01
Graphic Design
Identity systems, brand expression, and the kind of considered visual craft that turns visitors into believers.
"There are three responses to a piece of design — yes, no, and WOW. Our aim is Wow."— Milton Glaser
Cape Town · Full-stack digital studio · Est. 2014
We hatch
We hatch
world-class
digital products.
A small, senior team building web apps, AI products, cloud infrastructure and brand systems for ambitious clients — on time, on budget, and beautifully crafted from the database to the pixel.
01 — Services
What we make.
Whether it's a simple site to promote your business or a complex AI-powered platform, we make the process simple and deliver affordable, high-quality work. Six disciplines, one team.
02
Beautiful Code
Custom applications, APIs and platforms — written to last. Readable, testable, maintainable code is our default.
"Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity."— David Gelernter
03
Responsive Design
Sites that look right on a watch and a 5K monitor. Fluid layouts, fast loads, and accessibility baked in from the first line.
"Content is like water. You put water into a cup it becomes the cup."— Josh Clark
04
SEO & Performance
Findable, measurable, fast. We tune for Core Web Vitals, structure for search, and write content people (and crawlers) love.
"Google only loves you when everyone else loves you first."— Wendy Piersall
05
AI & LLM Applications
Practical AI that earns its place. We design and build LLM-powered assistants, search, agents and automation, wired into your product with the right guardrails and evals.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."— Arthur C. Clarke
06
DevOps & Infrastructure
Ship with confidence. Automated CI/CD pipelines, containerised deploys and infrastructure as code with Terraform, so environments are reproducible, scalable and boring in the best way.
"If it hurts, do it more often."— Martin Fowler
02 — Selected Work
Recent things we've shipped.
Two from the studio: a medical-education platform we built and handed over, and a from-scratch retail POS that's running every till at Ferndale Nurseries today.
EdTech · Medical education
Shipped & handed over
Four Minute Medicine (opens in a new tab)
We built and launched the original platform for an adaptive medical-education product — clinical learning, course delivery and the foundations for their AI tutor. Now run and grown by the in-house team.
Retail · Point of sale
Live in store
Ferndale Nurseries POS
An Android-based point-of-sale designed to be genuinely easy to use on the shop floor — paired with a full back-office suite for product, customer and gift-voucher management, plus reporting on cash-ups, orders, sales commissions and loyalty.
03 — Testimonials
What our clients say.
We live for happy customers. A handful of words from people who've trusted the studio over the years.
"I commissioned Duck Egg Digital to produce numerous company websites where time and budget were important. They delivered consistently and met all expectations in a hassle-free way. I would recommend them."
"A very positive experience with DED in understanding and translating a complex medical diagnostic into an elegant software application with an intuitive backend and web interface."
"Duck Egg has provided us with professional, on-budget and on-time solutions that not only fulfill our requirements, but regularly exceed our expectations. Their skills in 'hatching' solutions is of a world standard."
"Responsiveness and customer focus, with a high discipline for structured code, is at the heart of what Jason and his team have provided us — complementing our team for project delivery."
"Duck Egg Digital is an innovative company committed to delivering high-quality web pages and applications. User-friendly, robust functionality, responsive layouts. Jason and his team come highly recommended."
04 — How we work
A simple process, sweated over.
Four phases, kept lightweight. No bloated decks, no theatre — just focused work that ships.
/ 01
Listen
A working session to understand your business, your users and the shape of the problem. No assumptions yet.
/ 02
Sketch
Rough wireframes, moodboards and an estimate. Cheap to change, fast to validate.
/ 03
Build
Design and engineering in lockstep. Weekly demos. Real product in your hands fast.
/ 04
Tend
Launch is the start. We measure, refine and keep the platform healthy long after.