Aldier Studio
Advice you can see, use and walk into.
The Studio is where Aldier makes things: identities, digital products, films and the spaces in which people are served. It is staffed by designers, engineers, film-makers and architects who sit with the strategists from the first day of an engagement.
Why a studio inside a consultancy
Most advice ends as a document handed to someone else to build. Much of its value is lost in translation. The Studio closes that gap by putting the makers in the room where the decisions are taken.
Disciplines
Five crafts, one bench.
Select a discipline to see what the Studio makes.
Identities built to be used by thousands of hands.
Names, voices, visual systems and guidelines, specified down to the colour values and type sizes, so that an institution looks and sounds like itself in every place it appears.
Websites, applications and platforms that work for everyone.
Designed and built to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, tested with real users, and measured after launch against the tasks people came to complete.
Journeys redesigned from what people actually do.
We observe a service as it is used, map where people give up, and redesign it end to end, including the parts nobody sees: the forms, the rules and the hand-offs between teams.
Films that carry a story further than any report.
Documentary, campaign and explainer films, from research and script to shoot and edit, made for the screens people actually watch.
Rooms, branches and campuses planned around the service.
Architects in the Studio plan the physical places where institutions meet people, from a branch counter to a campus, so that the building supports the service it houses.
How the Studio works
From evidence to launch, and after.
Every Studio project follows the same four steps, whatever is being made.
Observe
Research with the people who will use the thing: interviews, observation, analytics and the complaints file.
Prototype
Ideas made tangible early, in paper, code, film or foam board, and tested before money is committed.
Make
Production to a written standard, with accessibility, security and brand checks built into the work.
Measure
After launch, the Studio returns to see whether people use it as intended, and fixes what they do not.
Made in the Studio
GENIVY's identity, membership card and website
The Studio designed GENIVY's visual identity and built its institutional website, alongside the strategy and governance work led by the rest of the firm.
Read the caseBring us something to make.
A service that frustrates people, a product that needs building, a story that needs telling. Start with a brief conversation.