D Studio

Human Design for

startups and scale-ups

Human Design for startups and scale-ups

We make sure your product stands out in a market

full of AI-generated work, without slowing you down.

We make sure your product stands out in a market full of AI-generated work, without slowing you down.

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Trusted by teams we’ve helped build from the ground up

What we do

Every design function

you need to build your vision

Every design function

you need to build your vision

User Research

We prepare research materials, analyze results, and turn findings into design decisions.

UX Design

We map competitor landscapes and turn ideas into directions that spark conversations.

UI Design

We deliver high-fidelity UI that meets WCAG accessibility standards

Design System

We build and maintain scalable design systems that keep your product consistent.

Prototype

We build prototypes that help you test, align, and validate before you commit to building.

AI agent manager

We oversee your AI design agents, ensuring they never ship hallucinated work.

UI Design

We deliver high-fidelity UI that meets WCAG accessibility standards

Prototype

We build prototypes that help you test, align, and validate before you commit to building.

AI agent manager

We oversee your AI design agents, ensuring they never ship hallucinated work.

Why work with us

Skip the hiring bottleneck

In-house hiring

Months to hire + onboard

We can fix that

No team yet?

We build design system + workflows

We help ship your first product fast

Hire in-house or keep us

Have a team?

We plug in fast, no long onboarding

We work alongside your team

Bring us back when needed

How we work

We plug in and start working right away

We plug in and start
working right away

Kickoff

We dig into your product, users, and goals so we can start with the right context.

Weekly check-in

We review progress, stay aligned, and flag anything that needs a decision.

Wireframes

We map out flow options based on your brief, research, and user insights.

Design system

We build and maintain a scalable system that keeps your product consistent as it grows.

High-fidelity

We deliver polished, dev-ready designs with consistent components and clear flows.

Dev handoff

We deliver annotated, dev-ready files so your engineers can build without chasing answers.

You’re an AI-first team?

We bring human judgment & domain expertise

We bring

human judgment

& domain expertise

We bring human judgment

& domain expertise

AI follows prompts. We define the problem, challenge the brief, and make sure

every design decision serves your business and your users.

AI follows prompts. We define

the problem, challenge the brief,

and make sure every design decision serves your business and your users.

AI follows prompts. We define the problem, challenge the brief, and make sure every design decision serves your business and your users.

Our workflow

We own the process. AI powers it.

We own the process.

AI powers it.

AI is embedded in the workflow, but every decision and deliverable goes through

human judgment. Our process adapts to any tools, including ones you already use.

AI is embedded in the workflow, but every decision and deliverable goes through human judgment. Our process adapts to any tools, including ones you already use.

Meet the team

Product designer

Amy Nguyen

Vancouver, BC

Product designer

Julie Lee

Vancouver, BC

6+ years

collaborating with teams around the globe.

20+ products

taken from zero to launch and continued growth.

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We’ll get in touch and share our work.