Four services, each with a fee on the page
We do four kinds of work and turn down the rest. Each one below lists what you get, who works on it, how long it takes and what it costs to start.
What we do
Fees are fixed per engagement and exclude VAT.
Wayfinding systems
11 projects since 2014
Maps, sign families and digital directions for stations, hospitals and campuses, tested on site with people who've never been there.
- Survey of journeys and the existing sign inventory
- Network diagram and sign family, with a sign schedule file
- Full-size prototypes tested on site
- Production files and a written rationale
- Length
- 14 to 40 weeks
- Team
- 4 to 6 people
- From
- $96,000
- Example
- P-034 Northline
Data products
9 projects since 2016
Planning tools and dashboards for operators who need one number they can defend in a meeting, built on the data they already have.
- Data audit before the quote is final
- Interface and charts drawn from real records, never sample data
- Built in TypeScript and PostgreSQL, deployed on your servers
- No hosting or on-call support after hand-over
- Length
- 12 to 24 weeks
- Team
- 3 to 5 people
- From
- $110,000
- Example
- P-032 Tidal Grid
Annual and impact reports
7 projects since 2017
Reports where every figure has a numbered source, each chart says one thing, and the PDF and web edition both pass an accessibility audit.
- Figure check against your accounts and ledgers
- Web edition, tagged PDF and raw tables as CSV
- A template your team can reuse next year
- Length
- 8 to 12 weeks
- Team
- 3 people
- From
- $48,000
- Example
- Our own report
Interfaces for instruments
7 projects since 2015
Screens for lab instruments, meters and control panels that someone reads at arm's length, in gloves, in a hurry.
- Task analysis with the people who run the device
- Interface spec your firmware team can build from
- Usability test on the real hardware
- Length
- 10 to 16 weeks
- Team
- 3 to 4 people
- From
- $84,000
- Example
- P-030 Ferro
In every engagement
- A.01
A written rationale
30 to 60 pages on why each decision was made, so the next team doesn't undo it.
- A.02
All the source
Design files, code, tokens and fonts we drew, licensed to you without limits.
- A.03
Two hand-over sessions
Half a day each with the people who will run the system after us.
- A.04
An accessibility audit
Against WCAG 2.2 AA for screens, and against the national standard for signs.
Q.01Do you take on branding or campaign work?
No. We draw identities only when they're part of a system we're building, like a typeface for station signs. For campaigns, we're happy to recommend a studio.
Q.02Can you work with our existing developers?
Yes. On data and interface projects we often design and build the first release with your team, then step back to reviews.
Q.03Do you work outside Norway and the Netherlands?
Across Northern Europe, by train where we can. Site visits elsewhere are billed at cost with receipts.
Not sure which one fits? Start with an audit.
Three weeks, two people and a ranked list of what to fix. Half our projects began this way.