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.
Birdy
A lighter, more playful feel on the same foundation. Softer pacing, same clarity, still easy to move through.
Germs
A louder, more energetic take. A strong visual identity that still stays easy to read and easy to move through.
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.