VisualPanda

I am the founder and CEO of The Chrysalis KO, inc. We have an investment arm called Chrysalis Capital and an Advisory company called Chrysalis Advisors. We do buy side, sell side, and management transactions for emerging market tech companies.

Our advisory company started growing tremendously during Covid and didn't have its own website. Our investment arm website only showed the companies we invested in vs all the others we supported. We wanted something that felt unique and not like we were selling our services.

We had interacted with Visual panda before as they did website, app, and deck designs for one of my portfolio companies, Helium Health. I loved their work and insight to clean design. We had worked with someone when we first launched on our capital website and it wasn't a great experience. It was then easy to choose the Visual Panda team having seen their speed and quality.

We were first assigned a designer who walked through the sort of mood board we created. We had links from different websites and certain imagery we liked. He then had us create the content we wanted on each page and talked through ideas of how we could bring certain things to life. We initially had a lot more text/content on the site when it got pushed to test and then decided to scrap a lot of it and make it cleaner and the team supported us through that.

Two. The owner, Jakub and designer Tomas.

The website is stunning and two years later, I still love it. We've actually had clients and others ask us to refer them to VisualPanda because they loved our website so much. As I said above, we've been able to handle all the updates on text (clients, team members, etc) ourselves because of how clean it was built plus the documentation they gave us on how to manage it ourselves.

The team was easy to work with and we used slack for timely and effective communication. Having the slack channel made it really simple to give real time updates with links, etc.

I loved their willingness to push the creativity envelope and how well they listened to me. They didn't say things couldn't be done and instead went to find out how they could make it happen. We went beyond the initial time because I completely changed the text/story flow when it was pushed to test and they were still super positive and professional while insisting on me getting exactly what I wanted.

Honestly, nothing because they handled us well and gave us a product we love.

I’m a Project Manager at Reflect Group, a parent company of over 15 brands, offering all kinds of custom print services.

One of our brands offers customized apparel, like t-shirts, hoodies and a wide range of gadgets to individual clients. We have a tool on our website that lets users create their custom prints. We hired VisualPanda to optimize this tool and increase the conversion rate.

We talked to various UX agencies and found VisualPanda to be the best fit. One of reasons that convinced us was their approach - they are very proactive and wanted to deliver the best possible results, while remaining realistic when it comes to projections.

The cooperation started with an analysis of our current solution and growth estimation. After this, the designers created a detailed roadmap for the whole project. They paid great attention to getting to know us thoroughly, ensuring that our business needs would be met and the proposed solutions would be technically feasible. We worked in weekly sprints, sticking mostly to the initial plan.

We worked with a Senior Product Designer and a Product Designer.

Selecting them as a partner was the best choice we could make. The designers who worked with us had a background in e-commerce so it was a great fit for us. Thanks to this, they brought along a lot of experience and insights. They were also really proactive and engaged, often discovering new opportunities that could be seized.

We worked in weekly sprints and communicated mostly on Slack. We also had meetings each week for status updates and feedback.

The way they commit to the project - they really care about the outcomes. That means, they are not just people who move pixels around, they are able to bring a lot of value to the table with their own thinking, analyses and problem solving. We were also impressed by their broad UX knowledge and their ability to apply it within the given context.

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I am the COO of one of the fastest growing Software Development Companies located in Poland.

We had to find a partner who could help us to finish the UX/UI Design stage of two projects: custom e-learning platform project and internal Business Intelligence tool for our clients in a relatively short time.

We have contacted over 20 companies in one month that provided Design-related services, including VisualPanda. After technical & soft skills screening of dozens of UX/UI Designers, we concluded that their team seemed to be capable to deliver all of our project goals.

We have cooperated with VisualPanda on two projects: a complex e-learning platform with lots of User Interactions that needed to be designed before entering the development stage and an internal BI tool for two of our clients. In both cases we were strongly impressed by Pandas – their “will do” attitude, blazing fast task deliveries before the deadlines and their proactiveness allowed us to seamlessly integrate their team of Designers with ours and deliver a proper solution for our client.

We have worked with Michał, Łukasz and Mateusz – they were managed by Michał who has substantial experience in Project Management and coordinating the work of UX/UI Teams. Overall, they were able to guide our clients in the right direction in terms of features, user experience and platform design.

