Product design & build · Melbourne
A studio of eight. Research, interface design, and front-end engineering under one roof, so nothing gets lost in a handover that never happens.
See recent workFixed-scope engagements. We quote in weeks, not day rates.
Two weeks: user interviews, a service map, and a clickable prototype you can put in front of customers.
Enquire →Eight to sixteen weeks, a squad of three, shipping to your repo every Friday. Design system included.
Enquire →An audit, a token set, and a documented component library in your framework, handed over with a workshop.
Enquire →One of our designers inside your team, three days a week, minimum three months.
Enquire →Products shipped since 2017
People, on purpose
Work from repeat clients
“They interviewed eleven of our brokers before drawing a single screen. The portal launched with almost no change requests because the hard thinking happened first.”
“We had been quoted six months by two other studios. Northlight scoped it to nine weeks, told us what to cut, and hit the date.”
“The design system they left behind is the reason our two in-house developers can now ship UI without us.”
You work with the people you meet in the pitch. Every time.
Hana Sato
Founder & principal designer
Fifteen years in product design, half of it in regulated industries.
Marcus Ellery
Engineering lead
Front-end architecture, design systems, and stubborn accessibility opinions.
Divya Raman
Research lead
Runs every discovery sprint. Has interviewed more farmers than most agencies have clients.
Tom Ferreira
Studio manager
Scoping, scheduling, and the reason projects land on the date we said.
A few lines is plenty. We reply within two business days, and we will tell you honestly if we are the wrong studio for it.