Digital project management

Digital Project Management

Website, app and rebrand projects rarely fail on design or code. They stall because the brief keeps moving, feedback arrives from six people at once, suppliers wait on each other and launch day creeps further away with nobody clearly in charge.

We run that side of the work. The Design Space has spent more than 10 years delivering digital projects for over 100 clients, including large multi-stakeholder builds, and we manage scoping, timelines, suppliers and launch for organisations across Australia, whether we’re doing the design ourselves or not.

01.

Scoping and Briefs

A written brief everyone has agreed to is the best protection a project has. We turn goals, audiences and must-have features into a scope with clear priorities, so every later decision can be checked against something other than whoever spoke last.

02.

Many Stakeholders

Northern Rivers NSW brings together business leaders, councils and local government, and its large website had to appeal to very different audiences. Managing input from groups like that, without the project losing direction, is a skill in itself.

03.

Coordinating Suppliers and Talent

For Discover Ballina‘s large lifestyle photography project, our role included sourcing and coordinating talent, art direction, production and retouching. We line up copywriters, developers, photographers and platform vendors so each lands their part on time.

04.

Timelines and Sign-off

A realistic timeline with named decision points beats an optimistic one nobody believes. We schedule reviews, chase feedback and keep a single record of what has been approved, which matters most when committees or boards sign off.

05.

Launch and Handover

Launch is a checklist, not a button. Redirects, tracking, testing, training and a clear owner for every system after go-live. IIAP Global‘s site was planned for an international audience and as a platform for future expansion.

06.

How We Quote

Project management is quoted on scope after a discovery call, either as part of a project we deliver or as a standalone role coordinating your other suppliers. The proposal sets out responsibilities, reporting and milestones in plain terms.

Projects with a lot of moving parts

2020

Northern Rivers NSW

Website

2019

Discover Ballina

Ballina Photography

2025

iiap Global

Northern Rivers Website Design

July 2022

Lucy’s Project

Lismore Web Design

Project management questions

Yes. Some clients bring us in purely to coordinate, keeping developers, designers, copywriters and platform vendors working from the same brief and timeline. Because we design and build digital work ourselves, we know what each supplier needs and when a quote or estimate doesn’t add up.

We agree early on who gives input, who decides and in what order. Feedback is gathered in rounds rather than as a running stream, and approved decisions are recorded so they aren’t reopened every meeting. Projects like Northern Rivers NSW, with councils and business leaders involved, depend on that discipline.

It’s quoted on scope after a discovery call. It depends on how many suppliers and stakeholders are involved, how long the project runs and whether management sits inside a project we deliver or stands alone. You get a proposal that sets out exactly what we’re responsible for.

Mostly through scope creep, slow decisions and late content. Features get added mid-build, feedback waits on someone overseas, and copy or photos arrive the week before launch. A firm brief, scheduled decisions and early content planning prevent most of it.

Yes. Rebrands touch everything from the logo and website to templates, signage and photography, and the order matters. Our in-house designers and photographers cover much of that work directly, including graphic and print design, and we coordinate any outside suppliers so the new brand lands everywhere consistently.

Yes. Our team has mentored founders and startups across Algorand accelerator programmes, and we bring the same structure to early products that we bring to councils and institutions. Startups usually need tighter scoping and faster decisions, and we help them say no to features that can wait.

Yes, and most of ours run that way. We’re based in Ballina NSW and manage projects for clients across Australia through video calls, shared documents and regular written updates, so everyone sees the same status whatever city they’re in.

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Get your project back on track

Tell us what you’re delivering, who’s involved and where it’s stuck or about to start. We’ll book a discovery call and propose how we’d run it.