Your UI/UX design partner - one team, from first wireframe to working build
Design and build run as one project here, not a hand-off between an agency and a dev shop. We work with a designer who already knows how our builds go together, so interface decisions get pressure-tested against real engineering constraints before anything is signed off, not discovered as a problem in week six.
Pictured: the interactive 3D lab experience we designed and built for Eppendorf.
What's included
Whether it's a full product redesign or the UX around one tricky flow, the same team stays involved from the first sketch to the code that ships it.
- User research & discovery
- Wireframing & interactive prototypes
- Interface design for web, mobile & immersive builds
- Design systems & component libraries
- Usability testing & iteration
- Build handled by the same team, start to finish
Common questions
Are your designers in-house?
Design is handled by a specialist we've worked alongside for years, not an in-house junior fitting it in between dev tickets - but the whole thing still runs as one project you brief once, not a hand-off between two separate suppliers.
Do you design everything upfront, or alongside the build?
Mostly alongside. We'll wireframe and prototype the trickier flows before committing to code, but a fully pixel-perfect design for every screen tends to go stale the moment development actually starts, so we keep the two close together rather than fully sequential.
Can you improve the UX of an existing product without a full rebuild?
Often, yes - a lot of usability problems are fixable within the existing codebase once we understand it, and we'll say so rather than pitching a rebuild by default.
Do you do user research and testing, or just visual design?
Both, where a project has budget for it - even lightweight testing with a handful of real users catches problems no amount of internal opinion will.
What happens after launch?
We keep an eye on how people actually use what shipped - support tickets, drop-off points - and treat that as the start of the next round of design decisions, not a sign the project's finished.
Websites
Want to see more first? Take a look at our work or explore everything we build.
Meet Storm
We're Dan Cotton and Grant Bartlett - the whole of Storm.
We're a tight-knit team of Surrey based technologists with over 25 years combined experience of crafting digital experiences for web, mobile, VR and everything in between.
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