What We Do  —  Our Services

by Studio Naam
Jul. 15th, 2018
Naam Insights, News
Joris and Ellie looking at a strategic plan on the whiteboard
Intro
We use design and the power of technology to create products, services and experiences that increase the possibility of success.

A little bit about us: we are design obsessed, crazy about technology, and love to shape our solutions around human-behavior, vision, insight and high-quality execution. By researching the needs of our clients and their customers, we create solutions which truly solve problems and are based on data-driven quantitative research and insight-driven qualitative research.

We achieve these outcomes by designing processes where strategy, product, and brand requirements meet. Whether that’s in the form of a website, app, brand system or workshop, we work with clear constraints and needs to reach a measurable goal.

Companies are more successful when their method of communication is clear and honest, both internally and externally. We approach our own client-processes much the same way. This paves the way for a collaborative process without any big surprises and plenty of touchpoints. These projects always work best when we all share the same, clear goal and unanimously supported vision.

Studio Naam diagram for our services. It shows how brand, strategy and product are the basic pillars of our innovation platform.

Brand, Strategy and Product – the basic pillars of our innovation platform.

We believe in balancing craftsmanship with both function and emotion. We team up with clients who value a close relationship and understand the importance of investing in this type of design.

Are you curious about the details of our processes and the different steps we undergo? We wrote an article for you.

To make our services as clear as possible, we’ve broken them down into several main branches.

 

Strategy

A solid strategy is a fundamental part of any business. Great strategy is all about understanding the current, in order to anticipate the future.

A clear strategy is all about gaining insights through research and developing an understanding of what that might mean. This information is used to formulate a plan to help guide your business to success. Without strategy, we’re as good as headless chickens, blindly running toward an uncertain future, only to discover we’ve been running in circles.

A simple strategic approach should be broken down into three steps:

  1. Analyze
    No two projects are the same. There are a multitude of tools available to us when we start out on a project and we have to carefully choose the most valuable ones for each scenario. The best way to do this and ensure we put together the proper toolkit is to get to know your company inside and out. We can then explore options together as a collaborative effort to discover which will best fit the project scope.
  2. Organize
    To lay out the best foundation for each project, we set ourselves some goals and objectives. We define what must come out of the project at the end, from both our clients perspective, and their customers’, and what they would like to come out of it. We frame these in a set of project questions. These give us a focus and help us to solve the problem at the center of the project. Once we have come up with some solutions, we can then check them against this list to measure their overall success.
  3. Anticipate
    What future problems are we trying to solve? Which ones need solving right now? It’s important to understand that design is an ongoing process that needs constant maintenance in this ever-changing digital landscape. This is why we prefer long term partnerships over quick-fix projects.

All in all, our strategic services help our clients identity ways in which they can connect more closely with their current customers and draw in new ones. We offer our services across an extensive list of disciplines, whether that might be e-commerce, market, brand, or technical. We specialize in the following services:

  • Brand Analysis
  • Product Analysis / Analytics
  • (Potential) Customer or User Analysis
  • Business Model Canvases
  • Workshops
  • Content Strategy
  • Product vs. Brand vs. Market-Fit
  • Competitor Analysis
  • Roadmaps, Resources and User Flows
  • Process Development
  • Defining Values and Intent
  • Problem Definition
  • Anticipatory Models
  • Actionable Playbooks

 

 

Brand

Every product, product line, or service is represented by a brand. We help to activate and form these brands and their experiences by creating a vision, gaining insight into their users, and by ensuring high quality implementation. We work with brands we believe in, brands that value design and quality, and brands that are here to do good.

Our clients present us with all kinds of challenges. Every brand is different; therefore, every process requires a different approach. However, the core is always consistent; we center all our work around humans — the ones that make up the business and the ones that use their products.

This understanding of a brand results in the creation of the brand itself, its campaigns, content strategy, tone of voice, and the overall experience.

  • Brand & Positioning Strategy (defining how a product, service or brand interacts with its audience)
  • Identity Design (this includes logo design)
  • Multi-Platform Design (anything from business cards, to banners and flyers)
  • Competition Research and Analysis
  • Tone of Voice
  • Identity Systems & Guidelines
  • Creative & Art Direction
  • Content Creation / Strategy
  • Retail & Event Experiential Design
  • Campaign Development
  • Asset Management

 

 

Product (Digital & Analogue)

We translate your brand’s key values into products. We help you organize, strategize, design, evaluate, and iterate for all kinds of screens and printed products. We build products with an understanding for their end-users, driven by the latest developments in design and technology.

Our products and experiences are built through a process of invention, wireframing, prototyping and testing.

  • Immersive (User) Research
  • Information Architecture & User Flows
  • Product Strategy
  • UX & UI Design
  • Motion Design
  • Visual Design
  • Rapid Prototyping & Ideation
  • Technical Support and Consulting
  • Front-end & Back-end Development
  • Usability Testing
  • UI Kits and Style Guides
  • Interactive Design (i.e. App Design, Web Design, Client-panel Design, Digital Design for everything with a screen)
  • System-wide Interaction & Responsive Design (& Consulting)
  • System Analysis
  • Quality Assurance & Testing

 

So, that’s it; a comprehensive overview of all the services we offer. We’ll guide you through the tricky parts and are always on hand to offer our advice and expertise. If you have any questions about any of the above, please feel free to contact us.

If you think you might be interested in partnering up with us, check this article to see how we work.

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by Studio Naam