Native iOS engineering
SwiftUI plus considered Swift, built around Apple's HIG. Premium app surfaces, Dynamic Type, App Store-ready architecture from day one.
Studio open for select commissions
A British technology studio building software for how minds actually work.
Dopamine Engine ships its own consumer iOS products and partners with founders, funds, and operators on commissioned engineering, brand systems, and ADHD-informed product work.
Capabilities
Four practices, one register, work that holds up at hero scale and at App Store thumbnail size.
ADHD-informed product design
Research, design, and engineering shaped by neurodivergent users. Anti-engagement-trap patterns, attention as a resource, decisions over throughput.
Brand and motion systems
Identity, type, palette, motion language, illustration. Design systems engineered to scale across native, web, and print without losing the register.
Technical strategy
Architecture review, build versus buy calls, vendor selection, regulatory routing for UK FCA and consumer fintech adjacencies.
Approach
Four principles that shape every product and every commission.
- 01
Quiet by design
No celebratory bursts, no engagement traps, no ambient motion. The work earns the user's attention by being worth the look, not by demanding it.
- 02
Built for how attention actually moves
Patterns shaped by neurodivergent practitioners and lived experience. We test friction the way other studios test conversion.
- 03
Native first, web with intent
Apple's platform when the work belongs there. Considered web when the product needs to live where the user already is. Never a half-built bridge between the two.
- 04
Ship with the founder, not at them
Commissions land as a partnership. Strategy, design, and engineering in one room. We move fast where speed compounds and slow where craft does.
The Studio
Vol. 01
Software for how minds actually work.
Dopamine Engine/Studio/UK/2026
Work with us
Commissioned engineering, brand, and product strategy for the work that warrants it.
We take on a small number of partner projects each year. If you are building something that respects the user, we are open to a conversation.
Engagements
- Native iOS product builds, end to end
- Brand identity, motion language, design systems
- ADHD-informed UX research and product strategy
- Technical due diligence and architecture review