Our team is: Alan Benington, an engineer with an appetite for technology, always up for an intellectual challenge; Hayley Komen, a communicator with an appreciation for systems, the environment and beauty; and Garth Shoebridge, an architect with an artist’s eye and heart.
We operate a professional, client-first practice, using our individual expertise or combining our skills to address our clients’ needs, as required. Our flexible business model makes us efficient and effective and we pass the benefits of this approach on to you.
37 years of experience squeezed into those 2 little words. You’ve gotta love it but yes, we do do web design. Read more …
We are extremely proud of our web development offer. Alan Benington has, over the last decade, developed a framework – EngineX. Read more …
We have been helping our clients with online customer self-service for over a decade. We’ve dealt with all the complexities of balancing what a mammoth back-end system can (or can’t) do, and what customers need to do and how they need to do it. Read more …
We absolutely love customer profiling! Any website, intranet or mobile website is a communication with the visitor. Just like a real-life discussion, knowing who it is that you are talking to can change everything from what you say to the person, to how you say it and how they do things. Read more …
We have a refined and appropriate methodology for the user testing of websites, mobile websites and documents. Read more …
Use website analysis to uncover the strengths and weaknesses of your existing website, intranet or web application. Especially if you want to focus your maintenance efforts or inform a redesign process. Read more …
To manage risk and ensure you are meet the needs of your business and those of your customers, prototyping means you build a version of the solution for everyone to see as early as possible in the design process. Read more …
Cellphones are getting more and more powerful. Today most phones offer some form of internet connectivity through a browser. This means you no longer need to write cellphone applications to let customers interact with you through their phone. We develop .mobi websites to help your customers stay in touch with you.
The days of just having a website being enough are long gone. In fact we’re not sure they ever existed! If done well, email newsletters can build an ongoing relationship with your customers. Read more …
WordPress is a fantastic platform for a certain scale of website. Over the last few years we embraced WordPress and can deliver smaller websites that really do present great value for money.
Once we have delivered a project we can follow this up with various forms of service agreements to meet your needs. We aren’t structured for once-offs, we prefer relationships and some of South Africa’s biggest companies ahve trusted us to look after their websites, intranets and web applications for years.
User-focused design isn’t really a self-standing offer from us. Everything we do will be built and designed from a user’s viewpoint. We’re not sure if there is any other way. Read more …
We have 37 years of experience between us. Sometimes its not possible for our clients to outsource a project (or want to). They still want to take advantage of our knowledge though so we will be called in to train staff. We don’t have courses to train but rather train against each individual client’s needs.
Experience design is such an unfortunately lofty term for such a simple principle. Anything that gets used (read or interacted with) creates an experience for the person doing the using. This experience is what needs designing. Read more …
The discipline of information architecture can help you structure documents, communication, websites, intranets and any other type of digital problem to make things easier to understand and find. Any of our projects will have a dedicated phase for this work. Read more …
Sometimes a client will phone us for our advice, sometimes they will ask us to do a thorough research and recommendations project. We are always keen to talk about the internet any chance we get and find a way for the internet to help you and your business.