Qubstudio

Please describe your company and your position there.

I’m the founder and the CEO of Workbooking.net, a startup with the idea of connecting employers with employees who are searching for part-time jobs. The platform allows users to manage their schedule and find candidates in different fields.

For what projects/services did your company hire QubStudio?

We needed a vendor to help us with product ideation, branding, UI/UX design, and landing page creation.

What were your goals for this project?

I mainly wanted a team that could turn my ideas into reality.

How did you select this vendor?

I reached out to several Ukrainian companies due to the high quality of service in this area. Qubstudio was the only one that understood my problems and suggested a plan for an MVP.

Describe the project in detail.

We began with a discovery phase, in which their team investigated our target audience, did a competitor analysis, and created user personas and user flows. As a result, QubStudio formed a unique value proposition of my product along with a product vision.

They worked simultaneously on branding and wireframing. On the UI stage, they proposed several design concepts to choose from.

What was the team composition?

They assigned an art director, who created the logo and branding and proposed the direction of our marketing campaigns. Their head of UX handled business analysis, and their project manager was responsible for communication. QubStudio also managed the development team in charge of building my project.

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

I was impressed with QubStudio’s work during the discovery phase. They not only focused on producing attractive and high-quality designs but also dived deeply into my project’s goals and business strategy, and conducted the process for the product’s vision from beginning to end.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We had efficient communication throughout the engagement. Their team was involved early on and their project manager sent me consistent reports with detailed descriptions of what they had done.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their team is very creative and flexible, and are open to new ideas and challenges. I'm impressed by the high standards of the delivered designs and their work in general!

Are there any areas for improvement?

QubStudio should grow their team in the future. However, we did a great project together and I’m completely satisfied with their work.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I’m the COO of a fintech startup.

What challenge were you trying to address with QubStudio?

We’re known in the market for our leading UI/UX designs. Our initial product was built four years ago, and we needed to upgrade it to a next-generation platform. Our team wanted to give the frontend a new UX to bring the platform to the next level and to keep up with technology trends.

What was the scope of their involvement?

QubStudio helped redesign the frontend of our platform using Figma. They designed the money transfer, bill payment, and login features. Their team helped with some other features as well. They touched everything on the platform. Users can transfer money, do remote deposits, pay bills, view their recent transactions and balances, and can even talk to the conversational AI bot that we have within the app.

During the first three months, they worked almost full-time with us and finished the whole platform. Now, we call on them when we want to make minor tweaks or add new features.

What is the team composition?

I work with their project manager and two designers.

How did you come to work with QubStudio?

Our founder discovered them through a recommendation. Our team talked with 5–6 design firms before them. We looked at their portfolios, talked about budget, and QubStudio seemed to have the best quality of work.

How much have you invested with them?

We’ve invested about $30,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

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

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

They have really good UI/UX designs. Their team comes up with ideas we never thought of. We’re impressed with them.

How did QubStudio perform from a project management standpoint?

If we need anything, we just ask. QubStudio is very responsive, helpful, and organized. We hold meetings twice a week. They design and then send the work to us for feedback. We then talk about it together. It started with wireframes to collect all the ideas and then to collect the requirements. Their team makes adjustments according to our feedback.

QubStudio is very good at communication, and they do their market research to understand what the best UX is. They give recommendations as well. We can make comments directly on Figma. We use Slack, but I mostly rely on email to talk with them because then I can attach screenshots. We do screen-sharing and use all kinds of tools.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Their team has a really good UI/UX sense. They have a different perspective and can come up with something unique and very user-friendly.

Are there any areas they could improve?

No, I can’t think of anything.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Think carefully about the features you want and communicate the business rules clearly to them.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I'm a Vice President at Quaeris, with over all responsibility for the Gaming Intelligence Project.

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

Qubstudio was hired to design the UI/UX components of Gaming Intelligence. They brought to bear experience designers and business analysts. The overall user experience and design delivered was world-class.

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

Qubstudio came recommended through a business relationship with Rishi B., Quaeris' CEO. Deciding factor was the caliber and quality of the work that Qubstudio had done for other clients.

