Studio for Human Experience Design
An obsession for the feeling.
How it feels the first time.
How it feels the thousandth.
The Studio
Most of a life is spent inside ordinary hours.
We study those hours — the app you open before you are properly awake, the room you eat in, the way a week is shaped, what you put on your body, what you put in it — and we design them to be worth living inside.
How the studio works →Five Practices
Five panes of one window.
01
Kindred
Apps that become an extension of the person, and carry them toward the people they belong with.
02
Dwelling
Tiny houses, interiors, household objects, and the village and land that hold them.
03
Rhythm
Rituals that hold the essentials structurally, so the day stays free for creative living.
04
Adornment
Clothing that supports and elevates each singular body, in material worth celebrating.
05
Nourishment
A food library tuned to a person's taste and body — nourishment from the physical to the soul.
How we work
Slowly, and from the inside.
One
Live with the question
Before anything is drawn, we spend time inside the experience itself — cooking the meals, keeping the rituals, wearing the clothes. Research that stays at a distance produces design that stays at a distance.
Two
Make it real early
A rough thing you can actually use teaches more in a week than a beautiful drawing teaches in a month. We prototype in the material, at full size, as soon as we can.
Three
Refine until it disappears
The finished version of a good design is not noticed. It fits so closely to the person that it stops being an object and becomes part of how they move through a day.
Write to the studio
If any of this is the work you are trying to do, write.
Most of the work here began as the studio's own, and is published as it matures. Some of it is for other people.
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