A Git-based contribution workflow for a shared design system.
Figma / Git / GitHub / ChatGPT
A working prototype for proposing, reviewing, and versioning improvements to the USWDS Figma design kit through Git-based contribution patterns.
Design and digital systems DVBE · Los Angeles
We translate complex ideas through strategy, design, and technology.
We’re a deliberately small studio combining UX/UI, visual design, and web development to build digital experiences that work for people, teams, search, and AI; we work selectively.
Brand identities, UX/UI design, web development, and visual systems.
Bringing complex ideas into focus through digital experiences, creating consistency across every touchpoint, and providing a clear foundation for what comes next.
Web design and development
Custom websites built on the way that fits your content and your team, structured to be easy to update, accessible, and readable by search and AI tools.
Brand design and visual systems
Logo, color, and type systems documented in a brand guide, so your identity stays consistent across your website, print, and presentations.
UX/UI design
Research-led interface design for websites, apps, portals, and dashboards, shaped around how people complete tasks, with accessibility considered from the start.
SEO, AEO and GEO
Technical structure, organized content, and schema that help your site be found and described accurately in search results and AI-generated answers.
App design a development
Web and native iOS apps designed and built by one small team, from early idea and MVP through launch and continued iteration.
We start with questions.
Every project we take on follows a thoughtful, collaborative and agile process that captures vision and function. We start with questions.
What do you need?
Starting from scratch? Updating an experience?
What do you have?
Give us your current branding, assets and implementation.
What do you see?
Tell us about what you envision and what you want to do.
Featured projects.
A selection of design and development projects crafted to solve real business challenges, enhance user experience, and provide clarity.
Yelu Marketing
Web
Yelu is an agency from Chino in southern California that needed a website update. John met Josaf at Unis and offered to redesign and build a website to help him with sales confidence; it's one of several builds derived from Aether Systems.
NorseForged Gathering
Branding
A custom logo for John's sister's gathering of assorted vendors based in North Carolina that pairs forged, reduced letterforms with an expressive word mark, bringing distinct forms together into a cohesive identity.
Onino Pizza
Branding
Onino Pizza wanted a visual identity that could do more than identify the restaurant — it wanted to establish a personality that was both familiar and fresh, one that would appeal to a wide and dynamic audience, just like it's crafted pizza.
Cabbits AI
AI / Web
A cozy, AI-native virtual companion world where children learn logic and reasoning alongside their evolving Cabbit friend in a handcrafted claymorphic valley. The AI also learns from AI that learns from people — the concept Aether strives for.
Canvas Connection
Web
An accessibility-centered website for Canvas Connection, custom designed and developed to make the nonprofit’s mission, programs, and ways to participate easier to understand and explore. Built with scale in mind.
Client Testimonial
John and the team at Aether Creative Studios have been amazing to work with. They truly take the time to listen, understand their clients’ vision, and bring it to life with intention. We especially appreciate their willingness to understand and incorporate Universal Design principles focused on accessibility and inclusion throughout our website. They’ve been a great creative partner for Canvas Connection, and we highly recommend them.
Rinah Lerma
Canvas Connection
We love to make things.
Based in Los Angeles, we’re an intentionally small team of artists, designers and builders driven by curiosity and a passion for crafting experiences that make a difference for people.
Contact us
Contact Aether Creative Studio to discuss web design, branding, and digital platform development.