Access
The next best thing to having friends who are designers.
Access is an affordable way to give your product the polish of a designer’s work, without hiring one.
Lasting 2.5-3 weeks, at just
$1,099
What is the plan?
Access sets you up with senior designers to assess your product for areas of improvement and enrich it with tangible, contextual solutions that you can implement yourself.
Who is it for?
This is for startups and small teams building digital products with limited time and lean budgets.
How does it benefit you?
Experienced designers typically have ready answers to problems they’ve seen before, can anticipate problems you will face far down the line and have solutions to problems with far deeper insight than is readily available.
Access
The next best thing to having friends who are designers.
Access is an affordable way to give your product the polish of a designer’s work, without hiring one.
Lasting 2.5 weeks, at just:
$ 1,099
Leverage design expertise, smartly.
What is the plan?
Access sets you up with senior designers to assess your product for areas of improvement and enrich it with tangible, contextual solutions that you can implement yourself.
Who is it for?
This is for startups and small teams building digital products with limited time and lean budgets.
How does it benefit you?
Experienced designers typically have ready answers to problems they’ve seen before, can anticipate problems you will face far down the line and have solutions to problems with far deeper insight than is readily available.
Access is a 3 part plan
1. Spot hidden problems.
We evaluate your product from a variety of perspectives – communication, visual design, information architecture, experience heuristic etc.
Anything that could possibly throw off a user, reflect poorly on the product, send the wrong message etc is circled out.
2. Receive actionable solutions.
Next we aim to solving these problems by providing fixes that the team can make itself without having to waste a lot of time, or worse warrant a redesign.
These fixes are meant to be contextual, relatively low effort but with a high return on effort and impact.
These fixes are meant to be contextual, relatively low effort but with a high return on effort and impact.
3. Consult senior designers
Uncover insights and ideas that might otherwise take many iterations of a product.
Serving as a springboard for further ideation, teams can bounce off concepts, investigate what-if scenarios, discuss product plans and pick the brains of our design and tech experts.
“…..One of the big selling points for us was their methodical and scientific approach to the design process that reflects well on the quality of the output. Will gladly work with the team again.”
Mayuresh used Access for his hyperlocal app that he initially built only with his engineering team.
Here’s how Access plays out in reality
The Wolfy team had put together their MVP all by themselves. They then used Access to fix the experience and visuals with little dev overheads.
Built and designed by the founders themselves, the product required an overhaul from the user experience and interface perspective to improve usability.
A powerhouse of designers to improve your product in a short time.
Access is a Canvs Club offering and hence is powered by its abundantly experienced design teams.
Access is brought to you by Canvs Club.
Designers trusted by the industry’s finest.
Most design-aware teams start with some help from experts.
Get Access
Common questions
Do you redesign the product?
Access does not aim at redesigning your product. It aims at finding areas of improvement in the design decisions, explain them and fix them with solutions that are prescriptive. The fixes can be lucid directives, flows, sometimes wireframes, references or sometimes even an asset if it becomes difficult to explain.
Do you work only with Startups or other teams as well?
While this was built with the constraints of startups in mind, we are always open to working with small, independent teams that can be helped with clear and practical design leadership.
What happens if we don't like your solution?
Access enables an engagement with highly senior designers with years of experience. During constructive discussions, it’s always possible to have disagreements when the context of the business doesn’t agree with acceptable practices and solutions. We will be willing to discuss such contentions subjectively based on the case in hand. Solutions are based on Design as a practice and an understanding of the business context. They aren’t necessarily correlated with the expected outcomes of the team.
Can you work on making the changes happen after giving us the solutions?
One of Access’ USPs is providing executable solutions. Some of them are quick, while others might take a while for your team to execute. For instance, we might ask you to use a particular tool to correctly compress your images so you get light higher-res images. That’s something we can verify with you during our 2.5 weeks of time. However, if we suggest to you that your insurance application form needs to be restructured in the hub and spoke model (the basics of which we’ll provide), it might need a much longer execution time from you during which time we won’t be together. If you’d alternatively want to engage with us in our full capacity we are always looking forward to working with you using our standard Club model of design as a service.
