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SIRAPI · 2023
Decide what to build before building it
Product Design
The most expensive mistake in software is not writing the code badly. It is writing the wrong thing well, then discovering it after launch when changing direction costs ten times more.
Design work front loads that risk. We interview the people who will use the thing, map how they work now, and put a clickable prototype in front of them before a single line of production code exists.
What you receive
- Interviews with the people who will actually use it
- A map of how the work happens today
- A clickable prototype tested before development starts
- A design system of components used repeatedly
- Dashboard design plus guidance on how to read the numbers
What it changes
- Fewer expensive changes discovered after launch
- An interface people can use without training
- A component library that keeps later work consistent
Delivered work
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Questions that come up
If yours is not here, send it across directly. We reply within one working day.
Can we skip this and go straight to building?
You can, and for a small well understood piece of work that is often the right call. For anything where the requirements are still being argued about internally, skipping design does not save the cost, it just moves it later and multiplies it.
Do you work with our existing brand?
Yes. If you have brand guidelines we work inside them. If you do not, we establish just enough of a visual system for the product to be consistent, without turning it into a full rebrand you did not ask for.
What do we get at the end?
A clickable prototype, the research notes behind it, and a component library in Figma that your next developer can build straight from.
Tell us what you need built
Send a short brief and you get a written scope, a cost estimate and a schedule within two working days. No obligation attached to it.