Research, prototyping and interface design for products that have to work for everyone who uses them - including the people assistive technology serves. Design decisions tested with real users before they become expensive to change.
Research and usability testing with real users
WCAG-aligned accessible interfaces
Clickable prototypes before the build
100% in-house · Adelaide HQ
Design is cheapest when it happens before code exists. These are the three moments where a small amount of it prevents a large amount of rework.
Watching people do the task today, including the workarounds nobody writes down. This is where assumptions get killed cheaply. It routinely changes the scope, because the thing everybody agreed to build turns out to solve a problem users do not have, or to miss the step that actually costs them time.
A clickable prototype turns a disagreement about a feature into a five-minute test with a real user. For Jones Radiology we built a prototype and proof of concept covering referral tracking before any production build, so the hard decisions were made before the expensive ones. Changing a prototype costs hours; changing shipped software costs weeks.
Most accessibility failures are structural - heading order, semantics, focus management, contrast in the component library. Fixed in the design system they are close to free; retrofitted across a shipped product they are a project. Building them in also improves the product for people who are simply tired, rushed or on a bad screen.
PixelForce localised SWEAT into eight languages without forking the product. That is a design outcome more than a translation one: the layout has to tolerate text expanding by a third, the content model has to separate copy from structure, and dates, numbers and currency have to follow the locale rather than the developer's assumptions. Designing for it costs very little up front. Retrofitting it into a product that assumed English is close to a rebuild, which is the same economics as accessibility.
An audit is only useful if it tells you what to do next. These are the four things we do differently.
Automated checkers catch a minority of real accessibility problems and miss most of the ones that actually block someone. We test with screen readers and keyboard-only navigation, because a page can pass every automated rule and still be impossible to complete.
The output is a ranked list of what breaks, for whom, and what it takes to fix - not a several-hundred-row export nobody actions. We separate the structural fixes that resolve many symptoms at once from the individual instances.
Where the same failure repeats across a product, the fix belongs in the design system rather than on each page. Contrast, focus states and component semantics fixed once stop the problem recurring in everything built afterwards.
We can implement what the audit recommends rather than hand over a document. 100% in-house in Adelaide means the designer and the developer are on the same team, which removes the usual gap where recommendations quietly do not get built.
Research, prototyping, interface design and accessibility, delivered as Phase 1 - Scoping and Design, or as standalone work on an existing product.
Interviews, observation and journey mapping to establish what people actually do, before anyone draws a screen.
Clickable prototypes tested with real users, so the expensive decisions are made while they are still cheap to change.
The designed product itself - screens, states, motion and the design system that keeps it consistent as the product grows.
WCAG-aligned review tested against real assistive technology, delivered as a prioritised remediation plan rather than a compliance document.
Designing so the product can carry other languages without forking, as we did taking SWEAT into eight languages on one codebase.
Using real behaviour to find where the design fails in practice, then fixing that specifically rather than redesigning on instinct.
Apple Best of Developers, Watch and TV App of the Year, ACS Digital Disruptor Gold, and Top Clutch App Development Company in Australia. The kind of recognition you cannot buy with a marketing budget - earned by shipping software people use every day.
The same canonical PixelForce engagement model behind 100+ shipped products and $1.5B+ in combined client revenue, applied to your digital product. The 1-3-1 method runs through every conversation - one problem, three options with honest trade-offs across budget, timeline and scope, one recommendation. No Blueprint, no Build.
A free, no-obligation conversation to find the right path for your digital product before you commit a dollar.
Everything you need to build with total confidence - a fully costed, designed plan with no scope surprises.
From approved designs to your live digital product, built and tested at a steady sprint cadence.
We do not disappear at launch - monitoring, warranty, and an optional retainer keep your digital product growing.
Selected work from PixelForce - built by the same in-house team you would be working with.
From a founder's name to a brand a whole platform could stand on.
A store built to sell a product nobody can smell through a screen, with a 200 percent return on investment within the launch period.
How we localised Sweat into eight languages without forking the product.
User-Centered Design questions from founders, operators and product leads.
Designing around evidence of what people actually do rather than assumptions about what they want. In practice it means research before wireframes, prototypes tested with real users before development, and measurement after launch to check the design did what it was meant to. The point is to make the expensive mistakes on paper rather than in code.
An audit checks a product against the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and, more importantly, against real assistive technology. That covers keyboard navigation, screen reader semantics, colour contrast, focus order, form labelling and error handling, and content structure. The output is a prioritised list of what breaks, for whom, and what it takes to fix - not a compliance certificate.
Because most accessibility failures are structural - heading order, semantics, focus management, contrast in the design system - and structural problems are cheap to prevent and expensive to retrofit. Building it in also improves the product for everyone: clear focus states, readable contrast and sensible keyboard behaviour help users who are tired, rushed or on a bad screen.
It is where the hard decisions get made while they are still cheap. For Jones Radiology we built a clickable prototype and proof of concept covering referral tracking before any production build, so the difficult questions were answered before the expensive ones. A prototype turns a disagreement about a feature into a five-minute test with a real user.
Yes, and it changes the design rather than just the text. We localised SWEAT into eight languages without forking the product, which means the layout tolerates text expansion, the content model separates copy from structure, and dates, numbers and currency follow the locale. Retrofitting localisation into a design that assumed English is a substantial rebuild.
Design is Phase 1 - Scoping and Design, which comes before any development commitment and typically runs $35,000 to $65,000. It produces the research, the prototype and the costed plan. No Blueprint, no Build: we do not quote a development price for something nobody has designed yet, because that price would be fiction.
Tell us who has to use this and what happens when they cannot. We will come back with three options, honest trade-offs across budget, timeline and scope, and one clear recommendation.
