MANU

Who

MANU is me, Manu. I design websites and then I build them.

I started making things for the web because I wanted to change how something looked and found out I could. That hasn't really worn off. The difference now is that the work has to hold up for other people — their customers, their reputation, their phone on a bad connection.

I work alone on purpose. Nothing gets diluted passing between a designer, a developer and an account manager, because there aren't any. You get one person who is responsible for all of it.

Belief

A website can work perfectly and still be forgettable. That's the part I'm interested in.

Function is the floor. Loading fast, working on every screen, staying readable and navigable — that's the baseline every site owes you. Above it sits everything that makes one memorable: atmosphere, rhythm, pacing, restraint. The reasons a site feels like somewhere you went.

So I care about the things that live outside a spec. How long a transition takes. Whether the type sits right at 380px wide. Whether the third scroll feels as considered as the first.

And it has to work. A site earns its looks by being usable first — beauty that survives a phone on bad signal is the only kind worth building.

Facts

Status: Independent. Taking on select projects.
Discipline: Design, front-end development, art direction.
Scope: From a single-page site to a working web application.
Approach: Design and development handled by the same person, start to finish.
Pricing: Fixed per project, agreed up front.
Tooling: I run my own self-hosted AI, which handles the repetitive parts of development so I can spend the time on design.
Works with: People who care how the result looks and feels.