Kestrel®

Studio

Fourteen people, two cities, one standard.

Kestrel was founded in 2015 by Maya Okafor after a decade leading brand teams in-house. We have stayed small on purpose.

The Lisbon studioA workshop in progress

We believe good design is a business decision — measured in trust, speed and revenue, not awards.

Senior by default

Everyone on your project has shipped a decade of work. No bait-and-switch.

Show, don't deck

We review in prototypes and real pages, not 80-slide presentations.

Leave it better

Documentation, training and code so the work survives after we leave.

The team

  • Maya Okafor

    Founder, Creative Director

  • Theo Laurent

    Design Director

  • Lena Fischer

    Lead Product Designer

  • Kenji Ito

    Design Engineer

  • Ava Lindqvist

    Brand Designer

  • Marco Silva

    Head of Engineering

  • Hannah Cho

    Strategy Lead

  • Jonas Weber

    Producer

140+
Launches shipped
11
Years independent
94%
Clients who return
2.8×
Median conversion lift

Careers

Open roles

Four-day weeks in August and December. Twice-yearly studio trips.