Looking beyond Access to design your product from scratch?
Hire a senior design team from Canvs Club.
Access works wonderfully as a short exercise that is corrective in nature. If you are looking to design products from scratch, you will require a dedicated design team over a longer period of time. Canvs Club is made for that.
Access is a 3 part practical plan
1. Assessments to spot problems.
We evaluate your product from a variety of perspectives – communication, visual design, information architecture, experience heuristic etc.
Anything that could possibly throw off a user, reflect poorly on the product, send the wrong message etc is circled out.
2. Contextual and actionable solutions.
Next we aim to solving these problems by providing fixes that the team can make itself without having to waste a lot of time, or worse, warrant a redesign.
These fixes are meant to be contextual, relatively low effort but with a high return on effort and impact.
These fixes are meant to be contextual, relatively low effort but with a high return on effort and impact.
3. Expert sessions with senior designers
Uncover insights and ideas that might otherwise take many iterations of a product.
Serving as a springboard for further ideation, teams can bounce off concepts, investigate what-if scenarios, discuss product plans and pick the brains of our design and tech experts.
“We enrolled for Canvs Access program designed for startups to provide quick UX review. The program lived up to the expectations. The Canvs team is well knowledgeable, has authority on what they do.
Working with Premankan, Aalhad and Abin was a fun and enlightening journey for us. The team did a great job going over the current application. Keeping in mind that we were looking for short wins to quickly go to the market, the team gave very thoughtful feedback and clean instructions well illustrated with assets and designs.
One of the big selling points for us was their methodical and scientific approach to the design process that reflects well on the quality of the output. Will gladly work with the team again.”
MAYURESH BAKSHI | Founder, Brainizen
Mayuresh used Access for his hyperlocal app that he initially built only with his engineering team.
Here’s how Access plays out in reality
The Wolfy team had put together their MVP all by themselves. They then used Access to fix the experience and visuals with little dev overheads.
Built and designed by the founders themselves, the product required an overhaul from the user experience and interface perspective to improve usability.
A powerhouse of designers to improve your product in a short time.
Powered by its abundantly experienced and diverse design professionals, Access improves a product at diverse touchpoints in a very short time.
Designers trusted by the industry’s finest.
Access is brought to you by Canvs Club.
Most design-aware teams start with some help from experts.
Get Access.
Common questions
Do you redesign the product?
Access does not aim at redesigning your product. It aims at finding areas of improvement in the design decisions, explain them and fix them with solutions that are prescriptive. The fixes can be lucid directives, flows, sometimes wireframes, references or sometimes even an asset if it becomes difficult to explain.
Do you work only with Startups or other teams as well?
While this was built with the constraints of startups in mind, we are always open to working with small, independent teams that can be helped with clear and practical design leadership.
What happens if we don't like your solution?
Access enables an engagement with highly senior designers with years of experience. During constructive discussions, it’s always possible to have disagreements when the context of the business doesn’t agree with acceptable practices and solutions. We will be willing to discuss such contentions subjectively based on the case in hand. Solutions are based on Design as a practice and an understanding of the business context. They are not necessarily correlated with the expected outcomes of the team.
Can you work on making the changes happen after giving us the solutions?
One of Access’ USPs is providing executable solutions. Some of them are quick, while others might take a while for your team to execute. For instance, we might ask you to use a particular tool to correctly compress your images so you get light higher-res images. That’s something we can verify with you during our 2.5 weeks of time. However, if we suggest to you that your insurance application form needs to be restructured in the hub and spoke model (the basics of which we’ll provide), it might need a much longer execution time from you during which time we won’t be together. If you’d alternatively want to engage with us in our full capacity we are always looking forward to working with you using our standard Club model of design as a service.
Looking beyond Access to design your product from scratch?
Hire a senior design team from Canvs Club
Access works wonderfully as a short exercise that is corrective in nature. If you are looking to design products from scratch, you will require a dedicated design team over a longer period of time. Canvs Club is made for that.