JANUAR Designbureau

January is the Beginning. January is a privately owned design agency focused on branding, visual communication and new media. A design agency for those who like to communicate, as we do. We listen, understand and create targeted approaches for the development of your communication. It’s the basis for our creative design process. You want to talk to us about your […]

“Collective creativity shows how the differences between everyone are not a barrier”

Tokyo, February 8th, 2023

Tran Minh Villageois is an Art Director & Designer at monopo Tokyo. He became interested in design later in his life but was always passionate about drawing. He spoke of the Collective Creativity philosphy implemented at the agency and the benefits of diversity.

‘The coronavirus crisis might bring transparency to the industry’

Allentown, Apr 20th, 2020

Despite having its headquarters in New York City, the full-service agency Ruckus also has a studio team focused on video. Based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, we discussed with VP of Production Phil Osborne, the disruption brought by the coronavirus crisis and how they organized to deal with it.

“We are honest and critical, even if it leads to difficult conversations”

Shanghai, Jan 24th, 2020

Boutique creative agency AEXELE, is focused on providing brands with strategy, marketing and communications solutions. Hubert Renucci is AEXELE’s Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer. He described the features of his role, the history behind the agency, while looking at the status of the advertising market and the role of innovation and creativity at AEXELE.

‘What we deliver is constant value, not just an expense’

Cape Town, May 3rd, 2019

Since 2002, Elemental Web Solutions has specialised in designing and building custom websites, web apps, intranets, e-commerce sites and digital products. Based in Cape Town – a.k.a “The Silicon Cape” – Co-Founder and Managing Director Angelo Zanetti, gave insight to TIA on the company’s working processes focusing on their specialization: start-ups.

“Discovery should be the DNA of every project”

Zagreb, Apr 3rd, 2019

Since primary school, Mario Šestak has been drawn to visual things, which led him to develop a career based on design and work nowadays at Bornfight, a Croatia-based agency, as Head of Design. “There’s not a single way to approach projects and it depends on the business and user needs. The discovery process as a continuous way of operating”, he says.

“Users have all the answers without knowing it”

Paris, Mar 20th, 2019

French agency DISKO, is prepared to invest in young talent to produce amazing designs and use interfaces for its clients. A great example of this is UX Designer Victor Colas, who joined the agency in 2015 and has quickly made his way up. On this interview, Victor explained the company’s UX strategy and what his journey was like. “UX is a crucial point, if not the most important”.

“As SuperHeroes, we love helping brands fly”

Amsterdam, Feb 21st, 2019

Founded in Amsterdam but now also with offices in New York, SuperHeroes is a creative ad agency with the mission to save the world from boring advertising. Among its diverse staff, we found creative Babo Schokker, who spoke to TIA on the design process at the agency, the key to create a successful campaign and explained how to deal with challenges.

“Our user-centred design process blends with lean and agile principles”

Danny Bluestone, Founder and CEO, started Cyber-Duck in 2005 as a creative technology agency that fused usability with creativity and innovative web technology whilst considering things like search engines.

The power of the near-by ‘O-FERTA’ attraction

Moscow, Oct 18th, 2018

When M2H and Near2 Solutions started working together on the O’FERTA project, they found the partnership easy and straightforward from the beginning. Brazilian company Near2 Solutions, created the sales platform O’FERTA, but were missing functional and easy to use UX. Luckily they knew M2H, the right agency for the job.

How a problem solving approach can help develop amazing UX

Stockholm, Sep 7th, 2018

‘Another State’ is a Swedish digital Design Studio, that came to life from the merger between Another Agency and State Interactive. Managing diverse projects, scaling and staying on top in a competitive market are not easy tasks. We talked to Tobias Lendel, the agency’s Design Director who shared his insights on the market and UX.

“Experiences are shaped even before the use of a particular product or service”

Pavia, Jul 17th, 2018

Italian agency glueglue, has a passionate and highly motivated digital and print design team. According to Matteo Lo Manto, UX Designer and Co-Founder at the agency, they tested and tried different approaches to define a well-structured plan for their design process; which now consists on six-steps.

“UX designers have to be all over the place”

Amsterdam, Jun 28th, 2018

With offices in London, Amsterdam and Paris, Chunk Agency has been awarded internationally and was chosen as Nº1 digital agency in the Emerce Top 100 Agencies. On this interview, UX designer Jordi Wesche, describes his design process and gives us a sneak peek on the daily work at the agency and the key challenges in his specific tasks.

“UX designers must know how to analyse usage and the needs of the audience”

Léo Léger, UI/UX Manager Mars Spiders is a collective of digital programmers, app developers, designers and digital marketing specialists from London.

Riding the creative storm with Ruckus

New York, October 4th, 2016 New York-based digital agency Ruckus includes ‘positive turbulence’ on its customers’ journey forecast. Self defined as a growth partner that cares about new customers, new […]

Meet Blue Fountain Media digital agency CEO and founder

New York, November 26, 2015. Gabriel Shaoolian is Blue Fountain Media’s CEO and founder, a very important and complete digital agency from New York. He took a few minutes in his […]