A design and engineering studio

We ship the work, not the deck.

Halfstep is nine people who design and build the whole thing. One team from first sketch to production deploy, so nothing is lost in a handoff that never quite happens.

Selected work

Four Projects, Shipped

Brand, product, and the engineering underneath, all done by the same nine people. Every project here shipped and is still running, not a concept board.

Meridian Bank: Design system and web platform
Meridian BankDesign system and web platform
Kestrel Health: Patient portal
Kestrel HealthPatient portal
Loomcraft: Brand and storefront
LoomcraftBrand and storefront
Ardent Studio: Product design and build
Ardent StudioProduct design and build
What we do

Six Disciplines, One Invoice

  • 01Discovery & Strategy
  • 02Product Design
  • 03Design Systems
  • 04Frontend Engineering
  • 05Brand & Identity
  • 06Motion & Interaction
The Halfstep studio during a working session
Our Workspace
A quiet corner of the Halfstep office
The Quiet Corner
How we build

Four Weeks To Something Real

No discovery phase that never ends. Four weeks from the first call to something running in your own environment.

  1. 01

    One Call, One Page

    Ninety minutes together, then a one-page brief you can say no to.

  2. 02

    Week One, A Prototype

    Clickable, on your data, in your browser. Not a static mockup.

  3. 03

    Weeks Two And Three, Build

    Design and engineering in the same week, reviewed every Friday.

  4. 04

    Week Four, You Own It

    Deployed, documented, and handed over with the repo and the figma.

The studio

Nine People, No Account Managers

Everyone here designs or builds. Nobody manages the account, so the person you brief is the person doing the work.

Maya Chen
Maya ChenCo-Founder, Strategy

Sets the direction and keeps everyone honest about the problems worth solving.

Jonas Weber
Jonas WeberCo-Founder, Engineering

Owns the architecture that everything else stands on.

Priya Nair
Priya NairDesign Systems

Grows teams and codebases with the same care.

Diego Alvarez
Diego AlvarezProduct Design

Turns customer problems into shipped software.

Lena Fischer
Lena FischerBrand & Identity

Crafts interfaces that feel inevitable.

Omar Haddad
Omar HaddadMotion

Builds a brand people actually trust.

Sofia Rossi
Sofia RossiFrontend

Makes numbers tell stories the whole company acts on.

Noah Kim
Noah KimStudio Operations

Keeps the company running like clockwork.

Amara Okafor
Amara OkaforFrontend

Ships polished interfaces and the tooling behind them.

What clients say

What They Say After Launch

Three founders on what changed after we handed the work over.

They shipped in four weeks what our previous agency had spent five months not shipping. The difference was that the people designing it were the people building it.
Sofia RossiFounder, Halcyon
We got a working prototype on our own data in week one. That single thing killed three months of arguing about wireframes.
Noah KimHead of Product, Orbital
The handover was a repo, a Figma file, and a forty-minute call. Six months later we are still shipping on it without them.
Lena FischerEngineering Manager, Kestrel

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