In addition, the design and business analyst team, as well as the project manager assigned were excellent. In addition, Qubstudio brought to bear a collaborative set of tools and processes to facilitate and communication every aspect of their work from initial design, review, and collabortion.

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

Qubstudio managed every aspect of the overall design of Gaming Intelligence. Scope of work included initial workshops to understanding business drivers, business objectives, critical success factors, relevant industry and competitive information, all important to kickoff an initial design.

Qubstudio provided the project management expertise to ensure quality delivery of their work, as well as facilitate daily standup meetings and weekly design reviews. In a short period of time Qubstudio became experts in the business we were building Gaming Intelligence for. Many times they were proactive in bringing up critical functional features and functions critical to the overall success of the project that we had not considered.

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

Qubstudio provided a project manager, business analyst, and senior designer.

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

Qubstudio delivered an overall UI/UX design, along with clearly defined specifications for developers to pick up and build the front and back end of Gaming Intelligence. The results were world-class.

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

Qubstudio's project manager drove each aspect of the design initiative. Qubstudio leveraged an easy to use project management and design set of tools that facilitated seamless collaboration between teams spread out across the United States, Ukraine, and India.

They keep us on task, Qubstudio led daily standup meetings to ensure scope, impediments, and questions were resolved each day. Weekly retropsect meetings were executed flawlessly, provided a complete view of the design as it developed.

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

Qubstudio brings to bear a world-class set of project management, design, and collaboration processes and tools critical towards ensuring fast-paced high-value application design.

Qubstudio brings to bear some of the best designers and analysts that I have worked with in the past 30 years. Qubstudio exceeded our overall expectations in terms of quality and attention to detail. Qubstudio is a company easy to do business with.

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

5 Stars all around in terms of professionalism, quality of work, collaborative environment, level of expertise, true partnership!

Introduce your business and what you do there.

We’re an e-learning SaaS company based in New York and we provide assessment platforms to schools all around the world. I’m the project manager for an international implementation of the business.

What challenge were you trying to address with Qubstudio?

We hired Qubstudio to help us redefine our visual brand and implement that on a new marketing website.

What was the scope of their involvement?

Qubstudio’s major deliverables were a new logo, a branding style guide, and a set of creative assets that included color palettes, icons, banners, email signatures, business cards, presentation and social media post templates, and so on. 

Once those were accomplished, we then moved on to implementing our new brand on a marketing website. This involved exhaustive back-and-forth consulting on how the website should look, how many pages it should have, and what content it should contain. When those matters were settled, we provided all the written content following the agreed guidelines. Qubstudio designed and developed wireframes on Figma before building the site on Webflow and handing it over to us to independently manage.

What is the team composition?

There were around six people working with us. We had two different project managers, a design lead, a brand lead, a web designer and a lead developer.

How did you come to work with Qubstudio?

We found Qubstudio on Clutch. We consulted with a few other companies first but we liked their price range and portfolio best. We saw that their previous works looked fresh and new, so we got in touch with them.

How much have you invested with them?

We invested approximately $32,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

The project ran from March–September 2021.

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

Our internal stakeholders were more than happy with the results. Qubstudio delivered on time and within budget. We’re actually planning to use them again and let them have a look at the web portal for our product. 

How did Qubstudio perform from a project management standpoint?

They were fantastic. Sasha (Project Manager & Brand Strategist), in particular, was on top of everything and kept us on track if we needed to get something back to them. We mainly communicated through email and Google Hangouts.

They were really good in terms of branding. We saw that they were unafraid to push back on our suggestions and really tried to understand our opinions on certain ideas. We were confident with their designs because they were happy to defend their choices. It was a really good iterative process and we collaborated on Figma and Miro.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I was really impressed with Qubstudio’s brainstorming process and the brand identity that they came up with. We liked that they could back up their design choices; every detail and design element was well thought out and employed for a reason. 

