About
I'm Daniel. I trained as an engineer, and I build websites like one.
Solo on purpose. The person you brief is the person who designs it and the person who ships it. Nothing gets lost in a handover, because there isn't one.
Background
Engineering first, then design, then both.
- Civil engineering
- Degree. Learned to design things that have to stand up.
- Hatch
- Enterprise UX. Big systems, real users, no room for decoration.
- UpNorway
- Built the design system for their internal booking management tool.
- 2021
- Independent. Tov Studio.
- 2022 →
- Curex, long-term partner.
- 2023 →
- Rafiki Works, fractional design and dev partner.
- 2024 →
- Heartland: property pages, then the platform behind them.
How I work
Projects are scoped, written down and priced before anything is built. Ongoing work runs as a fractional partnership, with a set monthly scope.
What I won't do
Open-ended “unlimited requests” plans, or a design you approve that someone else then builds. Long-term work is a partnership with a clear monthly scope, reviewed together.
Where
Johannesburg. Clients in South Africa, the US, the UK and the EU.