Something familiar & something strange...

A creative studio specializing in digital and analogue design, aesthetic experiments, and development for mobile / web. We're a group of artists, designers and programmers with backgrounds ranging from physics to fine art to music—combining our interests, curiosities and fascinations to craft unordinary brands and experiences.

+ Apps & Websites

We work directly with Founders and CEOs to bring their product vision to life. We own or advise on Product Strategy, Design and Creative Direction initiatives and have worked with companies like: Hulu, Facebook, Infor, GE, Victoria Secret, Tourneau, Expa, Imperative and Thrive Global.

Our expertise lie in: 0 to 1 full-stack design and strategy for Emerging Tech, SaaS, Fintech, No-Code, and EdTech startups in the Consumer, B2B, B2C and B2B2C apps spaces both in house at corporate scale and pre-seed and growth startups.
Mobile & Web App Design
Wireframing +Prototyping
User Research & Testing
UI + UX Design
iOS + Android + Web
SaaS + B2B + B2C + B2B2C
Design Systems
Brand + Creative Strategy

Brand Voice
Brand Design
Logos
Content Strategy

UX Copywriting
→ End-to-end Product Design from concept to ship
→ Creating and expanding tokenized design systems
→ Agile methodologies and cross functional team collaboration
→ Crypto and Web3 native
→ UX strategy, visual and interaction Design



→ Marketing and UX copywriting
→ Rapid prototyping
→ Leading, growing and mentoring teams
→ Acting as Product Owner; product strategy, management and feature prioritization
→ Remote and guerrilla user research and testing
→ Leveraging data and analytics to drive design & product decisions

Some folks we've worked with

The things they've said

Michael Brown, Head of Product
@ Hoken

I had the pleasure of working closely with Jana at Hoken, where she served as the Head of Design. Jana was instrumental in bridging the web3 and web2 gap, creatively redefining the hotel room buy and sell experience for Hoken, and taking our web app from 0 to 1 in only a few short months. Her exceptional skills in design, leadership, and stakeholder management were evident as she transformed wireframes into a polished UI/UX and established a comprehensive design system using Figma.

Jana is the type of colleague who can light up a room (or Zoom!) and is always a pleasure to work with and brainstorm ideas. I could fully trust her to take a product concept and translate it into a delightful user experience. Her ability to lead and inspire a team of creatives, along with her strategic vision and hands-on approach, made her an invaluable partner in defining and delivering our product at Hoken.

I highly recommend Jana for any role that demands next-level design creativity, strategic thinking, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. I hope our professional paths cross again in the future.

Michael Farley, VP of Product Design
@ Thrive Global

I worked with Jana for several months on a turnaround project where she helped refine a product vision, create our approach to experience design, and created the initial interface. She was able to successfully integrate with our design and engineering team on short notice, and kept up the positive pressure to keep our execution quality high. On top of being great at design, It was lovely working with Jana, who communicates effortlessly, even in the midst of thrash. Hopefully we get a chance to do it again one day!

Dylan Reid, Founder & CEO
@ Matter.io

There are a lot of fantastic designers, and lot of good product architects but Jana is the rare combination of the two. We hired Jana as a freelance UI designer based on her excellent portfolio and she quickly became the driving force behind our first commercial product.

From designing the placement of every pixel, to imagining complex flows, to managing a team of contract developers, Jana did it all and with exceptional focus and zeel. I've never worked with another designer of her depth and breadth, you'd be lucky to have her on your team :)

+ Film & Musical Creative Direction
We work with bands and film makers to develop their visual and sonic expression, crafting album covers / film posters but also marrying them with sound design, soundscaping, scoring and music production to craft a holistic epicly immersive aesthetic and sonic world.

Album Art + Film Art + Scores + Top Lines + Production
+ Brand & Aesthetic Alchemy
We approach your branding needs from a place of play. 
Everything begins with the analogue, be it a geometric logo drawn out with hand and tool, or a groovy texture crafted inside of a petri dish, our approach guarantees a fully unique visual aesthetic customized to your needs and applications.​​​​​​​
Brand strategy + Creative Direction + Identity
Aesthetics

Art Driven Aesthetics
Print Assets
Album & Film Covers
Photography


Music Composition & Production
Soundscaping
Scoring
Production
Instrumentation
Top Lines
Engineering

Press & Bits
"Often Minimal" featured
Quietlunch
January, 2015

Archidesart
October, 2014

Aim High For Life
December, 2013

You can also find our projects here:
Often Minimal

Often Criminal


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