Product Design
Design debt does not show up as ugly screens. It shows up as support tickets, abandoned workflows, and a training document that exists because the interface could not explain itself.
Design that survives implementation
A design that ignores the constraints of the system behind it gets redesigned by whichever engineer is closest to the deadline. That is where consistency actually dies — not in the design review, but at five o'clock on the Thursday before release, when a screen needs an empty state nobody drew.
So we design the states that make software real: loading, empty, partial, error, too-much-data, permission-denied. They are most of the work and almost none of the portfolio, and getting them wrong is what makes an otherwise good product feel unreliable.
Where we work
Complex internal tools
Software operators use for hours a day, where keyboard efficiency and information density matter more than a first impression.
Design systems
Components, tokens and rules built alongside the code that implements them, so the library and the product do not drift apart within two releases.
Workflow and process design
Multi-step, multi-role flows with approvals and exceptions, where the hard part is the path that goes wrong rather than the happy one.
Data-heavy interfaces
Tables, filters, dashboards and reporting designed against realistic volumes, because a layout that works with twelve rows often fails with twelve thousand.
Accessibility remediation
Auditing an existing product against WCAG and fixing what is found, prioritised by who is actually blocked rather than by rule count.
Research when the answer is not obvious
Interviews and usability testing where a decision is expensive and genuinely contested. Not as a formality when everyone already agrees.
Accessibility is a requirement, not a phase
Treated as a late audit, accessibility becomes a list of contrast failures and missing labels bolted onto finished screens. Treated as a constraint from the first wireframe, it costs very little and produces better software for everyone — keyboard navigation and clear focus order help your power users as much as your screen-reader users.
We design to WCAG 2.2 AA and test with keyboard and screen reader before handover rather than after. Where a genuine tension exists between an accessible pattern and a visual intention, we will name it and let you decide, rather than quietly choosing the visual.
WCAG 2.2 AA as the working standard, not the stretch goal
Every interactive state designed: focus, hover, disabled, error, loading
Keyboard and screen-reader testing before handover
Components handed over as design and implementation together
Copy written with the design — placeholder text hides real problems
Common questions
Rarely, and it is not what we are best at. Our work is software people use repeatedly — internal tools, operator consoles, complex product surfaces. A brand site has different priorities and a specialist studio will serve you better.
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