90+ projects
Product & web design
Interfaces designed to be built, end to end, from the messy first sketch to a system a team can actually ship against.
- UX & flows
- UI design
- Design systems
- Prototypes
Available for new work
I design and buildthe whole thing
A one-person studio doing product design and front-end development, from the first Figma frame to a fast, accessible site in production.
- 11+
- Years freelance
- 194+
- Projects
- 68
- Clients
About
Designer who ships, developer who cares how it looks
Marlowe Reid
I have spent eleven years in the overlap between design and engineering, arguing that the handoff between them should not exist. When one person owns the whole thing, the seams disappear, and the seams are where projects usually fail.
That means I sweat the kerning and the bundle size in the same afternoon. I will not ship something that stutters on a mid-range phone, and I will not build something ugly just because it passes the tests. Both matter, so I do both.
Design and build, no handoff in between
Accessible and fast, on real hardware
Systems, so the next feature is cheaper
Clear, weekly, no-surprises communication
Résumé
Where I have been
Experience
2021 to Now
Independent designer & developer
Self-employed
Product design and front-end for startups and studios who need one person to take an idea from Figma to production.
2018 to 2021
Senior product designer
Northwind
Owned the design system and the checkout redesign that lifted conversion by a third across three markets.
2015 to 2018
Designer
Fieldhouse Studio
Brand and web for culture and hospitality clients, where I learned that the print discipline makes the screen better.
Education
2013 to 2015
MA, Interaction Design
Royal College
A thesis on motion as a way of explaining, which is still most of what I believe about interfaces.
2010 to 2013
BA, Graphic Design
Central Saint Martins
Typography, grids and the unglamorous craft that everything else sits on top of.
Ongoing
Perpetual student
The internet
A new tool every quarter, most of them abandoned by the next, a few of them keepers.
Services
What I can do for you
Three things, done properly. Most projects use two of them; a few use all three.
70+ projects
Front-end development
The design, made real. Accessible, fast, responsive front-ends in React and the modern web stack. No throwing it over a wall.
- React / Next.js
- Tailwind
- Motion
- CMS wiring
40+ projects
SEO & strategy
The part that makes the work pay off: performance, structured content and the measurement to prove it moved a number.
- Technical SEO
- Core Web Vitals
- Analytics
- Content strategy
Skills
Tools I know cold
A self-assessment, honestly calibrated — the high numbers are the ones I would stake a deadline on.
Product design96%
React & front-end92%
Design systems90%
Brand & identity84%
Motion & interaction88%
SEO & performance80%
Work
Selected projects
Six recent pieces. Filter by what you need — most clients want two of the three.
Design
Aurora patient portal
2026Aurora Health
A patient portal redesigned around one question: what does the person actually need to see first?
Development
Meridian dashboard
2025Meridian
A real-time analytics front-end in React that stays smooth at a million rows.
Branding
Kelp identity
2025Kelp Bio
A marine-biotech identity that looks like a laboratory, not a wellness brand.
Design
Cadence onboarding
2024Cadence
An onboarding flow rebuilt as one scroll scene: interaction doing the explaining.
Development
Verso storefront
2024Verso
A headless commerce build where the checkout is three fields and nothing else.
Branding
Field & Fable
2023Field & Fable
A publisher’s identity system flexible across nine imprints and impossible to make ugly.
Testimonials
What clients say
“Marlowe is the rare designer who can also ship the thing. We got a finished, fast, beautiful product from one person, on time.”
“The redesign paid for itself in a quarter. Every decision had a reason, and the reason was usually right.”
“Calm, direct, no drama, no missed deadlines. I have hired a lot of freelancers; this is what the good ones feel like.”
Pricing
Two ways to hire me
A fixed-scope project, or a standing slice of my week. No hourly billing, no surprises.
Project
From €6kfixed scope
A defined piece of work with a clear start and end: a site, a redesign, a feature.
- One project, scoped up front
- Design and build
- Two revision rounds
- 30 days of support
- Async, weekly check-ins
Retainer
Most popular€4.5kper month
A standing slice of my week for teams that need a designer-developer on tap.
- ~1 week per month
- Design and front-end
- Priority turnaround
- Rolling backlog
- A monthly call, cancel anytime
FAQ
Before you get in touch
Both, which is the point. You can hire me for design only or build only, but the value is in getting one person who does the whole thing: the design is made by someone who has to build it, and the build is done by someone who designed it.
Contact
Let’s make something
Tell me what you are building, when it needs to exist, and roughly what you can spend. All three, ideally. The third saves us both a week.
hello@marlowe.studio
Based
Lisbon · remote worldwide
Response
Usually within a day
Elsewhere
Dribbble · GitHub · LinkedIn