In the instances that we were able to change their mind about the design, they were very understanding and willing to see things in a different light. They were very educative and able to keep all of the non-design-oriented people involved throughout the process. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

There were a couple of personnel changes throughout the project, but I wouldn’t really say there was an issue with it. Apart from some rescheduled meetings, everything was smooth-sailing. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Qubstudio definitely has a distinct style, so if you’ve seen their profile and think that they can deliver what you’re looking for in a brand, then they’re a good choice.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I am the marketing and communications director of the Ukrainian Catholic University. We are based in Lviv in the western part of Ukraine. We provide higher education and offer bachelor’s and master’s degree programs.

What challenge were you trying to address with Qubstudio?

Our website was designed and developed in 2007, so we wanted to recreate the site to make it more attractive to current and potential students. We looked for a studio that would respect the mission, ideas, and philosophy of the university.

What was the scope of their involvement?

We split the project into two parts: design and programming work. We have a brand book displaying required colors and themes. We asked them to use WordPress as a platform so that many people could work on it. The design was a bigger project than we anticipated because many of the university ‘s offices and structures required a page within the site. All of these pages had to be integrated and the site map needed to be designed and approved. Once we started to plan out the build and put in the text, both sides understood the enormity of the project. There was about a two-month delay. Qubstudio built the whole website from the design implementation to the coding. The Ukrainian version is complete, and the English version is almost complete.

How did you come to work with Qubstudio?

I had been in the industry for a while and heard about Qubstudio. I reached out for recommendations for an agency that could complete this project for us with emphasis on quality and deadlines. We wanted to have the new website ready for a new recruitment campaign for new students. We wanted the best talent possible, and it was important for us to be able to meet with our designers and developers on occasion. Qubstudio was the best; they were available to begin working on the project, and they are also located within proximity to us at the university.

How much have you invested with them?

We spent less than $10,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We began working with Qubstudio in October 2016, and the project is still ongoing.

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

We have heard positive feedback about the site. Together, we developed a couple of great services that are new to the site, and people love them. I have already received two letters from other organizations asking who created our site. We feel the site reflects our philosophy, the way we think, and they way we are at the university. It is simplistic, yet there is a lot of depth.

How did Qubstudio perform from a project management standpoint?

Qubstudio was great, and the project manager was great as well. The director was very involved throughout the whole process, and we are in touch with him regularly. Overall, the team responds very quickly and we can chat with them via Skype every day. They are able to fix any urgent issues or problems that may arise.

What did you find most impressive about them?

The designers have great taste, and they fulfill the customer’s needs. Their other strength is that they are very quick in responding, and communication has been great. They are very professional in their systematic approach to running the project.

Are there any areas they could improve?

There are always areas to improve for anyone. There is a demand in the market here in Ukraine for high-quality designers, and they should hire more designers and continue to grow their company.

Please describe your company and your position there.

We are a complex ticketing solutions provider. Our project included an interface to manage tickets turnaround, marketplace website event ticket sales, a system that allows event security scan tickets at the entrance, analytics for event managers. Gastrolli ticket management was a SaaS design that allows to create event, launch and forecast ticket sales, process payments and much more.

For what projects/services did your company hire QubStudio?

Qubstudio was hired to design the whole product and manage the development team.

What were your goals for this project?

To give event organizers a complete, modern and convenient solution for ticket sales and management.

How did you select this vendor?

I contacted a number of other companies for an estimate, however, I found that no other company really understood what I was about to create. Speaking with Qubstudio, not only I saw that they understood my product, I also felt like it was really interesting for them.

Describe the project in detail.

The project was indeed huge and complex with many features. As the first step, we designed a back-office for event organizers and website for online sales. After launching the minimum viable product, we moved to a continuous deployment phase. We were continuously improving product and designing new features and modules: event hall constructor, finance module, entry control app, box-office for offline sales, etc.. In the process, we both had new ideas and faced new challenges. As an example, this is how we came up with a system that allows live sales monitoring.

What was the team composition?

Throughout 3 years of continuous collaboration and multiple products, various Qubstudio teams and employees were involved. Qubstudio assigned the right people to the right tasks and we were satisfied with their expertise all the way through, and there were no unexpected movements on their side.

