Signal Drift
Ambient motion study
2026
Surfaces, motion and systems — made slowly, finished properly, released when ready.
Surfaces — Motion
Type — Systems
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01 — Manifesto
What Mizu is,
and why it exists.
Mizu is a living archive of interface craft — surfaces, motion and systems — gathered slowly, finished properly, and released when they're ready.
Interfaces are finished, not shipped. Every easing curve, hairline and state is decided on purpose — then left alone. Speed is a side effect of knowing what you're making.
Movement is not decoration. It carries meaning: where something came from, what it relates to, what just happened. A transition that carries no information doesn't ship.
A page is a photograph of a system. Mizu builds the system — states, edges, empty and loading cases, reduced motion, keyboard paths — so the pieces hold up everywhere, not just in a screenshot.
02 — Selected pieces
Ambient motion study
2026
Kinetic typography engine
2026
Page choreography
2025
Generative surface
2025
Hover to preview — click to expand. More pieces are in the workshop.
03 — The lab
Instruments, experiments and unfinished ideas — the working surface of Mizu, open to touch.
Click the surface — it answers