playing in the studio · Future Nature (Jan Jelinek remix), by Arp on Bandcamp ↗
Design & technology studio
A taller in the old sense: a room where products get made, and where you learn to make them.
02 · the studio
Sessions
Temporary access to a role most teams don't have yet: someone who decides what is worth making, makes it, and leaves it running.
One studio, three ways
Sessions is when we come to you. Workshops is when you come to us. In between, the products: ours, and the ones we make with you from zero.
Interfaces change.The purpose doesn't.
*the thesis behind carta.sh, extended stationery made at Taller Oliva
03 · logbook
Logbook · SOLO
How we work
You bring the problem. We look at it together, decide what is worth making, and make it. An afternoon, four weeks or a product from zero: the format follows the problem.
Formats · Sessions
| Sprint | One afternoon | 2+ | Prototype + decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| Immersion | One day | 4 to 10 | A method to keep going alone |
| Transformation | Three days | Entire teams | Full capability |
| SOLO | 4 weeks | One to one | A working system |
04 · What we do
Products
Carta, Tend, Sintonía. Built to learn something we then bring to your table.
See the products ↗
0→1
Research, design, code. Delivered working, and yours to keep alive.
Tell us the idea ↗
Sessions
We come to you. Diagnose, decide what to delegate to AI and what stays a human gesture, build it, leave it running.
Book a diagnosis ↗
Workshops
For designers and design teams. You come to us. No AI experience needed; not a tools course.
Bring a workshop ↗
05 · workshops
Workshops for designers and design teams who want to think with AI without handing over the pencil. Not a tools course. No AI experience needed.
Bring a workshop to your space ↗Formats · Workshops
| COLAB | one afternoon | up to 8 | a working prototype each, and a method |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intro session | 3 hours | 5+ | One piece designed by each participant |
| Short workshop | 2 × 2 hours | 5+ | A personal project, developed |
| Ongoing workshop | 4–8 weeks | 5+ | Projects + a community of practice |
“I see huge potential in this approach for prototyping and bringing ideas to life quickly. While AI can be an accelerator, it still depends on our ability to communicate clearly.”
“A fascinating exploration into collaborative design. Beyond the technical aspects, the atmosphere was outstanding.”
“I was surprised by how easy and fast it was. Creating a functional prototype just by explaining the problem made the system generate something very usable.”
“The workshop format was spectacular. The tool felt super easy and intuitive, very friendly from the first use.”
06 · projects
Two products of our own built from scratch, three years inside an insurtech and a workshop method. Each card says what the problem was, who did what and how it turned out. Open one for the whole project.
0→1 · Our own product · 2026
An address under your domain that, tapped or scanned, shows who you are, saves your contact to the phone and tells an agent how to talk to yours. NFC, QR, Wallet. And agents. Stationery, extended.
Tomás, solo · Live
NFC · QR · Wallet · Agents
GDPR. Data in Frankfurt.
in-house · Insurtech · 2023–2026
From a four-page PDF to a Design System.
First design and frontend hire at an insurtech that insures deliveries and resolves claims. The design system, the design and front of its products, three apps brought into a single architecture, and claims intake from 14 steps to 5 clicks.
First design and front hire · Live
Design system · Frontend architecture · BFF · Next.js
Work shown belongs to Anansi, shared with permission.
0→1 · Our own product · 2025
The health record that follows adopted animals.
A health record the rescue group starts and hands to the adopter on adoption day, as a link over WhatsApp. The adopter inherits the history and the vet treats with full context. From the first interviews to the MVP.
Tomás, solo · Paused
0→1 · Research · WhatsApp
Illustration by Germán Di Ciccio.
workshops · IED Barcelona · since 2025
Deciding what to delegate to AI and what to keep as human gesture.
A four-step framework (problem, actors, context, hypothesis) to go from idea to working prototype in one afternoon. Two intensive sessions in Barcelona and the master's at IED Barcelona, with 35+ students.
Tomás: method and sessions · Ongoing
Facilitation · Methodology
lab
Pieces made out of curiosity: an idea pushed until it breaks. They answer no brief; what they teach ends up in the ones that do.
experiment · Interactive piece · 2026
Typographic dimmers modulated by a language model.
Built as an instrument: a set of typographic dimmers you turn by hand, with a language model turning them alongside you. Motion, type and model in the same loop.
Tomás, solo
Motion · Interaction · LLM
studies · GSAP & Motion
Motion is a studio capability, not decoration: one shared vocabulary of easing and duration, physics over choreography, reduced motion as a first-class variant and accessibility that survives the trick. The studies are live: touch them.
GSAP · Motion · Springs · ScrollTrigger
07 · Writing
Article · 421.news19 Jun 2026
Leaving your thinking to the screen leads to metacognitive laziness: the result looks great, but your brain atrophies.
Read more →Essay28 Aug 2025
Observation protocol #1 from inside the digital digestive system.
Read more →08 · faq
A taller. A design and technology studio that makes products and teaches how they get made.
Temporary access to a design and technology role your team doesn't have yet. We come in, diagnose, build, and leave you with something that works. Not a report.
No. The methodology is designed for mixed teams: design, product, engineering, leadership. You can come with a clear problem, or without one: we can also start at stage zero, shaping the problem and finding its boundaries.
For the workshops it helps. For Sessions and 0→1 you need a problem, not a title. Something for everyone else is loading.
Whichever solve your problem best. Today that usually means Claude and Claude Code for research, ideation and prototyping with code, combined with the design methods that always worked: paper, maps, conversation.
Yes. We work with distributed teams. For the Immersion and Transformation formats we prefer in person, but we adapt to your situation.
It depends on the format, the size of the team and the location. Write to us with a short description of your problem and we'll send a concrete proposal.
Yes. The Immersion and Transformation formats include follow-up, and we offer ongoing arrangements for teams that want to sustain the work over time.
Those who only produce will be replaced by the average output of everyone who came before. Those who decide won't. AI reveals who was designing and who was only producing statistically plausible versions of what design looks like.
09 · what we believe
Intelligence has always been collaborative: with tools, with materials, with other minds. AI is not a break with that tradition; it is its evolution.
Design is not about the tools we use, but about how we think with them.
Human agency doesn't shrink with powerful tools: it can expand through conscious collaboration with them.
