UI
user interface
Everything between your idea and the person using it. Buttons, spacing, timing, and the way a thing answers when you touch it.
I build the part people remember.
I design and build websites, interfaces and digital systems. The kind people screenshot.
Scroll 01 Manifesto
A website is the first thing anyone meets. For most brands it is also the last.
What this is
crtzax is a small independent studio. I design and build websites, interfaces and the systems behind them, for people who care how their work is perceived.
How I work
Design and engineering happen at the same desk, at the same time. No handoff, no telephone game, no "that isn't possible" three weeks after it was approved.
- Founded
- 2026
- Based
- North Carolina
- Working
- Worldwide
02 The mark
One soft thing in a hard system.
Everything else here is a straight line: hairlines, grids, tabular figures, type measured to the millimetre. The mark is the exception, and it stays the exception. That is the argument, drawn.
- Designation
- crtzax
- Composition
- 7 fused lobes
- Construction
- Metaball union
- Colour
- Signal / Bone
03 Selected work
Two that matter
Everything here is mine, end to end. Pick a line for the full story. Tap through for the whole story.
Who is behind it
DylanLambertson
Founder, designer, developer
crtzax is one person. That is the whole point.
04 What I do
I don't just make websites.
- 01 Websites Marketing sites designed around the brand, not around a theme.
- 02 Shopify Themes written by hand, in Liquid, not bought and reskinned.
- 03 E-Commerce Storefronts where the checkout is crafted for the business.
- 04 Apps & dashboards The internal tools nobody puts in a portfolio.
- 05 Infrastructure Someone has to own DNS at 2am. It can be me.
- 06 Ongoing work Launch is a milestone, not an ending.
05 The stack
Proven tools.
Not experiments.
The languages and platforms behind these sites are the ones the industry already trusts, picked because they hold up in production not because they trend well.
- Astro / Website Architecture
- React / User Interface
- TypeScript / Frontend Logic
- Tailwind / Styling Framework
- Cloudflare / Backbone
- Shopify / E-Commerce Platform
- Stripe / Payment Processor
- Resend / Email Delivery
- Vite / Website Tooling
06 Why crtzax
Good design isn't decoration.
It's the difference between a site people click through and a site people talk about afterwards.
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Distinct by default
If it looks like everyone else's site, I've already failed.
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Built, not assembled
The work starts with the brand. Not with a template and a colour swap.
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Design × engineering
A good idea that breaks outside the mockup was never a good idea.
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Details are the product
Motion, spacing, typography and timing are not polish. They are the thing.
07 The studio
No handoffs.
No relay.
The shortest possible line between what you asked for and what actually ships.
- 01 You talk to the person building it No account manager relay.
- 02 Decisions in hours, not sprints One inbox, one thread.
- 03 Design and code never drift apart Same hands, start to finish.
- 04 I stay reachable after launch The project does not end at handoff.