VisualPanda's team allowed us to meet the tight deadlines with a reasonable budget. We were able to finish the Design stage earlier than we expected - allowing us to assign the dev team faster and thus cutting the waiting period before the stages.

The whole team of VisualPanda was great to work with - Michał was responsible for the day-to-day communication with other Designers, but we were also communicating directly with the rest of the team.

We were impressed with their overall knowledge about the UI/UX design process. It's worth to mention that they offered us to discuss some of the most complex project issues internally - with higher-seniority people that were assigned to our team to be certain that they are pushing us into the best direction possible.

Personally, I think that there is little to complain about their work - and we will definitely work with VisualPanda again in the nearest future.

I used to work for Mirror. They are a mobile app startup trying to disrupt the retrospective performance review space. Their goal is to create a real-time app meant to be used peer-to-peer in a workplace setting.

They were responsible for the creative side of the app development, acting as our design studio.

We started with a sprint week where we laid out our mission and vision for the app. From there, Jakub (Founder) created mock-ups, determining how the entire app would look. It was available on both iOS and Android.

Jakub was our main person at VisualPanda, and there were also several others involved.

My boss at Mirror had previously started a company and built a mobile app with VisualPanda. He said that they did great work and were competitively priced.

We invested around $50,000 in the whole project. Part of that cost went to the development company, so VisualPanda received a bit less than $50,000.

The project ran from February until August 2020.

It’s hard for me to answer what happened after the pilot programs started because I am no longer working there. One of the metrics we set, though, was how many times does the user open the app per day. We set a lot more metrics internally, too.

We had weekly check-ins that I always felt were transparent, as well as direct communication along the way. They were very easy to reach. If a deadline ever was going to be missed, or if there was confusion or a roadblock, we always communicated. Overall, it was very positive from a project management perspective.

Their degree of commitment to and investment in the project stands out. We could tell that they cared about what we were making. That came through as they contributed to meetings at every step of the process.

Nothing comes to mind right now. It’s been a while, so I’m sure there were small things I noted as we went through the process. The timelines they gave us were sometimes a bit overly optimistic, but whenever we weren’t hitting deadlines, they were transparent in their communication about the reasons for the delay — everyone was on the same page.

Take advantage of VisualPanda’s incredible responsiveness. They want to produce a great product, rather than just check off everything you tell them. Make it a collaborative process where everyone has a seat at the table.

I’m the founder and CEO of a company called DoubleMap, which was acquired by Ford in 2019. We provide software and services for transit systems around universities, airports, hospitals, and corporate fleets. Our primary offering involves real-time GPS tracking for public transit systems around the world.

We engaged VisualPanda to design not only our widely-used mobile apps, but also our internal materials — like presentations, pitch decks, and other visual communication.

Visual Panda designed our iOS, Android, and desktop apps. They also designed the interface of the administrative portion of our platform, where transit administrators can make inputs into the backend.

Initially, I worked directly with Jakub (Founder, VisualPanda), but both of our companies grew over the course of the engagement. He eventually had a team behind him. I worked with around 5­–6 people from their team in total.

VisualPanda used to do design work for a company we acquired called Tap Ride. We liked the aesthetic they offered, so we decided to continue leveraging them for design work.

We’ve spent somewhere between $100,000–$250,000.

The engagement lasted for 6 years. We started working together in mid-2016, and even though we’ve been acquired, they’re still doing work for us.

The pitch desks that they helped us design have won us millions of dollars of business. Their work led to our successful acquisition by Ford, so they’ve been critical to our evolution as a company.

They’ve been very strong on this front, as they skillfully leverage Trello boards and Asana to track project progress. Given that they’re in Poland, it’s reasonable to be concerned about communication, but we’ve never had any problems.

Where many designers can only create aesthetically appealing—but ultimately uncodable—designs, VisualPanda delivers stunning designs that can be seamlessly integrated with our product’s functionalities. In addition, their ability to build relationships, especially from abroad, is one of their strongest suits.

They’re one of my favorite partners, so I don’t have any suggestions for improvement. If you go back 3­–4 years, both of our companies were experiencing growing pains, so they had to staff up to keep up with the incoming flow of work.

Just use them. They do a fantastic job and will make any partner look better than they currently do.