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  innovation

01 — The studio

A small studio for companies that care how software feels.

Most software is designed in one place and built in another, and something is lost on the way. We keep both in one small team.

We design it, engineer it, and stay until it's right.

Collage of lab projects: the Cosmo Learning lesson editor over granite boulders, the Cosmo Labs brand star on a geode, and the block iOS app on sandstone
Fig. 02Projects from the lab. Cosmo Learning. The Cosmo Labs brand. the block.

02 — What we make

Three crafts, one team.

We take on a few products a year and carry each one end to end, from the first question to the release and after it.

  1. 01Product designResearch, flows and interfaces that feel obvious the first time.
  2. 02EngineeringWeb and mobile products built to last, by the people who designed them.
  3. 03Applied AILanguage models put to work inside real products, measured like any other feature.
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03 — The lab

Half bloom, half data.

Beside the client work we run a lab. The experiments train the eye and the tools, and then they find their way into products.

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04 — Journal

Notes from the studio.

  1. Implementing RBAC and ACL with React.

    Architecture decisions and coding patterns for Role-Based Access Control and Access Control Lists across client and server.

  2. You may not need useState — just use the platform.

    Building complex form interactions and validation with native Web Platform APIs, FormData and the Constraint Validation API.
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