About — Alexander Smith

Independent designer& developer craftingthe web's next layer.

A designer-developer who treats the browser as a medium for atmosphere — not just interface.

Est. 2026 — Dubai
Every project begins as a question: what should this brand feel like to move through? I answer it with real-time 3D, sound and motion — worlds rendered live in the browser, built to be felt before they are read.
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The person

I'm Alexander — an independent designer and developer based in Dubai. For the last few years I've helped brands, studios and founders ship websites that feel like an experience, not a brochure.

I work solo and end-to-end: the art direction, the 3D and motion, and the full-stack build are all mine. That means no hand-offs, no diluted vision, and one person accountable for the whole thing.

I care about the web as a craft — the kind of detail you feel before you can name it. If you want something that makes people stop, I'd love to hear about it.

— Alexander Smith
The process — five acts
01

Discovery

I start by interrogating the brief — audience, ambition, constraints. References and rough motion tests turn a vague feeling into a concrete creative territory before a single pixel is committed.

02

Direction

Art direction defines the world: palette, type, material, light and pacing. I prototype the signature moment early, so you can feel the experience long before it is finished.

03

Design

Interface, motion and 3D are designed together, frame by frame. Layouts are choreographed against scroll and sound so the whole thing reads as one continuous gesture.

04

Development

Custom WebGL, GLSL shaders and a tuned render loop. I budget every frame, ship Draco/KTX2 assets and build graceful fallbacks so the work runs beautifully everywhere.

05

Launch

I instrument, optimise and harden — then launch loud. Post-launch I keep iterating with the data, because an immersive site is a living thing, not a deliverable.

Capabilities
  • Creative & art direction
  • Real-time 3D / WebGL
  • Interface & motion design
  • Shader & graphics engineering
  • Full-stack development
  • Installations & events
Off the clock
  • 01Shaders are my idea of a relaxing evening
  • 02Always building one too many side projects
  • 03Coffee-fuelled; I prototype before I plan
  • 04Collector of obscure typefaces
  • 05Will happily talk WebGL for hours
  • 06Runner — best ideas arrive mid-run
Currently
Building
A real-time configurator for a launch
Learning
Compute shaders & WebGPU
Reading
[ a book — swap me ]
Open to
New projects for Q3
Kind words

Trusted by the people who hired me.

Alexander took a vague ambition and turned it into the best-looking site in our category. The launch did the talking for us.
[ Client Name ] Founder, [ Studio / Brand ]
One person, end-to-end, and somehow more polished than the agencies we'd worked with. He sweats details most people never notice.
[ Client Name ] Creative Director, [ Studio / Brand ]
Genuinely technical and genuinely tasteful — a rare combination. He shipped on time and the thing actually performs.
[ Client Name ] Head of Product, [ Studio / Brand ]
Selected clients
  • [ Client One ]
  • [ Client Two ]
  • [ Client Three ]
  • [ Client Four ]
  • [ Client Five ]
  • [ Client Six ]
Built with
Front-end
  • React
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind
Graphics
  • Three.js
  • WebGL
  • GLSL
  • GSAP
Back-end
  • Node
  • APIs
  • Headless CMS
  • Postgres
Craft
  • Figma
  • Blender
  • Motion
  • Sound
Creative Web Designer & Developer25.2048°N · 55.2708°E

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