Design & development studio
Wireframes — MVPs — Brands — Apps
Sketch it.Ship it.Grow it.
App Guru designs, builds and brands digital products, from the first wireframe to the full-stack app and everything your business needs to launch.
(01) The studio
App Guru is a small, senior studio that turns rough ideas into designed, built and branded products. We sketch with you, ship with you, and stay for the version after.
- 01
Four disciplines
Design, product, brand and engineering in one room, so nothing is lost in a handoff.
- 02
Senior hands
The people you meet on the first call are the people who design and build your product.
- 03
Yours to keep
Figma files, repositories and brand assets live in your accounts from day one.
- More about the studio →
(02) Selected work
Work that ships
Products in the wild: booked, used, sold and grown. A few recent collaborations, from first sketch to launch.
All projects
(03) How we work
Four moves,
no mystery
Now: Listen
- Step 01
Listen
A working session on your goals, your users and the constraints nobody writes down. You leave with a one-page brief and a fixed plan.
- Discovery call
- Brief & scope
- Fixed quote
- Step 02
Sketch
Paper first, then wireframes, then a clickable prototype. Cheap to change, quick to test, honest about what works.
- User flows
- Wireframes
- Prototype
- Step 03
Build
Design and engineering in weekly loops, shipped to a live link you can open on your phone from the first week.
- UI system
- Weekly releases
- Live preview
- Step 04
Launch
Domains, stores, analytics and the boring checklists. Then we watch the numbers with you and plan what comes next.
- Go-live
- Analytics
- Iteration plan
(04) What we do
Services
Four ways in. Most clients start with one and stay for the next. Every engagement has a fixed scope and a named team.
- 01
Wireframing & Design
From a napkin sketch to a clickable prototype your team can test with real people, then a UI system your developers will thank you for. - 02
MVP & Proof of Concept
The smallest product that proves your idea works. Real users, real data, built in weeks rather than quarters, on foundations that can grow. - 03
Brand Kickstarter Kit
Everything a new business needs to show up properly: logo, colours, type, business cards, email signatures and a one-page website, all from one consistent system. - 04
Full-Stack App Development
Production web and mobile applications: front end, back end, data, payments and infrastructure, engineered by people who also designed it.
(05) Next
Got anidea?
Tell us what you are making. We reply within one working day, usually with questions.
hello@appguru.co.za