baseline · 8pt gridoklch · perceptual color

Design thatships.Built in code.

Aplash’s in-house studio designs brand, product, web, and campaigns for companies entering Japan, and proves the craft the only honest way: this whole page is the portfolio, hand-built in the browser, every element interactive.

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We don’t hand over flat mockups. We build design live, in the browser, so what you approve is exactly what ships. Real states, real motion, real responsiveness. Craft you can click.

100%Built in code, not slides
Works in any language
0Templates. Every pixel intentional
What we make

Four disciplines,
one studio.

Every capability below is demonstrated, not described. Touch the demos. They are the same components we build for clients.

Scroll the panels. The index follows along, the way a good interface always tells you where you are.

01UI / UX Product Design

Interfaces people actually finish.

Dashboards, apps, and flows engineered around real tasks, not decoration. We design in the browser so every state, transition, and edge case is real before a line of production code is written.

app.client.jp / dashboard
2.4k
Active users
98%
Uptime
+34%
MoM growth
Live data stream
Design systemsInteractive prototypesUsability testingHandoff specs
02Brand Identity

A system, not a logo.

Identity built as living tokens: color in OKLCH for perceptual consistency, type scales on a baseline grid, motion rules. Everything tunable, everything documented, everything ready for Japan and beyond.

L 96
L 88
L 76
L 64
L 52
L 40
Hue348°
Chroma0.16
Logo & marksColor systemsBrand guidelinesToken libraries
03Website & Landing Design

Pages that load fast and convert.

Editorial layouts that hold up on any screen, from a phone on a train to a 27-inch display. Type-led, grid-disciplined, and ready for any language. Built as code, so what you approve is exactly what ships.

72 / 900Ag
44 / 900Design that ships
28 / 700Built in the browser
18 / 400Every glyph on a baseline grid, kerned, hinted, intentional.
13 / 700APLASH · OSAKA × HONG KONG
Landing pagesType systemsResponsive buildBilingual EN / JA
04Marketing & Campaign Design

Concepts that travel across markets.

Campaign systems flexible enough to flex across languages, formats, and channels without losing their voice. Equally at home in any market you are entering.

2026EN / 日本語
Enter Japan
with craft.
CAMPAIGN · LAUNCH
市場参入01

OMOSHIROI · INTERESTING
Campaign conceptsSocial & adsPrint & OOHMotion assets
How we work

From brief to launch.

A milestone-driven process where you review real, interactive work at every step, never a surprise at the end.

01

Discover

We learn your market, audience, and the cultural context of launching in Japan, then define what success looks like.

02

Define

Strategy, scope, and a design-system foundation. Tokens, type, and principles agreed before we design a single screen.

03

Design

Built live in the browser. You review real, interactive work, not flat mockups, and steer at every milestone.

04

Deliver

Production-ready files, documented systems, and bilingual handoff. We stay on through launch and iteration.

A universal language

Good design needs
no translation.

Beautiful work does not ask what language you speak. We hold every project to one global standard, then tune the nuance for whatever market you are entering, Japan included.

  • 01
    One global standard
    World-class craft first. Every project is held to the same bar, the market never lowers it.
  • 02
    Adapts to any audience
    Layouts that breathe in any script: English, 日本語, left-to-right or right-to-left. Composition that travels without losing its voice.
  • 03
    Precision & restraint
    Grid-disciplined, generous whitespace, nothing arbitrary. The kind of taste any audience feels before they can name it.
Teinei · Careful · Considered · Thorough

A principle we borrow from Japanese craft: treat every detail with care. It is not about one market, it is how good design earns trust anywhere in the world.

Start a project

Let us design
your move into Japan.

Brand, product, web, or campaign: booked through Aplash, built in-house, delivered bilingual. Tell us what you are launching.

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Design Services in Japan | Branding, UI/UX & Campaigns | Aplash