A creative
digital agency
like no other
Yoyo Design is a creative digital agency based just outside of London. We specialise in creating and communicating clear, compelling brand and marketing messages across multiple digital platforms and devices.
From our studio in Tunbridge Wells, we have a core team of 9 people (and Mini-o, our company mascot) who are committed to delivering tailored professional design and technical solutions that capture the imagination and meet the specific needs of your business and your customers. All our clients benefit from total commitment, sound advice and a competitive pricing structure. In an ever changing digital landscape, you can rely on us to get you where you want to be.
“We are a creative digital agency passionate about crafting beautiful and usable solutions”
Jan Golding
Director
Our 8 step approach
to design and development
Make an enquiry
The ball gets rolling with the all important initial enquiry. We're very approachable and would love to discuss your ideas to see how our services may be of benefit to you. We won't be pushy and we'll only suggest working together if we think we can provide you with what you need.
Initial proposal and pricing
In an ideal world we'd meet up with you so we could get a feel for each other's businesses. It's important that we feel a good fit in working together. With good information, we'd put together our initial proposal and associated costs as a guideline for further discussion.
Full project specification
We'll identify your business, design and technical objectives and specify how our solution will deliver on them. If necessary, we'll create sitemaps and wireframes to help identify the key features and how they all fit together. The project specification serves as the backbone of the project.
Design phase
We'll work up some initial design concepts, tweaking these based on your feedback until we get sign-off on the overall art direction. Then we'll roll this out across the core pages, listening to your feedback and making design tweaks to make your brand work as hard as it can.
Development phase
Our sites are built using PHP or .NET depending on the platform that's most suited to your needs. All of the HTML and CSS is completed first. This is then integrated with any specific technical systems that you may need such as e-commerce or content management. We'll make staged deliveries so you can check on the progress of the project.
Testing, feedback, amends
Once we've got a fully functioning product to show you, we'll ask you to fully engage with testing it so we can make any final amendments before the project launch. We''ll also make sure that you know how to use any admin tools so you are confident with any ongoing maintenance or updates.
Project launch
With the project completed to your satisfaction, the only thing that remains is to release it to your customers. The project launch might link into a wider campaign and we can help to make sure that it all ties together seamlessly and on-time!
Monitor and improve
The only way to see the impact of the project is to monitor it's performance and effect on your customers. There is always room for improvement, and with real usage data at our disposal, we can help you to identify those areas which could be tweaked to perform better.
Meet our team
of trained professionals
Jan Golding
Director
Yoyo Design
With 12 years hands-on digital design experience, Jan leads by example. He's worked with global brands such as Sony, Microsoft and Manchester United, and applies his wealth of experience to each and every project that Yoyo undertakes. Often caught pondering, Jan is obsessed with grids, logic and modular layouts.
Gregg Lawrence
Director
Yoyo Design
Gregg is a creative power-house whose imagination knows no limits. He's worked with top brand likes EA, Nintendo and Freesat, weaving together brand awareness and creativity in equal measure. Gregg has the ability to visualise a brand across online and offline channels using his remarkable Jedi mind powers.
James Forage
Director
Yoyo Design
James has a wealth of experience working for major global management consultancies and cutting edge digital agencies. He has built a career from architecting and building digital solutions of all kinds – web, desktop, mobile and more. The list of clients he has worked with over the years is extensive (too many to mention). James is at the forefront of everything technical at Yoyo, and is working on his grumpiness.
Jenny Kitchen
Director
Yoyo Design
After spending most of her career at top London marketing agencies working across retail, events, and of course digital, Jenny now heads up client servicing and account management. She brings order to chaos and is one of the most conscientious, hardworking individuals you are ever likely to meet. Jenny works with our clients to help develop their online presence and marketing strategies, whilst keeping the Yoyo studio in check!
Louisa Steward
Account Director
Yoyo Design
With over a decade's worth of experience in digital agencies across London and Kent, Louisa excels in forming successful client relationships, working tirelessly to develop and implement their full digital potential. Providing digital strategy alongside project and campaign management, her client list includes NHS, FSA, Visit Britain and Disney. Louisa has excelled at every agency she has worked in and Yoyo is no different.
Richard Wendon
Developer
Yoyo Design
Richard's expertise stretches right through from design to build. At Yoyo, he is our lead front end developer, always helping to make sure Yoyo stays ahead of the curve when it comes to being able to offer the very latest technologies sweeping the industry. Not content with a degree in software systems, Richard then gained a second degree in visual communication - this man really knows his stuff.
Matt Sage
Designer
Yoyo Design
Matt is a designer with a bright future ahead of him. Having learnt his trade in print design, he is seamlessly making the transition into digital. With a real flair for typography and branding, Matt works across many Yoyo accounts applying his natural creativity to produce outstanding work. He adds style to even the simplest of briefs. As an added bonus, his girlfriend makes the nicest Malteser cake known to man.
Calvin Davis
Developer
Yoyo Design
Web development has always been a huge part of life for Calvin. After gaining his degree in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence, he then quickly entered the commercial world of website creation. Intelligent, passionate and a whizz with JavaScript, Calvin shares the Yoyo ethos of "anything's possible" especially when it comes to visually engaging rich Internet applications.
Christine Moore
Developer
Yoyo Design
Although Christine is fresh from university, she has a portfolio to rival some of the more experienced developers in the industry. Having excelled at Computer Science, she is proficient with the latest technologies including responsive websites, HTML5, Content Management Systems, Facebook apps and eCommerce sites. Being skilled in Linux server administration, she is not afraid of the command line either! Christine employs the more progressive methods of her trade with style and rigorous thinking and she makes a mean paella, to boot.
Mini-o
Mascot
Yoyo Design
Our very own mascot – Mini-o, who is always ready to help us get the Yoyo message out to the masses. In his own words,
"My work explores the relationship between postmodern discourse and UFO sightings. With influences as diverse as Kafka and Roy Lichtenstein, new combinations are synthesised from both orderly and random structures. As spatial replicas become frozen through frantic and academic practice, the viewer is left with a statement of the undefined of our condition."
Moving stuff, Mini-o.