CONSULTING / DESIGN

Design that ships, not decks.

Websites, brand, and marketing for small businesses around Adelaide, and product design for teams building software. Come with an idea, leave with something people can actually use.

Trusted by teams at
  • Illuvium
  • PLAYA3ULL Games
  • Samsung
  • Casio
  • Adelaide University
  • Government of South Australia

We’re makers, not a management-consultant slide factory. The same team that designs your product also builds our own products: Reed, games, and internal tools. So the advice is grounded in what actually ships. You get design that survives contact with engineering, because engineering was in the room the whole time.

AI has made it easy to vibe-code a rough UI and call it done. That is not us. We use AI to move quicker, then put in the craft and the user research so what ships is genuinely good, not just fast and sloppy like so much of what is out there now.

That’s how we like to start from zero. Covered and Loadout both came to us with nothing but an idea. We shaped the brand and design direction and stayed on it all the way to a shipped product, not a pitch deck.

The same goes for a builder who needs a site that brings work in, or an alcohol brand that needs a label people pick up. Small business or product team, the craft is the same.

What we do

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Websites

A site that actually brings work in. Fast, easy to update, and built so you turn up when someone searches for what you do.

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Brand & identity

A brand kit you can run yourself: logo, colours, type, and the templates to keep it consistent everywhere.

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Marketing & collateral

The rest of the toolkit. Labels and packaging, signage and vehicle livery, social templates, decks, and print that matches the brand.

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0 to 1 products

Come with an idea, leave with a shipped product. We shape the brand and design direction and carry it all the way to launch, the way we did with Covered and Loadout.

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UX research

We research with real users, run usability tests, and validate the direction before we commit. Decisions backed by evidence, not AI slop generated fast and hoped for.

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Product & UX design

From first flows to shipped screens. We design the product with your engineers in the loop, so what we draw is what gets built.

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Design systems

A token-driven system your team ships from every day: components, theming, and docs. The foundation, not a Figma library that rots.

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Game UI/UX

HUDs, menus, and economies for games and web3 products, usable under pressure, on-brand, and built to scale.

SMALL BUSINESS

Websites and brand for small business.

A lot of our work is for small businesses around Adelaide: alcohol brands, builders and trades, hospitality, and local services. You get the same craft and the same research as our product clients, scoped to a small-business budget and a real timeline.

How it works.

Step 01
A quick call about the business and what you actually need
Step 02
A fixed quote, so you know the number before anything starts
Step 03
Brand, site, and collateral, with you seeing it as it goes
Step 04
Launched, handed over, and easy for you to update yourself

PROCESS

How we work

  1. 01

    Embed & audit

    We join your tools and your standups, map the product and its real constraints, and find the highest-leverage work fast.

  2. 02

    Design in the open

    Tight loops, shipped in small pieces. You see progress weekly, not a big reveal at the end.

  3. 03

    Systematize

    We turn the winning patterns into a design system your engineers build from: tokens, components, and docs.

  4. 04

    Hand off or stay on

    Clean handoff with the system documented, or we stay embedded as an ongoing design partner. Your call.

TESTIMONIALS

What clients say

Mania came in, understood the product fast, and gave Loadout the clarity it needed. The work felt sharp, practical, and immediately usable.
KieranLoadout
Working with Mania was unlike any agency experience I've had. They move fast, communicate clearly, and the output is consistently exceptional.
Nicholas0xlaunch
Kosta built our design system from the ground up. It's now the foundation our entire product team ships from every day.
TomPLAYA3ULL Games
They took a genuinely complicated product brief and turned it into something our users actually love. The craft here is remarkable.
BezCovered

PRICING

Ways to work with us

Custom project

Custom one-off, scoped to you

Got one clear thing to build? A website, a brand kit, or a single product. We scope it as a one-off, price it clearly, and ship it end to end. This is how most small businesses work with us.

  • Websites, brand kits, and marketing
  • 0 to 1 products, end to end
  • Fixed scope, clear quote up front
  • Design and engineering, start to finish

Let's build

Have a project in mind?

Book a free intro call and we'll tell you honestly whether we're the right team to help.