01
Listen
A week of questions. We talk to your team, your customers and your data before we open a design file — because the brief you arrive with is rarely the one you need.
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Independent design studio
Aktays is a small studio making websites, mobile products and AI workflows for teams who refuse to look like everyone else.
Istanbul — WorldwideScroll
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01Services
We keep the offer narrow on purpose. Fewer disciplines, deeper craft — and one team from first sketch to production.
Marketing sites and platforms designed to be read, remembered and shipped. We design in the browser, so what you approve is what goes live.
- Art direction
- Responsive design
- Next.js build
- CMS integration
- Performance & SEO
02Selected work
A short list. We would rather show six things we stand behind than sixty we don't.
01Meridian
Meridian2025
A trading platform that finally reads like a product
+64% · Task completion12wk · Design to launch
02Nomad Atlas
Nomad Atlas2025
Travel planning without the twenty open tabs
4.8★ · App Store rating3.2× · Weekly retention
03Verse
Verse2024
An editorial team that ships four times faster
−71% · Hours per article0 · Editors replaced
04Kavun
Kavun2024
A food brand with an appetite for white space
+118% · Conversion rate2.1s · Largest paint
05Halo Health
Halo Health2024
Clinical software that doesn't feel clinical
AAA · Contrast compliance+41% · Daily active use
06Foundry
Foundry2023
Turning a sales team's inbox into a system
9hrs · Saved per rep, weekly+27% · Reply rate
03Approach
No discovery theatre, no forty-page decks. Four phases, weekly demos, and a working thing in front of you early.
02
Frame
We narrow the problem to something a small team can actually solve, and write it down in a page. If we can't explain it in a page, we don't understand it yet.
03
Make
Design and build run together in two-week loops. You see real screens in a real browser every Friday, not static mockups at the end of a month.
04
Land
We ship it, measure it, and stay long enough to fix what the first thousand users find. Then we hand over documentation your team can build on.
Words
They pushed back on half our brief in the first week. It was uncomfortable, and it was completely correct.
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04Studio
Aktays is an independent design studio working with founders, product teams and marketing leads who care about the details that most people skip.
We stay deliberately small. The people you meet in the first call are the people doing the work — no account layer, no handover to a junior team once the contract is signed.
We take on a handful of projects a year so each one gets the attention it was sold. If we're not the right studio for what you're building, we'll say so and point you somewhere better.
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Contact
Tell us what you're making, roughly when you need it, and the budget range you're working within. We reply to everything within two days.