DZ Crew

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the founder and CEO of Outloud, an AI development company for the hospitality and retail industry.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenges were you trying to address with DZ Crew?

We needed help with UI/UX development for our website, web app, mobile app, and other materials we create for our customers.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

DZ Crew provides UI/UX services for us using Figma as their main tool. We begin by sharing our rough idea with them when we start a sprint. Then we have a brainstorming session to gather the information, documents, guidelines, user research, and other details before coming up with a solution and designing the content.

What was the team composition? 

We’ve been mainly working with Denis (CEO), but other people from DZ Crew’s team are working behind the scenes.

How did you come to work with DZ Crew?

We found them through Upwork.

How much have you invested in them?

So far, we’ve spent $30,000–$50,000 with them.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in October 2020, and the engagement is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

The product design by DZ Crew has been instrumental in the impact we have on our customers who buy our services, which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars of revenue. Overall, we’re 100% satisfied with their approach; DZ Crew has a smart, creative, and swift team.

How did DZ Crew perform from a project management standpoint?

They meet deadlines and stay within budget without any issues. Regarding tools and communication, we use Slack and Notion.

What did you find most impressive about them?

DZ Crew is very creative and independent; they can come up with good product designs without much input from our side. We don’t have to micromanage them and ask for a lot of changes, and we like that about working with them.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I don’t think there’s anything they can improve on because we’re delighted with their services.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Give them a try, and they’ll take it from there. Nonetheless, I recommend giving them a small task first to ensure they meet your expectations.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm CMO in Vanongo that is IT last-mile delivery business. We are deep tech company in Logtech operating in EU, CEE, CIS

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire DZ Crew, and what were your goals?

We had a corporate web page that has quite a poor quality in terms of design and overall functionality. Our goal was to develop high quality web page with multilanguage content and constantly develop it

SOLUTION

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

DZ Crew provide with the best combination of cost and quality based on test task

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

In the first stage, we had a web page on Tilda both mobile and desktop. DZ Crew was responsible for the design development, animation development, overall structure development with the following upgrade on Tilda. The next step was a migration to WordPress with additional functionality like integration with CRM and PM systems (Atlassian, Hubspot etc). The web page is hosted on Amazon servers so there were quite a lot of challenges connected with technologies. There was the integration of chatbox (jivochat), several feedback forms, subscription forms. The team uses Figma, Trello, hottie files for animation. Also there were delivered marketing design for animation for appstore and playmarket

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

UX/UI designer WordPress developer Frontend developer Motion designer CEO

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The first version of web page with 5 languages has been deployed within 5 weeks from scratch to the final version including all steps of development (design, web development etc.). That was high quality and high-speed development.

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

Their highly professional project management, totally client and result-oriented that all together leads to outstanding results. The team uses Trello, Figma and other up-to-date professional tools for high-quality project management

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

We're impressed by their speed of reaction and extreme orientation on client needs to deliver high-quality results. There was also quite wide expertise

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

I recommend further improvement all processes and expand expertise

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the president of a company that sells promotional products.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Denis Z. Crew?

We needed marketing and web development work. We needed design work for the website and our blog, along with design for internal materials. There were other tasks as well.

We have done this type of work internally in the past, and we have used other companies.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Denis Z. Crew created an improved user experience and refreshed the site.

What is the team composition?

My marketing director mainly worked with their founder as our sole point of contact.

How did you come to work with Denis Z. Crew?

We found them through Upwork.

How much have you invested with them?

The cost is based on the workflow we assign to them. They give us quotes for each task.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with Denis Z. Crew in February 2017 and the collaboration is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

We’ve received compliments from site visitors. We’re satisfied with their work, so we’ve continued to use them.

How did Denis Z. Crew perform from a project management standpoint?

Their performance in terms of maintaining deadlines and communication has been good. Whenever we encountered an error, they fixed it right away, and they’ve been quite accessible.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They provide suggestions for alternative approaches when something can bring us better results.

Are there any areas they could improve?

I wish that they provided development for my CRM, but this is not their line of expertise.

Do you have any advice for future clients of theirs?

It’s important to communicate as many details as possible upfront and ask for feedback from the team.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I'm the CEO of Helium Investments, which offers online financial services and loans to clients.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with DZ Crew?

We needed web design help.I had already worked with another vendor on our logo design, but they didn't have web design capabilities.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

I provided DZ Crew with some basic ideas for the website and they built it from scratch, providing several iterations as requested over the last couple years. The site is client-facing, but also features a secure dashboard for internal use only.

