The platform nobody had defined yet.

Partner Dimply
Engagement Design Partnership, ongoing
Scope Positioning, Product Design, Visual Language

Case study · Dimply

Dimply brand mark
Dimply brand visual: red sculptural forms
Dimply Financial Experience Platform on a laptop
Dimply product visualisation: stacked card interface
Dimply UI colour palette
Dimply product visualisation: financial wellbeing dial
Output
  • → Category positioning framework
  • → Feature architecture and naming
  • → 53 product visualisations
  • → Platform visual language
  • → Website design and direction
Key number
53

Product visualisations created once the positioning was defined

Engagement type

This is a Design Partnership. Ongoing embedded work across positioning, product, and brand. Not a one-off project.

The situation

Dimply had built a genuinely powerful platform. A branding agency had delivered a strong visual foundation. A sitemap existed. Content was being written. On paper, everything was in place to build a website.

But something kept not working. Sections felt like parts rather than a whole. Pages were designed, redesigned, and set aside. The founder was visibly blocked.

The diagnosis

The real problem wasn't execution. Nobody had clearly defined what Dimply actually was yet. Six months in, we stopped and named it.

What emerged was clear: Dimply needed to lead with category ownership as the Financial Experience Platform, and then productise its individual features so each one could stand on its own.

The outcome

Once that structure existed, everything moved. Content made sense. Page hierarchy became obvious. The design had something to carry.

We produced 53 product visualisations, a new visual language for a complex platform, so that a product team at a bank could look at the site and immediately understand what they were looking at.

Dimply marketing homepage
Dimply platform page
Dimply product visualisation: optimise and analytics
Dimply product visualisation
Dimply product visualisation
Dimply product visualisation: personalise logic
Dimply product visualisation
Dimply product visualisation: enterprise security
Dimply product visualisation: capabilities
Dimply product visualisation: multi-channel deploy
Dimply product visualisation: micro-apps
Dimply product visualisation
Dimply product visualisation: experience builder formulas
Dimply product visualisation: enterprise accessibility
Dimply product visualisation: SDK integration
Dimply product visualisation: deploy no rebuilds
Dimply product visualisation
Dimply micro detail 1
Dimply micro detail 2
Dimply micro detail 3
Dimply micro detail 4
Dimply mockup
Dimply mockup
Dimply mockup
The lesson
Fix the surface and you get a prettier version of the same problem.
Name the real problem and the output takes care of itself.

Most teams start with the surface.
The leverage is almost always one step earlier.