Web and app design and development for the humanitarian sector · working with it since 2010
We design and build the websites, apps, and platforms that humanitarian organisations rely on when a decision cannot wait.
Website redesign and online donation integration
We are redesigning the website of the Global Girls Foundation, the Swiss foundation created by Plan International to fund its programmes for girls. A new design standard for the site, rebuilt on WordPress so the Foundation’s own team can edit every page without breaking the design, and an online donation integration that takes a one-time or monthly gift in four currencies. The whole studio team is on it.
In an emergency the constraint is rarely data. It is the distance between the field and the people deciding.
We are a web and app design and development studio, and a small one, deliberately so. Every engagement is run by the whole team rather than handed down a chain: design, engineering, content and delivery working on the same problem, which is the only way we have found to be sure the thing is done correctly.
Fifteen years inside humanitarian operations taught us where the distance opens up: in a website or app nobody in the field can load, in a platform built for headquarters rather than the people using it, in a system nobody trusts enough to act on. That is the gap we design and build for.
The studio is led by Matthew Bowman, a humanitarian information management specialist turned web designer and developer, who has consulted with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies since 2010, across assignments with teams in Geneva and in global operations.
Most engagements start with a brief for a website or an app, and end with a platform your own team can run for years after we leave.
A humanitarian organisation cannot afford surprises partway through a build, so here is exactly how a project runs.
We start by learning the operation: who the site has to serve, what already exists, and where the current one is failing them.
Design concepts are built as real, working pages, not flat pictures. You review them the way your visitors will meet them: on a real screen, with real content.
Front end and back end, on a stack chosen for the job. Content, data, and languages migrate in as the build goes, not bolted on at the end.
An independent tester tries to break it before your own team does. Every finding gets fixed, or gets a written reason for waiting.
Training notes your team can follow without calling us, and every credential and licence already in your name.
What we have built, and for whom, across fifteen years in the sector.
Micro sites that make community feedback legible. Two micro sites that synthesise and visualise community feedback and research on trust, with interactive tools reading from global surveys and operational research.
A coordination platform for public health emergencies. Feature and content development on the partnership's platform, with multi-language support and server maintenance held steady through live emergencies.
Technical direction for an AI company. Technical vision and roadmap for the company's AI products, and the engineering leadership to build them at scale, with security, performance, and cost owned end to end.
Risk adjudication, automated at the front door. A cloud platform that automates early-stage risk adjudication for financial firms, designed end to end and delivered with a fourteen-person team.
Lending where credit infrastructure is thin. Machine-learning scoring for applicants in markets with limited credit-rating infrastructure, shipped on the web and the App Store.
Agreements signed from a phone. A mobile and web application for creating, signing, and sending legally binding agreements from a library of plain-English templates.
A fair rate, line by line, for loss adjusters. A web platform that reads contractor estimates, Excel, PDF, or photographed, and suggests a fair Jamaican rate for each line item, producing a clean Excel deliverable with the original and adjusted figures, variance, and citations.
From a site visit to a priced report. The damage-assessment sibling to TrueLine Adjust: a photo and a dictated note become an AI-drafted scope, priced by a deterministic local-rate engine, and delivered as a BOQ-style report for insurers across Jamaica and the Caribbean.