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The Louisville design & development team: Distinct takes people.

  • Jessica Miller
    Jessica Miller Accounts and growth
  • Andrew Dewson
    Andrew Dewson Accounts and growth
  • Chris Miller
    Chris Miller Founder
  • Marwa Asad
    Marwa Asad Accounts and growth
  • Randa Shawahin
    Randa Shawahin Accounts and growth
  • Pip Pullen
    Pip Pullen Creative
  • Phelicia Ball
    Phelicia Ball Creative
  • Adriana Lauri
    Adriana Lauri Creative
  • Itse Sagay
    Itse Sagay Development
  • Gary Patterson
    Gary Patterson Development
  • Chris Teitzel
    Chris Teitzel Development
  • Patrick Soe
    Patrick Soe Development

Designers, developers and strategists who ask why before they ask how.

The origin

Why we started Prolific.

We started Prolific in 2017 because the work we cared about lives where engineering and design meet, and because the people we build it for deserve a team that stays after launch.

Our obsession with how something works is matched only by our obsession with how it feels to use. We sweat the load times and the line breaks, the database schema and the kerning, the edge case and the entrance animation.

It has to be engineered with rigor and designed with intent, because to the person on the other side of the screen, those were never two separate things. That’s the studio we built: the one that obsesses over both.

Before Prolific, I worked at Apple and spent years at an agency. Apple taught me that engineering and design are one discipline. My mentors at the agency taught me to create and, more importantly, to solve problems through design. Prolific is how I pass that on.

Chris Miller Founder

What we believe

  1. Ask why.

    Every project starts with questions, not a template.

  2. Small things, done right.

    The details people notice are the ones that took care.

  3. Write like a person.

    Plain words, short sentences, no jargon.

  4. Design for one person at a time.

    A real person with a real task.

  5. Launch is the start.

    We measure, learn and keep improving.

The Prolific studio at 828 East Market Street: people working at a long table, in booths and on a mezzanine

The studio

Louisville,
Kentucky.

828 East Market Street, Suite 101
Louisville, Kentucky 40206

Good designers and developers are always welcome to say hello.

Say hello.

Around the studio

  • The ground-floor lounge: pastel armchairs, red sofas and a low wooden table, with glass-walled offices and the mezzanine above
    The lounge
  • The studio seen through a glass wall lettered “Prolific”: people working at a high table in front of the arched booths
    Through the glass
  • A team meeting around a long wooden table in the conference room, seen through its glass wall
    The conference room
  • Someone climbing the stairs to the mezzanine, the walls either side covered in magnetic letters
    The stairs up
  • Two people working at laptops behind the mezzanine's copper mesh railing
    Desks on the mezzanine
  • A developer working at a laptop on a stool inside Focus Pod Two
    Focus pods
  • Someone reading in an armchair in a quiet corner with slatted wood walls, framed posters and a plant
    The reading nook
  • Someone on a call in a phone booth, sitting on a stool
    Phone booths
  • A framed “Get Shit Done” print on a green cabinet against a white wall
    House rules
  • The mezzanine walkway: copper mesh railings and glass-walled offices, a teammate walking towards the camera
    The walkway

The gallery

There’s a gallery
out back.

It’s very white, very quiet, and a few things in it are the wrong size. Walk the halls, see some of our work up close, and have a look round the studio while you’re there.

Inside the gallery: a white hall with framed work on the walls, a long corridor ending in a door open to the sky, and a giant yellow rubber duck

Questions

Good to know.

  • Our studio is at 828 East Market Street, Suite 101, in the NuLu neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky.

  • Chris Miller, our founder. Before Prolific he worked at Apple and spent years at an agency. Apple taught him that engineering and design are one discipline; his mentors at the agency taught him to solve problems through design.

  • A small team of designers, developers and project and account managers. The people who design your site are the people who build it, so nothing gets lost between them.

  • Our open roles are on the careers page, and you can apply there. Good designers and developers are always welcome to say hello.

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Tell us what
isn’t working.

No pitch deck. Just an honest conversation.Rather talk? Call 502.653.5977