Fathom — field notes that file themselves
iOS · Design system
Product & design studio — Brooklyn
Software with nothing to hide.
Northlight designs and builds digital products where every screen earns its place. Clear structure, honest interfaces, no noise — for teams that want their software understood at first sight.
Fathom — iOS 2.0
Shipped Mar 2026
- Scope
- App + design system
- Timeline
- 11 weeks
- App Store rating
- 4.8
4.9
Average client score · 2017–2026
Product teams we build with
Fathom
Ardor
Statiq
Northwind
Coastal
Built to be understood.
Northlight made our product feel inevitable — calmer, faster, easier to trust.
Dana Cho · Head of Product, Ardor
Inside the studio
Brooklyn
Two project slots open
We run at most four projects at a time, so every one gets a senior team from day one.
Booking Q4 2026 · Brooklyn & remoteFour things, done properly.
Product interfaces
iOS, Android and web applications designed screen by screen — the logic exposed, the noise removed.
Design systems
Component libraries with documentation your engineers will actually read. One source of truth, versioned.
Marketing sites
Fast, precise sites that explain a product better than the deck does.
Prototypes & pilots
A working prototype in three weeks — real screens in real hands before you commit a roadmap to it.
Good software does not ask for attention — it earns trust by being clear.
Northlight was founded in Brooklyn in 2017 around one conviction: clarity is a feature. We are eight designers and engineers in one room — the people who scope your product are the people who build it.
We work in short, honest cycles. You see real screens in week one, working software soon after, and nothing in a deliverable we would not put in production.
2017Founded in Brooklyn
8Designers & engineers
120+Releases shipped
Tell us what you are building.
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