Facet started in 2019 when three of us left a larger agency that had stopped letting designers talk to the people using the thing. We kept it small on purpose and have turned down the work that would have changed that.
There is no account layer between you and the designers. The person who draws the screen is the person in the call, which means fewer translations and far fewer surprises at the end of a sprint.
Static comps hide everything that matters once a thing moves or has to hold real data. We get to something clickable in week two.
We take four to six projects a year. If we are not the right studio for something we will say so in the first call, usually with a suggestion of who is.
Handoff is not a milestone we are fond of. We stay through build and launch, because that is where most design decisions actually get made.
Founder, interface
Previously ten years across fintech and health. Draws most of the first screens.
Founder, brand
Type and identity. Ran a small foundry before this and still cuts letterforms.
Design engineer
Turns the prototypes into things that survive real data and slow networks.
Applied AI
Works on what a model shows while it thinks, and how it admits it is wrong.
Research
Sits with the people who will use the thing, then argues with us about it.
Lisbon, with two of us in Copenhagen. We work with teams across Europe and North America and have never found the time zones to be the hard part.
Occasionally, after a first project. We do not take retainers cold because neither side knows yet whether it is a good fit.
That is our preference. We ship into your repo, review your pull requests, and write the system docs your team will maintain.
Most engagements land between twenty and seventy thousand euro depending on length. We quote fixed scope per phase, not hourly.