What is the team composition?

My main point of contact is Denis (CEO, DZ Crew).

How did you come to work with DZ Crew?

I'd literally looked through hundreds of other vendors after posting my project to Upwork, but ultimately felt that DZ Crew's portfolio of work was the strongest. Their offer was also straightforward and reasonably priced.

How much have you invested with them?

We've probably invested $30,000–$40,000 thus far.

What is the status of this engagement?

We've been working with DZ Crew since June 2016 and they continue to make updates and improvements to our site as needed.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

DZ Crew's designs are unique and vibrant, making our website stand out from the crowd. We've received positive feedback from clients as well who feel the site is both modern and easy to navigate.

How did DZ Crew perform from a project management standpoint?

Denis is very responsive, friendly, and receptive to my feedback. He's always met our deadlines.

What did you find most impressive about them?

They're very friendly and easy to work with. They're good about providing various design options for new requests that are still cohesive with the rest of the site. Their turnaround times are also quick and they delivered pretty much exactly what I wanted.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No. They've done a great job.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Make your expectations clear, so their team knows what you're hoping to accomplish and can make better suggestions.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I am the VP of business development for Time Clock Wizard Inc., a mobile and web application that helps business owners and managers track their employees’ time and schedule.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Denis Z. Crew?

We had developed an application and control panel. Although we made it user-friendly, it wasn’t very pretty. When we started charging for our services, we reached out to DZ Crew to redesign our control panel.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

They worked on the user interface for the web application, which is already live. We told them the application was programmed in .NET, but other than that we gave them free range to do whatever they needed.

We didn’t want our current users to be thrown off by the transition, so we worked with DZ Crew to keep it as similar as possible while giving it a modern, clean layout. We wanted improve the functionality of each page so it took fewer steps to achieve a function.

After we moved it live, they redesigned a mobile application that our developers are still coding.

What is the team composition?

We worked directly with Denis (Founder, DZ Crew).

How did you come to work with Denis Z. Crew?

We found DZ Crew on Upwork after looking at 7-10 other companies. We chose Denis because of his portfolio. After looking at his other work, we felt like he was a good fit for this project.

How much have you invested in them?

We spent $32,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked with them from December 2016 to April 2017.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What evidence can you share that demonstrates the impact of the engagement?

They listened to what we wanted and did a fantastic job. Hiring them was definitely an upgrade for us.

We get a lot of mixed reviews from our clients, mainly because any negative feedback comes from people who aren’t comfortable with change. We didn’t really consider that negative feedback. It was just something they had to relearn.

Overall, we’re satisfied with the work that they have done and would definitely recommend them to anyone.

How did Denis Z. Crew perform from a project management standpoint?

They did a pretty good job. We reached out occasionally to see how things were going if it was taking some time, but we could always contact Denis. Even if he was on vacation, he reached out.

What did you find most impressive about them?

There seemed to be a small language barrier, but even when I thought he didn’t understand, he always nailed the design. That was impressive and very positive.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm the product lead an an early-stage software startup.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire DZ Crew?

We hired them to help us with visual design and UX/UI design for a web app product that provides business intelligence to Revenue Operations teams.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

We put out a proposal and selected them for an interview. We were impressed with the quality of communication and the work samples.

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

Our project went through ideation, agile software development, user research, and many iterations.

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

I worked directly with Denis, the lead.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our engineering team's velocity increased dramatically with good research and quality design definition. We benefited from a style guide and design library, as well as specific clickable prototypes to demonstrate features.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

They were easy to communicate with on a daily basis, and always met their committed timelines for deliverables.

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

They provided a unique mix of vision for ideation as well as nitty-gritty details in pixel-perfect specifications.

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

Whenever our needs changed or we had feedback on something we needed differently, they were always very responsive.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

Owner of Elephant Enterprises, a tech incubator.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire DZ Crew?

Design for a mobile app focused on helping autistic children communicate.

What were your goals for this project?

Create UX that would be easy enough for kids from target demo to use.

SOLUTION

How did you select DZ Crew?

Had previously worked with Denis.

Describe the project in detail.

Create UX for a mobile app that allows non-verbal kids to communicate.

What was the team composition?

Worked directly with Denis who coordinated and responded to all of our requests.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

While it was an iterative process given the large scope of the project, it resulted in an effective UI which has shown effectiveness in early tests.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Denis was the single point of contact and it was highly effective.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They have a great eye for design. They got work done quickly and efficiently.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Believe Denis has a very effective team.