Strategy & Transformation
The layer that leads the rest. We help you set direction, shape the experience, and design the change, then stay on to build it.
Explore strategy
Web & AI product studio
Exceptional digital products, mined from deep insight.
We work with higher education, non-profits, and mid-market teams to dig beneath the surface and uncover the strategy, design, and engineering that shape products & services worth keeping.
25+ yrs
Founder's experience in design & engineering
4-in-1
Strategy, design, engineering & AI in one team
1 day
We reply within one business day
100%
Everything we build is yours to keep, no lock-in
What we do
Strategy first, then the craft to build it.
Web & Product Design
Interfaces people actually understand. Research-led UX and interface design that turn complex workflows into clear, confident experiences.
Explore designDevelopment & Engineering
Built to scale, built to last. Accessible, performant front ends and dependable back ends, engineered to grow with your organization, not against it.
Explore engineeringAI Acceleration & Consulting
AI that ships, not just slideware. We find the high-value use cases, build them into your product, and leave your team able to run them.
Explore AI
Why work with us
A new way of working, in seasoned hands.
We pair nearly thirty years of craft with an AI-native way of working: faster discovery, sharper builds, less busywork. We'd rather show you that than a wall of logos. Here's the proof we stand behind today.
This site is the proof
Designed, written, and hand-built by us: no template, no page builder. The craft you're looking at is the craft you'd get.
See our approachNearly thirty years behind it
Designmine is led by Enrique Diaz: almost three decades of design and development across higher education and non-profits.
Founder's portfolio
How we work · Designmining™
A dig, not a drop-off.
Our method, Designmining, in five phases — with you in the room the whole way through.
Discover
Workshops, UX research, system audits, and stakeholder alignment.
Define
Product strategy, technical architecture, and AI opportunity mapping.
Design
UX/UI, branding, and interaction design.
Build
Web, apps, custom software, and AI systems.
Refine
Testing, iteration, optimization, and scaling.
Why Designmine
Strategy, design, engineering, and AI, under one roof.
Most teams make you choose between a strategy consultancy, a design studio, a dev shop, and an AI shop. We're all of it, which means fewer handoffs, one accountable team, and solutions that hold together end to end.
One team, start to finish
Strategy, UX, design, engineering, and AI in a single senior group, not a chain of vendors.
Nothing off-the-shelf
Every solution is crafted for your context. No templates, no forced platforms, no lock-in.
Built to last
Accessible, documented, and maintainable, so what we build keeps working long after launch.
We enable your team
Especially with AI, we transfer knowledge so your people can own what we ship — or keep us on to run and grow it.
A promise from the founder
No testimonials yet; my word instead.
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You're considering a studio that works differently, and I don't take your trust lightly. So here's my commitment: senior work from someone who both designs it and ships it, documented and yours to keep, and honest advice about what will and won't work, even when that honesty costs me the project. Be one of our first clients, and I'll treat your project like the reference it's going to become.
Founder & Principal, Designmine
Let's dig in
Have a project worth doing right?
Tell us what you're trying to build or fix. We'll come back within one business day with honest thoughts on how we'd approach it.