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Lisbon · New York Founded 2017 Vol. 09

Independent Creative Technology Studio

Brands, products, and digital
experiences that move people forward.

Mewan pairs brand strategy with product engineering inside a single senior team, so the people who sketch the idea also ship the interface and write the code. Since 2017 we have launched 140+ products for founders in 11 countries.

Start a project → Read how we work
Two members of the Mewan studio reviewing printed brand work at a desk.
Plate I — Founding partners Mira & Jon co-directing the Loop identity system, Lisbon studio, autumn 2024. Photograph by Inês Tavares.
  1. 140+ Launches shipped since 2017
  2. 11 Countries served
  3. 78 NPS across 40 engagements
  4. 11w Average kickoff to launch
  5. 92% Referral & repeat work

How we work

Four chapters. Eleven weeks. One senior team from start to ship.

Every engagement follows the same four-part table of contents. The founding partners personally staff each chapter — there is no handoff to juniors and no separate account layer.

  1. 01

    Discover

    A two-week immersion with your team. Stakeholder interviews, competitive audit, and a written positioning brief you keep regardless of whether we ship together.

    Week 1 – 2

  2. 02

    Define

    We lock the strategy, the surface area, and the success metric before a single pixel moves. The deliverable is a fixed scope and a fixed price.

    Week 3

  3. 03

    Design

    Brand system, interface architecture, and motion language developed in parallel, reviewed in two structured working sessions per week.

    Week 4 – 8

  4. 04

    Ship

    Production engineering, accessibility pass, analytics, and a public launch supported by a written 14-day satisfaction guarantee on every sprint.

    Week 9 – 11

A note from the people who do the work

We left Apple and Stripe to build the studio we wished we could have hired.

Mewan started in 2017 around a kitchen table in Lisbon. Mira had spent six years on Apple's Human Interface team shipping the first generation of SwiftUI components. Jon had been an engineering lead at Stripe rebuilding the payments dashboard. We kept watching founders we admired hire a strategy boutique, a brand studio, a product agency, and a separate engineering shop — and then spend a year translating between them.

So we built the opposite. Fourteen senior practitioners in two offices. The partners who pitch the work are the partners who design and engineer it. No bench, no outsourcing, no junior handoff. Our average project goes live in eleven weeks, our Net Promoter Score across the last forty engagements is 78, and ninety-two percent of new work arrives as a referral or a repeat engagement. That ratio is the only marketing metric we take seriously.

If that sounds like the kind of team you have been trying to hire, write to us directly. We answer every founder ourselves.

Portrait of Mira Costa, founding partner and creative director of Mewan.

Mira Costa

Founding Partner, Design

Formerly Apple Human Interface team

Portrait of Jon Halberstadt, founding partner and engineering lead of Mewan.

Jon Halberstadt

Founding Partner, Engineering

Formerly Stripe Payments platform

Direct line to the partners

If you are weighing a brand or product build this quarter, write to us directly.

We answer every founder ourselves within one working day. A thirty-minute discovery call with Mira or Jon is the fastest way to know whether Mewan is the right studio for your engagement.

Start a project → Or read more about the studio

Mewan Studio Lda. · Rua da Madalena 184, 2º Esq., 1200-322 Lisboa, Portugal · +1 (212) 555-0184