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Design & engineering studio · est. 2017

We make software people stop noticing.

Fourteen people, two cities, one rule: ship the smallest thing that answers the question, then measure whether it did. Case studies below say what happened, including the parts that didn't work.

Northwind Bank · Halden Health · Tessera Logistics · The Open Library · Marlow & Sons · Civic Data Trust · Ostrava Transit · Brightwater Energy

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How we work

Small teams, whole problems

Three people, not thirty

A designer, an engineer and a researcher who stay for the whole project. You'll know their names by the end of week one.

Research before opinions

We talk to the people who'll use the thing before we draw it. The support inbox is the best brief you already own.

Ship in weeks

Something real in front of real users inside a month. Slides are for after, when there's something to show.

Measured, then said out loud

Every case study has numbers, and the number we missed is in there too. It's the only way the next one gets better.

"They told us in week two that half the brief was wrong. Then they proved it. That saved us a year."
Ines Kowalczyk · COO, Northwind Bank