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Katana SA

Secure document & data destruction, Geneva

Four projects spanning brand-to-product design and full-stack engineering, from customer-facing web to enterprise compliance and field operations.

Product designBrand systemsFull-stack
Client
Katana SA, Geneva
Sector
Certified paper & data destruction
Scope
Brand, product design & full-stack build
Built with
Photoshop, Figma, PHP, MySQL, Swift
The brief

Four products with almost nothing in common

Katana destroys confidential paper and data media under certification. That business runs on a public storefront, an operations platform, a fleet of trucks and the crews driving them, and all four had to read as the same company while serving completely different people.

  • 01A consumer storefront and an enterprise platform, under one brand
  • 02Certified destruction means the paper trail is part of the product
  • 03Crews on the road needed the same live data as the office
KATANA AT HOME: secure destruction of IT media, ordered and paid for online
The approach

Brand to product, drawn and built

Owning both the design and the engineering meant nothing was specified that could not ship. The brand carried past marketing into the tools themselves, and each product was shaped around how its users actually work: a customer sending a hard drive by post, a planner filling next month, a driver working through a run.

  • Storefront

    Mail-in destruction, ordered and paid for online.

  • Operations

    Planning, contracts, billing and KPI in one platform.

  • Field

    Delivery slips and tours, live on a tablet.

  • Apps

    Both destruction lines carried onto the phone.

The work
01

Destruction by post, for anyone

KATANA AT HOME turns a certified industrial service into something a person can buy: choose what needs destroying, prepare the parcel, send it by Swiss Post, DPD or DHL, and get it destroyed, certified and recycled. Four languages, secure payment, and a destruction certificate at the end.

02

MY KATANA: running the operation

Planning, tour management, contracts, customers, billing, fleet and KPI in a single platform. It is where a month of work gets built, hundreds of planned events at a time, and where every request is tracked from order to certificate.

The MY KATANA dashboard: planning management, recent requests and daily planning
03

The day's work, on a tablet

The same platform, shaped for the cab rather than the desk: delivery slips per truck, the run in order, and status you can update with one hand while working.

Delivery slips per truck in MY KATANA, running on an iPad
04

Two destruction lines, one system

Paper and data media are different businesses with different buyers, so each got its own colour and its own app while sharing a single brand structure, down to the ISO certification the whole thing rests on.

The KATANA app: we love shredding, paper, harddrives and more
The KATANA DIGITAL app, carrying the ISO 9001 certification

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