csshichuang / studio

An obsessive team with deep roots.

Our core team combines senior engineering, design, and research talent — a small group that has shipped, scaled, and maintained consumer products used by millions. We are deliberately small, deliberately senior, and deliberately selective.

/ 01 — Capabilities

Six practice areas, one standard: do the work properly.

Each member of the studio maintains a primary discipline and operates as a meaningful contributor in at least two adjacent areas. This cross-pollination is what makes our small team punch well above its weight.

/ CAP.01

Procedural audio synthesis

Granular, additive, wavetable, and physical-modelling engines. Realtime DSP, MIDI pipelines, and offline rendering. Latency budgets under 10 ms on consumer iOS hardware.

/ CAP.02

Privacy & security

On-device encryption, biometric gating, keychain and keystore integration, secure enclaves, GDPR/CCPA/LGPD-aligned data flows, and App Privacy nutrition label accuracy.

/ CAP.03

Visual interaction design

Typography-driven interfaces, motion design, gesture vocabularies, custom iconography, and design system tokens. We design for the device, not the brochure.

/ CAP.04

Native mobile engineering

Swift, SwiftUI, Objective-C, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and CoreData/SQLite/GRDB. We ship to TestFlight and internal track every Friday. We know what App Review will flag before we submit.

/ CAP.05

Generative systems

Procedural content generation, parametric design, L-systems, signal graphs, and shader pipelines. We build systems that compose infinite, organic variation at runtime.

/ CAP.06

Product & growth

App Store optimisation, ASO keyword strategy, subscription modelling, and conversion experimentation. We do not run growth at the expense of the user — we run it alongside the user.

/ 02 — Core team

The people behind the work.

Years of practice, hundreds of releases, one shared studio philosophy. The full team is intentionally small.

Lead Engineer

/ AUDIO & DSP

10+ years in iOS audio engineering, low-level DSP, and offline-first media pipelines.

Privacy Architect

/ SECURITY

Specialist in on-device storage, encrypted vaults, biometric gating, and GDPR-aligned design.

Design Director

/ VISUAL & MOTION

Typography-driven interface design with a background in editorial layout and motion.

Generative Lead

/ PROCEDURAL

Mathematical and rule-based systems for audio, visual, and behavioural generation.

Mobile Engineer

/ iOS & ANDROID

Swift, SwiftUI, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose. App Store submission, IAP, and ad mediation.

UX Researcher

/ INTERACTION

Behavioural research, journey mapping, and instrumental usability testing for quiet tools.

Product Manager

/ STRATEGY

Market fit, monetisation models, and long-term product stewardship.

QA & Release

/ DELIVERY

TestFlight management, beta programmes, and App Review preparation.

/ 03 — Stack

Our toolbox, calibrated for restraint.

We choose tools that stay out of the user's way. Below is the working stack across the studio — the set of instruments we trust to ship.

Swift / SwiftUI
96%
Kotlin / Compose
84%
CoreData / GRDB
92%
Audio DSP (C++ / Accelerate)
90%
Procedural generation
88%
Metal / Shaders
70%
Privacy engineering
95%
Figma / Motion
86%
CI / Fastlane
89%
TypeScript / Web
74%