Caution Your Blast is a software design practice that focuses on obtaining maximum value from wherever people encounter digital technologies.
We change the way people work and do things. Our services include business and workplace analysis, digital product management, product planning and design, user experience, strategy, and information architecture. This applies to big organisations and for really small ones too covering both business and consumer level products.
We have a simple approach to this work:
- A. Have fun and enjoy delving into problems and challenges
- B. Let this give rise to creativity and ideas for solutions
- C. Craft a minimum feasible solution from the wider design goals
Industries
We're not really into a specific industry having done functional design consultancy for:- - media (newspaper, television, music)
- - financial services (insurance, loans)
- - telecommunications
- - customer contact centres
- - retail
- - IT software
- - healthcare
- - government
- - public transport
Case Study 1
We provide product ownership and design services to Ayoupa who specialise in mashup software on Apple iOS.
Our latest App, Commuter, is due to be released early 2012. It's a powerful every day tool for UK commuters that mashes up information from multiple transport providers UK National Rail and Tfl. It gives users a single view of their route across providers with: real-time data on trains, stations, lines, problems, live planning and route comparisons.
The functional design provides instance access to a wealth of data while maintaining simplicity and clarity of purpose.Check out more on the website.
Case Study 2
We provide management consultancy services to East London design company WAWA who work in the challenging area of design maker furniture.
A full business and operational review led to significant ongoing projects for growth and development. Improvements across all aspects of operational process have included an overhaul of the supply chain and adoption of Kanban and Kaizen lean methodologies.
We now have many digital innovations planned which will overhaul the business on the web, check the current site: wawa.co.ukCase Study 3
The Guardian News and Media is changing to a digital first business.
For them we've championed and built a specialist team for telling the news through interactive online media. We've designed their future payments and subscriptions platform. We've product managed and designed the subscriptions, free periods and bundling for the Guardian iPad Edition. We've provided consultancy in processes for contracting with 3rd parties, and negotiated a deal to develop a major open source software project.
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