Digital Product Development

From ideato working product.

A digital product is more than an application. It is a business model, a set of users, an architecture, an interface, an infrastructure and a plan for change. COUBUS handles the complete path within one process — so nothing is lost between strategy, design and engineering.

What we do

Product discovery
Requirements & scope definition
System architecture
UX/UI design
Software engineering
Infrastructure & deployment
Launch
Continuous development

How we approach it

Product thinking, then engineering.

Discovery before delivery

We start with the business model, the users and the constraints. The technical specification is an output of this work, not a prerequisite for it.

Architecture as a product decision

How a product is structured determines what it can become. We make architecture decisions early, deliberately and in terms the business can understand.

Production is the beginning

A launched product generates real usage, real data and real requirements. We design for the evolution that follows.

Product architecture

System architecture, product structure, APIs, integrations, infrastructure planning and technical strategy.

Architecture is where a product’s future is decided: how data is modelled, how components communicate, what can scale independently, what can be replaced later. We treat it as a product discipline and document it in terms the whole team can use.

Related work

Products that show this in practice.

01 — COUBUS product

Spotrum

Real-time communication platform

A communication platform built around rooms and live interaction. Spotrum is where COUBUS works through the concepts behind complex multi-user, real-time products.

Web
Android · in development
iOS · in development

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Concept model

01Clients

Web application
Mobile (in development)

02Product layer

Users & profiles
Rooms & membership
Chat & files
Subscriptions
Moderation

03Real-time layer

Presence & room state
Voice & video routing
Events & synchronisation

04Operations

Administration
Monitoring
Deployment

02 — COUBUS product

Notitask

Smart productivity application

A task and reminder application designed around one idea: creating a reminder should take as little effort as thinking of it. Notitask is where COUBUS works through voice interaction and mobile product design.