Discovery & direction
We meet your team, your data, and your buyer. Outcome: a single-page brief and three design directions.
Studio · Portland, OR · Est. 2025
Stride is a small studio that builds marketing sites, product pages, and brand surfaces for teams who treat the first ten seconds of a session as their most important asset.
Live demos · 6 fictional clients
Analytics, illuminated.
A precision-built SaaS marketing site for a fictional analytics platform. Technical minimalism, generous negative space, mono-spaced accents.
A neighborhood table.
Warm editorial design for a seasonal restaurant. Serif-led typography, ember and cream palette, the kind of site that makes you hungry.
Counsel of consequence.
A stately, restrained presentation for a boutique law practice. Bone-on-navy palette, classical proportions, zero whimsy.
Built in the work.
A brutalist-energetic site for a strength gym. Oversized condensed type, blackline grids, high-friction interaction.
For the night side of taste.
A moody luxury storefront for fictional home fragrance and small-batch objects. Deep aubergine, leaf-gold accents, slow product reveals.
Configure in three dimensions.
An immersive real-time 3D product configurator. Switch shapes, materials, and lighting environments — all rendered live in the browser with WebGL.
We build sites like these — only for real clients and real goals.
Signature capability
The browser is a rendering engine now. Prism Studio, our live 3D product configurator, demonstrates what's possible — PBR materials, real-time lighting environments, shape morphing — all at 60fps with zero plugins.
Capabilities
Sites that load instantly on a phone in low-bar signal, hold up to a CMS migration, and feel hand-built.
Token-driven, framework-agnostic, documented. Built so your next engineer doesn't unlearn the last one.
Storefronts on Shopify, Commerce.js, or roll-your-own. We sweat the PDP because the PDP sweats the sale.
Logo work, type pairing, motion principles, voice. Delivered as a working system, not a 60-page PDF.
Lighthouse is the floor. We pull traces, fix layout shifts, and ship the report with a working fix attached.
We'll run a full Lighthouse pass on your current site and send you three specific, actionable improvements — no strings, within 48 hours.
Process
We meet your team, your data, and your buyer. Outcome: a single-page brief and three design directions.
We pick a direction and build it for real, in code. No mockup limbo. Daily Loom updates on what shipped.
Final copy lands. Animation, micro-interaction, edge cases. Lighthouse, axe, manual screen-reader pass.
Staging review, your domain, your repo. We leave a runbook and a 30-day open Slack window.
This timeline works for most engagements. Want to talk through yours?
Book a 30-min call →From clients
Working with Stride felt like having a senior engineer and a sharp designer in one room. They shipped faster than we expected and the Lighthouse score never dipped below 98.
Our old site converted at 1.8%. After the redesign it's sitting at 4.2%. The brief-to-staging timeline was exactly four weeks, as promised.
The design system they delivered is the first one our team has actually kept using. Documentation is clear, the components are bulletproof, and it looks great.
We take on roughly one new engagement a month. The next opening is in about three weeks.