Moving Ideas & Businesses Forward

We help businesses unlock customer-led growth

As markets and customers change, we help businesses evolve to meet new demands and opportunities.

Our approach combines the disciplines of design, branding and business thinking to build commercially successful new products and services.

Lab capabilities

  • Business Design
  • Product Design & Build
  • Product & Service Innovation
  • UX & UI Design Systems
  • Creative Commerce
Meet Maharis

Maharis Azman is a design director based in KL, Malaysia. His focus is on UX/UI, product design, digital experience, and research for AI in digital accessibility & assistive tech.

Founder Product & Service Innovation
Work: Hebat AI

Hebat AI is a revolutionary platform that transforms dormant and underperforming websites into powerful business assets.

Product Design & Build UX Strategy & UI Design
Work: kelasdemokrasi.com

We worked with Kelas Demokrasi, an initiative by political graphic designer Fahmi Reza, on a platform to drive youth interest and unbiased awareness on the state of politics in Malaysia.

UX Strategy & UI Design Brand Design System
Work: naluri.life

We worked with digital healthcare company Naluri to decode mental and physical health at the workplace and the direct impact it has on productivity and profits.

Creative Commerce Product & Service Innovation
Work: halalconfinement.shop

We partner HCCF, Malaysia’s 1st Halal Chinese Confinement Food Delivery, to define and execute an ambitious growth strategy.

Product & Service Innovation Creative Commerce
Project: Zero Waste Ramadan Food Bazaar

We partnered HCCF on an idea to make food sustainability part of the Ramadan Bazaar experience.

UX Strategy & UI Design Creative Services
Work: crestgroup.com.my

We designed a website for boutique property management company Crest to help expand their business.

Featured Creative Services
Article: Brand Innovations & Mischief

Maharis Azman: Creative Director with a history of technological mischief.

Creative Commerce Product Design & Build
Work: tokokilatband.com

We helped firebrand pro-rock band Toko Kilat to reimagine Malaysia's indie music scene with an extraordinary EP launch and national tour.

Product & Service Innovation Workshop
Workshop: Innovative Thunder

We embrace that for today’s brands, creative solutions can take on any form. Sometimes it’s creating meaningful content. Sometimes it’s designing purposeful experiences. Sometimes it’s inventing what is next.

Here’s a preview of one of our Creative-Innovation Workshops for Brand Experience Agencies.

Design-centered, commercially-driven

The Makmal by Maharis works with startup founders and market disrupters from our studio-lab in sunny Kuala Lumpur.

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Meet Maharis

Maharis Azman is a design director based in KL, Malaysia. His focus is on UX/UI, product design, digital experience, and research for AI in digital accessibility & assistive tech.