Mind Your Business

Mind Your Business

Introduction

A Zimbabwean startup solving a real and daily frustration - the inability to find trusted, verified service providers in one place. Brand identity and full app UI/UX design, built from the ground up with a strategy-first approach that made every subsequent decision easier.

Year

2026

Industry

Consumer Tech, Local Services, Local Business Discovery

Scope of work

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Brand Strategy

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Branding

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App Design

Timeline

12 weeks

Introduction

A Zimbabwean startup solving a real and daily frustration - the inability to find trusted, verified service providers in one place. Brand identity and full app UI/UX design, built from the ground up with a strategy-first approach that made every subsequent decision easier.

Year

2026

Industry

Consumer Tech, Local Services, Local Business Discovery

Scope of work

/

Brand Strategy

/

Branding

/

App Design

Timeline

12 weeks

The Brief

The Brief

One platform. Every trusted business in Zimbabwe. Finally.

The founder identified the gap from personal experience - mid-renovation, unable to find a reliable plumber, carpenter or architect without asking around and hoping for the best. Mind Your Business exists to close that gap permanently. A verified, accurate, searchable catalogue of businesses across every category, built for the kind of trust that word-of-mouth used to provide and a digital platform now can.

The Approach

The Approach

The brand was designed with the app in mind before a single screen was drawn. The identity came first - a playful, characterful logo mark featuring a top hat, monocle and moustache, literally peering into the business. Navy and coral. Personality without sacrificing authority.

The real strategic move was choosing those brand colours with the app interface in mind from day one. By the time the UI/UX phase began, the visual language was already defined - which meant every screen felt coherent without effort. Three user profiles, each with entirely distinct journeys: consumers searching and saving businesses, business owners managing their listings and responding to reviews, and administrators governing the entire platform. All three needed to feel effortless. All 3 do. The search bar is the hero. Everything else is in service of it. That was the founder's clear directive from the start - and it shaped every UX decision in the app. Tags, categories, filters, map integration, contact shortcuts - all designed to make finding a trusted business feel as natural as thinking of one. When the brand identity and the product experience are built from the same strategic foundation, this is what it produces: a platform that feels inevitable rather than designed. Mind Your Business is one of the projects we are most proud of - and it is only getting started.

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