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

Speaking about our public website, after we redesigned it, the bounce rate dropped from 70% to 40%. Successful conversions (paid orders) increased from 3% to 12%. We’re now the biggest and most popular ticketing solution service in Ukraine. Needless to say anything else!

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

With all the time we spent together with Qubstudio, we got used to a very close collaboration. When our business needed extra urgency, Qubstudio found ways to accomplish them, sometimes they had to work long hours, but nothing stopped them from releasing designs in time. They also had effective design processes and it was easy to track the progress along the way.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They were the only company who understood our quite complex product and they never lost that grip along with the project. Whether we came to their office or had online meetings, we always understood each other well enough. Qubstudio was able to make precise planning on executing my ideas and vision.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I can’t really answer this question, as our collaboration has been effective, and it still gives us great business results. They are real fans of what they do! Highly recommended design agency!

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I am the VP of product and operations at Wade & Wendy. We are an HR tech company and we focus on recruitment automation. We help companies automate the top and middle of funnel for their recruitment efforts.

We do this by taking job descriptions, parsing them, pulling apart the relevant information so that we can create ad campaigns that go out to our database and to the public at large. We also create chatbots that engage with the candidates.

What challenge were you trying to address with QubStudio?

Recruitment is a multistage and messy process. There are lots of different touchpoints and when you are automating it, you need to make sure that you have a good throughline and customer journey, and that is for both the candidates as well as the recruiters. 

There’s also the component of how we manage the orchestration on the backend. It is a pretty complicated element, and we hired QubStudio so that we could try to take a lot of the different designs we had for various parts of the product and make it more cohesive.

We had originally reached out to them to work on an analytics dashboard to showcase some analytics that we have on how the product works to our recruiters. A lot of what we do, we just do in the background.

What was the scope of their involvement?

We were working out some of the parsing mechanics and how that would look in the product. We have now really built out more refined versions of three of our different platforms for our talent, our admin, and our recruiters with QubStudio. 

We are automating the recruiting process so that recruiters don’t have to send or respond to emails or take phone calls at the start. In order to better communicate that to the recruiter, we worked with QubStudio to create a series of analytics dashboards that to show recruiters so that they could understand the system’s health. 

That then led to a revamp of our recruiter space which is a recruiter’s dashboard. It then quickly bled over into our admin portal where we can see and monitor our system to see how candidates are progressing through the different jobs and the overall different client health, and the job health in the system. 

They built out a management portal for us that sits somewhere between a CRM and an ATS. It is our central repository where we control the system. We also worked on some functionality on our talent-focused dashboard. 

As we have worked more and more with QubStudio, the scope has grown, and we’ve taken on different projects and different initiatives as we have gone forward. We are currently working with them on building that into a more gamified approach which will have quizzes and personal assessments. 

What is the team composition?

As we have gone along, we have grown the team. We started out with two teammates: a senior designer and his co-designer. We now have three designers, a project manager, and business analysts. We work with a team of five on their end.

How did you come to work with QubStudio?

I believe I found them through Clutch. I have used Clutch before to locate different firms and had a good experience. I started my search fairly broad, looking at a couple of different geographies. 

I wanted something more cost-effective than the US. I scoped out two companies to see how the relationship might work with them. I then reached out to QubStudio through Clutch, went through their references on the site, and contacted them. 

They responded quickly and were professional in nature. I presented them with the project scope. We had a call to clarify and discuss it with them, and they were again pretty responsive. The calls went well, and I could tell that they were a professional operation. I contacted a couple of their references and went from there. 

How much have you invested in them?

We’ve spent over $100,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We have been working together since May 2020. The partnership is still ongoing. 

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

For us, the success is based on whether the design meets the criteria needed and whether it is accepted by all the stakeholders who are going to be using the product or have ownership over that part of our organization, as well as if it’s done in a timely fashion.

Overall, we judge success by looking to see if the design is done up to spec to solve our issue, if the stakeholders accepted it, if they are happy with it, and if it is implementable. By those measures, it has been a very good success for us.

How did QubStudio perform from a project management standpoint?

