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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

One company, four very different uses

Katana destroys confidential paper and data media under certification. The business connects a public storefront, an operations platform, a fleet of trucks and the crews in the field. Very different uses, which all the same had to work as one system.

  • 01A public storefront and internal tools under one brand
  • 02In certified destruction, every step has to stay traceable
  • 03The field and the office need the same data, in real time
The Katana Digital site: on-site destruction of digital media and data
The approach

From the brand to the tools

Design and engineering were carried together, from the identity through to the working tools. Each product was shaped around its real use: a customer posting a hard drive, a planner filling the weeks ahead, a driver working through a run. One brand, one platform, interfaces fitted to each context.

  • Storefront

    Mail-in destruction, ordered and paid for online.

  • Operations

    Customers, contracts, tours, billing and KPI in one place.

  • Field

    Tours and delivery slips, available in real time.

  • Apps

    A mobile app fitted to each line.

The work
01

Certified destruction by post

KATANA AT HOME opens a certified industrial service to individuals and small businesses: choose what needs destroying, prepare the parcel, send it by Swiss Post, DPD or DHL, then receive the destruction certificate. The whole path runs in four languages, from payment through to certification.

KATANA AT HOME: secure destruction of IT media, ordered and paid for online
02

MY KATANA: the whole operation in one place

Planning, tours, contracts, customers, billing, fleet and KPI in a single platform. Several hundred jobs can be organised and tracked there, from the first request through to the destruction certificate.

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

The office in the cab

The same data, shaped for the field: delivery slips per truck, the run in order, and statuses updated straight from the cab. Everything stays in sync with the office in real time.

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

Two trades, one brand

Paper and data media answer different needs, so each has its own colour, its own site and its own app while sharing one identity and one structure.

The Katana Digital services page on a laptop: IT asset disposal and professional shredder sales

For Katana Digital, the most technical services are explained visually, in short isometric loops rather than long paragraphs.

Trees growing on an isometric platform, for the myclimate partnership

Eco-responsibility

The footprint of collection and destruction offset through a partnership with myclimate.

A shredder set to security level 3, isometric

Security levels

Shredding graded to the level the data calls for, not a single setting for everything.

A laptop ringed by file types being cleared, isometric

Data wiping

Data cleared without taking the hardware out of service.

05

An app for each line

Paper and data answer different uses. KATANA covers paper document destruction, KATANA DIGITAL covers media and drives. Two separate native apps, built in Swift and connected to the same platform the office and the field teams already run on.

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

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