Australia Good Design Award
Category winner in the 2024 Australia Good Design Awards for the drtalk dental communication and collaboration platform.
Digital and Interface category→ good-design.orgA first-to-market communication, collaboration and education platform for dental and medical communities in the United States. Designed, built and supported end to end by a ring-fenced Donnish team since the original app was conceived.

drtalk is a first-to-market communication, collaboration and education platform serving dental and medical communities in the USA. Its primary purpose is to build communities through secure digital channels, both at the organisation (practice) level and the individual practitioner level. With the ability to connect validated professionals, drtalk removes boundaries and redundant processes, and brings a digital-native experience to the desktop of the practice through its rich web interface, and into the hands of the practitioner through its native mobile apps.
This benefits all stakeholders in the ecosystem: frictionless, ubiquitous and instant communication, secure validated connection, simplified and intelligent referral management, and the ability to consume high-value education on the go and earn Continuous Education credits.
Now a mature scale-up offering, drtalk runs in Azure on a modern backend-for-front-end modular architecture using microservices and event-driven design, prepared for scale and performance as the platform continues to grow its thousands of high-value users.
Our team has been involved with drtalk since the inception of the original communication app, more than six years ago. We provide design, project management, business analysis, development and quality assurance through a dedicated ring-fenced team. We also sit alongside the founders in product strategy, ideation, co-creation, roadmap and delivery.
drtalk was founded by two highly regarded dental specialists who provide market and user insight, serve as the final authority on roadmap and priority decisions, and own the budget. Everything else, from platform setup, administration and maintenance, to detailed UX and UI design, development team management and resourcing, deployment, release and support, is managed by the ring-fenced Donnish team.
We deliver using a dual-track agile model: just enough of the product is designed and approved by the customer to unlock the development team. This gives the client huge flexibility and keeps them in control of what the team is doing. Open Jira boards and backlogs make the work visible and queryable at any time.
There is no area of the product we have not helped design, build, and support.
A dual-track agile delivery team built for ownership and accountability. Independent thinkers with T-shaped skills. No-one wears only one hat.
Hosted entirely in Azure. Modern backend-for-front-end with microservices and event-driven design. Touch points across web, mobile and admin.
Category winner in the 2024 Australia Good Design Awards for the drtalk dental communication and collaboration platform.
Digital and Interface category→ good-design.orgSuccessfully migrated the entire Xamarin mobile app and WPF desktop application to React Native and ReactJS, creating a reusable component layer that saved more than 30% of duplicate feature development going forward.
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