UI/UX Design and Development

Interface design grounded in real tasks, delivered as working front-end code.

Overview

Interface design fails in a predictable way: it looks right in a presentation and falls apart in use. Usually because it was designed around screens rather than around the sequence of decisions a person is actually making.

SMC works the other way round. We start with the tasks — what someone is trying to accomplish, what they know when they arrive, what they need to decide, and what happens when something goes wrong. Layout follows from that.

Design work moves through user flows, wireframes, and interactive prototypes, with review points at each stage so disagreements surface while they are still cheap to resolve. Visual design comes after the structure is settled, not before.

We then implement it. Designs are delivered as production HTML, CSS, and JavaScript or React components — responsive, keyboard accessible, and built to a documented set of design tokens so the interface stays consistent as it grows. Handing over a design file and hoping it survives implementation is where most of the intent gets lost.

What we deliver

The concrete outputs of an engagement in this area.

User flows

The paths through the product mapped out, including the error and edge cases that usually get discovered late.

Wireframes

Structure and hierarchy resolved before any visual decisions, so layout debates happen at the cheap stage.

Interactive prototypes

Clickable prototypes for review, so stakeholders react to behaviour rather than to static images.

Visual design system

Type scale, colour tokens, spacing, and component states defined once and applied consistently.

Responsive layouts

Designs resolved for mobile, tablet, and desktop rather than scaled down from a single desktop composition.

Front-end implementation

Production HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript or React components, matching the design without reinterpretation.

Accessibility groundwork

Keyboard navigation, focus states, semantic markup, and colour contrast handled during the build.

Technologies we use

The parts of our stack that apply to this work.

Frontend

  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Bootstrap
  • jQuery

Mobile

  • Android
  • iOS
  • Cross-platform

Integration

  • REST APIs
  • Third-party APIs

Our process for this work

The seven phases applied specifically to ui/ux design and development engagements.

01

Requirement analysis

We map the business problem, the people affected by it, and the technical constraints before a line of code is written.

02

Solution architecture

We define the system structure, data model, integrations, and hosting approach so the build scales past its first release.

03

UI/UX design

Screens and flows are designed around how the work actually gets done, then reviewed with you before development starts.

04

Development

Engineering runs in short, reviewable increments so progress stays visible and changes stay cheap.

05

QA

Functional and integration testing, plus performance and security checks, run against every release candidate.

06

Deployment

Releases go out through a controlled process, with environments, rollback, and monitoring in place.

07

Support

After launch we maintain, monitor, and extend the application as the business changes.

  • Clear business and technical requirements
  • Scalable and maintainable architecture
  • Security and data protection
  • Quality assurance and testing
  • Performance optimization
  • Documentation and knowledge transfer
  • Reliable post-deployment support

Industries we serve

Sectors where this work comes up most often.

  • Professional Services
  • Retail & E-Commerce
  • Education
  • Real Estate
  • Government & Public Sector

Ready to scope this out?

Send over what you have — a brief, a spec, or just the problem — and we will come back with an approach.