Nicolaus
@nicolaus
Community, coffee, bicycles, /design, music, sustainability • Founder & Creative Director: /atmostudio • ex: decent.build
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Atmo is my solo design practice built to be a brand & product design partner for founders and early-stage teams with long-term vision building for real, positive impact. I craft thoughtful brand and product systems rooted in your unique story, creating the design layer in your business that connec...
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We’re entering an era where every branded event is demanding a comprehensive, unique identity system.
The passive ad campaign has become the immersive activation.
The strongest brands can extend themselves to move fluidly between these experiences and still be felt because they exist underneath the identities.
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We're looking for new partners building for lasting impact who are ready to turn their ideas into living brand systems.
Let's get to work: cal.com/atmostudio/i...
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When crafting Decent’s design system, we wanted the UI — as well as the brand — to feel tactile and pop off the flat screen.
Ironically, we used mostly flat design characteristics but flipped those on their head to create depth with color and transparency to introduce depth to the UI design.
From a UX perspective, w...
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I don’t think “it learns” “it adapts” “it gets sharper” “it develops taste” etc. is effective differentiation for an agentic app. That’s kind of what all agents do — even the most basic ChatGPT conversation — after a brief exchange.
Selling a technology by saying it does what we expect it to do just creates more noise...
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Someone tell me the next time my grammar implodes on itself.
I wrote this after a 3am wake up and 6
hour drive.
Don’t make content and road trip.
A sample to the last phase of brand, product and design work I lead at Decent.
I employee #2 at Decent in its infancy and had the pleasure of developing the brand strategy and visual language over my 6 years there.
This work represents the rebrand we did to narrow the product focus, signal a maturation of the busines
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This was my favorite design concept for Decent that never made it to production:
- Updated "Notion-like" sidebar that organized key features by business function
- Favorites to quickly return to proposals or important dashboards
- Overhaul of proposal editing user flow w/ onchain TX legos as "actions" (halfway implemen...
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