What Velship Labs designs and builds, and how we help
Velship Labs is a design and technology studio in Luanda, Angola. We turn ideas into useful digital solutions for businesses, enterprises and government institutions.
At a glance
- Based in
- Luanda, Angola
- Works with
- Businesses, enterprises and government institutions, in Angola and worldwide
- Languages
- English and Portuguese
- Led by
- José Nogueira, CTO
- Also builds
- Products of its own, in parallel
- Approach
- Senior-led; AI-assisted work reviewed by people
Company and institutional websites that present an organisation clearly, and web applications that help people complete a task. A website informs and invites; an application lets someone do something, such as book, apply, sign in or manage records.
What you get
- Company and institutional websites
- Customer portals, and booking and enquiry experiences
- Browser-based applications for a specific task
- Responsive interface design for phones and desktops
- Backend and system integrations where the work needs them
- Search foundations: page titles, structured data, sitemap and crawlability
- Deployment, documentation and agreed handover
Good fit when you need a clear public presence, a service portal or an application that people use in a browser.
Read more about this serviceApplications for your customers or your internal teams, built around one clear job. Platform and release scope are agreed according to the problem.
What you get
- Product scoping and user journeys
- Interface design
- iOS and Android development where appropriate
- Backend and integrations
- Testing, and store submission where included
- Agreed handover and subsequent support arrangements
Good fit when customers or staff need something on their phone that a website cannot do well.
Read more about this serviceSoftware shaped around an organisation's own operations: systems, dashboards and tools for the work that off-the-shelf products do not cover. It overlaps with websites and mobile apps; what sets it apart is the operational problem it solves.
What you get
- Operational systems and back-office applications
- Dashboards for the numbers that matter
- Internal portals and workflow tools
- Connections between existing systems
- Custom software where an existing product does not solve the problem well
- Discovery, review and agreed handover
Good fit when spreadsheets and existing tools have stopped keeping up with how your organisation works.
Read more about this serviceBetter ways of doing repeated work: map a process, then automate it or add AI where it suits the task. People review results and handle exceptions.
What you get
- Workflow mapping and improvement
- Repetitive-task automation
- Connections between the tools you already use
- AI integrations in products or operations
- Knowledge retrieval and internal assistants
- Document processing and request classification
- Human review, exception handling and recovery
Good fit when your team repeats the same manual task every day or every week, and you want a person to stay in control of the result.
Read more about this serviceBrand identity and visual design for organisations, commissioned on its own or as part of a wider engagement. We design the assets; we do not run the advertising or social channels where they are used.
What you get
- Brand identity
- Logo and visual-identity development
- Brand guidelines
- Graphic and digital brand assets
- Interface and experience design
- Visual design supporting websites, applications and products
Good fit when you are launching or renewing how an organisation looks and presents itself, with or without a build behind it.
Read more about this serviceFour ways to organise an engagement
The five services above say what we can help with. Launch, Automate, Build and Care describe how work can be organised around an outcome. Focused services, such as design on its own, and custom combinations can also be agreed.
Launch
Establish a useful digital and commercial presence: website work, brand identity and visual design, with the content structure and enquiry routes that support them. It does not include advertising or campaigns.
Automate
Improve an understood process through automation, system connections or suitable AI integrations.
Build
Develop custom software, web or mobile applications, internal tools or a digital product around an agreed scope.
Care
Maintain and improve an existing solution under an agreed support boundary.
Not part of our catalogue: advertising, paid media, social-media management and marketing campaigns. We design brand identities and assets for you to use, and we build websites that search engines can read, but we do not run those channels.
Maintenance and ongoing improvement for agreed solutions, through a support arrangement set up in advance. Care keeps a delivered solution working and gradually better; it is separate from a new build.
What you get
- Maintenance of agreed solutions
- Defect investigation and correction within scope
- Planned updates and improvements
- Review of relevant dependencies
- A clear request and contact route
- Prioritisation and approval of changes
Good fit when a solution is live and you want it looked after under clear terms, instead of fixing things as they break.
Care is available through an agreed support arrangement. Larger changes, such as new features or a redesign, are scoped separately. Care does not extend to every third-party system, or to a solution we have not assessed.
Read more about this serviceWhere this applies
Possible applications across businesses, enterprises and public institutions. They show what the services can be used for; they are not completed Velship projects.
- Public information websites
- Service portals for citizens or customers
- Internal operational tools and dashboards
- Process improvements and workflow automation
- Accessible digital experiences for a wide public
Not sure which service fits?
Describe the problem in your own words and we will point you to the right starting point.