Swindon
We’re a digital design consultancy that helps businesses design better websites, apps, and software based on understanding their customers.
By designing with a great understanding of your customers you are much more likely to sell more.
We also look at how your website could save you on performing tasks that cost you both time and money.
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5 customer reviews
Sophie
Really pleased with how my prototype was designed around my customers. Thanks
Gary Nelson
Highly recommend to anyone looking for digital services. 5 stars from me!
Rob
Outstanding service from Stage One to build my e-commerce website. I've always been an offline business but due to COVID, I needed to pivot my business to offer online sales. Daniel & Steve was quickly able to take my ideas and turn them into reality. I highly recommend Stage One! More...
Penny Davis
Working with Stage One was a breeze. My project was quickly onboarded and within a few days after our discovery workshop Stage One had a clear digital roadmap that I was able to put forward to our MD. We’re excited to be working with Stage One over the next 12 months and beyond. More...
Reply from Stage One
Thanks Penny. We’re excited to be working with you and your team to meet your user and business requirements.
Paul Peterson
Steve & Daniel provide a highly professional service. Really focused their attention to my customers using Research techniques. I’ll be coming back to Stage One for my next digital project. 100% recommend Steve, Daniel & the Stage One Team. More...
Reply from Stage One
Thanks Paul. It was a pleasure working with you to improve your websites user experience.
What makes a great website?
A website that gives customers what they want the way they want it. If a website is designed with the customer's way of thinking your website will be more successful.
Also, a website that can save a business time and money can give you a much bigger ROI. If a website costs £10,000 but it can perform tasks you don't need to do saving you £1,000 a month on resources. That's a £12,000 saving a hear. So really you are getting £2,000 and a free website. That doesn't even take into consideration an increase in sales.
What questions might you ask a client when starting a new project?
Why do you think you need a new website? It sounds like a silly question but actually it highlights some information on what you need to find out about your audience.
What can your website do for you?
What do you love most about your job?
We love making websites and digital products better for you and your customers to increase ROI and the user experience.
What inspired you to start your own business?
Helping real people get what they want faster and easier. We've always had the mindset of making things better.
Why should our clients choose you?
We also will add you to https://www.buddyassist.co.uk/
Our Buddy app is there to help businesses get connected with their customers. You'll have your page on Buddy and your details, opening times for example, and contact details. There will be a link to your website. You will have control of this, so if there are changes you can update the details.
We also what to help people who have accessibility and disability issues. Buddy is there to help everyone. We will be adding more features to Buddy including linking registered carers to people who can't get orders from businesses.
Website Design
We can design and build any type of website. All websites will work on any screen size and on any mobile phone.
All our designs meet AA accessibility standards. This means every design will be accessible to people with disabilities.
User Research
We can learn about who your customers are and how they think. This means any designs we make are far more likely to give you higher returns than our competitors.
App design and build
As we are involved with user research we can design more valuable apps that will work with your customer's needs. This intern gives you a more powerful app and more selling power.
UX Design
We offer full UX services including and on top of User Research services:
- Functional design - how a website/app should work
- Scenario designs
- Wireframes and prototyping
- Testing designs with users
- Information Architecture
- Interaction Design
- Template Designs and Controls designs
Expert Review
This is a review of a website/software/app to see where it can be improved. It looks at things like:
- Layout
- Content
- How users need to use your website/app/software
- What can easily be fixed with little development and design work
User Testing
User Testing helps validate the design of a website/app/software. The design is tested with real users to find out how well they can perform their daily tasks. Why do user testing:
- Increase productivity
- Reduction of user errors
- Reduction in calls to help desk
- Reduction in support costs
- Reduction in training
- Reduction of user errors
- Be more competitive
- Lower compensation costs
User Interface design
We apply User-Centred Design principles to all our UI designs. This means we apply how users think when they interact with an interface.