Build

Projects
in progress.

Not everything here is finished. That is partly the point.

This is where I keep the ideas I’m actively building, testing, pausing, revising and occasionally returning to after pretending I had moved on.

Tracing paper, wireframe sketches, botanicals and project fragments arranged on a softly lit studio desk.

Active

Being worked on now.

Forming

The idea is clear enough to keep.

Resting

Paused without being abandoned.

Released

Public, submitted or complete enough to leave the desk.

Featured project

Active

Studio

Perah Studio

A design studio for thoughtful brands, digital products and experiences that help people understand what they are using and why it matters.

Perah Studio is the umbrella for my design work, client projects and a growing collection of in-house experiments. I am building it slowly, with more interest in useful systems and lasting relationships than in looking busy.

Current focus: establishing the studio website, building a clearer body of work and developing small products through Perah Lab.

Explore Perah Studio

Perah Studio homepage showing the design house and its four-room navigation.

Design studies

Selected digital concepts

Self-directed explorations across different products, organisations and experiences.

Aurelia website hero composed inside an ivory browser frame.

Clinical skincareWebsite ConceptAurelia Skin ClinicView study

BrightPath community homepage composed inside a deep-green browser frame.

Community and social impactWebsite ConceptBrightPathView study

Harbour Notes editorial homepage composed inside a calm paper-toned browser frame.

Editorial publicationWebsite ConceptHarbour NotesView study

Maison Lune website hero composed inside a burgundy browser frame.

Luxury beauty and wellnessWebsite ConceptMaison LuneView study

Northbridge website hero composed inside a strict deep-green browser frame.

Professional servicesWebsite ConceptNorthbridge AdvisoryView study

Northline website hero composed inside a warm-tan browser frame.

Construction and propertyWebsite ConceptNorthlineView study

Sunroom Social website hero composed inside a burnt-orange browser frame.

Hospitality and caféWebsite ConceptSunroom SocialView study

Tide and Timber website hero composed inside a deep-forest browser frame.

Travel and retreatWebsite ConceptTide & TimberView study

Project index

Things currently taking shape

A mix of products, experiments, archives and ideas at different stages.

Process

How I usually build

Not a fixed framework. Just the pattern I seem to return to.

1
Notice
Something feels confusing, missing or harder than it needs to be.
2
Frame
I try to understand the actual problem before committing to a polished answer.
3
Make
I sketch, prototype, write or code until the idea becomes concrete enough to test.
4
Release
the difficult bit
I am learning to let useful work leave the desk before it feels completely finished.

Archive drawer

From an earlier chapter

Selected projects that helped shape how I work now.

Experiments
Perah Lab
Small digital products, prototypes and ideas developed under Perah Studio.
Archived
Cultural storytelling
Under the Tortoise Moon
A released storytelling project rooted in Nigerian oral tradition and family memory.
Released
Personal archive
Dearly Debbie
This website: a home for projects, writing, music, faith and unfinished thoughts.
Archived
Experience design
Quiet Trails
An earlier MA project exploring place, attention and quieter ways of moving through an environment.
Archived
Interactive installation
Breath of Light
A dome-based visual and sound experience shaped by participants’ breathing.
Archived
Collaborative project
Whitleigh Community Planter
A community planter concept developed around participation, local identity and shared ownership.
Archived
Writing series
Data × Design × You
A reflective series translating data science and precision-medicine topics through a design lens.
Released