A Constant Work In Progress
We’re changing the way we share updates. WIP by design.
What used to be Konpo’s neat little highlight reel of polished case studies is now Work In Progress: a space to show what we’re building, fixing, and figuring out along the way
We’ll still drop the milestone recap, just with a bit of the spice that spills out from behind the scenes. Showing polished work is good, but it never represents reality.
What does it actually look like to design with an Apple team? How do we organize our Figma files? How do we find a middle ground with engineering? What are the decisions that go into the structure of a site? How do you scale design to serve a large product org?
That’s what world-class design looks like: understanding the problem, knowing limitations of a tech stack, and making compromises through iteration. All this, peppered with talent and experience in the field — the very space that forged us and where we do our best work.
Why pull back the curtain now?
Because after hundreds of conversations with founders, CMOs, and product leads, we kept hearing the same tune:
“We spent six figures and got nothing but decks and delays.”
“There were five people with C-titles on the call… and not one person doing the work.”
“The visuals were beautiful, but disconnected from implementation realities.”
And realised we never want to become that.
So we want to remind ourselves (and everyone in our circle) of what not to be. And that means showing the messy files that make up the reality of what gets paraded online.
So if you’ll indulge me for a moment, I want to put into words what Konpo is and what it should always be.
The Studio Manifesto
We’re not an agency. We’re a studio.
Agencies sell “scale” — execs on every call, parading success stories from people that don’t work there anymore and juniors in the background scrambling to deliver on time. Months of process riddled by account managers who play a game of telephone before anything ships, if at all.
That’s not us.
We’ve kept ourselves lean and remained connected with the tools. Being an eternal work in progress.
A single 10x designer can drive more value than an army of UX bootcamp graduates. Betting on that belief has shaped who we are and the work we do. It’s the foundation that has worked for us.
Since 2015, we’ve partnered with Social Networks, Governments, Presidents, Unicorns, Startups, and Fortune 500.
Our work is actively used by millions and generates billions in value for our clients. It lives at the top of Product Hunt, gets talked about in the obscure corners of HackerNews, appears in Apple Keynotes, gets featured on the cover of Forbes and smiles from the top of the App Store.
Our work lives in the wild of the internet. Not in an email attachment.
We’re built for launch — not lunch meetings
We’re a lean team of senior talent
We design for downloads AND daily use
We make work that ages like wine, not milk.
We cut the bloat — never the craft.
We’re calling this Work In Progress because that’s exactly what we are and always will be — a studio that keeps learning, iterating, and sharpening what we build, together with you.
Til’ the next one! ✌