A senior product design team built around focused sprints and small, effective teams.
Precode helps companies shape brands, validate ideas, design better products and launch first versions through UX Sprints, V1 Sprints and ongoing product design support.
90+
Sprints delivered
100+
Screens in 5 days
50+
Years combined experience
30M+
Users reached
The antithesis of the traditional design agency
You need to move fast, ship products, learn from the market, and iterate. That can't happen if your design agency is still figuring out how to include every member of their team.
Precode is the antithesis of a traditional design agency. We are all experienced digital product designers and we use a fast-paced, agile approach to product design to make the most of the available resources, be it time, budget or team.
Precode is built around a simple idea: experienced people, working directly with the client, can solve product problems faster and better than a large layered team.
You get the 'A team'
The people you meet are the people designing your product. We don't sell senior and deliver junior. No account managers, no B-team.
One project at a time
When we work with you, everything else goes quiet. Your sprint is the only thing on the stove — not one of thirty clients being juggled.
Prototypes, not presentations
The biggest ideas come from making, not pitching. We spend the week on the product — not on slides describing the product.
One team: Client + Precode
You work directly with us all week. Show-and-tells every evening, course corrections in real time. No big reveal on Friday. No surprises either.
Designers lead. AI accelerates.
Most builds bolt design on at the end. We flip it: product designers direct the AI that writes the code. The thinking comes first.
Build the right thing
The biggest waste in software isn't a slow timeline — it's six months building the wrong thing. We help you find out for £10k, not £100k.
No busy-work
When you pay for a design agency, at least 50% of your budget is going to “busywork”. This is simply work that keeps the agency employees busy, but has absolutely no value for you
Yeah, we know that design agencies don’t like when we point this out, but it’s true: The large-scale, complicated hierarchies and superstar creative directors that were once key to agencies’ successes are now exactly what’s putting them in the ground. As agencies struggle to “go digital” and adapt their existing structure to a world that no longer has time to hang around and wait for them to get it right, we ask “Why should a project take 6 months, when it could take 8 days?”.
No busy-work. Promise.
Four challenges. One team
New idea or live product, design or build or both — every engagement starts as one of these four situations. The team is always the same: two senior designers, one project at a time.
Validate
De-risk before you build
- You need to de-risk a decision before the board or investors
- You need to align your team around an idea before proceeding
- Your developers are waiting and you can't brief them on guesswork
- You're about to commit six figures to a build you're not certain about
Create
From idea to working software — designed, built, deployed.
- No design or development capability in-house
- A hard deadline that can't wait for hiring - a raise, a launch, a demo
- A feature your team can't prioritise without stalling the roadmap
- Internal IT would take six months - the opportunity won't wait
Improve
Re-energise a product that's working but underperforming.
- An interface that's fallen years behind your brand
- A product your users struggle with - and you know it's costing you
- A build that's gone wrong and needs rescuing
- Dense, technical functionality your users find hard to use
Ongoing design & development
A senior product team on tap, when you need it.
- Keep shipping without hiring in-house
- No more unreliable freelancers who go quiet
- Design and development in one place - pause anytime
- Too much work to ignore, not enough for a full-time hire
Strategy, UX, UI, prototyping and build-aware product design
Precode brings together the skills needed to move from unclear product challenge to clear product direction, usable interface and practical next step.
Product Strategy
- Product strategy
- Product scoping & definition
- Business model alignment
- Competitive positioning
Product Design
- UX design
- UI design
- Design systems
- User research
- Prototyping
- Wireframing
- Information architecture
- User testing
- Accessibility
- UX & usability audits
Branding
- Brand identity
- Brand guidelines
- Brand integration
Content
- Copywriting
- Iconography
- Illustration
- Animation & motion design
Websites
- Web design
- Responsive design
- CMS integration
- Website development
Development
- Front-end development
- Mobile development
- DevOps & deployment
Growth
- Digital marketing
- Landing pages
- Funnel design
- A/B testing and optimisation
- SEO / GEO
What our clients say
Whether you need to create a new product from scratch, improve an existing product or inject some innovation into your design team, we can help.
Navmii
The finished UI and UX via Figma that was provided to use exceeded out expectations and provided a clear vision for the team to implement across all mobile devices.
Aaron Ashby-Gittins
CEO
Specular Systems
The branding they’ve created is spot-on, demonstrating that they’re experts in their field.
Rob Watson
CEO
JustLend
They understand what's happening in the marketplace.
Craig Smith
CEO
Leadership
Whether you need to create a new product from scratch, improve an existing product or inject some innovation into your design team, we can help.
Ben Keogh
Co-founder, CEO
Ben has enjoyed a 20 year career in digital product design and innovation.
Since leading the product team at the UK's first student social network, Ben went on to starting a mobile app agency in 2005, launching a social network for football fans, and more recently as Chief Product Officer at Mapcoin.
Matt Thornhill
Co-founder
A multi-disciplined, strategic and user-centred design leader with over 20 years experience fostering design culture and managing teams.
In 2008, Matt co-founded Navmii, the worlds first free GPS navigation app for the iPhone which today, is used by over 25 million people in 195 countries. As Creative Director, Matt was responsible for product strategy, design and UX.
Our Services
Whether you need to create a new product from scratch, improve an existing product or inject some innovation into your design team, we can help.
UX Sprint
Pixel-perfect designs in five days
Pixel-perfect designs, interactive prototypes, and user testing. Everything your developers need to build it right.
- Validate a new idea
- Improve an existing product
- Design a new product
- Interactive prototype
- User testing included
- Figma files + design system
V1 Sprint
Working software in five days
Deployed product at a live URL. Full code ownership. Real users can sign up and use it immediately.
- Design + build a new product
- Ship an MVP fast
- Add features your team cannot prioritise
- Deployed at a live URL
- Full code ownership
- Technical documentation
Subscription
Pixel-perfect designs in five days
The same senior team, month to month. Unlimited requests, one at a time, pause anytime. No hiring required.
- Iterate after launch
- Ongoing design and build
- Flexible senior capacity
- Unlimited requests
- Pause anytime
- Same senior team
Let's talk
If you're exploring new ideas, facing a challenge, or simply want to learn more about what we do, we're here to help.
or email us at hello@precode.co