Studio

Four people, three cities, one table.

Halfturn started in Lisbon in 2016 with one rule: the people who design something should be the people who build it. Ten years later there are four of us, spread across three time zones, and the rule has not changed.

We work with a small number of companies at a time, mostly for years rather than months. If you are looking for a studio that will still answer your email after launch, you are in the right place.

How we work

Four rules

Design and build are one job.

The person who chooses a transition writes it. That keeps decisions cheap and stops good ideas dying in a hand-off document.

Small on purpose.

Four people, four projects a quarter. You get the whole studio, not the junior team a larger agency would staff you with.

Explain before you sell.

Every headline we write for you has to make sense to a stranger in one read. No coined words, no mystery.

Stay after launch.

Six months of care is in every contract: fixes within a day, a monthly analytics review and a system your team can keep.

The team

Hiring: none right now

Lisbon

Founder, design director

Tomás Reis

Started Halfturn in 2016 after eight years of watching designs change on the way to production.

Oslo

Partner, engineering

Ingvild Haugen

Writes the front-end architecture and the design system code. Former rail-signalling engineer.

Montréal

Product designer

Camille Roy

Leads research and interface design. Ran 60 patient sessions for Sundial.

Lisbon

Creative developer

Mateus Lima

Builds the WebGL, the motion and anything that needs to run at sixty frames a second.

10+

Years in practice

64+

Launches

22+

Clients who came back

Cities

Where we are

Lisbon

Rua da Boavista 84, 1200-066 Lisboa

Here: Tomás, Mateus

Oslo

Møllergata 12, 0179 Oslo

Here: Ingvild

Montréal

5445 Avenue de Gaspé, Montréal H2T 3B2

Here: Camille

Work with the four of us.

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