Studio Black

Services

Everything it takes to ship a product.

Each engagement moves through strategy, design and build. Sometimes all three, sometimes one. Below is the full list.

Strategy

  • Discovery & user research: interviews, contextual inquiry, workflow analysis, usability testing
  • Product & UX audit: an honest, senior read of an existing product
  • Product definition & MVP scope: what to build first, and what not to
  • Service design & blueprints: the product across every touchpoint and role
  • Roadmaps & prioritisation
  • Product ownership: requirement specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria
  • Privacy, compliance & AI governance review: GDPR, the EU AI Act, data minimisation, human-in-the-loop

Design

  • UX architecture & information architecture
  • Interaction design: screen, in-car HMI, voice, TV and mobile
  • Interface design
  • Multi-platform design systems & governance: tokens, components, documentation, lifecycle management across platforms and regions
  • Prototyping & validation
  • Data visualisation & analytics interfaces
  • Onboarding, conversion & retention flows
  • Accessibility
  • Brand application: identity carried through product, site and collateral

Build

  • Web applications: React, Next.js, TypeScript
  • Mobile & multi-platform front-ends: scoped to the platforms the product lives on
  • Browser extensions
  • Back-end & data: PostgreSQL, APIs, job queues, real-time updates
  • AI-native features: assistants, agents, retrieval, model integration and ML services, designed to be interpretable and compliant
  • Payments & subscriptions
  • Privacy engineering: encryption, PII handling, audit logging, data-subject tooling
  • Hosting, monitoring & maintenance: EU-hosted by default

Platforms

Where we’ve designed, and design for. One product, however many screens.

  • Web: responsive and progressive web applications
  • iOS & Android: native and cross-platform
  • TV, set-top & streaming devices: ten-foot interfaces, remote-first navigation
  • In-car multimedia & HMI: safety, glanceability and automotive standards; concurrent platform lifecycles
  • Voice assistants: dialogue design, error handling and edge cases for interfaces that can’t show a spinner
  • Wearables & connected hardware: device, firmware and app designed as one experience, through certification and manufacture
  • Browser extensions: companion surfaces inside the tools people already use

Domain expertise

  • Automotive & mobility
  • Healthcare & life sciences
  • Fintech & trading
  • Consumer & connected products

Four ways to work with us.

  1. Product sprint. Two to four weeks. Definition, research, scope and key screens. The fastest way to know what to build, and whether to.

  2. Design & build. A scoped engagement from definition to a shipped product. One team, one process, one accountable lead.

  3. Product partnership. Ongoing design and engineering for a product that keeps evolving. Monthly cadence, standing priorities, no re-onboarding.

  4. Embedded lead. A principal designer or product lead inside your team for a defined period, when the gap is leadership rather than hands.

Engagements are scoped in writing after an initial conversation, and led by a principal from first call to release.

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