Brand Design Services

Your brand is the feeling that stays with someone after they’ve interacted with your business. It’s the way to lock in sales, brand loyalty, and investment.

Branding

The beating heart of your business

Brand Strategy & Positioning

Any good brand comes from a sound understanding of your USP, your audience, and where your brand’s voice is loudest in your market.

Logo & Brand Identity Design

We create a true reflection of how you want to be seen. One that stands out above the noise as distinctly ‘you’.

Colour, Typography & Visual Language

These are the core elements that shape your brand's look and feel at every touchpoint. Let’s make sure they leave a lasting impression.

Brand Systems & Guidelines

A clear set of rules and guidelines makes your brand identity sustainable and consistent across all digital products - essential for credibility.

Scalable Brand Foundations

All our design work is built to last and evolve with you. We create brand foundations that scale with you while keeping your identity strong.

SaaS product design & branding

If you’re working with digital products or pitching a new idea to investors, branding is your secret weapon. When a prototype reflects the real brand, it helps users, stakeholders, and investors experience the product more authentically. Instead of feeling like a concept, it feels like a real product, because it’s riding on the momentum of something that grounds your business in the real-world.

Secure investments more easily with a powerful brand in your corner.

SaaS product design & branding
Good brand design takes care of you

Good brand design takes care of you

Good branding has an impact on so many areas of your business. Even subconsciously, when people experience your brand as consistent and confident, that’s where you build connections that last. Your brand should:

  • Stand out clearly in competitive markets
  • Build credibility with customers and investors
  • Create consistency across digital and physical touchpoints
  • Establish a recognisable identity that’s hard to forget

Frequently asked questions about branding

What is branding, and why is it important?

Branding defines how your business is perceived. It includes your visual identity, messaging, and the overall impression people associate with your company.

What’s included in a branding project?

Branding typically includes logo design, colour palettes, typography, visual styles, and brand guidelines that ensure consistency across all platforms.

Who is branding best suited for?

Branding is valuable for startups launching a new company, businesses rebranding to reflect growth, or organisations that want a more consistent and professional identity.

Do I need branding if I already have a logo?

Often yes. A logo is only one part of a brand. A full brand system ensures your business looks consistent and professional across your website, product, and marketing materials.

Can branding help my business stand out?

Yes. Strong branding helps your business become recognisable and memorable, especially in crowded markets.

Will the brand work across digital and print?

Yes. Brand systems are designed to work consistently across websites, products, marketing materials, presentations, and print.

Can you redesign or refresh an existing brand?

Absolutely. Many branding projects involve refining an existing identity to make it clearer, more modern, or better aligned with the company’s direction.

How long does a branding project usually take?

Timelines vary depending on the scope of the project, but branding typically involves strategy, design exploration, refinement, and delivery of final assets and guidelines.

Do you offer brand design services across the UK?

Yes. McShannock Design provides brand design services across Northern Ireland and the UK, working with startups, SaaS companies, and growing businesses to create clear and distinctive brand identities.

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Hear it from the ones who are thriving today.

We've helped loads of clients secure investments, move past the seed stage, break into new markets, and do more of what they love.

Equitas

Worked with Stephen for years. The single best UX/UI and website designer I've ever had the pleasure to work with. Great value for money and great eye for detail.

Michael Blakley

Co-Founder

Flex Game

Stephen is excellent -- quality output, responsive, responsible, kind, and experienced. We were thrilled with the results.

Jonathan Holtby

Founder

RecTec

Stephen has been exceptional to work with. He's incredibly creative, extremely responsive, and has always been eager to support our requirements as a business, while delivering a first class service!

Rob Green

Founder

Startium

We've worked with Stephen and team from the infancy of our business. The quality of the UX design and the genuine interest in our success from the McShannock team has resulted in many of our prospects and customers commenting specifically on the user experience and modern look of our products.

Chris Shannon

Co-Founder

ComplyFirst

Stephen is a great UI/UX designer - professional, creative, and incredibly easy to work with. He consistently delivered clean, intuitive designs. Highly recommended.

Dan Jelly

Co-Founder

Polimonitor

Stephen is outstanding: proactive, quick to act, highly responsive to product feedback, inventive, and thorough. He has an excellent sense of modern design and UX, and you can fully trust his expertise and advice. I'm definitely going to continue working with him in the future.

Peter Karkkainen

Software Engineer

Neuromine

Great service from McShannock Design.
Understood the design brief, created clean and simple, accessible designs, as requested.

Theo Smith

Founder

Shopwave

I worked with McShannock Design on UI/UX concepts taking my own rough wireframes transforming them into Figma, while transforming the design / UI. The work was flawless, delivered ahead of schedule and within budget. I highly recommend working with them.

Ben Brown

Founder

Foundy

Stephen is a fantastic designer! He worked with us for a few years! He brings your vision to life. Recommended service provider to any founder.

Joe Lewin

Founder