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The problems repeat
Booking, scheduling, quoting, reporting, client access — the same handful of problems turn up in almost every industry. We start by learning your specific workflow either way, so an unfamiliar sector isn't a barrier.
All industriesCalgary, Alberta — UX & UI design studio
We design websites, web apps and mobile apps around how people really work — then build them. Research first, interface second, code last. Based in Calgary, working with businesses across Canada.
How we work
Most software fails because nobody watched a real person try to use it. We start there, and it changes everything downstream.
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Before designing anything, we sit with the people who'll use it. What they actually do is rarely what the process document says they do.
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You get a clickable prototype to try, share and argue about — while changes still cost an afternoon instead of a month.
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Real usage always surprises you. We watch how it lands for the first month and fix what reality disagrees with.
See it happen
Scroll to watch the same screen move through the three stages every project goes through.
Structure and hierarchy first. No colour to hide behind.
Type, colour and spacing. Now it has a personality.
Real, responsive, interactive. Running in your browser.
Today
New jobServices
Take the whole thing end to end, or just the part you're stuck on.
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Interviews, usability testing and journey mapping, so decisions come from what users actually do rather than what the loudest person in the room believes.
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Interfaces that are clear before they're clever. Every screen and every state — including the empty, loading and error ones everyone forgets.
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Marketing sites, customer portals, internal tools and mobile apps. Designed and built by the same people, so nothing gets lost in handover.
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Design and development time reserved every month. Good for teams who keep shipping and aren't ready to hire yet.
Deliverables
Not a slide deck. Things you own, can open, and can hand to another developer tomorrow if you ever need to.
A short, plain-English summary of what we learned from your users, with a prioritised list of what to fix first.
The real thing, before it's built. Click through it, send it to your team, change your mind for free.
Every screen and state, organised properly. Yours to keep, edit or take elsewhere.
Reusable components and rules, so the next feature looks like it belongs without you having to ask.
Live, tested across real devices, with source code in your repository and accounts in your name.
A recorded handover and written notes, so nothing important lives only in our heads.
Who we help
We're a small studio and we're picky about scope rather than sector. These are the situations we're genuinely useful in.
Industry matters less than the shape of the problem. Booking, scheduling, quoting, reporting, client access — the same handful turn up almost everywhere, and we start by learning your specific workflow regardless. An unfamiliar sector isn't a barrier.
If that's you, say so anyway — we'll point you toward someone better suited.
Process
Four phases, an agreed scope, and something you can click at the end of every one.
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We talk to your team and your users, review what already exists, and agree what success looks like in numbers rather than adjectives.
Research findings · Agreed scope · Fixed quote
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Wireframes, then full interface design, then a prototype we put in front of real users before anything gets built.
Prototype · Full UI · Test results
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We build exactly what we designed. You see it on a live staging link every Friday, so there is no reveal day and no surprises.
Weekly builds · Staging link · Source code
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We launch, watch how people actually use it for thirty days, and fix the friction that only ever shows up in the wild.
Launch · 30-day refinement · Handover
Ways to work together
Every project is scoped and quoted individually after a free consult, so you get a real number for your actual problem rather than a package that nearly fits.
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Start here if you already have something and it isn't landing.
Most common
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The whole thing, researched, designed and shipped by one team.
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Ongoing design and development time, reserved monthly.
Not sure which one you need? That's what the first call is for — it's free, and there's no obligation at the end of it.
Questions
Anything else — email hello@haddon.software and a human replies the same business day.
Yes. We run remotely on a fixed weekly rhythm and travel out for kickoff, user testing and launch. Mountain Time overlaps the full business day from Victoria to Halifax, which helps more than you'd think.
UX is whether the thing makes sense: can someone finish the task without getting stuck or giving up? UI is how it looks and feels while they do it. A beautiful interface over a confusing flow still fails, so we always do the first before the second.
All of it, from day one — design files, source code, cloud accounts and domains, in your name. Handover includes a recorded walkthrough and written notes. Plenty of clients take it in-house afterwards, and that's a success, not a loss.
Often that's the better option. We start with a UX audit to work out what's genuinely broken versus what just looks dated — sometimes the fix is three screens rather than a rebuild. We'll tell you honestly which one you're looking at, even when the smaller answer is worth less to us.
One person who can make decisions, access to a handful of your users for interviews, and roughly six hours of your team's time in the first fortnight. That's genuinely it.
A UX audit is about two weeks. A full design-and-build is usually ten to fourteen weeks depending on how much there is to build. We'll give you a real date in the quote, not a range that quietly expands.
About
Haddon Software Solutions is deliberately small. Small means you deal directly with the person designing and building your product — no account manager in between, no handover to a team you've never met, no being someone's fourth priority.
We'd rather do a few projects properly than a lot of them quickly, so we take on a limited number at a time. If we're not the right fit for what you need, we'll say so on the first call rather than three weeks into a proposal.
Based in Calgary, Alberta, working with businesses right across Canada.
Get in touch
You'll get a straight answer about whether we're the right fit within one business day. First call is free and runs about thirty minutes.
Calgary, Alberta — clients Canada-wide
