Spicy Web Designer Interview with Abhishek Mishra of MadeToKill

Abhishek Mishra is one of the guys behind MADETOKILL a two man web studio based in Bangalore, India. Together he an Shaabi have began to build a web design firm that is focused on creating some excellent websites and web applications for their clients. Even though MadeToKill has only been in business for the past 7 months now but they’ve been designing websites and web applications for the past 7 and 8 years respectively. Together, Abhishek and Shaabi are building MadeToKill on a daily basis through attention to quality and flexibility for their clients.

1. When did you first start designing websites? When did Shaabi been designing websites?

I’ve always loved doing art be it with crayons or with a light pen and have been passionate about computers & programming ever since I saw a computer . This goes back to the year 2000 when I started programming. And soon, I started dabbling with some Photoshop. This opened yet another unexplored space to explore – the web. Shaabi and I started working on CodeFire – a secure web app to host programming contests in universities. That taught us a lot about HTML, CSS, and PHP. Things keep getting better and better ever since as we keep working on new projects each day.

Shaabi started designing websites way back in 2001. He’s been more into the functionality side of web design since the beginning. He loves coming up with amazing ideas on how to model and organize the database and creates custom frameworks from scratch for any project that we do.

We are software engineering students, and we love doing web design work in our free time.

2. How long has MadeToKill been in business since?

MadeToKill has been in business since 7 months now. Earlier we used to handle all the work through emails and recently we came up with our website www.madetokill.com to showcase our portfolio. We are working on integrating a blog to our website to share what we have to say to the community and the enthusiasts.

3. Outside of you and Shaabi does anyone else work for MadeToKill currently either on a fulltime, part-time or contract basis?

Nope, we just a team of two.

4. Where idea you get the idea for the name of your business?

When we set out to start the business we were completely out of ideas as to what we’re going to call it! The other day I was browsing through my collection of vector art, where the dead bird’s image grabbed my attention. And, we said okay, let’s call ourselves MadeToKill, which stands to send out the message that our work is killer, and hence our websites are ‘made to kill’.

5. Where is your company based? (City, Province/State and Country)

We are based in Bangalore, India.

6. How do you usually get the projects that your web design company works on? Agencies? Advertising? Word of Mouth? Or something else?

We depend on Advertising and Word of Mouth for getting projects. Besides that we’re working on creating presence through our upcoming blog too.

7. How do you involve clients in the web design and project process?

We communicate to our clients through emails and Skype. We ask them to fill a questionnaire to assess the scope and needs of the project. Then, we prepare a mock design, if our client agrees on the design; we start off with the work. We keep communicating with our client as the project goes on.

8. What are some important things that you would like to tell potential clients about your company and the work that you do?

We assure great quality and flexibility with our client’s needs. Since, we’re students, we do take a little more time over projects we do. But, we assure you that you website will be backed with the latest and the best in the world of web design and web app development. You would also be pleased to know that we are always ready to fix any bugs and add new features in the project you got done from us.