Most software is engineered first and decorated later. We work the other way round.
In most technology companies, design arrives late, as a coat of paint on decisions already made in code. The result is software that works on paper and confuses people in practice. Customers rarely complain about it. They simply stop using it, and the redesign budget grows every year.
At vi-tech, design was never a department added on. It is where the company began, and it still has a seat at the top table. Every product starts with the people who will use it, and our designers and engineers work as one team from the first sketch to the final release.
32pts
50ms
70%
up to 35%
higher revenue growth over five years for companies in the top quarter of McKinsey’s Design Index than for their industry peers.
is all it takes for people to judge how appealing a website looks, long before they read a word of it.
of online shopping baskets are abandoned before the purchase is complete.
higher conversion is available to the average large online store through better checkout design alone.
From the first question to the last pixel.
Six kinds of design work, one standard: decisions backed by evidence and designs that survive contact with real code.
Six layers under every screen we design.
A beautiful screen can still fail. These six layers decide whether people understand it, trust it and get their job done. Tap a marker to look inside.
One in six people lives with a disability. Most websites still shut them out.
Accessibility used to be a nice-to-have. Since June 2025 the European Accessibility Act has made it a legal requirement for many digital products and services sold in the EU, from online shops to banking apps. Yet the web is getting less accessible, not more, and every barrier is a customer turned away.
95.9%
Jun 2025
1.3bn
people worldwide live with a significant disability, about one in six of us, the World Health Organization estimates
of the world’s top million home pages failed basic automated accessibility checks in 2026, up from 94.8% a year earlier
the European Accessibility Act began to apply to e-commerce, banking, transport ticketing, e-books and more
Accessible by default
Contrast, focus states and labels are built into every component, so accessibility doesn’t depend on someone remembering.
Tested the way people use it
Keyboard-only journeys and real screen readers such as VoiceOver and NVDA, not just an automated scan.
Documented for compliance
An accessibility statement and conformance report you can show customers, auditors and regulators.
Six stages. Opinions go in, evidence comes out.
We test early and often, so decisions are settled by what users do, not by whoever argues loudest in the meeting.
Different problems need different design work.
A new product, a tired one, a growing family of products or a complex internal tool each call for a different mix of research and design. Here is where we would usually start.
Design
Figma · FigJam · Adobe Creative Cloud · Spline
Prototyping & motion
Figma · ProtoPie · Framer · Lottie
Research
Maze · Lyssna · Dovetail · Optimal Workshop
Analytics
GA4 · Microsoft Clarity · Hotjar · Mixpanel
Accessibility
axe DevTools · WAVE · Stark · VoiceOver · NVDA
Systems & handoff
Tokens Studio · Storybook · Zeroheight · Jira
Some of our screens are read at 3am, on a moving ship, by someone who hasn’t slept.
Our maritime and marine salvage work taught us what design is really for. On a bridge or a salvage barge, interfaces are used in glare and darkness, with gloves on, in heavy weather and under pressure, where a confusing alarm or a buried button costs far more than a lost sale. Designing for those conditions made us obsessive about clarity, and every client benefits from it.
Also building for SaaS, fintech, healthcare, logistics, education, e-commerce and the public sector.
Three ways in. One team accountable for the outcome.
UX audit
Design partner
Design and build
A fixed-price review of your product with a ranked list of fixes and the evidence behind each one.
Researchers and designers embedded in your team on a monthly plan, working sprint by sprint.
One team from first interview to final release, with designers and engineers side by side throughout.
Best for
live products that underperform
Best for
product teams shipping continuously
Best for
new products and full redesigns
