Independent app design studio · Lisbon

We design apps

people

keep.

Product design, app branding and motion for iOS and Android teams who care how it feels in the hand.

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Lull

Tally

Fieldnote

Verso

Bloom

Pace

Scroll

Meet us

We are a small team of product designers who only design apps. Twelve years of iOS and Android, one obsession: the moment someone decides to keep your app on their home screen.

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The studio, Lisbon

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Services

Everything an app needs to look and feel right.

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We map the first five minutes and the first week, the two moments that decide whether people keep an app.
AuditsInterviewsUser flowsRetention maps
Every screen and every state for iOS and Android, native to each platform without losing your voice.
iOSAndroidDark modeAccessibility
Name, identity and the icon: the small logo that sits next to your users’ favourite apps all day.
IdentityApp iconIllustrationTypography
Transitions, haptics and micro-interactions, prototyped on a real phone so you feel them first.
PrototypesRiveLottieHaptics
Tokens and components your engineers can actually ship, documented to survive the handoff.
FigmaTokensComponentsDocs
Screenshots, preview video and listing copy, because the store page is your real first screen.
ScreenshotsPreview videoASOStore listing

We map the first five minutes and the first week, the two moments that decide whether people keep an app.
AuditsInterviewsUser flowsRetention maps
Every screen and every state for iOS and Android, native to each platform without losing your voice.
iOSAndroidDark modeAccessibility
Name, identity and the icon: the small logo that sits next to your users’ favourite apps all day.
IdentityApp iconIllustrationTypography
Transitions, haptics and micro-interactions, prototyped on a real phone so you feel them first.
PrototypesRiveLottieHaptics
Tokens and components your engineers can actually ship, documented to survive the handoff.
FigmaTokensComponentsDocs
Screenshots, preview video and listing copy, because the store page is your real first screen.
ScreenshotsPreview videoASOStore listing

We map the first five minutes and the first week, the two moments that decide whether people keep an app.
AuditsInterviewsUser flowsRetention maps
Every screen and every state for iOS and Android, native to each platform without losing your voice.
iOSAndroidDark modeAccessibility
Name, identity and the icon: the small logo that sits next to your users’ favourite apps all day.
IdentityApp iconIllustrationTypography
Transitions, haptics and micro-interactions, prototyped on a real phone so you feel them first.
PrototypesRiveLottieHaptics
Tokens and components your engineers can actually ship, documented to survive the handoff.
FigmaTokensComponentsDocs
Screenshots, preview video and listing copy, because the store page is your real first screen.
ScreenshotsPreview videoASOStore listing

Expertise

The categories we know best

Every category has its own habits, rules and store reviewers. We have shipped apps in each of these.

Health & sleep

Fintech

Education

Field tools

Lifestyle

Sport & fitness

Process

Ten weeks from idea to App Store.

A fixed rhythm, a build on your phone every Friday, and no surprises at the end.

Step 01

Discover

Interviews, an audit of what exists, and the one job your app must nail.

1 week

Step 02

Map

Flows and wireframes, then a rough prototype tested on real phones.

2 weeks

Step 03

Brand

Name, identity, the app icon and a visual direction you can commit to.

2 weeks

Step 04

Design

Every screen and state, dark mode, motion and a system engineers love.

4 weeks

Step 05

Ready for review

Launch

Handoff, design QA on live builds and App Store assets.

1 week

Working with us

It feels like we sit next to your team.

Your Slack, your Figma, your TestFlight. You see progress daily and hold the app in your hand weekly.

Friday review, week six

TestFlight

Lull 1.0 (13) is ready to test

Fri

TestFlight

Lull 1.0 (14) is ready to test

now

A build every Friday

From week four you hold the real app, not a slideshow.

Can the ring feel calmer at night?

Tried three. Option two is in the file, with a slower ease.

Feedback in context

Comment right on the screens. We reply the same day.

Onboarding is done. Two-minute walkthrough below ↓

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Walkthrough · Onboarding v2

2:04 · recorded today

Daily async updates

A short note and a video every evening. No status meetings.

Mon

Plan

Tue

Design

Wed

Design

Thu

Review

Fri

New build

A rhythm you can plan around

Every week ends with something you can tap, not something you have to imagine.

Figma

Rive

Lottie

ProtoPie

TestFlight

Play Console

Linear

Slack

Notion

Your tools, not ours

We join your workspace on day one and leave everything there.

Pricing

Clear scope. Fixed price.

No hourly billing and no surprise invoices. Pick the engagement that matches where your app is today.

Design Sprint

Validate an idea with a real prototype.

$12,000

2 weeks

Book a sprint

Core flow, 12–15 screens

Visual direction

Clickable prototype

Test with 5 users

Full App Design

Everything your v1 needs to launch.

Most chosen

$44,000

8–10 weeks

Start a project

App branding + icon

iOS and Android UI

Design system in Figma

Motion specs

App Store screenshots

Design Partner

A senior designer inside your team.

$14,000

per month

Talk to us

New features weekly

Design QA on builds

System upkeep

Pause anytime

Journal

Notes from the studio.

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Branding

Sep 2026 · 6 min

Why your app icon should pass the squint test first

Mei Lin

Interface

Aug 2026 · 8 min

Designing for the thumb, not the artboard

Tomás Reis

Launch

Jul 2026 · 5 min

App Store screenshots are your real landing page

Inês Duarte

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Yes. iOS, iPadOS, Android and watchOS, plus everything that lives with them: the icon, the brand, onboarding and the App Store page.
We design and prototype. Your engineers, or our trusted development partners, build it, and we stay on for design QA until it feels right in the hand.
Often our favourite projects. We start with your reviews, analytics and support tickets, then fix what costs you users first.
A Figma file with every screen and state, a component library, motion specs, icon and brand assets, and store-ready screenshots.
We take on four projects per quarter. Book a call and we will confirm a start date within two working days.