About us
A company built like the products we ship.
Who we are
Human-led. AI-native. Engineered to last.
We’re Designco, a design and engineering company built for a time when software is easy to make and hard to trust.
Designers, engineers and machine-learning specialists work at the same table on platforms, products, websites, brands and AI for organisations across Europe and the Middle East. The people who scope your project stay on it through launch, and after.
Designco in numbers
- Founded in Athens
- 2020
- Brands & platforms shipped
- 40+
- Client organisations
- 30+
- AI products built in-house
- 2
Why Designco
Speed is easy to buy now. What we offer is harder to find: senior people who stay, work you can see as it happens and foundations your next team can build on.
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Senior people. Direct access.
You work directly with the strategists, designers and engineers doing the work. Nobody sells you a project and disappears: the people in the first meeting are still there at launch, and after it.
We keep our client list deliberately short, so the senior people you meet have time for your problem.
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Work in the open.
You see the work early and often: rough directions, working prototypes, the build as it takes shape. Decisions are made with you, and the reasoning is written down.
Your feedback goes straight to the designer or engineer making the change. Nothing gets diluted on the way.
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Built to be built on.
Brands, design systems and codebases are delivered as foundations: documented, reusable and ready for the next team to extend, including yours.
After launch we stay close, measuring what works, fixing what doesn’t and adding capability when the business asks for it.
How we work
Four stages. No handovers.
Design, engineering and AI aren’t separate departments passing files down a line. The same people carry a project through every stage, which is why the finished system still matches the idea it started from.
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Discovery
We start with the business behind the brief: how it operates, who it serves and what has to be true for the project to succeed. Then we write down the real problem and agree on it with you.
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Design
Brand, product and interface are designed together, as one system of rules. The risky parts get prototyped and tested before anyone writes production code.
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Build
Designers stay on the project while engineers build it, so the design survives contact with the code. We build for speed, security and maintainability, with code audits and access control from the first release.
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Ship and evolve
Launch is the start of the next phase. We monitor, measure and keep improving, adding features and intelligence as the product and the business grow.
The studio
Where the work happens.
Everything we make is designed and built in our studio on Syngrou Avenue. Nothing is offshored, so the people you meet are the people doing the work, for clients in Greece, Saudi Arabia and beyond.
Leadership
Accountable, by name.
Designco is led by people who still do the work. All three stay close to every project, and you can reach any of them directly.
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CEO
Albert Papadosifakis
Sets the company’s direction and decides which projects it takes on. Albert starts every engagement with a clear reason for the work and stays with it until delivery.
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Design Director
Constantina Vavilousaki
Leads design across every brand, product and interface we make. Constantina sets the visual standard and holds each project to it, down to the last state of the last screen.
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Operations Director
Constantinos Kavouras
Runs delivery. Constantinos turns scope into plans, timelines and budgets that hold, and makes sure clients hear early when something needs a decision.
Since 2020