Dan Andrews
A decade spent learning why people do what they do, and building things that answer for it. These days that's cyber:cyber, my product design lab; a handful of apps of my own; a personal print practice; and jiu-jitsu.
Current thoughts
- Speed without judgement is just recklessness with good PR.
- Most "AI-powered" products would be better without the AI.
- Taste is scar tissue from bad decisions.
- Failure only teaches you something if you named the bet first.
- Clients aren't paying for deliverables. They're paying for trust.
Studio
Products
- Granite Alpha A strength coach that rewrites your training every week. Native iOS, on-device.
- Frame In development A training journal for jiu-jitsu. Native iOS, local-first.
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Stealth In development A B2B product, still under wraps — built for teams rather than one person at a time. It helps technical teams make their work legible to the people deciding whether to back it.
Art
Influences
- Sumi-e
- Woodblock print
- Mandala
- Thangka
- Swiss modernism
- Yusaku Kamekura
- Ikko Tanaka
- Kenya Hara
- Denis Villeneuve
- David Fincher
- Noir
- Black-and-white
- Sebastião Salgado
- Generative art
- Code-driven art
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Carhartt
- MF DOOM
- CunninLynguists
Writing
- The hardest client was us A studio's own website is the one piece of work a client can inspect all the way down. Treating ours as the hardest brief of the year.
- Nobody wrote it down On confabulation, contextual inquiry, and the judgment an expert can't articulate — and almost no software will ever make.
- The velocity gods How speed stopped being a means and became a faith — what the cult of shipping fast actually produces, and what it costs.
- More writing →
Worked with
Dell · Spotify · Epic Games · Wunderman Thompson · Candyspace · Elsewhen
— and a host of early-stage startups.
If you're building something ambitious and want it done properly, I’d be happy to talk.