01 · Build
Semantic, fast, accessible front-end — usually Astro, always without theatre.
Process · 04
Development
Front-end, motion, CMS honesty. We build what we designed. If something has to change in the making, the design changes with it — not after a launch-week surprise.
Alongside design
What actually happens
Engineering close enough that nothing gets interpreted.
The interesting part is not the stack. It is whether the site still feels like the company when a non-designer publishes the twentieth page. We write front-end a future team can still read, and we do not promise a CMS that will not hold the design.
Motion is part of the build, not a plugin added at the end. Accessibility is not a phase.
In this movement
The work, not a theatre of phases.
02 · Motion
The interactions the design promised, implemented close enough that they do not drift.
03 · CMS
A publishing model that matches how the company actually writes.
04 · Quality
Performance, accessibility, browsers, the unglamorous list that keeps a launch honest.
The same studio builds it
Dark Spark develops what Dark Spark designed. If you already have an engineering team, we will work in their stack and stay as art direction through launch.
The five movements