Software & Design Practice

Products engineered properly, presented through a brand people trust.

We build the software and the identity system around it, so that what ships performs well and reads as the work of people who understood the brief.
Design process wall with wireframes and reference material

What we deliver

Engineering and design, under one practice.

Two disciplines that are usually split across separate vendors, kept together here so the product and the brand never drift apart.

Software & Web Engineering

Web and software builds, from a landing page to a full product, engineered to hold up under real usage rather than a prototype presented as a finished launch.

Branding

Identity systems built to carry a company from its first pitch deck through years of client meetings: logo, palette, voice, and the guidelines that keep them consistent.

Design

Product and marketing design, including interfaces and landing pages, that makes engineering work legible to the people who use it.

How a project runs

Four stages, the same discipline every time.

Discover

Define what the product or brand has to accomplish, and for whom, before any design work starts.

Design

Identity and interface work developed together, so the visual language and the product structure agree from the start.

Build

Engineering against the approved design, with the same principal partner reviewing both the code and the brand execution.

Launch

Shipped, with brand guidelines and technical documentation handed over so the work can be maintained without us.

Who runs this practice

Principal Partner

Nzube Onyemechalu

Nzube Onyemechalu

Principal Partner, Software & Design

A software engineering leader with over nine years building the systems banks run on. At the software center of Ecobank, one of Africa's largest banking groups, he delivered digital account opening across 33 country affiliates and built the Smart Teller application now used in over 70 percent of the group's branches. He has also shipped a group wide two factor authentication service, reconciliation automation that saved six figures in licensing, and biometric identity verification for national pension records. At Vyrux he owns both the engineering and the brand on every engagement, from first sketch to production.

Start a project

Tell us what you are building, and we will tell you what it needs in order to ship well.