Independent software design studio · Chicago / Remote
We build focused digital products for modern work, everyday wellbeing, and the communities between them.
Three applications. One point of view: clarity earns trust.
What we do
Thorman partners with ambitious organizations and also operates our own applications—keeping our craft accountable to real users and real outcomes.
Shape a useful proposition, roadmap, and reason to exist.
Turn complex systems into calm, legible interactions.
Build resilient products from prototype through release.
Our applications
Each product serves a different kind of progress. Choose the one that fits the work in front of you.
01 / Collaborative research
A calm workspace for interviews, observations, and evidence. Fieldnote helps product teams turn scattered learning into shared direction.
Faster synthesis
Shared evidence
Decisions with context
02 / Independent wellbeing
Private, practical support for steadier days. Harbor brings guided reflection, simple routines, and human coaching into one considered place.
Private by design
Five-minute practices
Human guidance
03 / Community operations
The member platform for groups that gather with purpose. Plan programs, welcome people, and understand what keeps a community thriving.
One member record
Simple programming
Meaningful signals
How we work
Senior designers and engineers stay close to the work. No relay races, no inflated teams, no disappearing act after launch.
Define the user, tension, and smallest meaningful promise.
Prototype the riskiest ideas early and learn in the open.
Build the system carefully, from interaction to infrastructure.
Measure what matters and evolve the product with its people.
Evidence over theater
We measure success in changed behavior, durable systems, and teams that feel more capable than when we arrived.
42%
less time from research to decision
3.2×
more active community participation
88%
of Harbor members return each week
Trusted by Alder Health · Northline Foundation · Arcwell · City Bureau · Hightower Cooperative
The people in the room
We are designers, researchers, and engineers who prefer thoughtful questions, direct collaboration, and leaving the work better than we found it.
Founder & Design Director
Partner, Engineering
Product Strategy Lead
Principal Designer
Research Lead
Staff Engineer
