Milan Thakkar, founder of Martian

MARTIAN™

Design Studio

Websites that make your business impossible to ignore.

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Designed around your business

We don't start with a template.
We start with your business.

Every project is designed from the ground up around the brand, the audience and the experience we want people to remember.

Letterforms on a wall
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Positioning & Copy

Clarifying what makes your business valuable, and expressing it in language people immediately understand.

A design workspace
02

Design & Development

Bespoke visual systems translated into fast, responsive websites built specifically for your brand.

Custom HTML, CSS & JavaScript.

Long-exposure light trails
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Motion & Interaction

Purposeful animation, transitions and interaction that make the experience feel alive, without getting in the way of the message.

I recognized a gap in the web design industry

We deliberately take on a small number of projects at a time, giving every detail the attention it deserves, from the first idea to the final interaction.

Selected work

Different brands,
different worlds.

Each project begins with a different business, a different audience and a different challenge. The result is never a variation of the same website.

Otto De Fiore
Luxury fashion · E-commerce · Bilingual

Otto De Fiore

A refined digital experience for a contemporary fashion house, balancing editorial storytelling with a sophisticated product experience.

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Otto De Fiore

Private-label women’s wear, runs from twenty pieces, shipping to six markets.

The hard part. A buying house decides whether to trust a manufacturer in seconds, largely on feel. A template reads as a template no matter how good the garments are, and a manufacturer who looks provisional gets asked for a lower price, or does not get asked at all.

Signature. Five purpose-built canvas systems, one per section: drifting embroidery threads in the hero, a moving stitch-line through production, fabric swatches threading the sustainability grid, a silk ripple closing the contact section.

  • Bilingual EN/ES with hreflang, per-language sitemaps and structured data
  • Partner library gated behind Cloudflare Zero Trust, watermarked PDFs
  • Honeypot spam filtering rather than CAPTCHA, so no visitor identifies a traffic light
  • Enquiry form falls back to the visitor’s own mail client if the mail service is unreachable, so a third-party outage never costs a lead
  • 2languages, fully built
  • 5canvas systems
  • 48htypical turnaround
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Black Sovereign Stays
Luxury travel · Hospitality · Brand experience

Black Sovereign Stays

An immersive digital identity for a private luxury travel concierge, designed around discretion, aspiration and the feeling of the journey itself.

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Black Sovereign Stays

Private journeys, ₹55,000 to ₹95,000 per day, coordinated by one person end to end.

The hard part. Luxury travel is the most clichéd category on the web. Everyone uses the same photography, the same adjectives, the same promises.

Signature: MERIDIAN. Every travel site animates a line that wanders down the page with a dot riding it. This inverts it. The hairline never moves. The index mark never moves. What moves is the world: latitude ticks travelling from Mumbai 18°58′N up to Zermatt 46°01′N, then south across the equator, where the rule brightens for less than a second. Nothing labels it. Either you notice or you do not.

  • Hand-written CSS and JavaScript, no framework, no build step
  • Hero carousel with swipe, keyboard navigation and 44px touch targets that keep their hairline appearance
  • Anchor links routed through the scroll engine so they never fight it
  • IntersectionObserver reveals, destination taxonomy across six regions
  • 15pages
  • 73KBtotal code, all fifteen
  • 0dependencies
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Besuperhuman
Wellness · Personal brand · Digital experience

Besuperhuman

A high-conviction digital experience for a modern private practice, combining strong editorial direction with a clear path from first impression to enquiry.

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Besuperhuman

Biomarker-led private practice, a maximum of six clients at any time.

The hard part. Not a marketing brief. It had to sell a high-price engagement to a buyer already failed by specialists, then actually run that engagement: intake, bloodwork, progress, daily contact.

Signature. An application with a marketing site attached, rather than the other way round. A client dashboard and an admin console sit behind Cloudflare Zero Trust, with Access JWT verification against the team JWKS, signature and expiry checks, and role separation between client and coach.

  • 19 API endpoints on Cloudflare Pages Functions
  • D1 database, four schema migrations, R2 object storage for progress photography
  • Client dashboard: bloodwork, habits, progress, photos, messages, resource library
  • Nine branded PDF guides generated from source and versioned with the site

Besuperhuman is the studio founder’s own practice, shown here as a demonstration of technical range rather than commissioned client work.

  • 26pages, public and private
  • 19API endpoints
  • 0servers to maintain
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The approach

Design isn't decoration.
It's direction.

A beautiful website is only useful when it knows where it is going. We begin with the brand, the audience and the business objective, then shape the visual language, structure, content and interactions around them.

Every decision should have a reason.

  1. 01

    Clarity

    People should understand who you are, what you offer and why it matters without having to work for it.

  2. 02

    Character

    A great website shouldn't look interchangeable with the next business in your industry.

  3. 03

    Detail

    Typography, spacing, movement, imagery and interaction all contribute to how a brand is perceived.

The method

There’s a method
behind the madness.

Four steps, on every project. Nothing is a surprise, and nothing gets skipped.

  1. Writing in a notebook
    01

    Discover

    Understand the business, the audience and what the website needs to achieve.

  2. A moodboard of papers, fabric swatches and images
    02

    Define

    Establish the positioning, visual direction, structure and content.

  3. Code on screen
    03

    Design & Build

    Turn the direction into a polished, responsive digital experience.

  4. A red pen resting on a marked-up page
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    Refine

    Test, refine and obsess over the details before launch.

Have something
worth building?

Tell us about your business, your idea or the experience you want to create.

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