Nova Sterling — Independent Design Studio
Design that earns attention.
I'm Ada Sterling — a designer and motion director building interfaces, identities and digital worlds for teams who refuse to look like everyone else.
Four projects, one obsession with detail.
A short edit of recent studio engagements across product, brand and motion.
Eleven years of making complicated things feel obvious.
I work as a one-person studio with a rotating bench of motion and engineering collaborators. Small team, senior hands, no account managers between you and the work.
Years Experience
Projects Completed
Design Awards
Experience
Founder & Design Director
Nova Sterling Studio
Lead Product Designer
Kestrel Labs
Senior Brand Designer
Atelier Nord
Digital Designer
Foundry Nine
What the studio actually does.
Engagements usually combine two or three of these. Everything ships with documentation.
End-to-end product design: research, flows, high-fidelity interfaces and pixel-exact handoff for web and mobile.
Marks, typographic systems, colour and art direction — documented so your team can extend it without us.
Micro-interactions, title sequences and scroll choreography that give a digital product physical weight.
Component libraries, tokens and documentation that keep design and engineering speaking one language.
Words from the people who signed off.
"The work landed a full tier above what we scoped. Our product finally looks like the company we want to be."