Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a sales representative of a tech firm in Japan. We do digital production covering from web design, app development to xR and hardware. Our clients are in all fields, especially in electronics and advertising.

For what projects/services did your company hire EGO Creative Innovations?

We had a plan to launch a new solution of UI/UX, and were searching a team that can cooperate with us. We hired this team to provide the site design of the landing page of this solution. We will continue cooperating for this solution itself as well.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We looked for several companies and designers beginning from connections on LinkedIn and introductions of people. We chose this vendor because of their high ability and industry experience, personable team.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

First we were thinking of making a flat design in a short period. After discovery meetings, thanks to their advices, we decided to change the concept to make a more exciting page, so as to let the users enjoy and give an impact to present this solution. Feedbacks were through Figma and Google documents. The vender came back with beautiful 3D animated designs, organized structure and a catchy slogan. They also helped us brushing up our press release.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

In total, we worked with 7 people including 4 Chief-ranked officers, 1 project manager, 2 designers.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Not to mention their design, variety of proposals, understanding the other party's wishes, their research and document creation were very professional. It was great to have been able to have a through discussion rather than one-sided from us. The Landing page has a good reputation and everyone says WOW.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Everyone was easy to contact and gave us prompt replies. It was our side that changed the schedule and we appreciate they had patience and responded flexibly. The communication was on Mattermost and e-mail.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

First, their quickness. Their mind and capability to present something that far exceeds our expectations. Each individual's ability is high, and their unity as a team is also strong. They know how to guide the other party to the goal. As a whole, everyone is kind and genuine, they make us happy every time.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

I can't find anything so far. We would love to work with them again.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO of a Sydney, Australia-based startup

For what projects/services did your company hire EGO Creative Innovations?

We struggled to come up with a coherent design for our web app, so we retained the vendor to create exciting and awesome UX/UI

How did you select this vendor?

We've identified top design teams across the world. After careful consideration, EGO were selected because of some stunning designs they've created for other brands. Pricing was very on-market and the quality of communications was outstanding.

Describe the project in detail and walk through the stages of the project.

EGO team has conducted a thorough assessment of our needs and wants. They then proceeded to assess user pain points, and suggested very clever UX tricks that we would have never thought of.

They kept us updated on the progress and continuously engaged with us to ensure the alignment of their work with our goals. They frequently reviewed our feedback and promptly incorporated changes, always exceeding our expectations.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

My team directly worked with a project lead, a UX designer, and a graphics designer

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Wow! That's an all-encompassing description of the work they've done. Very cool, stylish, and intuitive design of our partner's app has some features that we incorporated in our main project. Everything was outstanding: from the animations to coherent styles, to the top-notch style guide delivery. Totally unexpected after numerous terrible experiences working with other self-proclaimed design teams. The EGO team rocks so hard! We retained them to work on our main project.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The team was always switched on and frequently collected our feedback, and promptly incorporated our feedback into the process. In addition, I particularly loved that the guys were able to lead the design decisions and inform us of their reasoning behind the particular elements. Totally awesome.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Hmm, how about everything? I was the most impressed with their high level of professionalism.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

Honestly, this has been one of my best collaboration experiences in a long while. Rivaled only by working with my own team members. Would love to continue working with these guys again.

Please describe your company and your position there.

Woodstock is a Fintech start up based in Tokyo, Japan, aiming to provide a social investing network for young people in Japan. I am the CTO of Woodstock

For what projects/services did your company hire EGO Creative Innovations, and what were your goals?

