Past and Present
We formed in 1999 during the last bountiful days of the tech and dot-com
industry bubble in the San Francsico Bay Area. We survived through the burst
of that bubble by realizing that a small, streamlined shop with a network
of alliance partners and a few top notch designers and developers could
effectively design and deploy robust technology solutions throughout the industry
at a fraction of the cost and time that it took to do the same thing using
in-house personnel. Technology development is not always a company's full time
business, and attempting to staff up internally for a development effort can
be costly at the minimum, disruptive to the company's core business and
competency at the mid level, and potentially the ultimate cause of business failure in
the extreme. The downside of this technology explosion for businesses is the vast
amount of resource investment it requires to take advantage of internally, leaving
less time and money for doing what they do best. We turn that downside into an
upside by providing our clients with expert service tailored precisely to their
needs.
Our Value Proposition
At Downside Up Design, we pride ourselves on knowing
what our core competencies are, and when we need to collaborate with some of our
partners. We acknowledge that our clients have stringent business needs and often
even more stringent budgets, and we consistently offer the best solutions at
extremely competitive rates. We rely on our ability to work well with our own
team and our partners' teams so that we can quickly and efficiently create elegant
and robust products that our clients love, and that their customers can't do
without! We provide value by letting our customers relax and spend their time and
resources concentrating on their core business, while we do ours—enabling
our clients to do more, and to let the web work for them!