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.
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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 …
Plain language specialists Simplified carry out detailed audits on all of Discovery group’s communications each year, including web consulting for their website. We have over the years, helped with the user testing and the analysis components for these projects. 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 …
We provided intranet consulting to African Bank stakeholders so that could prepare for the redesign of their nationwide company intranet. Read more …
As part of their on-going attempt to help students grow their careers, Varsity College needed a web application to help students find part-time work. Read more …
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 …
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 …