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.
The studio
One studio, three ways to level up
Everything Jovian starts the same way: real problems, real people, evidence over opinion.
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 and pricing →Objects you can hold
Ceramic sculpture first, 3D prints and bronze behind it — human-made pieces with honest materials, crafted in the Carolinas. Human hands on everything that ships.
Get notified →One designer, the right help
Jovian Design is Ryan Cody, a UX and service designer who also builds, with trusted contractors and friends when a project needs more hands.
Meet Ryan →Consulting
Evidence-led design for teams that serve people
People come first: research first, then design, then proof that it worked.
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
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 Halflight 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 — twelve articles are up, more in the drawer.
Read the fresh ones →Always on
This site itself
Hand-built, no frameworks. 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 and the craft of building things that respect the people using them.
The Jovian Friction–Harm Index
A clearer way to see and fix everyday UX pain: five dimensions, one weighted score, and a list of what to fix first that staff and leadership can agree on.
Research · 2026Five people is enough
A small usability test won’t give you a statistic. It will show you where people get stuck, if you decide what “pass” means before you watch.
Pricing · 2026Lower the scope, not the quality
When the budget is tight, buy a small, complete piece of design work instead of a cut-rate redesign.
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 opening here soon.
First-fire vessel — one of one
Coming soon Digital print filesStudio figures — model set
Coming soon Desk pieceJovian system — orbit sigil
Coming soonThe store · in the works
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