I spent 5+ years designing interfaces — product flows, dashboards, mobile apps — at an agency. I got good at understanding what makes people click, convert, and come back.
Then I noticed a pattern: the sites I was handing off to developers were coming back slower, heavier, and harder to rank. Good design was getting buried under bad code. So I learned to build the whole thing myself — design, development, SEO, and performance — and went solo.
akay.design is the result. A one-person operation that works like a focused team: sharp design decisions, clean code, and a site that actually shows up on Google when your customers go looking.
I work with small businesses, restaurants, and early-stage founders who are tired of invisible, slow websites that don't convert. Most projects go live in two weeks. Every one is built from scratch — no templates, no page builders, no bloat.
No hand-holding required.
One point of contact
You talk to me — not a project manager, not an account exec, not a junior. I design it, build it, and optimise it. That's why decisions happen fast and nothing gets lost in translation.
Design that actually ships
I use Figma to show you exactly what you're getting before a line of code is written. No surprises on delivery. What you approved in the mockup is what goes live.
Performance as a baseline
Sub-second load times aren't an upgrade — they're the default. Every site is built on a modern stack (Astro, Next.js, or Shopify depending on the brief) and deployed on Vercel or Cloudflare Pages.
SEO baked in, not bolted on
Schema markup, canonical tags, sitemap, robots.txt, Core Web Vitals — all done at build time, not as an afterthought. Your site is ready for Google before it goes live.
Whatever fits the job.
I'm not religious about tools. I pick what's right for the brief — fast static sites when speed is everything, Shopify when e-commerce is the job, Webflow when the client needs full editorial control.
Let's build something sharp.
A free 20-minute call is all it takes to know if we're a fit.