We have a Hangout call every morning at 8 a.m. They are based in Ukraine so for my team, that 8 a.m. call ensures that we get together every day and I can pull in the different stakeholders. It is obviously a lot easier because everyone is working from home right now to do that, but that is what we do.

We also have them in our joint Slack channel that we use for quick communication. One of the days of the week, we only talk about ticketing and versioning, and then we use Google Suite spreadsheets and slides for passing back and forth different information to help frame the designs. 

QubStudio primarily uses Figma which has been awesome. It has really helped the designs come to life and our previous designer did not do that. That has been a game-changer. Figma has been great as we can get feedback on the designs and show demos easily.

What did you find most impressive about them?

It has been top-notch across all aspects. There is minimal hand-holding. We have a very complicated product and a very complicated industry, and it took them a while to get up to speed about it, but that’s just the nature of it. 

However, once they started to get it, they were very proactive in bringing forward ideas about what was needed, about really understanding the end-to-end product. They started to see how different pieces of it connected one to the next so that we could make sure that our designs for one aspect of it wouldn’t hinder another aspect.

That has just been fantastic, and I don’t have to be so in the weeds because they are also thinking in that way. QubStudio brings a really strong sense of professionalism. Additionally, they care; they aren’t just trying to clock hours. They also take direction well. 

We iterate on all the stuff that we do regularly. They don’t get bent out of shape because something doesn’t work. We just talk about it and go onto the next iteration. 

Those are just some of the pieces that separate them from others, but all the other pieces that go into a typical relationship are all there. They are professional, have great attention to detail, and have great communication skills. They are also prompt, and it has been a well-oiled machine thus far.

Are there any areas they could improve?

The charting package that we ended up using to implement the analytics stuff was different than what was originally proposed, so maybe that could have been improved, but there is not much at all that could have been improved, to be honest.

I don’t see a lot of ways they could have improved thus far. I think it has been pretty excellent top to bottom. We didn’t get the BA on the outset but that was not their fault; that is just what was scoped for our relationship. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Do your homework and make sure that you are coming and giving them the best chance of success by presenting them with a cohesive vision and a cohesive product plan. Also, make sure that you are investing the time to get it right because they can do incredible work, but they need regular feedback and collaboration from you. 

I would not hesitate to recommend them to anyone that wants to work with QubStudio. Make sure that you come prepared to have the best project possible. Let them direct you to how to make that happen because they will do a good job with that.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

Alfa Jazz Fest is an annual festival held in Lviv, Ukraine in June. The company has 3 employees. I am a PR specialist for the organization.

What challenge were you trying to address with QubStudio?

They were involved in the complete process of our website development. The rebranding had been planned for several months. We had renamed our festival and announced new dates, but we needed to update the website itself. The previous page was not very convenient for users in terms of navigation, and we needed a more modern design.

What was the scope of their involvement?

We met their team and informed QubStudio about our vision and expectations. They provided ideas on how the website could look, and we chose the design which suited us the best. Following this, they completely developed our website and created all the functionalities currently on it, including designs, banners, surveys, and polls.

We worked with 1 manager who was responsible for the overall project, and who we contacted around any technical questions or issues. The overall team included up to 10 people, but we didn’t interact with them personally.

QubStudio also developed an Android and iOS mobile application for the festival, using our old app as a basis but completely changing the design.

How did you come to work with QubStudio?

We created a tender and invited all providers who wished to take part in it. QubStudio’s proposal was the most suitable for us, not only in terms of their vision and previous work, but also financially.

How much have you invested with QubStudio?

The cost of the mobile app development was $5,000, while the website cost $16,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with QubStudio in December 2016. The website and app took 1-2 months to complete. It launched a couple of weeks ago. All the changes have been implemented at this point, but we maintain a collaboration with QubStudio for updates.

Could you share any evidence that would demonstrate the productivity, quality of work, or the impact of the engagement?

The main indicator of an improvement for our company is that we’ve received positive feedback from the festival guests. It ended several weeks ago, and we’ve seen much higher website traffic and app downloads, up to 3 times those of the previous year.

