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Pacific Helm is a small design studio located in downtown San Francisco.

We specialize in iOS and Mac application design with work expanding out to icons, logos, websites, marketing material, games, and motion graphics for various platforms.

Whether it's creating interfaces from scratch or consulting for your product, we'd love to work with you.

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UI Design

With a set of features in place, our team will work with you to figure out how it all fits together. We begin by examining your company's goals and your audience's needs, and take to the whiteboard to sketch out an application with a place for everything and everything in its place.

Through whiteboarding sessions, wire framing, and interactive mockups we will create a a system you can grow into and an interface that feels instinctual.

Visual Design

Good user interfaces ensure understanding of how your app works, but a layer of visual polish delights and engages users. From the most minimal app to the most visually rich, we strive for detail and precision down to each [sub] pixel.

Icon Design

An icon helps to marry the design sensibilities of your application with the visual aesthetic applied to it. We focus on communicating this through unique shapes, colors, and textures to ensure your app will remain memorable to users.

Production

We pride ourselves on pixel-precision, not just when creating art, but when exporting every asset for your app. Building apps for retina displays is no longer a hassle. We create perfectly doubled assets with extra detail to make apps gorgeous.

Animation + Special Effects

From app transitions to motion graphics, we can make your product stand out.

The Crew

Pacific Helm was founded with the goal of shipping beautiful products with our clients.

We bring five years of iOS design experience to our clients' projects and are very proud to see them become successful.