Preliminary Design Consultancy Service

Learn more about our preliminary design consultancy service where we help you set a design budget, prepare a design brief, help with design contracts and get you price quotes.

Preliminary Design Consulting, Design Contracts, Design Brief and Design Price Quote Service
You already know that good design could potentially help you do good business, let us indulge you why once again: Good design helps you do better business by making your offering, product or service more desirable, effectively increasing demand; on one hand, better designs are easier to market and sell, everyone knows this, people know that good design will sell more (higher quantity), or sell for more (higher price) or both. On the other hand, in many cases good design is also more economic to produce and realise (good design products are expected require less materials or make efficient use of production technologies, could be easier to transport, and good design services could be designed to have better and more effective procedures and processes that would yield a better service). Good design is good business, this is almost indisputable; but another indisputable fact? Not everyone makes good design. You will need to work with good designers and design consultants. While everyone can design, not everyone is a professional designer. You need professionals.

Good to Know
This is about consultancy for getting design consultancy, it is a very meta-service where we give you ideas on how to get design consultancy. If you wish to outright get design consultancy, you will want to check our design consultancy services instead.

The Best Designers and Where to Find Them
You need to work with A' Design Award if you wish to find the best designers to work with; if you need (and you definitely need) good design, then you need to find the best designers most suitable for your project, your vision but most importantly your budget; you want to get the most bang out of your buck. Thanks to the fact that we are the A' Design Award, who also publish World Design Rankings annually and also manage World Design Consortium, we already know the very best designers worldwide, among World Design Consortium members, you will find the best as well as the most economic but good designers from all countries, in all creative fields.

We Got Soo Much Experience
We know more or less what the designers would ask for your project, we got their contacts and we got honest opinions on the pricing of their work. You will want us to contact the designers on your behalf and get price quotes from the right ones, we could potentially get better quotes for some projects, we will bargain on your behalf as much as we can in a reasonable way. You will also want to know how much an honest designer would charge for their work, you will need help selecting the design company that could be right for you but you will also need help preparing a brief. You will want to work with us to find you the designers, and provide preliminary consulting so that you could hopefully get the best design your budget would permit; with a better brief.

It is Economic to Work with Us
The design fee is usually the least percentage of production and realisation costs, even though we think design actually contributes the most value to a product or service. You will want to get the best design, it does not cost much when you take into consideration all the total investments but you will need us to occasionally convince you to spend just a little bit more on designers or in many cases, you will need us to save you from spending your budget wrong, you will need us to help you choose the right designers. It makes sense to invest in design, but like any investment, you will want to help on deciding how to do it correctly. When investing in design you need a good brief, brief is about what you exactly want to achieve. We can help you prepare a design brief so that you can actually get realistic price quotes from designers but most importantly, you could potentially get better results and communicate your expectations better to the designers, with a good design brief, you can get what you want.

What does Preliminary Design Consultancy Service Covers?
Preliminary Design Consulting and Design Price Quote Service includes: 1) Design Brief Consultancy (We make it clear for designers to understand what you want, and we help you communicate your project better by going through the design brief; the better you explain what you need, the better you get what you want), this is indeed not a big deal, we have a very nice questioner that we will ask you to fill, and then we will go through it and ask you for clarifications for ambiguous points. 2) Preliminary Design Consulting is about us giving you our honest opinion on the design project, we could provide an initial estimate of cost, depending on the project we could suggest materials, and in rare cases even manufacturers. (Here we help you out by going through the project and providing some simple suggestions). 3) Design Price Quote Service is when we collect the price quotes from designers, present you their sample work as well as our honest opinions so that you could choose to work with a designer. Finally 4) Design Contract Service is when we mediate between you and the designers. Our initial fee is low because we aim to get a percentage from your further involvement with designers, for this reason we have the World Design Consortium standard contracts to sign (There are 3 contracts; one is for preliminary agreement, another for the task definition and lastly for payment), indeed the design contract is useful as we also act as mediators and push designers to do better and of course push both parties to follow the terms.

How much will this cost?
Depends on the project: When you contact us, we have a quick look at your project and tell you what it qualifies for (is it small or big project - see table 1), you can refer to the table below on how much we will ask for preliminary design consultancy. Thinking it deeply, you will find the fees very reasonable; you can potentially save on design consultancy fees by paying us a consultancy fee for design consultancy but of course we do not guarantee statistical returns on this service, we just think it will most likely be the case if you have never worked with a design agency before, but putting this aside, working with us helps you get the right designer, and the right designer means developing the right product or service with a good design that works.

You need to contact us before buying any of the services above. We will listen to you, read your notes and quickly suggest you the most suitable service you should be looking at. A' Design Award laureates have completed hundred thousands of design jobs, including ultimate projects such as airport constructions, as well as important projects such as five start hotels, large projects for injection molding furniture, and of course small and grand projects for logo design, branding and more.