Valve is an Internet agency. We believe that everything that can be digital, will be. We create unique online marketing, communications and service solutions for our clients. Creativity, we believe, is everything.

What we do

We create beautiful, usable and accessible user experiences for our clients. Our concepts combine all digital channels from PC browser to mobile and ubiquitous solutions. All the work Valve builds and launches represent the best in design and are specifically focused towards the commercial environment.

We are passionate about effectively communicating our client's message to the target audience. Valve has an unrivalled understanding of current and emerging technologies. Couple this with our marketing and business insights and an internationally awarded creative team and you have a perfect partner for taking your business online.

So we know technology, we're ever agile and we know a thing or two about project management. There really is little limitation in what our team can deliver.

We see Service Design as a tool to revolutionise the way our clients engage their customers using digital channels and devices. A heritage of strong design combined with an inherent thirst for innovation means we never lose focus of businesses ever changing requirements for Internet services.

We believe in Web 3.0 in which personalisation is driven by open portable identity, ubiquitous connectivity and a latent respect for privacy. For businesses this means increased customer loyalty and lower marketing overheads as a result of improved hit rate.

Our thinking is that customers will respect and commit to brands personally relevant to themselves. A non intrusive and ultimately more fruitful approach is the result. Businesses ready to re-think their relationship with their customers will reign supreme. We're ready to help with that.

Our end-to-end offering covers all the steps necessary for turn key delivery: we analyse both your business environment and needs, design the solution and then deliver them. What's more, we are well versed with formal processes, such as RUP and Agile methodologies, which enable us to function in many roles even in the most demanding projects.

We will help you to

• Align your marketing strategies with new forms of consumer evaluation and ways to best engage brands.
• Stay in touch with Internet trends and innovations.

We design

• Internet driven service concepts chiefly for marketing purposes
• Social services, communities
• User Experiences with focus on a strong ‘wow-factor'.
  • User interaction models including mobile and ubiquitous channels.
  • Visualisation and Multimedia elements.

We offer expertise in

• Idea generation and innovation
• Interaction and Information architecture design; rapid prototyping
• Visual design
• Technical design and implementation planning
• Project and Product management.
• Process consulting
• Internet business consulting

Our team specializes on building brand equity throughout online communications. The audience is always at the heart of our thought process and we intend to create a dialogue that helps establish emotional relationships between the audience and the brand.

Our offer covers from building bottom-up strategies to proving a point of difference for online identities. Our services extend to deliverables such as tangible visual and interaction designs, component production, website designs and concept governance guidelines.

In essence, we offer a comprehensive online brand book specifically formulated to enable you to pinpoint your resources on increasing your sales and empowering your online advantage.

We help you to

•  Build a strong communications platform for your online presence and help create a compelling and rich brand experience. We are daring, yet responsible and committed to pushing our clients further.
• Challenge the communication angles of your product/service/company essentials. While taking your brand online, we offer facilitation on brand change management.
• Unravel the challenges of differentiation in the virtual world

We deliver:

• Online strategies including client studies of business/marketing objectives, obstacles, conventions and benchmarking leading edge practices.
• Online identities that capture a brand's resonance and activate the most influential points of contact with consumers.
• Online designs that comprise of tangible verbal, visual & experimental blueprints delivered through pragmatic design approaches.

We excel in:

• Daring and innovation in our approaches and commitment to challenge our clients on communication ideas.
• Know-how on differentiating a brand online and making remarkable brand experiences.
• Online corporate communications.

We specialise in online marketing communication designed simply to boost your revenue and create a big noise. Coupled with this, we work as a digital production partner for traditional advertising agencies

We help you to

• Take your online marketing communication to new heights.
• Challenge old-fashioned ways of thinking.
• Get your customers to interact with your products/services/brands leading to the ever important call-to-action.

We design

• Hugely creative online campaigns in all shapes and sizes. We dare to be different. We simply must eclipse everything that went before and to us, this means surpassing our client's expectations. Creative executions designed to communicate your offering are critical. We never take our eye of the ball.
• Together with, and in partnership with, advertising agencies.
• Turn-key marketing communication solutions tailor made to keep things simple! Please contact Valve Studio to find out more.

We excel in

• Online marketing
  • Viral interactive marketing communications.
  • Tactical vs. Strategic campaigning: how it's done and how it should be executed.
• High-end conceptual and visual design.
• Relationship building online between companies and customers.

Consumer facing technologies are a key specialist area for us and perhaps it's no wonder that we have chosen to focus upon the design, development and consulting of rich internet applications, services and front-end technology.

For us, such focus is not primarily about technology or platforms, but instead about the correct and proper use of technology for you. We firmly believe that rich Internet applications - if implemented correctly – provide you with an advantage over your competitors via ease-of-use, end-user engagement and a good user experience. You might say we're user experience experts first, technologists second.

We help our client to

• Gain competitive advantage by utilizing next generation front-end technologies.
• Create engaging user experiences
• Understand the impact of rich internet applications

We create

• Rich Internet Applications
• User interfaces and interface components
• Roadmaps, proof of concepts and early adopter implementations for emerging front-end technologies

We offer expertise and consulting in the areas of

• Flex, Flash, AJAX and xHTML/CSS among other web technologies
• Rapid application development
• Data visualization
• User Interface design patterns