Work / Index
Selected work, 2017–2024.
CS—014 · Brand system, motion language, and marketing site
Featured case study
Halcyon — a brand system for the new meditation technology category.
We rebuilt Halcyon’s identity, motion language, and product UI around a single editorial idea: stillness as a system, not a vibe. The work shipped in 18 weeks, won the Communication Arts Typography Annual 2023, and preceded a 3.4x lift in qualified enterprise demos.
- Scope
- Identity, motion, product UI, marketing site
- Duration
- 18 weeks
- Sector
- Consumer tech · Wellness
- Outcome
- 3.4x lift in qualified demos
- Recognition
- Communication Arts Typography Annual 2023
“MKKA wrote the playbook for the category. Two years in, we’re still shipping from the system they built.”
Priya Anand · VP Product, Halcyon
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Twelve engagements, 2020–2024.
A typographic table of contents. Filtered for craft, shipped outcomes, and the kind of founders who read scope documents cover to cover. Full case studies available on request under NDA.
- CS—014 Halcyon Consumer tech · Wellness Brand, motion, product UI 2023 Featured · Typography Annual 2023
- CS—013 Lattice Atlas SaaS · Developer tools Brand system, marketing site 2024 Series B launch in 11 weeks
- CS—012 Northwind Treasury Fintech · B2B Identity, product UI, design system 2024 SOC 2 launch, 41 component system
- CS—011 Pelago Consumer tech · Travel Brand system, motion language 2023 App store feature, 9 markets
- CS—010 Meridian Labs SaaS · AI infra Identity, marketing site, pitch deck 2023 Closed $42M Series B
- CS—009 Cobalt & Vale Fintech · Consumer Brand, product UI, onboarding 2023 12% activation lift, first 30 days
- CS—008 Quorum Health Healthcare SaaS Brand, product UI, motion 2022 CSS Design Awards — Best Brand System
- CS—007 Stellar Forge Web3 · Infrastructure Identity, marketing site, motion 2022 Type Directors Club Annual 2023
- CS—006 Rivermark Bank Fintech · B2C Brand, product UI, design system 2022 Public listing, Q3 2022
- CS—005 Argo Mobility Consumer tech · Mobility Brand, in-product motion 2021 LAUNCH in 14 markets
- CS—004 Tessera SaaS · Collaboration Brand, product UI, design system 2021 Acquired by Atlassian, 2022
- CS—003 Wayfinder Consumer tech · Travel Identity, marketing site 2020 Awwwards Site of the Day
- CS—002 Linea SaaS · Analytics Brand system, product UI 2020 Series A launch, 9 weeks
- CS—001 Foundry & Co. Consumer tech · Retail Identity, packaging, marketing site 2020 17 retail doors, US & EU
Eleven of these engagements have led to a second project. Full case study PDFs and client references available on request under NDA.
By the numbers · last 84 engagements
Outcomes, not adjectives.
220+
Engagements shipped since 2017
21d
Average time to first usable brand system
4.97/5
Average client rating across 63 Clutch reviews
89%
Repeat-client rate across multi-engagement clients
Verified across the last 84 engagements. Fixed-scope, published rate card, no hourly billing, no surprise overages — that’s how the numbers stay this clean.
Client voice
“We interviewed eleven studios. MKKA was the only one that pushed back on the brief — not to be difficult, but because they’d shipped enough to know what would hold up two years later. Eleven weeks in we had a brand system we’re still building on, and a design language our engineers can actually execute.”
Next step
Book a 30-minute scoping call.
The first usable brand system in 21 days. The first production UI in six weeks.
A working session with one of the two founders — not a salesperson. We’ll tell you in plain terms whether MKKA is the right studio for your stage, your scope, and your timeline. If we’re not, we’ll recommend a peer studio that is.