Sponge Muse was created to help users interact with intention through design that tells a story, imagery that entices emotion, and creative systems that just work. This isn’t just a design studio; it’s a way of working that puts meaning before trend and affordance before polish.
Every project starts by listening to clients, users, and environments. From there, we utilize research, prototyping, and validation in a recycled format to keep interfaces sharp. It’s about clarity, not complexity. Depth, not decoration. And creating experiences that people remember because they felt something or intentionally didn’t.
CAPTURE
Sponge Muse begins with listening deeply. Absorbing stories, environments, client needs, and user’s goals. It’s a practice built on empathy and presence, where meaning is uncovered through dialogue, research, and experiences. Every design, photo, or interaction starts by understanding what’s there before designing what could be.
Our toolkit allows us to be flexible, our execution is determined with intention. Deciding what is truly necessary in our discovery research is an art, but not our client’s experience. Our clients experience result driven designs backed by our research and your users feel noticed with intentful solutions
Once we have a clear definition of the field, Sponge Muse approaches the play with intent. Design is beautiful when approached correctly, and disastrous when it isn’t. It allows us to interact with the world in ways that increase our productivity and can give us additional bandwidth to concentrate on what matters most.
DESIGN
DESIGN
Once the landscape is clear, Sponge Muse shapes it with rhythm and story. This is where systems, visuals, and flows come to life—through frameworks that balance research with intuition, aesthetics with functionality, and user needs with brand voice.
Joe brings a process-driven lens to every medium—whether crafting UX flows, visual identities, or editorial photography. Design here means deliberate creation: art that serves, systems that resonate, and visuals that feel both lived-in and cinematic.
RELEASE
Design doesn’t end when it’s handed off it’s really just the beginning. So many times important work is shelved and never released in the wild. We strongly discourage this. Your work, time, finances, and growth are as important to us as it is to you. And we get it, design can be daunting, it can shake the boat but it can also correct the course. We don’t allow our work to fall through cracks.
Some Work
Joe is a passionate, knowledgeable UX practitioner who always strives to create the best possible design solution. One of his key strengths is the ability to immediately establish rapport during facilitation, and on our last project—agent satisfaction rose 40% nearly immediately upon deployment.
Working with Joe starts with the right questions. He always made sure he truly understood the ‘Why’ before jumping into mockups. It kept our projects lean, focused, and successful.
