sites, and the identity had to survive being printed by a local sign shop as often as it was rendered by a designer. Anything that needed a gradient or a specific paper stock was going to fail somewhere.
We built the mark to hold at the size of a badge and the size of a building, in one colour, and wrote the guidelines for the person at the sign shop rather than for a design team.
Summit recruits internationally, and the previous campaign had been written in English and translated, which meant the headline worked in one market and limped in five. We wrote to a shared idea instead of a shared sentence.
Each market got its own headline and its own proof, built from the same structure and the same asset set, so the production cost stayed flat while the copy stopped sounding imported.
CloudSync had grown a settings area with two hundred switches and no grouping, because every switch had been urgent when it shipped. New administrators could not find anything and were afraid to touch what they did find.
We grouped by the job being done rather than by the team that built each feature, gave every destructive setting a plain description of what breaks, and added a search that reads the descriptions rather than the labels.
Harbour is a walk-in and same-day clinic, so people arrive at the site under conditions that make careful reading unlikely. The old flow asked for insurance details before it told anyone whether an appointment was available.
We inverted it: availability first, identity second, payment last, with the whole thing usable one-handed. Every screen states what happens next before it asks for anything.
Fold makes flat-pack furniture that is assembled without tools, and the previous identity spent its energy explaining that in words. The product explains it better in one photograph.
We took the identity almost entirely out of the way: one typeface, one rule about photography, and a wordmark that sits where a stamp would sit on the piece itself.
Kettle had two years of factory footage sitting on a drive because it had been shot for quality control rather than for marketing. It was the most convincing material the company owned and none of it had been seen.
The campaign is that footage, cut to length, with the claims taken from what the film shows rather than from a brief.
Every user of Ledger Row ended their session by exporting to a spreadsheet and then doing the real work there, which told us where the product ended. The reports were built to be looked at rather than taken away.
We rebuilt the export to carry structure rather than a flat grid, so the spreadsheet arrives with the grouping and the formulas already in place, and made the on-screen report a preview of that file rather than a separate artefact.
Northbank sells to individual tutors rather than to institutions, so there is no administrator and no training day. Anything that needs explaining does not get used.
We cut the setup to one screen, made the course structure something you build by writing rather than by configuring, and removed every setting that fewer than a handful of accounts had ever changed.
Stated as the client stated it, before we reframed it.
The problem underneath the brief, and how the two differed.
The choice made and the two we turned down, with the reasoning.
What the client can do now that they could not before.
They spent the first fortnight telling us things about our own product that we did not want to hear, and every one of them was right.
The handover was the part that surprised me. Our team has extended the system twice since without calling them.
We are two people and a warehouse. They built something we can run ourselves, which nobody else offered to do.
Send the brief, or the mess that will become one. We will tell you whether we are the right studio for it before we talk about money.
We will tell you if the project you asked for is the wrong project.