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B.5 · Custom Software & Product Engineering

Product Design & User Experience Engineering

Interfaces for people who have to get something done, under time pressure

  • Design systems
  • WCAG 2.2
  • Usability testing
  • Figma
  • Service blueprints
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What we build

Design that starts with the work rather than the screen. User research with the people who will actually use the system, service blueprints and journey mapping, information architecture, interaction and interface design, a design system implemented in code, accessibility built in from the first wireframe, and usability testing that measures task completion rather than opinion.

Capabilities

  • Research with the people who do the work, not only with the people who commissioned it
  • Service blueprints and journeys that show where the current process actually fails
  • A design system implemented in code, so design and build cannot drift apart
  • Accessibility considered at wireframe stage, not corrected at audit stage
  • Usability testing measured on task completion, error rate, and time on task
  • Interfaces for high-consequence work: confirmation, undo, and clear system state

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How it connects

Where it sits in the stack.

This service, and the two it hands off to. None of them can be optimised alone.

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Product Design & UX

Design that starts with the work rather than the screen.

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Custom Software Development

End-to-end delivery of bespoke business systems: discovery and domain modelling, architecture, implementation, test automation, deployment, and support.

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Web Applications

Web applications and customer portals built on modern server-rendered frameworks.

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Bring us the whole problem.

Tell us where the work is stuck, whether that is a model that never reached production, an application nobody can change, a data platform nobody trusts, or a plant the business cannot see. An engineer replies with a first read, not a sales deck.