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Design Works
Design and build for complex organisationsLondon · Est. 2009

For organisations who depend on digital

We take on the projects that have outgrown their platform: legacy systems held together by workarounds, five tools that should be one, live data nobody has managed to make useful yet. Six to nine months, real consultation, one accountable team.

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020 3608 2525
Straight through to the team who'd run it.
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Legacy platform, endless workarounds

We rebuild the foundation so the next five years is additive, not another rescue.

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Five systems that should be one

Portals, ordering, membership and content under one CMS, one login, one truth.

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Something new with live data

Benchmarking, feeds, dashboards, assessment workflows. Built before, built again.

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Stakeholders who can't agree

We run the workshops, write the decisions down, get every department to sign off.

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01Scholarships · Government-backed

Chevening

Built alongside their design partner Webb & Webb. A new site and application platform for thousands of candidates a year, replacing a system that had run out of room.

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02Higher education

University of London Housing

Bringing the accommodation service up to speed, with the tools students and landlords actually need to find each other.

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04Local authority

Services for Schools

Head teachers order services direct from the borough of Hounslow. Ordering had to stay simple while the reporting behind it got serious.

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Six to nine months. One team.

Our best work is a full programme with a client who wants to be involved. Small jobs are going to AI and subscription tools, and we are happy to point you there when that is the honest answer.

01
Consultation

Weeks with your team and stakeholders, mapping what exists and what it costs you.

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Architecture

Content model, integrations, permissions, data. Written down before design starts.

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Design and build

Interface and engineering together, shipped in stages you can react to.

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Handover

Training, documentation, and a clean route into ongoing support.

17
years building systems for organisations that can't afford to get it wrong.

Tell us what isn't working

Thirty minutes with the people who would actually run the project. If it isn't a fit, we will say so.

020 3608 2525
Studio
WeWork Building
1 Primrose Street
Spitalfields
London EC2A 2EX

Liverpool Street station, three minutes on foot.