The Marlon Files / Design & code since 2020

The MarlonFiles

Hey, I’m Marlon. These are the projects that shaped me, from the first logos I made while figuring out what I liked, to the products I now design and build end to end. Every one asked something different of me, and every one taught me something.

Product designer turned design engineer
Kingston, Jamaica · since 2020
07 files · still adding

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Chapter 01

Finding my feet

Where it started: a lot of curiosity, trying styles on and figuring out what I actually liked.

Chapter 01 · Loose pieces

Just making
things.

No case studies here. Just pieces from my first years: posters, slides, landing pages and a few brands, made while I figured out what I liked. All of it got me here.

BE BOLD banner in blue and yellow with a smiling woman on the right.
BOLD by JN Banner
LAMA coconut water poster: the bottle, split coconuts and a pool of water over outlined type.
LAMA Poster
Stara brand board: VR headsets, portraits, the ring logo and soft pastel cloud gradients.
Stara Personal project, brand board
Proven Wealth poster: two clasped hands in black and white on a yellow ground.
Proven Wealth Poster
Landing page hero reading MAKE BOLD INVESTMENTS on stacked yellow, white and blue blocks.
BOLD by JN Landing page
Lako deck cover: the logo over a purple dust photograph, crossed by tilted tape strips of text.
Lako Deck cover
Metro 404 page with a traffic cone standing in for the zero.
Metro 404 page
ENDS landing page: Commerce Beyond Curfew, with a delivery rider on a green scooter.
ENDS Landing page
Nexa Studio team page with illustrated portraits on a black ground.
Nexa Studio Team page
Landing page for Olympic by PROVEN Bank, with a red highlighted headline.
PROVEN Bank Landing page
Orange deck divider with wavy lines and TEAM STRUCTURE on two tilted black labels.
Lako Deck divider
Lako homepage: WE CREATE UNIQUE BRAND EXPERIENCES beside a stack of textured triangles.
Lako Studio website
Orba banner in bright blue with the logo and a ring of small app icons.
Orba Banner
Chapter 02

Learning to ship

My first real products, most of them starting with the brand and carrying it through to websites and apps. This is where I learned that a brand and an interface are one conversation.

2023—24 · File 001

SiteScribe

SiteScribe logo mark on lilac.
SiteScribe.ai landing page: “Create a website brief in minutes”.
SiteScribe social posts, including an “85%” statistic card.

.ai

BrandTurns a non-profit’s goals into a strategic website brief in minutes.

Three MyRentalBook mobile screens on green.
2023—24

MyRentalBook

File 002 · Brand · Web

BrandReplacing rental paperwork with a clearer digital experience for landlords and tenants.

2023

Zafe

File 003 · Brand · Mobile · Web app · Web
Three Zafe app screens showing a salary advance flow.

BrandMakes pay advances simple for employees, right from their phones.

A hand holding a phone showing the Zafe home screen.
Zafe app icon on an iPhone home screen.
File 004
2023

StaffGenius

File 004 · Brand · Mobile · Web app · Web
StaffGenius mobile screens: welcome, schedule, notifications and clock-in.
StaffGenius website: “Shift scheduling made easy with StaffGenius”.
StaffGenius web app staff table.

BrandScheduling and clock-in experiences rebuilt around employees.

Chapter 03

In people’s hands

Products people lean on day to day, for power, money and care. Designing for people who need things to work, on the day they need them, teaches you to sweat the small things.

2024

DoulaConnect

File 005 · Maternal health · Web app · Product

A platform that matches families with doulas in under 30 minutes, down from 48 hours.

A family choosing between the doulas sent to them.
DoulaConnect matching screen: intake forms, a family’s details and suggested doulas side by side.
2025 · File 006

JPSWeb & Mobile

Customers
~600,000
Platforms
Web / Mobile
Outage card: Woodside, planned, crew on site, 159 customers affected.
Confidential

UtilitiesDesign for web and mobile, helping around 600,000 customers report and track power outages.

2025 · File 007 · Fintech · Mobile · Web · Marketing

FintechA mobile app for buying and selling crypto with cash: ATM locations, live exchange rates, transactions and rewards.

Unbank Bitcoin view: price chart, buy and sell, last transaction.
Unbank home: locate crypto ATMs, buy and sell, exchange rates and recent transactions.
Unbank rewards roulette with weekly offer and spin progress.

Unbank

Now Still being written

2026—

  • Intellibus
  • Design engineering
  • AI products
Organisation
Intellibus
Role
Design engineer
Contents
Status
Still being written_

Right now I’m at Intellibus as a design engineer, building AI products and designing in code. It’s the work everything before this was leading to.

That’s everything, so far

There’s room
for one more.

Got a project that could teach me something new? I’d love to hear about it.

File 008 · Next???Maybe yours
© Marlon JamesDesigned and built in Kingston, Jamaica