CATYOBI STUDIO · SOUTH FLORIDA · EST. 2025

I design systems.

Some of them grow in the ground.

Catyobi Studio is a workshop for ideas that won’t sit still. Each one takes the shape it needs — apps, games, books, gardens, and resources for others to build on.

→ explore the work

→ read the field notes

			
current.log // now
● Dreamaker landing page
● Catyobi Studio site
◐ Signals — TestFlight soon
◐ OpenLoops — in progress
○ Spring in a Box Game
Updated June 2026

		

STUDIO.MANIFESTO — EXPLORE · DOCUMENT · BUILD

**A studio for exploring, documenting, and building.**

Not bound to one medium. Every project starts the same way — curiosity, observation, a story worth telling — and then it takes whatever shape it needs.

Some become apps. Some become books. Some become games. Some become gardens. And some become resources for other people to build on.

Apps

Interfaces for noticing, thinking, and keeping track.

Signals · OpenLoops · Pocket Apothecary

Books

Essays and guides, gathered into something you can hold.

Essays · growing guides · in progress

Games

Play as a way to learn living systems and their cycles.

Spring in a Box · board games

Gardens

A five-acre farm kept and read as a living system.

Herbs · soil · seasons

Resources

Things others can learn from, teach with, and build on.

Growing guides · teaching

// the common thread — curiosity, observation, documentation, and building

fig_01 · UX/UI · iOS App

Dreamaker

Emotionally intelligent onboarding for a personal growth app. 9-screen flow, visual system, Sidekick character. Account creation delayed until after value is demonstrated.

Figma · UX Research · Prototyping · Visual Design

fig_02 · Collaboration · Product Design

WTRway

A collaboration project pairing product and interface design with a clear user journey. Case study in progress.

UX/UI · Collaboration · Prototyping

fig_03 · Forming

Future case studies

New client and collaboration work is taking shape. Write-ups will land here as projects close out.

UX/UI · Research · Strategy

fig_04 · forming…

Have a project?

Open to UX, product, and design collaborations. Tell me what you’re building.

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BUILT.BY_STUDIO — THINGS MADE HERE

GARDEN

GAME

FLAGSHIP

Spring in a Box

A five-acre agroecology farm in South Florida, a growing library of guides for herbs and soil, and a farm game in the works. Presented here as one of the studio’s creations — it lives on its own at springinabox.com.

→ springinabox.com

obj_01

APP

Signals

An AI project exploring pattern recognition in complex systems — from first observation through interface.

◐ concept

obj_02

APP

OpenLoops

A tool for tracking open ideas and slow-moving projects. Built for the multipotentialite mind.

● in progress

obj_03

APP

Pocket Apothecary

A pocket guide to herbs and remedies, drawn straight from the farm and its growing library.

○ exploring

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BOOK

Books & guides

Essays and growing guides, gathered into something you can hold. Slowly taking shape.

◐ forming

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GAME

Board games

Play as a way to teach living systems — soil, seasons, and the cycles that hold them together.

● in progress

obj_06 · forming…

Not yet named

Some projects haven’t chosen their shape yet. Follow the Field Notes to watch them emerge.

→ follow the field notes

ABOUT.MD

I came to design through making things with my hands.

I trained as an industrial designer and spent over a decade in product development — physical objects, manufacturing processes, the long logic of things that have to work in the real world. Then I started a farm.

Spring in a Box taught me what no design school did: that the most complex systems are living ones, that observation is a discipline, and that care is a design principle.

I applied those lessons to UX, then to AI, then to app development. I’m a woman in my 40s who went back to school, learned to code, and built a company in South Florida. I work in English and Spanish. I write about what I learn.

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CREDENTIALS.LOG