We design digital products. Then we ship them.

What we do

We work with founders getting a first product out, small teams that need a senior designer for a stretch, and larger teams that want an outside read before a redesign.

1. Strategy

   Where the product should go and what to build first. We write the point of view down, rank the list, and show our reasons.

2. UX design

   How it works: the flows, the structure, the words on each screen. Prototypes you can test with real people, and specs a team can build from.

3. UI design

   How it looks and feels: type, color, layout, motion. Screens, a component set, and the rules that keep them consistent as the product grows.

4. Branding

   What it's called and how it shows up. The name, the mark, the voice, and the small pieces that go with them, from the favicon to the launch post.

Work

Eight things we designed, built and run. All of them are live. Synergy keeps the full list.

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  Product · strategy and UX

  Site Checkups

  A homepage review for founders whose site gets visitors but not customers. The hard part was the report: a critique people read to the end and act on, not a page of scores. The free diagnosis is a real report on a real site. The Growth Plan is the fixes, in order, with the hero rewritten.

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  Tool · UI

  Mesh Gradient Studio

  An animated mesh-gradient maker for designers and developers. Design it, animate it, export it as PNG, CSS or GLSL, all in the browser with no sign-up. Free to use, with a Pro plan.

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  Printables · branding and UI

  Artisan PDF Studio

  Printable templates: planners, invoices, certificates, calendars, invitations, classroom sheets. You type your name, pick a color, and print at home, Letter or A4 from one file. One design becomes several themes and two paper sizes, and the customizer will not sell you a page that does not fit. Every template is printed on paper before it ships. The plain version of each one is free.

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  Play · UI craft

  One Page Toys

  Small browser toys, tools and experiments, each one a single page. Well over a hundred so far. It is where we try things out, and the ones that catch on grow into sites of their own.

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  Developer tools · UI

  Build Utilities

  Small, fast tools for people building software: a JSON formatter, a regex tester, a contrast checker, and many more. No sign-up, nothing to install. Each tool has its own page, docs and an embed, and there is a public API and an MCP server for the ones you want somewhere else.

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  Games · seven brands

  The daily games

  Seven small games, one puzzle a day, the same for everyone, done in a few minutes at most, with a share card that gives nothing away. Tiny Across, Word Kraven, The Trail Game, Spelling Blocks, Eyeball It, Brick Smasher and 5 Second Game. Each has its own name and look, and they all point at each other.

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  Writing · editorial design

  Design Is Not UI

  A one-page position on product design: design is the decisions, not the screens, and a prompt is not a strategy. Long reading built for a phone, with a companion piece, It's OK to Be Human, on keeping people in the loop.

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  Service · UX

  DocPrepTalk

  A free tool for patients who walk out of the doctor's office having forgotten the thing they came to say. You pick the kind of visit, talk through what has been going on at your own pace, and get a short summary in your own words to hand over. Calm, not clinical, and nothing is sold.