How did QubStudio perform from a project management standpoint?

We had regular active communication for both the development and the content updates. We’ve been generally satisfied with the collaboration. QubStudio was able to complete all the tasks we assigned them.

What did you find most impressive about QubStudio?

They stood out in terms of punctuality. QubStudio managed to meet all tasks and deadlines on time.

Are there any areas QubStudio could improve?

It’s difficult to say, since nothing is ideal. The project could have been done better in some ways, but it’s difficult to say how.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

We are a Ukrainian outsourcing software development company focused on Java. We create bespoke applications for clients in industries like healthcare, fintech, and new media. I am an engagement manager for the company.

What challenge were you trying to address with QubStudio?

We provide software development for clients, however, we lack expertise like user interface [UI] or user experience [UX] design. This was our main challenge, and it’s why we started looking for a supplier of such services.

What was the scope of their involvement?

QubStudio has provided their services on a couple of projects, the biggest one being an HR platform. They designed the user interface screens for both the web and mobile versions, and also provided UX design, specifically information architecture, user workflow journeys, wireframes, and mockups.

They have also helped us at the early stages with client communication and requirements solicitation, acting as a consultant for UI/UX.

We have worked with 3 members from QubStudio’s team: a user experience designer, a user interface designer, and a frontend developer.

How did you come to work with QubStudio?

Their company is based in the same city as ours, L’viv, and they’re one of the most well-known companies in the region offering UI/UX services. QubStudio’s prices worked well for us, so we decided to work with them.

How much have you invested with QubStudio?

The cost of their work has been between $5,000 and $15,000 for the HR platform. The overall cost has been a bit above this range.

What is the status of this engagement?

We started working with QubStudio on January 3^rd, 2017. We are still partners.

Could you share any evidence that would demonstrate the productivity, quality of work, or the impact of the engagement?

QubStudio’s work has helped us a lot, and has brought added value to our services. Our clients can receive everything in one package, from design to software implementation. There is no longer a need for them to look for other vendors besides us. This has increased customer satisfaction. In short, the partnership with QubStudio has led to an increased number of clients.

How did QubStudio perform from a project management standpoint?

Usually, the project management is done on our side. QubStudio has acted like an extension of our team, and worked with our project manager. There is still some management being done on their side, and we have been satisfied. There were no delays in response, and they’ve stuck to the timelines promised. They are good at making estimations for the work, and were always involved in the process. QubStudio holds ownership for everything, not just their own work.

They have used online collaboration tools for the entire distributed team. This allowed them to work effectively and keep us updated constantly. QubStudio can work very well as a geographically-distributed team.

What did you find most impressive about QubStudio?

Being creative. They’ve looked at things from different perspectives, and have been flexible in the solutions offered. QubStudio has listened to what the client needs, and they weren’t rigid in their approach, although they have led the process. We knew where everything was going, and what task was next in the UI/UX process, what we would be receiving at the end of the collaboration. Effective communication is one of their strengths.

Are there any areas QubStudio could improve?

There probably is something to mention, but it’s hard to think of it. I would improve the English level of some members, but this only applies to a part of the team, with whom I’ve worked. Their overall English isn’t bad, though.

Introduce your business and what you do there.

I am the CTO of LinkIt!, a K-12 market leader providing data warehousing, assessment solutions, and analytics for schools, content publishers, and service providers.

What challenge were you trying to address with Qubstudio?

We were interested in changing our software platform to use our new branding 'look and feel' without changing feature/functionality or navigation.

What was the scope of their involvement?

Qubstudio was tasked with redesigning the UI with new branding components without change feature/functionality.  The result was a simplified and clear UI that modernized the platform.

What is the team composition?

The team was composed of a Qubstudio product designer and PM along with our company's PM, Director of Technology, and CTO.

How did you come to work with Qubstudio?

We had worked with them previously to design and rebrand our marketing website.  They did an excellent job.

How much have you invested with them?

Project 1 - Rebranding/Marketing Website was $34k; Project 2 - Redesign application UI - $10k

What is the status of this engagement?

