Director @exaltxstudio • Product design for AI + SaaS. Sharing the reality of building a design studio, winning work & creating better products. Glory to God ✟
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Ellie | Exalt Studio retweeted
60 sign ups so far!
Working hard to develop this platform into an incredible tool for designers.
Anyone interested in beta testing, DM me.
I've been building something new.
I love building with Claude Code, but I keep running into the same problem.
It can write the code. It just doesn't know my taste.
The references I love, the details I obsess over, the design decisions I'd make.
So I built Attuna.
A way to give your AI coding agents your own creative direction.
Early access waitlist is open:
attuna.design
Ellie | Exalt Studio retweeted
I've been building something new.
I love building with Claude Code, but I keep running into the same problem.
It can write the code. It just doesn't know my taste.
The references I love, the details I obsess over, the design decisions I'd make.
So I built Attuna.
A way to give your AI coding agents your own creative direction.
Early access waitlist is open:
attuna.design
There’s something so hype about Q4, summer is over, time to lock in for the winter. I feel like the dark gloomy days make hyper focus so much easier to achieve.
Some people slow down in the winter, I feel I’m the opposite 🤣
DITL running a tiny product design studio ✨
Client work, calls, content, admin. Oh and matcha, obviously.
No two days at Exalt really look the same and I think that’s why I love it 💁🏼♀️
Ellie | Exalt Studio retweeted
Product UI and marketing site work for Openlane.
6+ months working embedded with the team to totally revamp their product UI in light and dark mode, refreshing their marketing website and improving various UX issues.
They regularly got feedback from their customers on how much better the product experience was after they implement our designs.
Ellie | Exalt Studio retweeted
A day behind the scenes at Exalt.
Client work. Design reviews. Calls. Content. Building.
There are only two of us running the studio day-to-day, so we stay pretty close to everything!
A little look at what that actually looks like ↓
What would you want to ask a design studio owner?
We’ve realised we show a lot of the finished work and not much of what it actually takes to run Exalt.
So we’re going to change that.
- Sales calls.
- Proposals.
- Pricing.
- Design decisions.
- AI workflows.
- Building our own products.
- Running a small team.
Not interested in becoming an “agency growth” account.
Just sharing what we’re actually learning while building one as two people who launched an agency in their 20's.
What would you genuinely like to see more of?
Ellie | Exalt Studio retweeted
We rebuilt Exalt from scratch to better reflect the studio we’ve become.
Less generic agency messaging.
More product work.
Better case studies.
Clearer positioning around AI + SaaS.
We also ditched Framer this time and designed + built the whole thing with Figma and Claude Code.
Feels much more like us.
exalt-studio.com/
Ellie | Exalt Studio retweeted
Plenty still to improve but loving this new version of the Exalt Studio website.
Ellie | Exalt Studio retweeted
One of the biggest things agency work teaches you is how quickly you need to understand unfamiliar businesses.
Monday: you know almost nothing about an industry.
A few weeks later: you're debating workflow edge cases with people who've worked in it for 15 years.
Learning quickly is probably one of the most underrated design skills.