Avery Lindqvist
Founding partner · Design engineering
Twelve years across Stripe, Vercel, and two studios you'd recognize. Writes more CSS than is strictly necessary.
About the studio
A studio of three,
shipping like a team of fifteen.
Stride Development was founded in 2024 on a stubborn premise: most marketing sites are over-staffed, over-meeting'd, and underdesigned. We work the opposite way.
We're a small studio — three full-time and a tight bench of collaborators we trust with our names attached. Each engagement is led by a principal from week one through ship. No account-manager telephone game, no handoff between designer and engineer, no slide deck where a working prototype should be.
We work best with founders, marketing leads, and product teams who can make decisions in the room. We're not the right studio if you need a layer of stakeholders to weigh in on every kerning decision — those engagements exist, they just don't end well for either side.
Most of what we ship is built on the open web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and whichever framework actually fits the problem. Astro, Next, vanilla — picked per project, not per fashion cycle.
The team
Three people
who own the work.
Jonas Park
Partner · Brand & art direction
Ex–Pentagram, ex–Wieden+Kennedy. Believes a website is just a magazine with better distribution.
Mira Okonkwo
Principal engineer · Systems
Owns the runtime side: performance budgets, accessibility, CI, the long tail of edge cases nobody else wants to write tests for.
How we work
Five principles,
not negotiable.
- 01
Build, don't mock.
We design in code from week one. Static comps lie about layout, responsiveness, motion, and load — three of the four things that actually matter.
- 02
One principal, end to end.
The person at kickoff is the person at ship. No account layer, no handoffs, no surprises in week three.
- 03
Performance is a design constraint.
If the site doesn't load in under a second on a flaky LTE connection, it isn't done — no matter how the screenshot looks.
- 04
Your repo, your domain, your future.
We leave when we leave. Open source where possible, documented in plain language, designed for the engineer who inherits it.
- 05
Honest scope.
We say no a lot. The work we say yes to gets done well, on time, and in the time we said it would.