Orpheus
One honest conversation a day.
A cozy journaling companion that reads your day and writes back, in character.
Purplecapybara
Software you’ll actually want to keep.
A design studio in Vancouver with the temperament of its mascot: calm on the surface, obsessive underneath.
Brand identity. Mascots. Interfaces. Scroll stories. Motion. Copy. Web apps. Launch pages. All made here, start to finish.
What we do
Design people can feel.
Brand, interface, motion, and the product itself — all under one roof, so nothing gets lost in a handoff and nothing comes out generic.
Brand & characters
Names, voices, and mascots people remember. A shark in a grad cap, a pixel-art poet, a capybara on the homepage — personality you’d happily wear on a hoodie.
Product & interface
Every screen drawn for a thumb first: calm layouts, honest words, and small moments of delight that make an app feel like it was made for you.
Motion & scroll stories
Pages that unfold like a film — including the one you’re scrolling right now. Motion that explains instead of distracts, and respects reduced-motion settings.
Shipped, not just shown
No handing over a mockup and vanishing. Everything we design goes live, feels instant on a phone, and keeps getting better after launch.
Welcome to Purple Capybara
Shared roots
Every product grows from the same roots.
The same taste, the same care, the same obsessive eye — so a journal, a planner, and a community all feel unmistakably ours.
Out of sight
The noise stays underground.
The complicated parts hum away where nobody has to see them. On the surface: soft light, clear words, and screens that never shout.
From one pair of hands,
a whole forest of software.
The work
Real products, live right now.
Not concept shots or case studies — things you can open on your phone today. Each one named, designed, written, and shipped here.
cashout.community
Elevate your baseline.
A high-leverage community for ambitious young people, creatives, and immigrants.
GPA Shark
Know what’s due and what it’s worth.
Every VIU deadline and grade weight, read from the real course outlines.
Independent student project — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Vancouver Island University.
The brief
What people want from software right now.
We design for people who grew up online and are a little tired of it.
Less feed, more finish.
Nobody’s asking for another infinite scroll. People want an app that does its one job beautifully, then lets them get on with their day.
Character over templates.
When every site starts to look the same, a point of view is what people remember: a mascot, a voice, a detail someone clearly obsessed over.
Private by default.
No ads, no creepy tracking, everything yours to take with you. Trust isn’t a footer link anymore — it’s a feature people check for.
Rooms, not audiences.
The good stuff has moved from public feeds into smaller spaces — group chats, pods, communities where people actually know each other.
So every product starts from the same brief. It’s for someone on their phone, between things. It should feel calm, a little delighted, and never judged. It never uses ads, dark patterns, or streak guilt. It loads before the bus doors close. And it’s done when they show it to a friend.
Unbothered is a feature.
The bet
Attention is earned, not farmed.
The loudest apps win the week. The calm ones win the year. We’d rather make the thing people come back to because they want to — not because a red dot told them to.
No dark patterns.
No fake countdowns, no guilt trips, no tricks.
No streak guilt.
Miss a day and nothing bad happens.
Private by default.
No ads, no creepy tracking. Your stuff stays yours.
Phone-first, always.
Designed for a thumb, then scaled up.