Product & Brand Design
Identity systems, design languages and interfaces built to scale from a first pitch deck to a shipped release.
- Brand & visual identity
- Design systems
- UI / UX design
Design & development studio Ideas worth protecting
Ideas worth protecting
deserve to be built well.
Patent Pending Studios is a small, senior team designing and building digital products — from first sketch to shipped release. Clean interfaces, honest engineering, no filler.
- 60+
- Products shipped
- 9 yrs
- Average team experience
- 4 wks
- Typical time to first release
- 100%
- Founder-led delivery
kestrel — treasury.app
Net position
$4.82M
Trusted by founders and product teams
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Services
Three ways we help — usually all at once
Design, engineering and strategy are one practice here. You get a single team accountable for how the product looks, works and holds up in production.
App Development
Fast, accessible web and mobile applications engineered by the same people who designed them.
- Web apps & dashboards
- APIs & integrations
- Performance work
Consulting & Advisory
Embedded strategy for teams that need direction — audits, roadmaps and hands-on design leadership.
- Product audits
- Technical due diligence
- Team enablement
Selected work
Products we designed, built and shipped
Fintech · Web App2026
Kestrel
A treasury dashboard that turned a spreadsheet-driven workflow into a real-time product for 12,000 accounts.
Case study coming soonHealth · Brand + App2025
Aperture
Patient intake reimagined — 41% fewer drop-offs after redesign.
Case study coming soonClimate · Identity2025
Brightseed
A full identity system and marketing site for a soil-data startup.
Case study coming soonCulture · Portfolio2024
Studio Fjord
An editorial portfolio platform for an architecture practice.
Case study coming soonProcess
A calm, four-step path to launch
Every engagement runs the same rhythm — weekly demos, written decisions and no surprises at the end.
- 01
Discover
One week of interviews, audits and constraint mapping. We leave with a written point of view, not a mood board.
- 02
Design
Rapid concepts in the browser. You review real interfaces early, so decisions are made on evidence.
- 03
Build
Weekly releases to a staging environment. Design and engineering happen in the same room, on the same team.
- 04
Launch & evolve
We ship, measure and keep iterating — handing over documentation your team can actually run with.
The studio
Named for the moment an idea becomes real
Patent Pending Studios started with a simple frustration: great ideas kept dying between the deck and the build. So we put designers and engineers on the same small team, and kept it small on purpose.
Today we partner with founders and product teams who care about craft — the kind who notice the spacing, the loading state and the empty screen. That attention is the whole point.
Remote-firstFounder-ledAccessibility-mindedFixed-scope sprints
Small team, senior hands
No account layers or hand-offs. The people you meet are the people who do the work.
Whitespace is a feature
We remove until only what matters is left. Clarity outperforms decoration every time.
Design that ships
Nothing is “done” in a design file. Our work is measured in released, working software.
“They designed and shipped in the time our last agency spent on discovery. Six months on, the design system is still the best asset we own.”
Contact
Have something worth building?
Tell us about the idea, the deadline and what “done” looks like. We reply to every serious enquiry within two business days — usually with a few sharp questions.
- Engagements
- Project-based or monthly retainer
- Typical budget
- From $25k for a full build
- Availability
- Two new partners per quarter