Profile
We Do The Thinking
So Your Customers Don’t Have To
Mason-Hill is a strategic consultancy specializing in research, visual design and user experience design for print, web, publications and interior/exterior signage.
Our team of user experience professionals and award-winning visual designers utilize research techniques to analyze the goals, needs and behaviors of the audience. The results inform the decision-making of clients, engineers, designers and business leaders. Our approach is scalable to all projects regardless of scope or size. The practice of iterative development cycles based on “function + form” allows our projects to quickly reach measurable business goals.
Unique mix of research and design
We are more than a visual design and strategic branding agency. We excel at blending superior visual and information design with expert customer focused research. Our skilled team, open environment and modular development workflow allow for results that are on target with business and customer needs. While other agencies offer one or several of these services, our ability to tightly integrate research and design sets us apart.
Collaborative approach
For us, collaboration means approaching projects from one central perspective – the customer’s. By focusing on the customer, client and agency relationships are solidified. Through defining and prioritizing the customer needs, different departments within a client’s organization are able to put aside individual or departmental needs and collaborate more successfully.
We have no secrets
We tell you what we think (you’ll be surprised how open we are). That’s not the easy way but it’s the only way. We don’t have a magical method that is more secret and more advanced than anyone else’s. Here is what we do:
- We research
- We draw wireframes (web)
- We create design sketches
- We make prototypes
- We test
- We launch or print
- We measure and optimize
Our web and print solutions work because we never get tired of learning and improving. The key to good work is not secrets but good staff. Good staff are what you pay for if you hire us. The bad news about having good staff is:
- Good staff need a good salary.
- Good staff need a nice working environment.
- Good staff need rest.
- Good staff only do work they are qualified for.
For specialist tasks we work with the specialists in our network. And these professionals are very qualified and equally expensive.
There are exceptions, but we believe that working over hours as a habit leads to bad work. More bad news:
- We don’t do free pitches.
- We don’t work on weekends.
- We don’t work crazy long hours.
- We don’t finish presentations five minutes before the deadline.
Almost daily, we get emails from potential clients asking one not-so-simple question, “how much will it cost?”. Needless to say, there isn’t a simple answer. For an idea of the costs to complete your vision, visit this page.
What makes us strong
Our real strength is our dense personal network of leading designers and tech people from all over the world that we cooperate with. We are in personal contact with international design professionals such as:
Erik Spiekermann, Aza Raskin, Scott Thomas, Vitor Lourenço or Paul Bakaus, Khoi Vinh, John Boardley.