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Practice 04

Strategy

Sharpening the story before we design a single thing.

Team collaborating in a strategy workshop
Overview

How we approach
strategy.

Positioning workshops, audience research and narrative frameworks that give the design something worth saying.

Engagements typically run twelve weeks end to end, with weekly reviews and a single point of contact. We favour depth over breadth — one team, one focus, until the work is genuinely done.

Deliverables
  1. 01Discovery & interviews
  2. 02Positioning workshop
  3. 03Narrative framework
Team collaborating in a strategy workshop
The process

Twelve weeks,
four movements.

  1. IWeek 1

    Read the room

    Discovery is a conversation, not a form. We read, listen, and ask what never made the brief.

    Interviews · Audience map

  2. IIWeek 2 – 3

    Sharpen the story

    Before a line is drawn, we agree on positioning and voice — a one-page narrative that holds.

    Positioning · Narrative

  3. IIIWeek 4 – 8

    Design in public

    Daily Figma access, weekly reviews, no big-reveal theatre. Best decisions come from the middle.

    Visual system · Motion

  4. IVWeek 9 – 12

    Land it well

    Handover isn't hand-off. We stay past launch to measure, adjust, and document what changed.

    Build · Guidelines

Clients actually say.

A short selection from the past two years — verbatim, unedited.

Brand Identity · PackagingSince 2022

Oaler built us an identity that has aged rather than dated — three years in, we haven't wanted to change a single line of it.

Sofia Ferrer

Founder · Atelier Noire

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