Chemistry & briefing
It really is all about the relationship. You’ve got to like us, and both of us need to feel that we can achieve big things working together. You’ll speak with our Directors, discussing the story behind your organisation and what you’re looking to achieve. We’ll tell you about us and how we can help. Ultimately, we’ll both want it to be a great fit before we dive into the detail.
Strategy presentation
You don’t need to have a written brief to begin working with us. If you’ve got one it really helps, but either way we’ll work with you to understand your current situation and your objectives. We’ll carry out in-depth research into the market, your audiences and your competitors, and present back to you a winning strategy with a proposed solution in great detail.
Workshops
Our workshops are by far the most important phase of the entire process, and the beginning of our paid work. They allow both teams to meet, and us to extract every bit of key information from you. Depending on the size of the project, it may be a meeting that lasts a few hours – we’ve also known workshops to last a full week. They’re great fun, and we’ll feed you!
Specifications
From the discovery workshops we’ll have gathered everything needed to write up your specification documents. These cover your objectives in detail, how we’ll measure success, your audiences, the creative design briefing, and it will define all technical functionality and infrastructure for our team to use this document as a complete blueprint.
User experience creative
Your project will begin to come to life as you see the first wireframes. These are technical sketches, helping everyone to visually understand and agree on the user experience and journey. From these, the creative team will produce full visuals, which will include everything apart from the real content. This allows everyone to focus on the experience rather than copy.
Technical development
This is the bit we’ve won many awards for. Websites are normally developed bespoke using WordPress as the content management system, web apps are usually built using Laravel, and iOS and Android apps are built natively. However, we’re flexible and open to working with most code languages. We’ll work with you to find the most suitable technology and code everything up bespoke, and in-house.
Full-circle testing
Before deployment, our work is always available in a staging environment for you to use. An online project can always be tweaked following launch, but it’s important we carry out internal and external user testing, security testing, performance handling, and cross-device compatibility. Penetration testing is also something we can offer if it is appropriate.
Deployment
We have enterprise-level infrastructure in place to ensure deploying to the production/live environment is instant and immediately reversible. During the specification stage, we’ll detail the infrastructure required for your project. Often this is something we can supply, and you’ll then have the guarantee that we’re on hand and you can benefit from 100% uptime.
Ongoing partnership
Of course, we’ll provide hourly back-ups, and every-minute monitoring, but that’s the basics. We want our team to become embedded within your organisation for the long-term. We’ll analyse your data, further develop and perfect constantly – we want to see you to flourish. As with all of our clients, we’ll happily work alongside you every day.
