Haweya

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m a program manager for an incubator. We offer consultation services to startups, small businesses, and freelancers.

What challenge were you trying to address with Haweya?

We’ve worked with them on graphic design for printed material and various documents, as well as UI/UX.

What was the scope of their involvement?

Haweya helped us implement different entrepreneurship events, including boot camps and hackathons. We use unique collateral at each one of these activities, like posters, brochures, documents, and infographics. Haweya has also produced social media content for us, including videos.

What is the team composition?

The team size varies. If we’re preparing brochures and other materials for events, we’ll work with 3–7 people at once. We typically work with 1–2 people from Haweya. I believe they may use more people behind the scenes.  

How did you come to work with Haweya?

They’re a well-known company, and they have a branch in Gaza. They were recommended to us by one of our clients. We spoke to multiple companies, and Haweya was the best fit for our requirements.

How much have you invested with them?

The cost of their work so far is $50,000–$100,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with Haweya seven years ago, and our relationship is ongoing.

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

Haweya produces fantastic work across the different categories we need.

How did Haweya perform from a project management standpoint?

We communicate via email and WhatsApp, and we’re using Trello for task management. We have a main point of contact on Haweya’s side, who gathers our needs and expectations.

Are there any areas they could improve?

They could add more services to their offering.

Do you have any advice for future clients of theirs?

It’s important to have someone on the client side who can relay the needs of the project.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I work as an executive director of the Cartine Company, which specializes in the creative content industry, which provides its services in the Arab Gulf region to a group of companies and governmental and private institutions

For what projects/services did your company hire Haweya?

In order to provide our services in a professional manner, it was necessary to have specialized and professional success partners, an identity that was able to be so through the services it provides in the field of building and developing identity

What were your goals for this project?

We look forward to implementing projects with the identity of providing professional and specialized support to our clients.

How did you select Haweya?

When searching for companies specializing in this field, identity was one of the first names put forward due to the professionalism of the works that were published on social media

Describe the scope of their work in detail.

Hawiyyah’s mission was after gathering the requirements from the client .. to start the process of analyzing the data and building the initial visualization of the outputs .. and then converting the ideas into a visual material that reflects the brand personality

What was the team composition?

I communicate directly with the CEO and we talk a lot about ways to develop cooperation and joint work between the two companies. I also worked directly with the project manager, Fadi, one of the most professional and committed people in the implementation process.

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

A number of the projects became well-known brands in the market today, and Hawiyyah succeeded in building the personality of the companies they've worked with

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

From the beginning of the cooperation, it was agreed with the communication officials to use tools that help in the process of project management and archiving .. to achieve the highest return and investment of time.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Besides the creative outputs, the way they manage the project, the speed of communication and the follow-up of the implementation process

Are there any areas for improvement?

Every time we find a development in the outputs, the method of implementation and project management, and this thing makes us reassured to keep pace with the development in the market

Please describe your company and your position there.

Turkey-Islamic World Relations Center is a Turkish civil society organization that aims to strengthen the cooperation between the Islamic and Turkish nations in various fields: cultural, economic, media, social, as well as women, youth and students sectors.

It is a non-governmental organization with a body, an identity and a legal personality. And I'm the projects manager of this organization.

For what projects/services did your company hire Haweya?

We needed help for redesigning our brand, since we had many attempts to come up with a good design that befits our organization, until we were able meet our needs through Haweya.

What were your goals for this project?

We wanted to spread our brand awareness across the Islamic world, Also we aimed to achieve our organization's vision through a unique design.

How did you select Haweya?

Our tam searched for branding agencies, we looked at different companies, taking into onsideration thier website, portfolio, and past clients. We ended up choosing this vendor because we liked thier website the most.

Describe the scope of their work in detail.

The process began with a series of discovery sessions, where they spoke with the majority of our internal team members, ranging from our account maagers all the way to our CEO. They spent a large deal time listining to us, learing about our company, and really coming understand the goals and visions for our brand.

What was the team composition?

We worked diectly with their manager, which was great, knowing that thier top executives were involed. I also worked with their project manager.

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

Everyone within our company loves the brand package and our new rand identity has been radily accepted by our investors.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We used many ways to coneect wih them, and they were very helpful and understanding of our needs. We used weekly meetings, emails, phon calls, etc...

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Highly cooperative, Professional, and committed.

Are there any areas for improvement?

They are working professional, and we're looking forward to watching them grow and grow.

Please describe your company and your position there.

TDM is a Dynamic consulting Group which provides extensive and brilliant consultancy keeping in mind to partner with those sophisticated and extraordinary leaders in a diverse field of business to make an impact and create value. TDM was established In early 2015 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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

we have hired them for both branding and web designing and development.

How did you select Haweya and what were the deciding factors?

I have worked with them on many projects and many brands and websites and they have always been so supportive and professional.

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

In our kickoff meeting, I have described our ultimate goals for our website and in the long term and what is the designing capabilities and styles we are willing to have and regarding technologies used in the project we have allowed them to go but our only concern was security and they have taken care of it.

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

I had three people from the vendor team working with me Mr. Mohammad as the team lead and Fady the project manager and Miss Doaa as the content developer.

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

As we have just finished our project and started our marketing campaigns we have really found out that there is good feedback from some of our clients who have visited our website. but we cant provide numbers on but unmeasurable feedback is very good.

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

Regarding the tools, they use their own developed project management tool and I was getting emails on frequent updates and meanwhile having time to time chats via WhatsApp with the project manager. the most useful thing they did for us was the training on using the website control panel via Loom was so useful and easy to understand.

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

They were lean, supportive, and they had outstanding graphic design abilities.

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

I would suggest having a better and more clear timeline of tasks and milestones on the projects might be so helpful.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm working as a director for the Business and Technology Incubator (BTI), which is one of the biggest incubators in Palestine.

For what projects/services did your company hire Haweya?

for designing the identity of the incubator, as well as providing design services to many startups graduated from the incubator

What were your goals for this project?

to have unique and impactful designs

How did you select Haweya?

Haweya was one of our beneficiaries 9 years ago, the did a great work in the local market, as a result the became one of the best companies which provide such services.

Describe the project in detail.

we had several meetings with them in order to explain our objectives and expectations. then we continued in communication with them to review the designs and give feedbacks.

What was the team composition?

we assigned the media coordinator of the incubator to coordinate with them

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

the produced very unique and creative outcomes

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

very easy communication and very high flexibility

What did you find most impressive about this company?

the uniqueness of their designs

Are there any areas for improvement?

i have no idea