Torii Studio — Blogs

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Run a Fast, Visual Code Quality Audit

Learn how to effectively conduct a code audit to enhance software security, performance, and maintainability with a systematic, step-by-step approach.

How to Conduct an Effective Code Audit: Step-by-Step Guide

Explore 7 essential UX design metrics that enhance user experience and drive product success through data-driven decisions.

7 Critical UX Design Metrics That Drive Product Success

Discover how frontend code audits prevent security breaches, boost conversions, and improve team efficiency—saving companies millions. Real-world examples inside!

Why Audits Save Startups Millions

Component systems speed up production workflows with reusable elements.


Discover how design consistency enhances user experience, boosts brand recognition, and drives ROI. Learn actionable strategies and tools to create cohesive, scalable designs

How Design Consistency Boosts Product Success

Explore how to optimize React components for better performance. Learn best practices in memoization, lazy loading, and efficient list handling.

Component Reusability Principles — Part II

Explore how Torii Studio embraces deep work to enhance craftsmanship and innovation, moving away from daily distractions for more meaningful productivity.

The Craft of Deep Work —Rediscovering Focus in a Distracted World

Explore principles for crafting reusable Web components. Learn about the Single Responsibility Principle, Prop-Driven Design, and simple Props APIs to enhance your engineering skills

Component Reusability Principles — Part I

Front-End code audits check for code-quality, bugs and other vulnerabilities on your system's client side. Learn when it's best to perform one and what's involved.

What Is a Front-End Code Audit and Why You Need One?

Is React Native or Flutter better for your app? Get the run-down on the most important features to consider when choosing a cross-platform framework.

Flutter vs React Native: Which Cross-Platform Framework Is Better For Your App?

No-code platforms are a great way to test ideas, but they have many limitations. Learn when it’s time to make the switch to custom-developed software.

No-code platforms: When should you switch to a custom-built solution?

Total Brain’s component system defines, standardizes, and classifies the platform’s design elements to ensure a cohesive look and a consistent end-to-end experience.


Total Brain’s Component Playground showcasing the source of truth. It allows designers to validate UI/UX and developers to find and reuse components.

In just six months, Total Brain became a 4-star app and its daily user activity increased by over 300%.


Torii Studio’s product design partnership with Total Brain transformed the wellness platform into a 4-star app using a design system and component library.

Torii Studio & Total Brain: Setting Up a Design and Development Team for Success

Torii Studio has been listed as one of Clutch’s Top Creative Agencies, Top Design Agencies, and Top Software Development Companies in New York.

Torii Studio Named as One of The Top Software, Creative and Design Development Companies in NYC

Most of the world’s offline population is concentrated in regions of Southeast Asia, Africa, and Southern and Central America. Image source: TNW News


Creating accessible digital products for the next billion internet users will require technical and cultural considerations from designers and developers.

Building Digital Products For the Next Billion Internet Users

Accessible products are good for people and businesses. Learn how accessible digital products can help you innovate while building a more equitable world.

Why Inclusive Design Is Such a Powerful Driver of Innovation

Diverse environments generate the most innovative ideas. Learn how working with people who are different from us makes us think differently and more creatively.

How Diversity Makes Us Smarter and More Innovative

Zips feature a unique design that allows them to fly in multiple weather conditions and airdrop packages containing fragile cargo. Image source: Zipline

There is a sweet spot where constraints feed our creativity. Source: Open Learn


We often do our most creative work under restricted circumstances. Learn how balancing between creative freedom and constraints can help you innovate.

Why Constraints Are Powerful Drivers of Innovation 

The Ambition Matrix organizes innovation according to the level of risk and the potential rewards that each type entails. Image source: Deloitte


Alphabet’s portfolio is made up of a wide range of projects covering fields such as cybersecurity, healthcare, and geothermal energy. Image credit: Business Insider


Loon’s stratospheric balloons functioned as floating antennas to provide wireless connectivity to larger areas than conventional cell phone towers. Image source: Loon

Betting on new ideas is risky. Taking a portfolio approach and testing multiple ideas at once can help manage that risk and increase your chances of success. 

Beating the Odds at Innovation

The Product Death Cycle happens when companies confuse pleasing customers with satisfying their needs. Image credit: David Bland.


Finding the sweet spot between listening to your users without diluting your creative vision is key for delivering value and ensuring successful products. 

How to Listen to Your Customers

Failing to spot and correct problems early can wind up being a costly mistake. Image credit: Projekt202


Design thinking approaches are catalysts for innovation. They help production teams look at problems differently and come up with better solutions for them. mage credit: UX Beginner


In an ultra-competitive market where good UX has become a key differentiator, the true ROI of UX is measured in competitive advantage. 

The ROI of UX: Why good UX is good for business

Introducing Material Design principles and UI/UX best practices resulted in a clean, consistent design and a more fluid user experience for Wego.


An outdated visual layout and poor color choices were affecting Wego's contrast and legibility.


Using component systems ensures that design language is accurately translated into front-end stack and the end-to-end design comes out as planned.


The updates made Wego faster and more intuitive and helped its development team streamline their production process.


Learn how Torii Studio helped Wego build a 4-star travel app using a design system and Material Design.

Redesigning a Fluid Mobile App for Wego

UX engineers work between interaction designers and front-end engineers.


Left: Disconnection between design and development teams leads to final products that are disconnected from the original plan. Right: when both sides communicate, the end-to-end experience comes out as planned.

As prototype fidelity increases, the risk of failure decreases.


UX engineers combine front-end development, UX, and design to help product teams build user-centered products. Learn more about UXEs' work here.

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