← Chris Meisner

Brand and Product Designer · Freelance · 2025-26

Miles

Brand foundation through to a build-ready interface: positioning and wordmark, type and colour direction, then the critical user path as a wireframe prototype running on real data, and the component set the team now builds against. Two founders with deep research and technical capability and no product synthesis — five sprints between December and May, and they extend the system themselves now.

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The challenge
Two founders with deep research, strategy and technical capability, and no product synthesis. Nothing was missing except a decision about what the thing actually was — which is the part neither of them could buy from an engineering shop.
Owned
Brand foundation through to a build-ready interface: positioning and user definition, typography, colour and image direction, the wordmark, the critical user path, a dynamic wireframe prototype running on real data, the branded dashboard, and the component set the team builds against.
Outcome
Five sprints and five refinement cycles between December and May. The founders left with a product thesis, a buildable core experience, and a brand and UI system they now extend themselves — the descent run without the studio in the room.
Miles — Chris Meisner