We plan how it works before anyone picks a colour, and check every screen against what the product can do. The look comes from your designers or a design firm we bring in, and we build it without cutting corners.
What we do
We plan how it works and build it. The visual design comes from your designers or a design firm we bring in. Take the parts you need.
How someone moves through the product and what goes on each screen, settled before anyone chooses a colour.
A prototype of the main path you can tap through, or one that already works, so everyone can try the design before the build starts.
The screens, layouts and brand styling, by your designers or by a design firm we bring in for the project.
Reusable components and the rules for using them. We can start from the 184 documented interface components in designEdit, so your budget goes further on the screens that are new.
Every screen built as it was drawn, following the conventions of the web, iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac, and checked against the design before launch.
Agencies and design firms hand us a design and we build it: a web app or website, a mobile or desktop app, or the backend behind it. The design stays yours.
Two ways in
Either way the design is original to your project and the build is ours. Wireframes and prototypes come from us or from the designers, whichever suits the project.
Route 1 · Design and build
We plan how it works, bring in a design firm that fits the project for the look, and run the design together with the build, so there is one project and one plan. User flows, wireframes and a prototype first, then the screens and brand styling, then the build.
Route 2 · Your designers
Your in-house designers or your agency lead the design. We work alongside them from the wireframes on, so what they draw is something the product can do, and then build the screens as designed.
Agencies and design firms: if you design and need a development partner, there is a third way in: we build what you design, for your client or for you, and the design stays yours. Get in touch.
How a project runs
Who draws the screens changes from project to project: your designers, your agency or a design firm that fits. The order doesn't: how it works first, then how it looks, then the build.
What the product has to do, who uses it and the paths through it, drawn as user flows and rough screens, so you have a price before the design starts.
A clickable prototype of the main path, or a working one, built from the wireframes, so decisions are made on something you can use.
The screens, layouts and brand styling, with the components and the rules for them written down as the design system.
The screens built as designed, with the design system reused for every screen after, then supported on terms we agree with you.
Start where you are. If you already have a blueprint, wireframes or finished designs, we review them with you and pick up from there instead of starting again. Tell us what you have.
What we have built
Client names are used with permission, and agency work is credited to the agency that led it. BMO, GE Appliances, Rogers, Apple, iPhone, Google, Android, Microsoft, Windows and Mac are trademarks of their respective owners. Design of a Decade is an independent studio and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
Questions
No. We plan how the product works with you, and if you don't have designers, we bring in a design firm that fits the project and its budget for the look. If you do, we work with them.
UX is how the product works: who uses it, the paths through it and what goes on each screen. UI is how it looks: layout, type, colour and components. We start with UX, because a good-looking screen in the wrong place still doesn't work.
designEdit comes with 184 documented interface components. Designing from them means less is drawn from scratch, so more of your budget goes on the screens that make your product different. It's a recommendation, not a requirement: the design can be fully custom too.
Yes. We build what you design, for your client or for you, and the design stays yours. We've worked this way with TBWA\Canada, Mouth Media and Cosmic Design.
It depends on how many screens there are and how much is new. The blueprint and prototype work that out, and you have a price before the design starts. If you already have wireframes or designs, we price from those.
Support carries on for as long as you want it, on terms we agree with you. New screens are designed from the same design system, so they match what is already there.
You keep running what we built, and the code is yours to take in-house or to another team. If designEdit is part of the system, we work with you to choose the licence model that fits.
Planning a product's interface, or designing one and looking for a development partner?
You don't need everything worked out. Send us a rough idea or a full spec, and we'll reply within one business day.
Burlington, Ontario