An iPad showing the DCA website homepage

Design and Development

How can we help?

We build beautiful, intuitive, human-centred communications platforms with the latest technologies, to convert audiences.

Our websites are crafted to deliver. With engaging design and cutting-edge technology, we make client's business goals a reality. 

Grandad has been a pleasure to work with over the years, they always consider our briefs with creative flair, while pushing the boundaries in order to deliver more than we could have imagined.
Marilena Reina Head of Marketing, Brighton Dome

Our approach

Discover

  • Discovery workshops
  • User research & testing
  • Guerrilla research 
  • Competitor analysis 
  • Content and analytics review

Design

  • Information architecture 
  • Content strategy & blueprints 
  • Design concepts & prototypes 
  • Production design

Develop

  • Tech planning and systems architecture 
  • Back and front-end dev 
  • External systems integration

Deliver

  • CMS training Ongoing tech support 
  • Content population 
  • Performance monitoring

We build with...

You Create
Wordpress
Drupal
aws

At Grandad we craft bespoke digital solutions that bring our clients' ambitions to life through the marriage of captivating design, evocative interactivity and the latest technologies.   

These are solutions that cater to the specific needs of each business and the goals of their audience. Solutions that offer seamless digital experiences that attract and engage people, persuading them to take the actions desired by a business.   

Our solutions are more than aesthetic windows onto a business. They’re strategic solutions that are based on a robust understanding of the behaviours and goals of our client’s intended users. Before we even contemplate the visual design, we ensure that the structure and content of each experience is optimised to deliver value at every step of the user’s journey. Only then do we design an interface that ensures that users are captivated and enticed into action.

All that, though, depends on being able to implement the right technology to deliver on the design and business goals. Our extensive experience with industry-standard enterprise platforms and tools guarantees our clients will receive a scalable, accessible, GDPR-compliant result that is fast, secure and reliably hosted.   

Our own platform, YouCreate, is designed for systems requiring unique, bespoke integrations that enhance the core user experience. It offers a component-based build that provides flexibility in design, whilst empowering content teams with complete control over the system and the ability to seamlessly manipulate incoming and outgoing data.

Our Clients

Welcome to wandsworth. London borough of culture
Turner Sims
DCA Dundee Contemporary Arts
Baltic
Warwick Arts Centre
Brighton Dome
Keywords Studios Imagine More
Games Aid
Climax Studios, a Keywords Studio
Cold iron
Electric Square
Studio Gobo, a Keywords studio
Sport Wales logo with welsh version chwaraeon cymru
ISF
Macintyre logo with the tagline Providing support...your way
The Production Guild of GB
SA Law logo
Patient information forum