We come from a design background.

From our brightly lit office space to the typeface choice on our website, every detail at Monograph becomes an opportunity for a considered design project. As a founding team of trained designers we bring our experience from having worked in offices all over the world to our San Francisco studio. With both a rigorous and playful approach to design thinking, we move well beyond the visuals—designing everything including marketing, our sales process, and even our internal APIs.

Everything we that we produce needs to be extremely useful, beautiful and fun, but to us, that’s just table stakes.

Beyond the aesthetics and quality of interactions, we are at our core a design-driven company.

That means that we’re intentional about everything we do. From a product perspective, we make every decision asking, “How is the user going to experience this? How will it look, feel, and sound to a user?”

Everything is designed, and when things are “designed poorly,” it is really only because they weren’t consciously designed, they were mindlessly designed. We were a design-driven company before we even hired our first designer, and we will continue to be an intentional, design-driven company even when we hire our 100th. Everyone here—from support to engineering—contributes ideas and feedback to our product design.

In a way, being a design-driven company means being a questions-driven company. Most companies are started with a specific product in mind—an answer (I want to make this tee shirt). We actually started this company with a question: “How can we empower everyone to build the internet?” We tried many answers until we got to the right one.