Decoration only: visual guide demonstrating how to assemble a paperboard stand for one of Mat Cuk's products, including how to attach the month page.

This is the design studio of Matjaz Cuk, crafting beautifully useful things that bridge the gap between delightful digital interfaces and the beautiful world beyond the screen.

Most recently, I’ve launched two well-crafted desk calendars to help you organise your life, available from Timepiece (my online shop) and selected home goods stores.

Keep scrolling for a snippet of my work, then get in touch – let’s create things together.

Homepage of Timepiece.design showing typographic calendar poster next to indoor plants, yellow background

Timepiece

A Mat Cuk Design project. Timepiece is an online shop presenting elegant, practical stationery for home and office, from yearly planners to personalised posters, including crafted products by Mat Cuk Design. Crossing disciplines, I have been designing and developing the branding, physical products, online store, and marketing.

Timepiece collection page, large title Graphic and closeup of typographic calendar next to reading lamp and bed frame
Yellow circular calendar displaying the month of July with days numbered around the perimeter.
Decorative kitchen shelf with colorful items, including a framed calendar art piece, a small potted plant, a retro-style coffee maker, two white cups, yellow bowls, a white pitcher, a brown soap dispenser, a green coffee pot, and a vase with branches.

Spotify

Soundtrap for Education product: from Product Design strategy, and analysis, to user flow definition, streamlining the user experience and providing more value to students and teachers.

Image showing key screens from a prototype of the sign-in page, with lines indicating connections between them
Flow diagram showing user's paths from Soundtrap's signed-in page, demonstrating the complexity of the product.
Image showing setup screen with overview of connections available to the user.

perk

Platform setup, experience vision, design system: improving people's experience setting up the Travelperk platform for smooth and straightforward business travel.

Screens showing 3 setup steps of the platform, demonstrating successful completion
Digital interface screen with personalized greeting, various buttons and sections labeled for booking trips, company info, upcoming trips, budgets, and insights, set against an orange background.

Trainline

Future ticketing, Booking flow, Content pages, Design system: discovering and delivering product improvements used by millions of customers in over 40 countries, resulting in a substantial uplift in sales and improved customer feedback.

3 screenshots of Trainline information pages, demonstrating clarity and consistency
Travel booking website with train ticket options from London to Paris, showing departure date, prices, and schedule for January 2021, over a snowy mountain landscape background.
5 designers having a conversation in a relaxed atmosphere. I'm sitting on the right.

Applied

Digital wayfinding for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Heathrow Airport, and Metrolinx: product design, information design, and visual design aimed at reducing anxiety and improving accessibility, engagement and understanding of complex physical spaces.

Hand holding a tablet with The Met museum's digital map in use. The Met's gallery blurred in the background
The Met's digital interactive map on a large, medium and small-sized screen
Heathrow Terminal 4 digital interactive map displayed on a freestanding monitor, with blurred terminal interior in the background

more projects…

Clients in education, culture, manufacturing, and publishing: teaming up with experts, focused on designing user experiences in digital and physical space, providing creative direction, communication design, and branding.

Pirnar website opened on two devices, a tablet and mobile, both sitting on an armrest
2 screens of the Msavne website, shown on an old iPhone
3 pages of a printed form, demonstrating clarity of information at a glance