Process
Four phases. One team.
Same senior team from first call to last commit. Most SA startup projects run 3 to 8 weeks. Quotes in ZAR, ex. VAT where applicable.
Phase 01 · Week 1
Listen
Understand the soil.
We audit your product, talk to your team, watch your users. We leave with the brief you wish you'd written.
Deliverables
- Audit deck
- Stakeholder synthesis
- Refined brief
- Success criteria
Phase 02 · Weeks 2–3
Sketch
Map the terrain.
Three concept routes. Real artifacts, not moodboards. We kill two and double down on one — together.
Deliverables
- Three concept directions
- Art direction
- Information architecture
- Motion principles
Phase 03 · Weeks 4–6
Grow
Build with care.
Tokens, components, motion specs, copy patterns. Every screen comes out of the same engine.
Deliverables
- Design system + tokens
- Component library
- Motion + interaction specs
- Production-ready prototypes
Phase 04 · Weeks 6–8
Ship
Harvest & iterate.
Pixel-perfect handoff to your team, or production React + Tailwind built by us. Your call.
Deliverables
- Production handoff or build
- Storybook + docs
- QA + accessibility pass
- Post-ship retro