DaS™ – Canvas

Foundation UNIFIED by DESIGN.

For close to 50 years, design has always lived in someone's structure. The business structure, when design artefacts are scattered among the PPTs or design files in databases, where they cannot be retrieved and reused.

For over 20 years, we have been partnering with engineering teams to build a bridge between design artefacts and code — zero handoffs.

About DESIGN at SCALE™

Our services are available 365 days a year. We help individual leaders, teams and departments to shape better integration within their organisations. Helping teams to monitor, manage and make contextual data-driven decisions about their design propositions.

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The DaS™ Canvas

The Canvas is intentionally optimised as a business lens for designers. It simply helps you navigate all the assets in the delivery in a split second. It reflects the organisational structure, business hierarchy, data clusters, roles, and responsibilities directly linked to deliverables. Enabling clarity by broadcasting design decisions to the appropriate parties translated into delivery. And it would not be impactful without full integration of your team.

This is the difference that hundreds of design teams live by: moving from opinions to data-informed decisions, fully integrated with AI models that drive change in constantly maturing organisations.

+5k

Mentees in DaS™ Academy since 2012

+50

In-company design academies for the finance sector

26%

Reducing the risk in regulated environments

17%

Upskilled the design function using POM

72%

Of the mentees achieved their career goal

£9M

Saved in cross-team integration since 2010

3-5x

Faster to market without affecting the main team

Design Directors as cross-sector direct contributors

Mobilise

Canvas.

62% of team communication fails, and the most significant factor is the business's resistance to change. Regardless of the challenges, the design team has a unique ability to glue teams together. By unifying comms, we are not only getting a clearer signal on what to create, but also giving the business a greater impact from our work.

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Business

45% of businesses have inadequate product definition due to a lack of knowledge across associated functions – research, content, design, engineering, solutions, and integration. We help businesses to rearticulate basic objectives into a tangible PiD/PRD document that can be translated into code. Forget Word Documents, PowerPoint presentations, or Excel; we immerse you in a fully functional product definition that drives real outcomes and directly impacts KPIs and ROI.

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Research

7-10 researchers in our program have confessed that less 50% of their research is addressed by the final delivery team. DaS™ completely changed that, and the most significant point is that it does not cost the business a penny. The integrated research and insights achieved 82% application and strengthened the product by 3-5x over the last 5 years.

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Content

Everyone can make soup; it does not make them a chef, though. Well stated for all the content-heavy pages on your proposition. Our content experts craft text, copy, images, videos and supply them for further integration. DaS™ makes content fully integrated through the proposition, from initial testing and branding to asset adjustments and final delivery.

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Experience

DaS™ puts the experience at the centre of your proposition. This allows us to simply evaluate against the criteria that drive intent, value and impact internally – for the people who deliver the work - and externally – for customers who consume our service or use our product. This pillar defines all behaviours and navigational paradigms so that you are not building yet another Frankenstein in the silo of your bedroom.

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Design

Everyone is preaching about new methods – we don't. There are 274 design methods that determine the design function can scale within the organisation, with a direct impact on business growth and evaluation. We DO NOT just translate business requirements into a tangible artefact: so that brand, marketing, design system, layouts, images, micro-interactions, have just more work to do. We are all “operators”; we research, synthesise, ideate, prototype, validate, and ship. Not because we are superhuman, but because you are well-integrated parts of our team.

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Development

A truly integrated product design team lives side by side with an engineering team. Forget personal preferences: we define the space, the units, the personnel, and the equipment, and each operator contributes to their best to the benefit of the proposition. A well-positioned engineering team brings the best of both teams; by sharing the architecture, foundation, and code snippets, we can all play with. This significantly increases the adoption of prototyping within the organisation, with the source of truth being high-quality design and code. Not to forget, this is the place where organisations achieve 10x.

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Release

We often question design leadership for not communicating enough or for taking too long to explain the basis in complicated decks. The release section informs the business on a daily basis what we have done, what we are working on, and how long it’s going to take to deliver an appropriate release. That’s the automated design leadership at scale.
No middle layers, no decks, no noise, no adjustments for the board, just pure facts and data.

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Integration

Now more than ever, we are integrating from day one. No more copy-and-paste; it’s a constant evolution among different models, engines, plugins, and databases. Reducing the limits of our collaboration. Enabling learning curves for business, design and engineering work as one team.

The place that we had dreamed of 30 years ago is now a reality. No more waiting!

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Design at Scale™ is defined by three models, which form the Method. Each model operates in a different part of the business and collects and informs parties on design and engineering decisions that have a direct impact on the delivery.

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