Design studio · Greenville, SC
Human potential,
by design.
Jovian Design builds experiences with people, for people — consulting that moves missions forward, and products that turn everyday life into progress.
Powered by technology. Created for humans.
Why Jupiter? Because the deepest gravity well in the sky spent four billion years catching what would have hit us — real pull, spent on protection. That’s the studio’s entire design thesis: build things with pull that protects the person inside. The whole story — the lore, the live observatory, the four moons — lives on the About page →
The studio
One studio, three ways to level up
Everything Jovian starts the same way: real problems, real people, evidence over opinion — and technology doing the lifting so humans can do the reaching.
Design that moves missions
UX research, product design, and Salesforce expertise for enterprise, nonprofit, and public-sector teams. Accessible by default, measured by outcomes.
See services →Objects you can hold
Ceramic sculpture first, 3D prints and bronze behind it — human-made pieces with honest materials, crafted in the Carolinas. AI as sous-chef, never chef.
Get notified →One person. One crew.
A one-person studio with a mission and receipts. Meet the whole company — and the Jupiter of it all.
Meet the studio →Consulting
Evidence-led design for teams that serve people
We prioritize people over technology — not by using less of it, but by pointing all of it at what your users actually need. Research first, then design, then proof.
Product & UX design
From discovery to shipped interface.
- User research & usability testing
- Product strategy & service design
- UI systems that teams can maintain
Salesforce experiences
Making the platform feel human.
- Experience Cloud portals people actually use
- Service design, including Agentforce agents
- Adoption-focused UX for admins and end users
Nonprofit & public sector
Mission work is our home turf.
- WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility as a default, not an add-on
- Constituent- and grantee-facing experiences
- Budgets respected, outcomes measured
The receipts
Work that measurably helped people
The point of this studio isn't the tools — it's what changed for the humans on the other side. A few numbers from the ledger, marked honestly:
The workbench · September 2026
Things are really being made here
Not a services brochure — a workshop with the lights on. What's on the bench right now:
In build
The games library
Halflight, a game about building a home on every world, plus four quick arcade games. Even our error pages would rather you have fun.
Browse the games →In the pipeline
The first objects
Ceramic sculpture is first onto the studio's shelves — figures from the game's world and 3D prints warming up behind it.
See the shelves →Three live
The writing bench
The old site's best thinking is being recut piece by piece — three articles are up, more in the drawer.
Read the fresh ones →Always on
This site itself
Hand-built, no frameworks, every decision logged next to the work. The sky above is computed, not decorated — Jupiter really is where the page says it is.
How things get made →Musings
Notes from the workbench
Writing on design, research, AI, and the craft of building things that respect the people using them.
The John Henry position
Don't race the steam drill — change the game. The studio's five non-negotiables for working with AI.
Design · 2026Progression that builds people up
Games solved motivation; the wrong industry borrowed the solution. Notes on pointing the mechanics the right way again.
The lore · 2026The deepest well in the sky is a shield
Why the studio is named for Jupiter — four billion years of a gravity well quietly catching what would have hit us.
Store
The Jovian Design Store is coming
Two shelves: analog pieces you can hold — pottery, figures, small objects — and digital goods you can download, from print files to templates. Same standards as everything else we make — why we make both lives on the store page, and the shop itself at JovianDesign.com.
First-fire vessel — one of one
placeholder — live in the store soon Digital print filesStudio figures — model set
placeholder — live in the store soon Desk pieceJovian system — orbit sigil
placeholder — live in the store soonThe store · in the works
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Let's build something worth leveling up for
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