The senior developer stays on your work
The person who scopes a change writes it and answers the follow-up. Our senior Squiz developers each have more than twenty years of hands-on platform work and take part in your sprint reviews.
Squiz websites,
from first build
to next feature.
Squiz websites for government, utilities, universities and corporates, designed, built and looked after by the same senior people year after year. We stay on as part of your team and keep shipping what you need next.
- Build or migrateA new site, or a move to Squiz DXP
Discovery, design and a build on Squiz Matrix or Squiz DXP, or a planned migration with nothing lost on the way.
Start hereSee it in Study Victoria - ImproveA site you already have
New components, search, accessibility, performance and the sections that no longer fit, delivered sprint by sprint.
Start hereSee it in State Electricity Commission - SupportOngoing help from the people who know your site
Pre-purchased hours at a content rate and a specialist rate, tracked in LadooHQ and answered by senior developers.
Start hereSee it in National Museum of Australia
Squiz, done by people who have done it for sixteen years
Why Squiz teams call Ladoo
We have built and looked after Squiz websites since 2010. Sixteen years on Squiz Matrix, and now Squiz DXP, means we know the platform where it counts: triggers and workflow, asset structures, reusable components, Funnelback tuning, and migrations that keep every URL working.
Matrix and DXP, both in production
Deakin’s marketing team publishes through an authoring layer we built on Squiz Matrix. Development Victoria moved a family of sites to Squiz DXP in batches, with no big-bang cutover. Study Victoria publishes in five languages on DXP, with Funnelback search across all of them.
Built to public-sector standards
We have delivered WCAG 2.2 AA Squiz implementations for Government agencies. We check accessibility at every stage, from design and development through content and quality assurance.
One team from discovery to support
Strategy, UX, design, development, content and support sit in the same small team. The people who designed the site maintain it, without handing the work to a second agency.
- 16years as Squiz and Funnelback specialists
- 20+years hands-on for each senior Squiz developer
- AAWCAG 2.2 on every build we ship
- 1,000sof sprints shipped with customers
years
Still shipping
Still shipping, every month.
Each square is a month since 2010, shaded to show how busy we were on Squiz: an indicative picture drawn from our repositories, not a precise count. Most of the work is for customers who have been with us for years and come back sprint after sprint. The circles are launches. Open one for the story.
Selected work
Sites we built and still look after
Six public sites on Squiz. Open one for the full story.
WaterNSW
Built for the day everyone checks the dam
Utilities and services
Invest Victoria
Built to the design, for investors in three languages
Investment attraction
State Electricity Commission
A state energy company’s website, from day one to year three
Energy and renewables
Deakin University
A public website built for a large author community
Higher education
Study Victoria
Five languages, 86 schools, one front door
International education
Victorian Premier’s Design Awards
Twelve years of winners, one living archive
Arts and culture
How we work
Four dots, connected
The order rarely changes. What changes is how much of each stage a project needs, and we scope that with you before anything starts.
-
1
Discover
Research, a current-state review, stakeholder workshops and an analytics review. We leave with a shared view of goals, audiences and what the site has to do first.
A shared brief and a prioritised backlog -
2
Design
Information architecture and wireframes over two rounds, growing into a modular design system your authors build pages from.
Wireframes, a design system and page templates -
3
Build
Time-boxed sprints on Squiz Matrix or Squiz DXP with a review at the end of each. Components, search, integrations and migration ship as you review them.
A site in production, reviewed every sprint -
4
Support
Support packs at a content rate and a specialist rate. Requests are logged in LadooHQ and handled by the people who built the site.
Hours tracked in LadooHQ, the same developers
Services
One team, three disciplines
01
Analysis and strategy
Understand the organisation, the audience and the current site before anything is designed.
What is included
02
Experience design
Information architecture, wireframes and a design system that authors can build from.
What is included
03
Technology and development
Squiz Matrix and Squiz DXP builds, search, integration, migration and support.
What is included
The team
You will work with these people
Senior specialists across account management, UX, design, Squiz development, architecture, content, QA and accessibility. The right person is brought in for each task, and nobody is swapped out mid-project.
- Nathan CramManaging Director
- Steve DarmodyUser Experience Lead
- Leigh HathawayDesign Lead
- Liam ColtmanTechnical Lead
- Salman AhmedSystems Architect
- Adam SaxtyDeveloper
Our promise
Four things you can hold us to
- 01
Simplicity
A good website is easy to use. We build the right thing without over-complicating the process.
- 02
Learning
Every iteration teaches us something. Changes are made for a reason we can explain.
- 03
Speed
We are realistic about what is achievable and work to the date. If a new request moves it, we tell you straight away.
- 04
Care
We care about the outcome and about the service along the way. We work as an extension of your team.
Talk to Nathan about your site.
Nathan runs Ladoo and reads every message himself. Tell him what the site has to do and what is in the way, and within a business day he will tell you what he would do first and whether we are the right fit.