We want to develop a cross-platform mobile application, which is the core product of our company. While we don't have enough engineering resource as a start up company so we decided to delegate all our mobile app development work to EGO team while we can focus on the backend and infrastructure. Our goal was to release the MVP version in 4 months and make a pre-release version before Sep, and we are happy to see the result is quite good thanks to EGO team's great effort.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We researched online and did some benchmark among different vendors, EGO is the best team with good cost/performance and tech skill and communication management skill.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

We provided the Figma design to EGO team and explained our schedule, we planned to release a MVP version which only supports iOS in 4 months while we still want to use Flutter for development since it's the best cross-platform mobile application framework as far as I know. After the MVP release, we designed the pre-release version with EGO team and finally worked out a Figma design and EGO team delivered the pre-release version in right time.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

A project manager who is really good at project management and communication, two senior mobile developers joined the engineering team. Besides, there is always one QA tester from EGO team who is testing for us and managing the bug report

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Within the MVP version, we successfully gathered more investment resources and make our VIP users (including our investors and influencers in the industry) on-boarded.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

The project manager is very skillful and reliable. We basically use Jira for task management and Confluence for doc management, while we can always talk to each other on Slack and Mattermost. We also have daily standup meeting and weekly report meeting and the project manager will host the meeting and get the status updated.

Before/after any status update and change request, she will send us email notification so that we can clearly understand the current situation. The project management is quite good although we have time difference.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

The overall service quality of their team was very impressive. Their tech guys write robust code while the project management is satisfying.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

So far so good

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a technical head of our product SpotAR based in Soest. We are developing a mobile application for cities and museums to create historical augmented reality experiences for tourists.

For what projects/services did your company hire EGO Creative Innovations, and what were your goals?

We had a design ready for our application and needed it to get it developed natively on Android and iOS with multi language support and modularized project structure.

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

We selected this vendor after researching some companies to outsource some of our work. The project portfolio from EGO was pretty good and that made our final decision.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

We provided a design and flow diagram in Adobe XD which the development and management team from EGO understood very quickly. They offered native iOS & Android developers and also did QA testing after each iteration release.

How many resources from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

Mostly we had contact with four persons, one project manager, one QA tester and two developers.

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

The app got delivered in time as calculated and expected with great quality.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

EGO follows agile project management with regular appointments with us and documents everything very well. Also, all communication platforms are offered to get in touch with each other. Project estimates are done very accurately in advance to get reviewed by us.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

They are professional and accurate in their work.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

We really can't think about something which could be done better.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the Head of Mobile Product at a fintech startup. We are a financial services platform that provides our users with the tools and the incentives to save more of what they earn.

As the Head of Mobile Product, I lead the design and engineering teams to deliver high-quality financial service experiences for mobile devices that align with business and brand objectives.

For what projects/services did your company hire EGO Creative Innovations?

We hired EGO Creative Innovations to assist us in the process of redesigning our mobile application. Our internal design resources are entirely focused on work related to new feature sets. In order to complete a redesign of already existing features, we needed additional resources from an external team.

What were your goals for this project?

Our current app navigation is confusing and doesn't provide a good representation of the information and actions that are most relevant to our customers.

This project aimed to take an existing hi-fi wireframe and iterate with EGO on layout, styling, and animations to ensure the next version of our mobile app would better represent our brand and make the overall experience of using the app more enjoyable for our customers.

How did you select EGO Creative Innovations?

My CEO connected with them previously and introduced me to their lead product manager to discuss the possibility of working together.

Describe the project in detail.

Our team provided hi-fi wireframes to describe the various states and the information we expected on each page. Throughout the collaboration with EGO we documented experiences and functions that were of the highest priority to our users in order to more easily communicate those across teams.

The team at EGO was able to provide suggestions related to how we could adapt complex concepts into easy to understand visualizations and layouts.

What was the team composition?

The team included a project manager and a designer. The project manager provided us with weekly updates related to the budget's status and how we were tracking related to the project goals. The designer regularly delivered design updates based on initial specifications and ongoing feedback.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We are still engineering the experiences designed by the EGO team.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

The workflow was very efficient. The project manager scheduled weekly meetings with me to discuss the progress of the project. We used Figma to collaborate on design work.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They quickly digested complex ideas specific to our business and produced work that clearly represented the ideas.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I noticed that some of their design styles seemed to be similar across fairly different industries. It may have been a safe aesthetic choice, but I would have loved to see some more unique and captivating experiences when determining a direction for our product.