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Case Studies

Products designed around a single, sharp idea.

Each of these started as a problem worth solving and ended as something real people can use. We designed and built every one of them, so each link below opens working software rather than a screenshot. Grouped by the world they live in.

Health

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Health products where the hard part isn’t the feature — it’s whether a cautious person trusts it enough to act, and whether the thing they set up actually reaches them.

HerbaLink’s homepage — ‘Personalized wellness, guided by certified herbalists,’ with a featured herb (Lavender) and quick paths to find a herbalist, book a consultation, or learn the plants
Health

HerbaLink

Verified herbalists, designed around trust

HealthcareTrust & SafetyAI-AssistedDesign + Build

Shipped & live at herbalink.live

NudgeMe landing — ‘Type it once. NudgeMe remembers.’ above a single natural-language reminder field
Health

NudgeMe

Natural-language reminders, designed to actually reach you

Behavior DesignAI ParsingFull-StackShipped

1 typed sentence in → 5 delivery channels out

Financial & Enterprise

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Work for people who have to defend a decision: analysts who need data they can trust, casual users who bounce off order books and spreads, and designers who need numbers a finance team won’t wave away.

DAE Search results — a sortable table of 350 found data assets with therapeutic area, platform availability, and last-updated columns; real clinical datasets made findable at a glance
Financial & Enterprise

DAE Search

Making enterprise data actually findable

EnterpriseSearch UXData DiscoveryB2B

Retrieval time down 65% in user testing

Stips landing page — ‘Trade on what happens next’: buy Yes or No on real-world events at live, crowd-set odds
Financial & Enterprise

Stips

Social prediction markets, made playable

Consumer/MarketsPrediction MarketsDesign + BuildAI-Assisted

Live in beta on play money

The Design ROI Calculator — inputs on the left (industry benchmark, project details), and on the right a Total Business Value result of $1.8M, a 41x return with six-day payback, and a transparent ‘how this is calculated’ breakdown
Financial & Enterprise

Design ROI Calculator

The business case for design, as a tool

Product DesignData ProductDesign OpsDesign + Build

Live at roicalc.site

Consumer

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Consumer apps that put strangers in the same physical place, where safety has to live in the first tap rather than buried in a settings screen.

CatchBuddy’s homepage — ‘Your next pickup game is a block away’ over a photo of two people playing, with Join free and See open games buttons
Consumer

CatchBuddy

Same-day pickup sports, safety first

ConsumerTrust & SafetyDesign + BuildShipped

For Fun

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Games, built to finish. Both are playable in a browser with zero install, and both run on the same design-and-build process as the client work.

Fire Lion title screen — a winged fire lion over a lava landscape, with Cub Mode and Fly Now
For Fun

Fire Lion

A shipped game, built solo with AI

Game DesignAI-AssistedDesign + Build

Live, with a real player leaderboard

Ring-Rival in play — first-person boxing, your red gloves framing the ring as opponent Denny Frost winds up a ‘Glass Haymaker’ special, health and stamina bars up top, a packed arena crowd behind
For Fun

Ring-Rival

Console boxing feel, zero install

Game DesignMobile WebAI OpponentsShipped

Shipped — console feel, zero install

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