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Product design

From idea to usable product: discovery, UX research, wireframes, prototypes, and design systems.

From idea to usable product

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  1. 01

    Discover

    Understand users, processes, and business goals.

  2. 02

    Define

    Translate problems into product requirements and workflows.

  3. 03

    Design

    Create information architecture, user journeys, wireframes, and interfaces.

  4. 04

    Prototype

    Turn concepts into realistic, interactive prototypes.

  5. 05

    Build

    Work with engineering to turn the product into a functioning system.

  6. 06

    Improve

    Use feedback, analytics, and real-world usage to continuously improve the product.

A hospital doesn't just need a website

It may need patient registration, appointment scheduling, doctor dashboards, billing, pharmacy workflows, laboratory requests, patient notifications, and reporting. Afivox can design the experience and build the technology behind it.

  • Patient registration
  • Appointment scheduling
  • Doctor dashboards
  • Billing
  • Pharmacy workflows
  • Laboratory requests
  • Patient notifications
  • Reporting

Related work

Tier 1

Hotel Operations Command Center

Three sources of truth that disagree: the channel, the desk book, and the whiteboard. Revenue leaks in the gaps, and nobody can prove where.

Tier 2

Direct Booking Engine and Channel Sync

Every booking through an agent costs a fifth of the room. The hotel has no way to take a direct booking after office hours, so guests who found the hotel directly still book through an agent.

Tier 3

Housekeeping and Maintenance Mobile System

A clean room stays unsellable until someone walks downstairs to say so. A broken air conditioner is reported to a person, not a system, and is discovered again by the next guest.

Tier 1

Hospital Operations & Patient Flow Platform

The patient's identity, their clinical history and their financial position live in three separate places that only reconcile when someone walks between rooms.

Tier 2

Patient Portal & Care Coordination

Every routine interaction — confirming an appointment, checking a bill, asking whether a result is back — requires a phone call, because the patient has no view into the system that already holds the answer.

Tier 1

School Operations & Parent Portal Platform

The school already holds every fact a parent asks for. It just cannot retrieve any of it without a person going to look.

Tier 1

Restaurant Operations & Channel Control Platform

Orders, stock and money are three separate paper systems, and the difference between what was sold and what was taken is explained after the fact rather than known.

Tier 2

Table Reservations & Loyalty Experience

A returning customer is worth more than a first-time one, but the restaurant has no record of who returns, and a table booked by phone has no record either, until it's double-booked.

Tier 1

Fleet Dispatch & Delivery Control Tower

The operational record exists only as chat history, so nothing downstream — customer enquiries, invoicing, disputes, profitability — can be answered without scrolling.

Tier 1

Retail & Electronics Operations Platform

Serialised goods, repairs and warranty obligations create liabilities that outlast the sale, and none of it is recorded in a way that can be searched when the customer returns.

Tier 2

Fees and Payment Reconciliation System

Parents transfer from personal accounts with no reference, pay for two children in one transaction, and pay amounts that match no invoice. The money arrives; identifying whose it is, is manual.

Tier 3

Attendance and Parent Communication

A child's fourth consecutive absence is noticed at the end of the month, if at all. Information the school already holds reaches parents only when a parent calls to ask for it.

Tier 2

Warehouse Inventory & Last-Mile Coordination

A delivery problem can start long before the vehicle leaves. An order is promised, but nobody has actually checked the shelf, and picking happens from memory rather than a sequence.

Tier 2

Driver Application and Proof of Delivery

The record of what happened on the road exists only as chat history and paper in transit. Every downstream question — where is it, was it delivered, why was it not, can we invoice — waits on a person.

Tier 3

Customer Tracking Portal

The business is paying staff to relay information it already has, and customers judge reliability by how hard it is to get an answer.

Tier 2

Repair Workshop Management

A repair is a custody relationship, not a transaction. The shop is holding someone else's property, quoted a price verbally, consumed parts from stock without recording them, and has no defence if the customer claims the screen was not cracked when they handed it over.

Tier 3

IMEI and Warranty Lookup

Warranty is an obligation that outlives the sale, and the shop has no searchable record binding a serial number to a sale date, a customer and a set of terms.

Tier 2

Pharmacy and Drug Inventory System

Drugs leave the pharmacy against a note, so stock on the system and stock on the shelf diverge continuously. Expiry is found rather than anticipated, and expired stock is money already spent.

Tier 3

Patient Queue and Appointment System

The clinic's most visible failure to patients is not clinical, it is the waiting room. And the clinic has no data on it, so it cannot fix it.

Tier 2

Kitchen Display and Order Routing

The kitchen has no reliable queue. Nobody can say how long a table has been waiting, which orders are late, or where a lost ticket went.

Tier 3

WhatsApp and Direct Order Capture

Direct orders are the restaurant's highest-margin business — no aggregator commission — and they are the worst-handled. Orders are missed, addresses are lost in scroll, and repeat customers are re-asked for details the restaurant already has.

Tier 1

Pharmacy Retail and Dispensing Platform

A pharmacy is a retail business with clinical and regulatory obligations attached. Generic retail software handles the retail and none of the obligation: no batch, no expiry, no prescription record, no controlled register, no recall trace.

Tier 2

Wholesale Distribution and Van Sales

Stock, cash and credit all leave the building on a van every morning, and the business's control over them is a person's handwriting.

Tier 3

Batch, Expiry and Recall Tracker

Two obligations — do not sell expired stock, and be able to trace a recalled batch — both depend on one record nobody is keeping.

Tier 1

Property and Tenancy Management Platform

A property portfolio is a set of dated obligations — rent due, tenancy expiring, notice periods, service charge, statutory documents — and every one of them is a date somebody has to remember.

Tier 2

Rent Collection and Reconciliation

The money arrives. Matching it to a unit and a period is manual, receipts are issued inconsistently, and by the time arrears are noticed they are months old.

Tier 3

Facility Maintenance Request System

Requests are lost, tenants chase, contractors are paid without a recorded approval, and the manager cannot say what maintenance costs per unit or which contractor is reliable.

Tier 1

Client Portal & Engagement Workspace

Client communication happens by email, deliverables happen by shared document, approvals happen by reply-all, and none of it is one record — so an engagement's actual status lives in someone's inbox.

Tier 2

Workflow & Case Management System

When work moves through stages and the system doesn't know where any of it is, a manager finds out about a bottleneck by asking, and a case can sit stalled for days before anyone notices.

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