Capabilities
Briefs arrive as a single request: a website, an app, a chatbot. The products behind them need three things at once. They have to feel right, work properly and fit the business that pays for them. D&C Studios is a design and engineering studio in Mumbai that keeps all three in one senior team, across nine capabilities, from the first workshop to the years after launch.
Three pillars
The D stands for Design and the C for Code. The ampersand in the middle is the part most studios leave out: the integrations, hosting and growth work that decide whether a launch becomes a lasting product. Every capability sits under one of the three, and most projects draw on all of them.
Strategy, research, UX and UI that make complicated things feel obvious, plus augmented and virtual reality when seeing something in three dimensions genuinely helps a person learn, buy or decide. Our designers stay through the build and judge their work on the working product, not the prototype.
ERP, CRM and point of sale integration so your systems agree with each other, cloud hosting from people who started in hosting, and growth marketing that brings customers to what we built. It is the least glamorous pillar and, for most clients, the reason they stay.
Websites, web applications, mobile apps, online stores and AI assistants, engineered to load fast on a mid range phone, pass an accessibility audit and still be easy to change in year three. More than 45 of the apps we built are in production today.
How they combine
Clients seldom arrive asking for a capability. They arrive with a problem, and the answer usually crosses two or three of them. These are the combinations we put together most often.
For founders with funding and a deadline. A Discovery Sprint turns the idea into a tested prototype and a costed scope, then one team designs, builds and hosts the web platform and the app together. Made By Bharat went from first workshop to 100+ vendors in seven months this way.
Product and UX DesignWeb EngineeringMobile AppsCloud and Hosting
For D2C brands and retailers. Store, stock, customer service and growth are planned as one system rather than four vendors. A Dubai skincare brand converts 38% better since its store, app and AI concierge started working as one, and a Pune retail chain now runs 14 stores on one inventory.
For institutions whose core systems work but whose members struggle with them. We keep the trusted core where it is and build the portal, the integration layer and the cloud setup around it. The NABARD Society gave 3,000+ members 24x7 access without replacing the system its staff rely on.
IntegrationsWeb EngineeringCloud and HostingProduct and UX Design
For training teams and education companies. A learning platform people can find their way around without help, with AR and VR modules wherever practice on a real machine is expensive or risky. Mahindra MILU made practical onboarding 30% faster in its pilot.
The Ampersand Method
Whatever mix of capabilities your project needs, it runs through the same six phases, from Listen & Learn to Care & Grow, with designers and engineers sharing every one. On Fridays a designer and an engineer demo the week's work together, and the one who is less comfortable in front of a client speaks first.
See how the Ampersand Method worksFAQ
The core of every project is our own team in Mumbai: 35+ designers, engineers and specialists, with a partner involved in every account. For narrow specialisms, such as a 3D artist for a product configurator, we bring in specialists we have worked with before, under our contract and our quality checks. You always know exactly who is on your team.
Yes. Plenty of clients start with one piece: a UX audit, a Shopify store, a cloud migration or a care plan for a site someone else built. If we think the real problem sits somewhere else, we will say so. We will never stretch a small brief into a large one to keep a team busy.
With a conversation, then usually a Discovery Sprint. In three weeks it covers research, a costed plan and a tested prototype, and it starts from ₹3.5 lakh, US$4,000 or AED 15,000. You keep everything it produces, even if you build with someone else. Tell us the rough version and we will suggest a first step.
Yes, and we build them to survive success. A first release usually ships 12 to 20 weeks after a three week Discovery Sprint, and Product Builds start from ₹12 lakh, US$15,000 or AED 55,000. We keep version one small and the architecture honest, so version two is an extension rather than a rewrite.
We choose the stack for the problem and for whoever will own the product later. Most web work runs on Astro, Next.js, WordPress or Laravel, apps on Flutter, React Native, Swift or Kotlin, stores on Shopify or WooCommerce, and infrastructure on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure. Each capability page lists its full stack.
Often. We join as the design team for an in-house engineering group, as the engineers behind a creative agency, or as a whole squad through an Embedded Team, from ₹6 lakh, US$7,500 or AED 27,500 a month. Agencies in the UK, US, Australia and the Gulf also work with us white label. See how we partner.
Tell us what you are trying to change, not which capability you think you need. A partner reads every brief and replies within one working day.