MAKEING.com

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and position.

I am the Co-Founder of Bricklayer DAO

Describe what your company does in a single sentence.

Building the world’s most verifiable RWA value offering ecosystem on-chain

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What specific goals or objectives did you hire MakeING to accomplish?

• Landing Page
• DAO Website
• Mascot Animation

SOLUTION

How did you find MakeING?

Referral

Why did you select MakeING over others?

Pricing fit our budget

How many teammates from MakeING were assigned to this project?

2-5 Employees

Describe the scope of work in detail. Please include a summary of key deliverables.

Custom UX/UI Design: They developed a user-centric design that simplifies navigation and enhances user engagement, making it easy for visitors to find information about our DAO and real estate projects.

WordPress Setup & Customization: Using WordPress, they built a versatile and easy-to-manage backend, customizing the theme to meet our unique requirements and providing us with full control over site updates.

Responsive Design: Every element was designed to be fully responsive, ensuring a smooth experience across desktop, tablet, and mobile devices, which is essential for reaching our diverse user base.

HTML & CSS Enhancements: Beyond WordPress, they utilized HTML and CSS to enhance interactivity and refine visual elements, giving the site a polished, professional look.

Content and Visual Consistency: They provided a cohesive design that maintains a consistent look and feel throughout the site, integrating our brand’s color palette, typography, and visual style seamlessly.

SEO Optimization: With SEO best practices in mind, they structured the website in a way that supports improved visibility, including proper heading structures, metadata, and optimized images.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

What were the measurable outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Our experience working with MakeING on the UX/UI for the Bricklayer.com website has been smooth sialing. They delivered a sleek, user-friendly design that perfectly represents our brand while ensuring a seamless user experience. 

Describe their project management. Did they deliver items on time? How did they respond to your needs?

MakeING exceeded our expectations, highly responsive, delivering a high-quality website that serves our users well and supports our objectives. We highly recommend their services to anyone looking for a reliable, skilled web designer.

What was your primary form of communication with MakeING?

Virtual Meeting

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

Their level of responsiveness was most impressive. 

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

Open space for client discussion to maintain project momentum and discuss design advice.  

UPDATED REVIEW

This review was published on April 21, 2022.

Denis Leontievsky
Co-Founder, Bricklayer DAO
Real estate

Seattle, Washington

1-10 Employees

Feb 2022 - Ongoing

Less than $10,000

Verified

Project summary
MakeING has developed a customized landing page for a real estate investment DAO that includes information about the client and custom-made 3D elements. Moving forward, they’ll help with further development.

Feedback summary
The client is overly satisfied with the excellent custom features and designs created by MakeING. The talented team offers excellent communication and project management, and they excel at gathering detailed information to create tailored products that meet their client’s needs.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I co-founded Bricklayer DAO, a real estate investment decentralized autonomous organization (DAO).

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with MakeING?

We wanted to kickstart our online presence with a landing page that included some of our information.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

MakeING has helped us create our landing page. Per our request, they’ve added 3D elements to our site, and they’ve also designed it to show our information and services in a well-laid-out format. Additionally, the site includes a lot of other custom elements implemented by their team.

Although the first phase has ended, we will continue to work with MakeING on future development for our site.

What is the team composition?

We’ve worked with around three people from MakeING, including front- and backend developers.

How did you come to work with MakeING?

We looked at different vendors and found MakeING on Upwork. We really liked them, so I sent them a note, they replied, and we started talking about the project.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve invested under $5,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working together in February 2022, and our engagement is ongoing.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

MakeING has done a phenomenal job adding 3D elements to our page. Additionally, they’ve done an incredible custom design of our site — we couldn’t have found a better vendor to do it.  Overall, this has been a very good experience, and I’m more than satisfied with their work.

How did MakeING perform from a project management standpoint?

MakeING is an impressive group of people; their communication is great, as are their pricing and timeline management. We communicate via WhatsApp video calls, WhatsApp messages, and email.

What did you find most impressive about them?

MakeING’s detailed communication is outstanding. They always ask great questions, and if we provide vague answers, they go above and beyond to clarify the information to ensure that they understand our needs.

In the beginning, they took the time to understand our project, which ultimately helped them deliver a product that required very few changes. This achievement was possible thanks to their detailed information gathering and their excellent execution of those requirements.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

If you need a very custom website, go with MakeING; they’re a very capable and skilled group.

STAR RATINGS:
Overall rating: 5 (they're outstanding)
Quality: 5
Cost: 5
Schedule: 5
Willing to refer: 5

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the president of Unihoms, a smart home automation company. We’re manufacturers of smart home solutions.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with MakeING?

We needed help to develop our e-commerce website.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

MakeING built our e-commerce website. They designed and developed the website from scratch, which is divided into two parts: B2B and B2C. The B2B side is a home page to attract distributors and sign up for potential strategic partnerships. The B2C side is an online store with direct contact with the end-user to purchase our smart home products.

They also helped me install payment gateways such as Stripe and used WooCommerce and Elementor. Additionally, they gave me recommendations for SEO.

What is the team composition?

I had direct contact with Eugene (CEO & Project Manager), and several people were working with me, including developers and designers.

How did you come to work with MakeING?

We did a thorough search for a company to hire. I interviewed around 20 different agencies. Many companies overpromise, but MakeING didn’t do it. They gave us a very systematic approach to our vision at the initial stage. The way they managed projects and how they were very systemized attracted us the most to go with them.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent $8,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We worked together from January–April 2021. I have another project that I want to work on, and I’ll definitely hire them again.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The website’s benchmarks were good, and its speed was great. The structure of the website was essential to the site mapping because it helps in the search engines. No matter how many revisions I needed, MakeING provided me with endless support — some agencies won’t do that because it’s time-consuming.

How did MakeING perform from a project management standpoint?

We mainly used Google Docs for project management. MakeING always created a document for every objective that we had along the way. We used Trello and had a lot of Zoom calls as well. Additionally, we stayed in touch via WhatsApp for urgent matters.

What did you find most impressive about them?

MakeING gave me a competitive rate. Their price was not the cheapest, but they offered value for our money.

Are there any areas they could improve?

They could improve their language.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Follow their plan and systematic approach. They have a very good system for project management and a 3-4 step process that worked very well with us.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the founder of a new holistic wellness concept offering clients access to the most sophisticated testing and a highly specialized team of functional medicine doctors, nutritionists and S&C coaches.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire MakeING?

I needed a front end design of a client and admin dashboard.

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor?

I received over 100 applications through Upwork. I only interviewed one company based on their well designed website.

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

Development of the UX for a user and admin dashboard

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

I worked with Eugene and Alex

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

The team quickly understood my business and the project. The always asked the right questions, kept me updated on progress regularly and delivered on time. The final output was excellent.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We were in regular contact over WhatsApp and email. They did a brilliant job of always keeping me up to date on progress.

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

I felt that they genuinely cared about delivering a product that I would be happy with. He went above and beyond to ensure I would be satisfied with the end result. And I was !

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

No issues whatsoever !