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Nine people who would rather watch than guess.

Musebit started in 2019, after the two founders spent a year inside a bank watching good designers produce screens nobody could use. The problem was never talent. It was distance — from the customer, from the shift, from the shop floor.

So we built an agency around proximity. We work in small teams, on one client at a time, and the first week of every project happens somewhere other than a meeting room.

Today we're nine: four product designers, two researchers, two design engineers, and one person who keeps the systems honest.

Three Musebit designers reviewing printed research findings around a studio table

The team

The people you'd actually work with.

Portrait of Ana Ferreira, Co-founder, Principal Designer at Musebit

Ana Ferreira

Co-founder, Principal Designer

Fifteen years in regulated products. Ana runs the framing week and writes the sentence every project is measured against.

Portrait of Joel Brandt, Co-founder, Design Director at Musebit

Joel Brandt

Co-founder, Design Director

Ex-bank design lead. Joel owns the craft bar and the argument for shipping less, more often.

Portrait of Naomi Adeyemi, Head of Research at Musebit

Naomi Adeyemi

Head of Research

Naomi has run field studies on hospital wards, in warehouses and behind shop counters. She sets the evidence standard.

Portrait of Kenji Watanabe, Design Engineer at Musebit

Kenji Watanabe

Design Engineer

Kenji builds the systems we hand over — tokens, components and the front end, so nothing is lost at handoff.

What makes us different

01

Evidence before opinion

Every engagement opens with observation in the place the work happens. We have never once run a project where the field notes agreed with the brief.

02

Increments, not detonations

We ship every two to four weeks with a measurement window in between, so the last decision is informed by the first one's results.

03

Systems that outlive us

We hand over tokens and implemented components, not a spec to interpret. If your team can't extend it without us, we didn't finish.

04

Less, argued for

Our best work removes things. That's only defensible with evidence, which is exactly why we gather it.

9

People

2019

Founded

41

Projects shipped

6

Projects a year

Who we work with

Fintech and payments

Healthcare and clinical tools

Logistics and operations

Developer tools and APIs

Commerce and marketplaces

Education platforms

We take on six projects a year.

If the timing is right, the conversation is short and specific.

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Let's talk

Have a project idea in mind? Let's get started.

We'll schedule a call to discuss your idea. After a short discovery session we send a proposal, and once it's approved we get started.