Maren Okafor, Lisbon. I design interfaces and write the code that ships them. Most of the work is in the hyphen.

Saltline, 2026Scroll to open the hyphen

A tide card over a calm sea at dusk

Saltline

Tide and swim forecasts for 1,200 beaches, drawn so you can read them with wet hands.

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Maren Okafor, Lisbon. I design interfaces and write the code that ships them. Most of the work is in the hyphen.

Saltline, 2026Scroll to open the hyphen

A tide card over a calm sea at dusk

Saltline

Tide and swim forecasts for 1,200 beaches, drawn so you can read them with wet hands.

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About

Ten years between the design file and the pull request, for product teams who would rather not lose a week to the gap.

Now

Independent, Lisbon

Before

Kettlebank, Portolan, Field Notes Lab

Booking

From March 2027

Maren Okafor, Lisbon. I design interfaces and write the code that ships them. Most of the work is in the hyphen.

2026Scroll to open the hyphen

Portrait of Maren Okafor

Maren Okafor, Lisbon. I design interfaces and write the code that ships them. Most of the work is in the hyphen.

2026Scroll to open the hyphen

Portrait of Maren Okafor

Experience

2022–now

Independent design engineer

Okafor Studio

Lisbon

2019–2022

Senior design engineer

Kettlebank

Lisbon

2017–2019

Design engineer

Portolan

Porto

2016–2017

Product designer

Field Notes Lab

Porto

Selected work 5 projects

All work
Saltlinetide forecasts2026tide forecasts2026

Selected work 5 projects

All work
Saltlinetide forecasts2026tide forecasts2026
Wadidesert route planner2025desert route planner2025
Wadidesert route planner2025desert route planner2025
Kilnhouseceramics shop2024ceramics shop2024
Kilnhouseceramics shop2024ceramics shop2024
Atriumroom booking2023room booking2023
Atriumroom booking2023room booking2023
Larderkitchen stock2022kitchen stock2022
Larderkitchen stock2022kitchen stock2022

Process

Where the handoffs would be, there is a hyphen. Three of them, from brief to product.

  1. Brief to Sketch: Week one. A page of boxes, and the three questions that decide the rest.
  1. Brief to Sketch: Week one. A page of boxes, and the three questions that decide the rest.

Services

Four ways to work together, each with a price you can plan around.

Kind words

“Maren closed the gap we kept losing a sprint to. The build matched the design because the same person was holding both.”

Inês Carvalhal

Head of product, Saltline

“She asked what the button did while it was loading. Nobody else had asked. That was the first week.”

Tobias Renner

Engineering lead, Kettlebank

“Our component library has a changelog now, and people read it.”

Aiko Brandt

Design director, Portolan

Journal

6 min

5 min

8 min

Booking from March 2027. Tell me what you are building and when it needs to exist.

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Booking from March 2027. I reply within a day.

hello@marenokafor.example

Booking from March 2027. Tell me what you are building and when it needs to exist.

hello@marenokafor.example

The moon in a dark blue sky

Start with a short email

Booking from March 2027. I reply within a day.

hello@marenokafor.example

Maren Okafor, Lisbon. I design interfaces and write the code that ships them. Most of the work is in the hyphen.

2026

Maren Okafor, Lisbon. I design interfaces and write the code that ships them. Most of the work is in the hyphen.

2026

Design engineer in Lisbon. Booking from March 2027.

Elsewhere

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