From the client
"We engaged Shona with a concept of a business idea, her incredible talent helped us to take ideas from a page and create a business story which in turn helped the company secure early investment. Since then Shona has gone on to become key to the design of everything around the LiveCosts brand including its podcast, Time & Materials. She is professional, incredibly creative and most importantly easy to work with."
Ciaran Brennan - Co-Founder & CEO
Web Design, UI Design, Presentations, Video
The Brief
We have worked with LiveCosts since 2018 - back then they were called PaidAde. Initially briefs involved presentation and pitch design and then this led to a complete rebrand with the new company name - LiveCosts.
This has been followed on with countless presentation designs, two full website designs, lots of graphics and more recently branding for the Time & Materials podcast along with video ads and intros for the podcast.
We also worked on a UI project with them for their software - updating it with all new UI elements. LiveCosts target audience is always construction companies who are looking for cost management software. Over the years we have aimed to position them as a software company and strip away the heavy emphasis on construction graphics.
Client
LiveCosts
Industry
Construction, Software
Process
Art Direction
UI Design
Presentation Design
UI/UX
Website Design
Video
Link / Year
2018/2023
Brand DESIGN
The branding for LiveCosts was to be cool and modern - created back in 2018 we wanted to encompass all the symbols that represented the features of the software.
The Website
The goal initially for the Livecosts website was to sprinkle it with all our fun construction graphics back in 2021. More recently we have helped them to revamp the website with all new graphics in line with their software. The characters are being used less and we are focusing on UI elements which we created for the software.
Graphic Design
Some of the original characters and diagrams we have created for LiveCosts to support their presentations, website, trade show stands and beyond.
UI DESIGN of software
We were asked to revamp the software UI for LiveCosts to align it more with the brand colours and website and an overall better user experience. We carried out a UI Audit (check out this service we provide!) provided a design systems document and component library as well as mock ups of the new UI to implement.
Before
PRESENTATION DESIGN
Over the years we have created many many presentation designs for LiveCosts, from investor pitches, customer presentations, trade show visuals and beyond. Here are some samples.
VIDEO ADS & INTROS
We have created several ads for LiveCosts to showcase their software and features and also intro videos for their podcast The Time & Material Podcast.
