We’re business-minded. Whatever the project, we always begin with business strategy — understanding your goals, customer needs, the surrounding space, and team structure. Our products aren’t just beautiful; they’re purpose-built to drive adoption, retention, and scale, resulting in improvements to your bottom line.

We thrive on tough challenges. We don’t just put a new coat of paint on an existing product. Instead, we apply strategic thinking to figure out how to improve your business; taking data and user insights and turning it into a product that improves your customers’ experience today and tomorrow. Our work is grounded in your realities, but we explore many ways to reach your ultimate destination.

We always ship a product. This isn’t just design for design’s sake. Our projects always end with a visual design and robust development, resulting in products you can actually implement.

Our team is world-class. There are no junior players on the Canned Spinach team. Everyone is highly skilled and an expert at what they do, letting us supercharge every client with the proper amount of punch.

Hiring a designer or developer is time-consuming and only gets you so far. Designers and developers sit on spectrums of seniority and tend to have a specialized focus area. You can think of Canned Spinach as a full-stack team — blending exceptional craft, business expertise, and flawless production. All of our projects incorporate Product Strategy, User & Market Research, Journey Mapping, Information Architecture, UX Design, Visual Design, Wireframes, Development, and Maintenance & Security. What happens on any given project is based on your specific needs. By the end of every project, we leave teams empowered as owners to continue to design and develop the project from there, with training and file hand-off built in.

For most companies, time is money. You’re racing against a decline (a burn rate, an innovative competitor about to launch.) Hiring Canned Spinach can get you to an outcome faster than investing 6+ months to bring on a single person to take on only a portion of the work.
Our experience in owning tech-based startups has taught us how to collaborate with product leadership in an iterative and nimble way, tackling high-impact problems with efficiency and ease. Solutions at this level aren’t something a single staff designer or developer can usually handle.

We focus exclusively on building impactful digital experiences. We do not buy ad placements; we do not do social media work; we do not do keyword research. But we have a number of incredibly talented partners we pull in who can help with each of these items if needed. Working in this way allows us to translate the digital experience into a holistic digital strategy that drives results at scale.

Success means different things for different companies. We work with you in the beginning of the project to determine what success looks like for your business. Whether it’s user retention, user adoption, customer affinity, sales growth, or promotion of new products and initiatives, we’ll craft the right solutions and ensure we get there together in the end.