Completed.

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

The redesigned platform has not yet been deployed to production but the response from internal teams has been positive.  We are looking to deploy this spring to new customers only and deploy to existing customers at the start of the new school year.

How did Qubstudio perform from a project management standpoint?

Everything was spot on — on time and well within budget.

What did you find most impressive about them?

Ease of working relationship and expert design experience.

Are there any areas they could improve?

Nothing came up as an issue during this second project. There was some turnover on their side that cause a delay during the first project, but nothing like that happened this time.

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Know what your goals are define your goals if you want to stick to your budget.

This review was published on September 15th, 2021.

Lead Project Manager (Australia), LinkIt!

Education

11-50 Employees

Melbourne, Australia

$10,000 to $49,999

Mar 2021 - Sep 2021

Project Summary:

An e-learning SaaS company hired Qubstudio to redefine their visual brand with new creative assets and a brand style guide. The team then implemented the new designs on a marketing website using Figma and Miro.

Feedback Summary: 

Qubstudio’s well-informed design choices made for a highly satisfactory outcome. Besides their ability to deliver on time and within budget, the team boasted a capacity to educate and collaborate with the client on the branding and design direction.

BACKGROUND

Introduce your business and what you do there.

We’re an e-learning SaaS company based in New York and we provide assessment platforms to schools all around the world. I’m the project manager for an international implementation of the business.

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

What challenge were you trying to address with Qubstudio?

We hired Qubstudio to help us redefine our visual brand and implement that on a new marketing website.

SOLUTION

What was the scope of their involvement?

Qubstudio’s major deliverables were a new logo, a branding style guide, and a set of creative assets that included color palettes, icons, banners, email signatures, business cards, presentation and social media post templates, and so on. 

Once those were accomplished, we then moved on to implementing our new brand on a marketing website. This involved exhaustive back-and-forth consulting on how the website should look, how many pages it should have, and what content it should contain. When those matters were settled, we provided all the written content following the agreed guidelines. Qubstudio designed and developed wireframes on Figma before building the site on Webflow and handing it over to us to independently manage.

What is the team composition?

There were around six people working with us. We had two different project managers, a design lead, a brand lead, a web designer and a lead developer.

How did you come to work with Qubstudio?

We found Qubstudio on Clutch. We consulted with a few other companies first but we liked their price range and portfolio best. We saw that their previous works looked fresh and new, so we got in touch with them.

How much have you invested with them?

We invested approximately $32,000.

What is the status of this engagement?

The project ran from March–September 2021.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

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

Our internal stakeholders were more than happy with the results. Qubstudio delivered on time and within budget. We’re actually planning to use them again and let them have a look at the web portal for our product. 

How did Qubstudio perform from a project management standpoint?

They were fantastic. Sasha (Project Manager & Brand Strategist), in particular, was on top of everything and kept us on track if we needed to get something back to them. We mainly communicated through email and Google Hangouts.

They were really good in terms of branding. We saw that they were unafraid to push back on our suggestions and really tried to understand our opinions on certain ideas. We were confident with their designs because they were happy to defend their choices. It was a really good iterative process and we collaborated on Figma and Miro.

What did you find most impressive about them?

I was really impressed with Qubstudio’s brainstorming process and the brand identity that they came up with. We liked that they could back up their design choices; every detail and design element was well thought out and employed for a reason. 

In the instances that we were able to change their mind about the design, they were very understanding and willing to see things in a different light. They were very educative and able to keep all of the non-design-oriented people involved throughout the process. 

Are there any areas they could improve?

There were a couple of personnel changes throughout the project, but I wouldn’t really say there was an issue with it. Apart from some rescheduled meetings, everything was smooth-sailing. 

Do you have any advice for potential customers?

Qubstudio definitely has a distinct style, so if you’ve seen their profile and think that they can deliver what you’re looking for in a brand, then they’re a good choice.

Star Ratings

Overall rating: 5

Quality: 5

Cost: 5

They cost almost half of what some US agencies quote and deliver higher quality work.

Schedule: 5

Willing to refer: 5