UI and UX design

Good design makes software easier to learn, faster to use and cheaper to support. Dotqode’s designers work alongside our developers, so every screen we design is one we know how to build.

What you get

We start by understanding who uses the product and what they need to get done. From there we create wireframes to agree on structure, then clickable prototypes you can put in front of real users. Visual design comes last, built on a design system so new screens stay consistent as the product grows.

Developers receive specifications, assets and components they can build from directly, which shortens the gap between design and a working product.

Common projects

Design work usually arrives in one of these forms:

• A new product before development starts. Turning an idea and a list of requirements into a tested prototype, so development begins with fewer open questions.
• A redesign of a product people find hard to use. Often an application that has grown feature by feature until nobody is quite sure where anything lives.
• A design system for a growing product. Gathering scattered screens into a shared library of components, so several developers can build new features that still look and behave alike.
• Data-heavy screens. Dashboards, tables, filters and forms for business software, where clarity matters more than decoration.

Designing for real conditions

We design for the situations people are actually in, not just the ideal one. That means thinking about empty screens before there is any data, error messages that say what to do next, long names that break neat layouts, and slow connections. We check colour contrast, text size and keyboard use as we go, so accessibility is built in rather than patched later.

We also keep you involved throughout. You see wireframes and prototypes as they develop, not just a polished reveal at the end, and you are welcome to join usability sessions to hear users in their own words. Feedback is gathered in one place, decisions are written down, and each round of changes is explained, so it is always clear why a screen looks the way it does.

Who this is for

This service suits founders who want to test an idea with users before paying for development, product teams whose software has become cluttered, and companies whose in-house developers need a designer to work with. Because our designers sit with our developers, a design handed over by Dotqode has already been checked for what it will take to build.

If you have a product team, a designer can join it as part of a dedicated team. If you want design, development and testing handled together, we run it as an end-to-end project. Either way, the design files, prototypes and component library belong to you.