Design, held to spec.
MANTIS.STUDIO is a design and development practice run by Ruan Visagie: web design, product design, and UI/UX, built with the discipline of an ISO-audited fabrication floor.
The Approach
Services
Full breakdown →Web Design
Visual direction and interface design for marketing and product sites.
Web Development
Building the sites and interfaces designed, from prototype to production.
Product Design
End-to-end design for digital products, from flows to component systems.
UI/UX Design
Research-backed interface design focused on clarity and usability.
3D Renders
Dimensional visuals for products, brands, and interface storytelling.
Customized
Mix and match — pick only the services your project actually needs.
There's no fixed package here. Every engagement is scoped around what the project needs — one service or all five, run in whatever order gets it shipped.
Also available, drawing on 10+ years of QA/QC management across the mining, energy, and fabrication sectors: Project Management, QA/QC Services, and Client Audits (ISO 9001 & ISO 3834).
How We Work
A four-step process built on the same instinct as a fabrication floor: nothing moves to the next stage until it holds up under inspection.
Align
Every project starts with an audit, not an opinion — goals, constraints, and who the work actually has to convince, established before a single pixel moves.
Design
Structure first, then surface: flows and hierarchy get settled before visual polish, so the direction holds up once real content and edge cases arrive.
Build
Shipped in working slices, not one long reveal — each pass gets checked against the brief the same way a weld gets checked against spec.
Support
Live doesn't mean done. QA, fixes, and small iterations continue after launch for as long as the project needs someone watching it.