Product design for professional services
Make working with you feel easier from day one.
Design an understandable enquiry and onboarding journey around your clients and the people serving them.
Free first conversation. Written scope, timeline and price before any paid work.
The problem it solves
A broad service description and disconnected onboarding steps make it hard to provide a useful brief or understand the next decision.
Your first step
An enquiry-to-onboarding prototype with clearer service choices, an initial brief and a client-facing next-step view.
What you get
Client experience design sprint, built around one goal: a clearer first conversation.
What changes
Make the first engagement easier to understand.
Broad service descriptions leave prospects unsure what to ask for, and unclear onboarding creates work for both teams. A coherent enquiry-to-onboarding journey explains the offer, the initial brief and the next decision.
A clearer first conversation
Explain the service and help a prospect provide a useful first brief.
Less onboarding confusion
Make onboarding requirements and the next decision clear before asking for more information.
A consistent client-facing experience
Connect enquiry, onboarding, and portal screens through consistent patterns that engineering can implement.
What’s included
Client experience design sprint
- Enquiry and onboarding journey map
- Clickable client portal prototype
- Interface patterns and implementation notes
- Prototype review and engineering handoff
How you’ll know it worked
A prospect can explain the offer, provide the right initial context and understand what is needed before delivery starts.
- Prospects who identify the appropriate service in review
- People who understand the initial brief and onboarding requirements
- Client-journey steps requiring explanation from the account team
Proposed measures, not promised results. Targets are agreed from your starting point.
Example
How it could work day to day.
A prospect understands the service, submits a useful brief, and receives a clear next step. The account team sees the information it needs to prepare the first conversation.
An illustrative example. Your version is shaped around your systems and rules.
Staying in control
Your team stays in charge.
Your team reviews client-facing advice, commitments, and sensitive documents. We define approvals and access around the service you provide.
Questions
Common questions.
Is this a design engagement or a finished application?
The design scope delivers the agreed journey, prototype, responsive screens and implementation guidance. A prototype helps you review the experience; it is not a production application. Engineering can be included as a separate agreed phase.
How do we know the design is useful, not just attractive?
Choose the task users need to complete and the decisions the prototype needs to answer. Review it with representative users where available, record confusion and errors, and test mobile, keyboard and recovery states. The handover includes unresolved assumptions.
Can you work with our brand and developers?
Yes. We review your existing identity, components and technical constraints before choosing the direction. Your engineers can join review points so interaction details, responsive behaviour and the handoff are practical to implement.
What if we are not sure which journey to redesign?
Begin with the most important customer or staff task and the evidence you already have: repeated questions, incomplete enquiries, support themes or usability observations. Discovery turns those signals into a prioritised brief before committing to a larger screen set.
What do you need from our team?
Your service descriptions, initial brief and onboarding steps with confidential details removed. An account owner reviews the prospect and client journey before engineering begins.
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Bring one bottleneck and the tools you use today.
Free first conversation. Written scope, timeline and price before any paid work.
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