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Notes from
the studio.

What we learn on each launch, written down every other week. Performance numbers, accessibility audits, the occasional post-mortem. No thought leadership, no predictions.

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The Maison Verre homepage, one of the launches measured in this article.

Performance 18 Aug 2026

A performance budget is a contract, not a wish

Every Synora proposal names the weight, the request count and the Largest Contentful Paint the site must respect. Here is how we set those numbers and what happens when a client wants a video in the hero.

Julien Tanaka · 2 min read

Studio artwork: a crystalline black structure threaded with lime nodes.

Design 02 Jul 2026

We stopped delivering design files in 2021

Every Synora interface is designed in the browser, in the real typeface, with the real content, on the real grid. What that changed for clients, for engineers and for the work.

Maxime Laurent · 2 min read

4 articles

Accessibility 11 Jun 2026

Every launch ships with a written accessibility statement

Not a badge, not a plugin. A page that says what was tested, what passed, what did not, and who to write to. Here is the template and the reasoning.

Maxime Laurent · 2 min read

The Nordlys clinic booking homepage, built static-first with a headless CMS.

Engineering 20 May 2026

Static first, headless always: how we choose the stack

Why Synora sites are built as static output with a headless CMS, when we reach for a framework with a server, and how the editors get a say before the decision is made.

Priya Raman · 2 min read

Studio notes 08 Apr 2026

Fixed scope, fixed price, one phase at a time

How Synora quotes a project: four phases, each priced before it starts, each ending with a demo you can walk away after. The model, the exceptions and the one time it went wrong.

Maxime Laurent · 2 min read

Performance 03 Mar 2026

The site does not need a fourth font weight

Fonts are the second-heaviest thing on most pages and the first thing designers add without asking. How we pick, subset and load type so that a typographic site stays a fast one.

Julien Tanaka · 2 min read

Notes fromthe studio.

A performance budget is a contract, not a wish

We stopped delivering design files in 2021

4 articles

Every launch ships with a written accessibility statement

Static first, headless always: how we choose the stack

Fixed scope, fixed price, one phase at a time

The site does not need a fourth font weight

Notes from
the studio.