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Week 1
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Listen.
We start with your customers, your market and what is not working today. A rough brief is a fine brief.
Web design studio · Kampala, Uganda
Websites designedto feel alive.
We are a small studio in Kampala that designs and builds websites. Nothing else. Considered, fast, and made to last.
Most websites in Uganda look the same because they were built the same way. We start from a blank page and your ambition, and we do not stop until the work could only belong to you.
Selected work
Recent projects
What we do
Only websites. Four ways.
Built from scratch
Not another template.
Most websites in Uganda are the same WordPress theme with different logos. Slow, heavy, and forgettable. Yours is designed and coded by hand, for you alone.
Quick money
- A theme bought for $59
- Your logo dropped in
- Delivered in a weekend
- Forgotten by Monday
Real work
- Designed around your customers
- Coded by hand, line by line
- Built because we love this
- Made to be proud of
Templates are quick money. We do this out of passion. A serious business deserves serious work, and you should feel every shilling was well spent.
How we buildThe usual
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Pearl, from scratch
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Hand-coded. Loaded before they finished spinning.
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How we work
Five moves, one obsession
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Week 2
Move 02
Shape.
Structure and a creative direction with real teeth. You see it before we build anything.
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Weeks 3–6
Move 03
Craft.
Design and build in weekly sprints. Type, motion, imagery, code. Every pixel earns its place.
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Week 7
Move 04
Launch.
Fast, on your own domain, with training for your team. We hold your hand through the first week live.
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Ongoing
Move 05
Keep.
We stay close. A website is never finished, only kept. Care, updates, new pages as you grow.
Why Pearl
Fast.
Quick to build. Precise to the pixel.
Honest.
We say what we mean. We ship what we show.
Yours.
You own it all. Your data stays yours. That’s our promise.
Kampala.
Born here. Built here
The studio
Made in Kampala. Measured against the world.
We are designers and engineers who grew up here and worked everywhere. We came back to build websites that make Ugandan businesses impossible to ignore.
Fast on mobile data. Beautiful on any screen. Yours forever.
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Journal
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One conversation. No pitch deck, no jargon. Your idea, and how we would bring it to life.
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