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Alphaus Studio

Research-led design studio
for interfaces, identities
& information

Services

UI / UX
Brand identity
Information design
AI design

Working

Remote, worldwide
English / Deutsch

Research

02.1 Monagrid — live 02.2 Firn — live 02.3 Top Billing — live 02.4 The Bond Index — live

Products

03.1 Good Company — live

A research-led design studio for interfaces, identities and information.

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Alphaus Studio — research-led design studio for interfaces, identities and information

01

What we do

  1. 01.1

    UI / UX

    Product interfaces, flows and design systems, from first research to shipped code.

  2. 01.2

    Brand identity

    Marks, wordmarks, type, colour & brand systems, and the guidelines that keep them in shape.

  3. 01.3

    Information design

    Maps, charts and explorable data that make complex material clear, for institutions, media and products.

  4. 01.4

    AI design

    Interfaces for AI products, and AI inside the process: faster prototypes, generated assets, sharper research.

02

Research

02.1 — Colour in art

MonagridLive

The colours of the great paintings, measured. Each work is split into an adaptive grid of its own colours, Renaissance to Bauhaus.

Works
509
Artists
129
Swatches
224
monagrid.art
Fig. 01Hover the painting to look closer
02.2 — Alpine glaciers

FirnLive

An open atlas of all 1,400 Swiss glaciers: how far they reached in 1850, how fast they are melting, and what may be left by 2100.

Glaciers
1,400
Ice 1850
1,788km²
Ice 2016
961km²

Built on the Swiss Glacier Inventories, GLAMOS measurements, swisstopo relief and OGGM projections.

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18501,788 km²glacier ice
Glacier ice Ice lost since 1850Inventories 1850–2016 · SSP2-4.5 to 2100, future extents illustrative
02.3 — Hollywood pay

Top BillingLive

Hollywood’s highest-paid actor and actress for every year since 1916: who topped the bill, what they earned and where the money came from.

Years
110
Stars
93
Record
$270M

Built on U.S. Treasury salary lists, reported deals and Forbes rankings; estimates are marked as such.

topbilling.alphausstudio.com
1916
Actor Actress · dashed = estimate · log scaleMove across to go through the years
02.4 — James Bond

The Bond IndexLive

Who was the best James Bond? Fifteen categories, from critics and box office to kills, villains and martinis, compiled into one score you can re-weight.

Bonds
6
Films
26
Categories
15

Built on Rotten Tomatoes, IMDb, inflation-adjusted box office, 10 public polls and 26 published rankings; refreshed monthly.

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15 of 15 categories onCraig leads Connery by 7.8
Switch categories on and off and the lineup re-formsScores from The Bond Index
03

Products

03.1 — Focus companion

Good CompanyLive

A pixel office that keeps you company while you work from home: coworkers, chatter, coffee runs, focus blocks and a nudge at home time.

Coworkers
18
Open
24h
Price
Free

Runs in the browser and installs as an app. The office follows your clock, from the morning stand-up to the night crew; its sounds are public-domain recordings.

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The office at your local timeScreens from Good Company
04

About

Alphaus Studio is a small, remote, research-led design studio. We work with founders and product teams on interfaces and identities, and we publish research of our own: open atlases built from public data.

Founder
Peter Urfer
Where
Remote, worldwide
Languages
English, Deutsch
For
Founders, product teams, institutions
Approach
Research first, then design
05

Contact

Have a project in mind? Write to us.

Alphaus Studio © 2026 UI / UX · Brand identity · Information design · AI design

Eiger, Mönch & Jungfrau from Schynige Platte · engraved from swisstopo elevation data