Dev & Design Shop

Dev & Design Shop

Dev & Design Shop

Category:

Cofounder & Design Lead

Client:

Design and development requests

Used Tools:

Figma, Framer, JIRA, Notion, Google Suite

I ran this design and development agency as the UX design-guru cofounder, overseeing design of branding materials, crafting messaging, interviewing and managing designers and developers, and ultimately bringing in hundreds of thousands in revenue.

See for yourself...

See for yourself...

See for yourself...

Impact

  • Built a 6-figure grossing agency in under 12 months

  • Improved lives of dozens of LATAM developers and designers that we employed

  • Developed 30+ software products ranging from prototypes to full blown software application suites.

Assets

Responsive Marketing Site

A few mockups from client projects

Stigmatized Staffing

Stigmatized Staffing

Stigmatized Staffing

Offshore staffing has been a rodeo for quite some time. Everyone knows stories of projects that went up in flames, burnt out developers who quit, and scammers who held code hostage. Our aim was to reimagine the way teams were built, and at the same time, we wanted to utilize those teams to help direct the design of beautiful functional products.

The Plan to Reimiagine

The Plan to Reimiagine

The Plan to Reimiagine

We planned to refresh the approach with a more human perspective. We sought to collect deeper insights into who we were placing on projects using analytical tools, to reduce burnout by recruiting within the local timezone, and to build our brand around that.

I determined to focus my efforts on not only building a friendly attractive brand, finding paying customers, and professionally managing their projects, but vetting out the best designers and ensuring design output quality meet top notch standards.

How Things Went

How Things Went

How Things Went

We charged ahead at full steam and served dozens of clients, delivering everything from rapid-fire prototypes and polished WordPress sites to fully featured, production-ready applications. Along the way we became better at scoping projects, writing clear user stories, keeping thorough documentation, and setting expectations with greater accuracy. After those successes—and once the work was wrapped up—my partner and I decided it was the right moment to part ways and pursue our own next chapters.

Feast Your Eyes

Feast Your Eyes

Feast Your Eyes

Application Builds

With OrchardTek, I oversaw the design and development of dozens of software applications ranging bar hopping to travel hacking.

Application Builds

Style Guide

Here's a preview of the style guide we commissioned. Our lead designer Alejandro Lopez crafted the fine details, and I made some important tweaks to capture the essence of what we were looking for.

Style Guide

UI

Here's a preview of the style guide we commissioned. Our lead designer Alejandro Lopez crafted the fine details, and I made some important tweaks to capture the essence of what we were looking for.

UI

Pitch Deck

Enjoy some designs from my experienced team lead by Alejandro Lopez. Together we've built beautiful UI for dozens of software projects.

Pitch Deck

Zoom Backdrops

This was a big morale booster for the team. I threw these together to create the feeling of a being a part of something special.

Zoom Backdrops

Letterhead

For clients wanting information on our services I put together this letterhead for our two-pager.

Letterhead