Websites that feel easy to use.
SkyMochi is a one person studio. I make small websites that feel calm to look at and easy to find your way around. Every page has one obvious thing to do, the reading feels relaxed, and nothing gets in the way of what you came for.
Marketing sites, product pages, and small portfolios. Four week projects with a fixed scope, no ongoing retainers, no heavy CMS to keep up with after you launch.
One homepage. Four weeks. Clear checkpoints.
A fixed scope project with visible milestones. You see the structure of the site before any visuals layer on, and you keep the source files at the end.
A few things I stick to.
The sites I make come out calm because a few habits sit underneath them. These are the ones that matter most.
Structure before style
Before any colors or fonts get picked, every page gets a one sentence purpose, three main sections, and one obvious next step. If the outline reads clearly as plain text, I keep going. If it does not, no amount of styling will rescue it.
Easy on the eyes
The reading has to feel relaxed. Comfortable line height, sensible line length, one serif for headings and one sans for the rest. Small labels stay readable against the background before they make it into the final site.
Motion that guides you along
Soft reveals show up where the eye needs a small nudge to keep moving through the page. Everywhere else stays still. Anyone browsing with reduced motion on gets the site right away, with nothing animating at all.
Four weeks, three checkpoints.
The process is the same whether you need a marketing site or a small portfolio. A fixed scope keeps things moving, which in turn keeps the final site clear and focused.
Skeleton before visuals
We start with a short call, a light audit of your current site, a sitemap, a one page wireframe, and a copy outline. It all lands in a single PDF, and you approve the structure before any design happens.
One page, composed in full
A Figma file for the homepage, a typography and color system, and two visual directions. One round of feedback, then we pick the stronger direction and carry it through the rest of the pages.
Launch and step back
The finished site goes up on your host or mine. You receive the source files, a one page guide to editing them, and two weeks of small fixes after launch.
Products I run alongside client work.
Alongside client sites I keep three of my own products running. They use the same setup, so you can see how the flow feels before committing to anything.
SkyMochi Weather
A weather app meant to be easy to read when you are already thinking about something else. Calm background, one column of hours, a simple color scale for temperature.
Most weather apps fight for your attention with charts, badges, and stacked widgets. SkyMochi Weather earns its space on your home screen by staying out of the way. The current temperature is the headline; the atmosphere — sun, moon, sky color — sits behind the numbers, never in front of them. A glance gives you 80% of what you came for; tap to drill into hourly conditions, sky observation, or stargazing visibility. Built around the idea that calm doesn't mean empty — it means everything is exactly where you'd expect it to be.
Birdy
A bird identification tool that turns local sightings into something you actually want to scroll. Country filters, species search, and confident photography in a card layout.
Birdy started as a question — what does a bird-spotting app feel like when the bird is the page, not a thumbnail in a list? The answer was full-bleed photography, pill filters for country and region, and a single-column carousel that rewards slow scrolling. Search by species or place, then flip through cards stacked by recent sightings. The underlying structure is the same SkyMochi pattern you'd use for any directory site — clear hierarchy, generous breathing room — but the surface lets the photography carry the experience.
TinyGerms
A parent-child learning guide that turns understanding everyday illnesses into something gentle and accurate. Friendly virus characters, plain-language explanations, and a careful medical disclaimer.
TinyGerms is the kind of small site that justifies its own domain. Each common childhood virus — rhinovirus, influenza, RSV — gets a card with a friendly illustration, a one-line summary a kid can repeat back, and a deeper read for the parent. A medical disclaimer sits at the top, prominent but not alarming, so the tone stays informative rather than clinical. The serif title gives a gentle editorial feel; the rest is practical, scannable, and built to be read together at the kitchen table.
How the weather app got calm.
A short build log from SkyMochi Weather. The actual decisions, in the order they happened.
Most weather apps are built for a quick glance. A glance is fine outside, but most of the time I am checking the weather indoors while thinking about something else. I wanted a forecast I could actually read in that kind of mood.
One column. Current conditions at the top, then 48 hours, then 7 days. No sidebar, no tabs. The hourly list is spaced out enough to feel calm, tight enough that you can take it in at a glance.
Color follows temperature. Time of day and weather condition do not shift the palette. A 72 degree hour looks the same at 6am as at 6pm, so your eye learns the scale after a single visit.
The atmosphere sits behind the forecast, softly blurred. It reacts to the current weather and moves slowly enough that the numbers on top of it always stay readable.
The page is useful before the forecast even finishes loading. You can see the layout, the hour slots, the location. The numbers settle in a moment later, and nothing jumps around when they do.
If you want a site that feels more like a clear path than a funnel, let's talk.
Fill out the short brief below and I will get back to you within two business days with availability, a flat price, and the closest site of mine to what you are after. If it is not a fit, I will say so and point you somewhere better.