Our story
Seven years of making software people keep open all day
Halftone Atelier started as two designers sharing a desk in Lisbon and a stubborn belief: interfaces should be shaped with the people who use them every day, not handed over in a PDF. We are now eleven designers and engineers across two studios — still small on purpose, still shipping what we draw.
- designers and engineers
- 11
- designers and engineers
- products shipped
- 64
- products shipped
- studios, Lisbon and Rotterdam
- 2
- studios, Lisbon and Rotterdam
2019
Two people, one desk in Lisbon
Inês Carvalho and Joris van Dam leave agency life to work directly with product teams. The first client is a four-person logistics start-up.
2021
First design system in production
Our component library for Pellora ships to 140 engineers. We start writing code alongside every design we deliver.
2022
The Rotterdam studio opens
Joris moves north to open a second studio by the Maas, closer to our clients in the Netherlands and Germany.
2024
Field notes, in public
We publish our research methods and workshop kits as Field Notes. Over 9,000 practitioners now read them each month.
2026
Eleven people, sixty-four products
We turn down more work than we take on, so every project gets a senior designer and engineer from kickoff to launch.