Meet the minds behind Pixe lyte.
A small, opinionated studio obsessed with the intersection of restraint and results. We design websites that look like nothing else — and convert like everything they should.
Our story.
Pixe lyte started in 2019 as a side project between a designer who lived in Kyoto and an engineer who could not stand a slow website. One wanted things to feel quiet. The other wanted them to feel fast. The studio is what happened when those two instincts stopped arguing and started shipping.
Today we work with founders, small teams, and creative agencies who refuse to look like a template. Our process borrows from ma — the Japanese idea that the space between things matters as much as the things themselves — and bends it toward something measurable: pages that load instantly, copy that actually says something, and funnels that quietly do their job.
We are deliberately small. Most projects are run by the people who pitched them. You will never be handed off to a junior, and we will never accept work we cannot do well.
What we believe.
Craft over speed
We would rather ship one perfect section than ten rushed ones.
Curiosity first
We ask why before we ask how. Strategy beats decoration, always.
Outcomes obsessed
Beautiful is the floor. Conversion is the ceiling we keep raising.
Honest partnership
No agency theater. You will always know exactly what we are doing and why.
The team.
Three humans, one studio, zero middlemen.
Ren Kobayashi
Founder & Design Director
Sofia Marquez
UX Strategist
Theo Brandt
Lead Engineer