Product
Need product-minded partners for your idea? We work alongside your team to research, validate, and refine your product direction.
- User research
- Rapid prototyping
Mizen Streamlined Online Recipes
Born from our frustration with long, ad-filled recipe sites, Mizen turns any messy recipe URL or screenshot into clean, calm cooking.
With features such as changing units, saving recipes, and seamless sharing, Mizen is the perfect kitchen helper. Sign up for our waitlist at mizen.recipes.
- User research
- Interface design
- Development
Umi Design for Immersive Language Learning
Umi is an app that teaches languages primarily through TV and movie clips.
We were brought on to improve Umi’s lessons page to make it more engaging and visually polished. Our final designs feature interactive video overlays, captions, and sentence breakdowns to provide an immersive language learning experience.
- User research
- Interface design
“Umi needed a revamp in order to meet a funding deadline, and Michelle and Gage exceeded expectations on both speed and quality. They brought a strong level of craft, care, and precision to their work and never sacrificed quality for speed. It’s clear they deeply care about what they build.”
Jason CEO/Founder @ Umi
“Gage and Michelle are an absolute powerhouse. Michelle brings organizational instincts and intuitive curiosity, and Gage pairs a refined design eye with cutting-edge AI tooling. They’re a formidable team for any startup that wants to build thoughtfully and ship with intention.”
May Operations Director @ Piʻikū Co.
“Gage and Michelle bring genuine curiosity and energy to every aspect of their work. Any team would be lucky to have them.”
Mele Sr. Product Design @ Yahoo
What we do
Design
Looks good, feels good. Design support that brings polish and clarity to your product.
- Interface design
- Design systems
- Information architecture
- Product flows
Execution
Bringing it all to life. We embed into your workflow, working in your repo, shipping in your stack, and using modern tools to move fast without sacrificing craft.
- Prototyping
- Codebase collaboration
- Frontend development
- QA testing
- AI workflows
About Negi
Negi Studio is comprised of Gage and Michelle, designers based in Honolulu, HI. Our experience spans from gov tech, ed tech, and other industries. Regardless of where we’ve worked one thing remains true: great design is possible.
We believe that you don’t have to pick between quality, fun, and focus. You can ship with joy and still move fast. You can take bold swings without losing clarity. You can make software that feels good to use and good to stand behind.
Join us in building a new kind of creative work, one idea at a time.
Sincerely,
Gage + Michelle
You can find me surfing to catch sunset or reading on my Kindle!
I love camping and my Shih Tzu, Gunnar.
