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NOVA · Making a SaaS brand
recognised on the shelf

From naming strategy to a complete visual system, we helped a collaboration-tool team become clearly recognisable in a crowded category. Sign-up conversion on the new site rose 42%.

ClientNOVA
IndustryB2B SaaS
ServicesFull brand programme
Timeline6 weeks
NOVA full brand programme key visual
Background

A solid product nobody remembered

NOVA is a collaboration tool for small and mid-sized teams. Its features were competitive, but everything it said looked scattered — the website, the sales deck and the trade-show materials could have come from three different companies.

When buyers compared options, they could recall a competitor's colour and tagline but couldn't say how NOVA differed.

When they came to us they had one request: make us look like a brand worth comparing seriously.

What we had to solve
  • Fragmented visual assets: three logo variants and five primary colours in circulation — even internally nobody could say which was canonical.
  • No focus: the hero carried twelve selling points and readers didn't know where to start.
  • Nothing reusable: no documentation, so every new designer produced something different.
Our approach

Consolidate first, then scale

We didn't start by drawing a logo. We started by answering what NOVA actually solves, then translated that answer into a reusable visual language.

01

Positioning

We interviewed eight customers and three salespeople, distilled one value proposition customers could repeat, and retired the twelve selling points it replaced.

02

Symbol system

Starting from the product's core action — connecting — we designed an extensible graphic motif that works for icons, motion and trade-show material.

03

Colour and type

Five primary colours reduced to one primary plus two support colours, with a six-step type scale that holds up on screen and in print.

04

Brand book

Delivered a 42-page guideline plus a Figma component library, so a new designer produces on-standard work from day one.

3 → 1Logo variants consolidated
+42%Site sign-up conversion
6 weeksKick-off to handover
“We could never explain what set us apart. Now the first slide of the deck does it for us.”— Marketing Lead, NOVA

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