Redhead-powered design & dev studio.
I’m Dave Bloom: independent product designer/developer and creative problem solver for small businesses.
Throw a record on, explore my projects and products, and be sure to reach out when you’re ready to jam.
How I work
An hourly hired gun for the web. I fix the stuff that’s been bugging you, finish what someone else started, and build the thing you’ve been describing for a year.
Founders, solopreneurs, and small businesses bring me in as the technical expert they don't have in-house.
Not only is Dave’s work exceptional in it’s scope and impact, but he is a ‘do what you say you are going to do’ kind of person.
He is honest, knowledgeable, very helpful, works fantastically under pressure and is always great to interact with.
Cindy Pendergast, Truth + Alibi
I skip the onboarding and get down to business.
Instead of spending a week trading emails, we just start solving problems. I don’t mind drawing up a plan or coding something out on the first call.
I know what looks good, and how to build it.
I sweat the design details you can feel but can't quite put your finger on, so I can take a site that works ok to one that gets shared and remembered.
No project is too small.
Need a 2-hr interface teardown, a 2-day plugin sprint, or a 2-week redesign? Try me by the hour: we’ll move at your pace. No contracts up front.
Featured Projects
Websites with soul, for people who deserve to stand out.
Julian Bevan
A high-performance digital home for one of the most talented creatives I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
Big Sky Brands
A Shopify rebuild with a sunnier look and a browsing experience built around the product.
Featured Products
Platforms designed to empower independent creatives.
A collection of products and platforms I've created, from page builders to publishing tools.
Julian Bevan
A high-performance digital home for one of the most talented creatives I've ever had the pleasure of working with.
Big Sky Brands
A Shopify rebuild with a sunnier look and a browsing experience built around the product.
Products and Platforms
Software that empowers independent creatives.
A collection of products and platforms I've created, from page builders to publishing tools.
Aviator
An HTML-first development environment for WordPress that meshes the instant-preview UI of CodePen with the declarative concepts behind frameworks like Tailwind and AlpineJS. A treasure trove of orthodoxy-challenging UX ideas and DX wins.
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Yoursellf
What if you could launch a personal web presence in less than a minute? Yoursellf is a minimalist, no-code, no-design take on telling the world that you exist (and are available for hire, if that’s your thing).
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Sellf Published
A platform for writing stories, docs, and guides as websites, borrowing some of the minimalist ideas from Yoursellf and adding an e-reader-like experience to the front-end.
More about Sellf Published →Nice Gestures
I was surprised that a copy-pasteable collection of common gestures for UI designers didn’t exist. So I built it.
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Work with me
Let's get it online.
Email me first.
No forms here. Tell me what's broken or what you're trying to build. I'll answer within 24 hours.
Email me here.Buy hours when ready.
I sell my time through my Yoursellf site. Purchased hours get banked, and I log time against them until they're used up. No contracts, pause anytime.
...or just talk shop.
Interested in Aviator, setting up a Yoursellf site, or wondering how I made the homepage turntable? I dig those conversations too. Hit me up.
Ideas from scratch
When the status quo ain’t cutting it.
If a project requires a library (or a language) that doesn't exist yet, I take that as an invitation and get to work. Here are some bright ideas I designed into my products.
A utility-class syntax that's like Tailwind, but clearer
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Semantic HTML elements that bring hierarchy to markup
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A content index powering AJAX loading and elastic search
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Responsive, exponential scales for type and spacing
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Front-end content editing that removes context switching
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A declarative animation syntax that lives in your HTML
Write av-motion="fade-up duration:0.6" and watch elements animate on scroll. No JavaScript configuration required.
Patterns that become custom HTML elements with slots
Define a pattern once, use it as a tag. Child elements automatically fill named slots. Edit the pattern, every instance updates.
Dynamic fields that resolve in real-time as you type
Drop av-field, av-loop, or av-if tags into your markup. The builder scans and hydrates them instantly—no save-and-refresh cycle.