I’m a designer and a developer. One person who does both is a rare find, and it means nothing gets lost in a hand-off because there isn’t one. Same person from first sketch to final build.
If something I made feels easy, like it was always supposed to work that way, that’s the point. The best design disappears. You just use the thing and it feels right.
A meditation app built with author Jim Curtis around his book. Guided sessions, breathing, binaural audio, and an AI companion that speaks in Jim’s voice.
One backend feeds four surfaces: the iOS app, an installable web app, an admin console, and a music engine that composes the soundscapes. On TestFlight now.
A daily rhythm app organized around seven practices: breathe, move, journal, focus, rest, sober, unplug. No task list at the center.
iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, widgets, and Screen Time blocking, all native SwiftUI. Ready for the App Store.
A Mac app that learns my Lightroom editing style from work I already finished, then writes corrections into new RAW files before I open them.
It only trusts a slider once it beats my own preset in testing, and it refuses to train on its own output. I use it every week at the studio.
Focus and sleep audio that listens back. Three layers of sound re-tune in real time from heart rate and HRV on the watch.
One synthesis engine runs on iPhone, Apple Watch, and Android. A blinded study protocol is built into the product itself, so the adaptive audio has to prove it works better than a sham.
A design editor in the browser. Layered canvas, multi-page carousels, a template library, and AI-assisted layout, tested down to visual regression and race conditions.
My photography studio’s entire business in one build: the site, client galleries and proofing, a visual page builder, CRM, contracts, invoicing, and a Lightroom plugin that publishes straight to the site. It replaced Squarespace, Pixieset, and Dubsado.
The pre-order campaign for Jim Curtis’s book from Simon & Schuster: the landing page, a quiz-led variant, a 17-email launch sequence, and the playbook his team runs it with.
My own studio. The site, a locked-down WordPress block system with 119 patterns and 30 typed blocks, and Connect & Compound, a platform that renders a finished business website from one row of content and sells it through Ollie, its own outreach funnel.
Studio Y. Weddings and portraits since 2009. Same eye, different medium. Iowa and wherever the work goes.
studioy.coMore doesn’t always equal more. The best work comes from knowing what to leave out. I want the person using it to never think about the design at all. They just do the thing they came to do and it feels easy. If it’s confusing, I take things away until it isn’t. If it’s clever but hard to use, the clever part goes. The goal is always the same: remove the barrier between the person and the experience. Refined constraint over feature bloat. Always.