About the studio

A learning, web and accessibility studio in Stockport.

Outside of the Fox designs e-learning, websites, accessibility audits and digital products, built for how people actually think. Twenty-six years of doing the work, now under one name.

We started as Common People and grew into something that needed a sharper name. The work never changed. We take the confusing, the half-built and the not-yet-existing, and turn it into learning and digital products people can actually use.

For years we have watched tools, courses and websites get built for some imagined average person who does not exist. So we design for the people that average leaves out, which, it turns out, is most of us. That means plain language, accessible by default, and choices that account for how people really read, focus and decide.

That care shows up in the rest of it too. AI used where it genuinely helps and kept well away from where it does not. Nothing shipped that we would not be happy to use ourselves.

We work with organisations of every size, from banks and universities to small teams who just need one thing done properly. Based in Stockport, a red-brick town under one of the great railway viaducts, with more charm than it lets on, and working with clients everywhere.

26 yrs
instructional design across sectors.
35+
tools live in Victory alone.
100%
of our work reviewed, never raw.
What we stand by

Four things we will not budge on.

Clarity first

If it cannot be understood, it is not finished. We make complicated things clear, then we stop.

Inclusive by default

Built for how people actually think, including people with disabilities and the many ways people read, focus and think, from the first line, not the last.

Built to last

Future-proof, not throwaway. Work that still stands up when the trends have moved on.

Honest

No hype, no dark patterns, no tracking. We tell you what AI built and what a person checked.

Got something complicated? Let’s make it clear.

Whether it is a website, a training project, an accessibility audit, or a decision you need help making sense of.

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