Photography UI/UX Branding
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Nickolas Taki
UI/UXBrandingPhotography

Product UI/UX, branding & content.

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Ten years across design, photography and content, now building products end to end. Most recently Numeral, a numerology app I designed and built solo. It is live on the web and in review on both app stores.

hello@example.com Numeral case study

Brampton, Ontario. Working with clients across the GTA and remote.

Services

What I do

One person, whole stack. You brief once and get a system instead of a folder of files.

UI/UX & Product

App and web product design from first sketch to shipped build. I design for what actually gets made, because I build it too.

  • User flows, wireframes and clickable prototypes
  • Design systems, components and interaction states
  • Front end build in React and Tailwind
  • App store prep, onboarding and subscription screens

Branding

Identity that survives contact with the real world. Not a logo on a slide, a system you can hand to a printer, a developer or a manufacturer.

  • Naming, logo and mark design
  • Type systems, colour and usage rules
  • Packaging and print production files
  • Brand guidelines your team can follow without me

Photo & Video

Shot, retouched, cut and graded in house. No coordinating three vendors to get one campaign out the door.

  • Product, packaging and studio work
  • Real estate and automotive
  • Portraits, people and pets
  • Short form video for social and paid

Web & Email

Fast sites and lifecycle email that earns its place in an inbox. My background started in email marketing, so this is not an afterthought.

  • Landing pages and full marketing sites
  • Campaign and automation design
  • Template systems your team can reuse

Social Content

Content systems built to batch once and cut for every platform, instead of starting from zero every week.

  • Content pillars and rollout calendars
  • Ad creative built to be tested
  • Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube
About me

Designer and developer building intuitive products and the brands that carry them.

10Years in the work
2016Studio founded
7Disciplines in house
1App shipped solo

I started in media and email marketing, moved into design and photography, and have run my own studio in Brampton since 2016. The last couple of years pushed me into product. I learned to build what I design, which changed how I design.

Selected work

Latest portfolio

Product design, brand builds and a decade of client shoots. Pick whichever is closest to what you need.

Product · Case study

Numeral

A numerology app running on five systems and a daily 11:11 window. Concept, brand, interface, content and build. All mine.

 Identity

Brand identity

Logos and identity systems, from numbered concept sheets to the final suite.

 Packaging

Stripe

A vape line designed inside heavy regulation. Dielines through to the launch shoot.

 Client · Retail

VapeMeet

One retailer, every channel. Launches, sales, signage and the notices nobody else wanted to design.

 Photography

Products

Location and studio product work built for listings and ads.

 Photography

People & Pets

Portraits, brand shoots and a fair number of very good dogs.

 Photography

Vehicles

Full sets and feature shoots for dealers, detailers and owners.

 Photography

Real estate

Homes and commercial spaces, shot as one consistent set.
Questions

Before you ask

The four things that come up in almost every first call.

How do you price

Fixed project fees for defined scopes, monthly retainers for ongoing work. You get the number before anything starts, and it does not move unless the scope does.

What does a project look like

A short call, a written scope with a fixed price, then a first pass within a week. Two rounds of revisions are included on most work. You get the source files at the end, not just exports.

Can you handle everything

Usually yes, and that is the point. Brand, interface, photography, video and the site can all come from one place, which is faster and cheaper than briefing four vendors who never talk to each other.

Do you work remote

Design and product work, anywhere. Anything needing a camera is Brampton and the wider Toronto area, or travel by arrangement.

Let's talk

hello@example.com

Brampton, Ontario