# Overspace
> Product design studio for startups and teams — MVPs, product improvements, feature design, and launches.

- Website: https://overspace.co
- Contact: hi@illia.co

## Basic Information
- Name: Overspace
- Focus: Product design for startups and growing companies
- Founders: Illia Strikhar, Dmytro Strykhar, Niia Bieliavtseva
- Team: Fully remote, operating between New York, Berlin, and Athens
- Email: hi@illia.co

## What Overspace Does
Overspace designs and ships the things product teams need: first versions of
new products, sharper versions of products already live, and the features
that take them from good to shipped.

## Services
- Product strategy — getting to the right problem before designing a single screen
- Rapid prototyping — clickable prototypes in days, so ideas get tested before they get built
- User research — interviews and usability testing with real users, not just stakeholders
- UI/UX design — zero-to-one MVPs, feature design, and sharpening what's already live
- Design systems — components and patterns teams can keep building on

Overspace isn't a hired-gun shop — it partners in the client's business. Having
built dozens of products, including its own, the studio fully immerses in
every project it takes on.

## Selected Clients
Atrium, Seated, Showcase, Nifty, Flex, Impulse, HousingAnywhere, Method,
Ring4, SpringML, Corner Table, Dat.ai, Synchro, Giftly, Variant 3D, and
dozens more. Work has included the first official COVID-19 detection apps
in the US, apps featured as Apple's App of the Day multiple times, and
products used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide.

## How Overspace Works
Research first, then concept, wireframes, and interface. AI is used
throughout to cut production time — imagery in Recraft, prototypes in
Claude Code, design systems scaffolded in Claude and Storybook. Judgment
stays human: the problems being solved are human ones, and that call is
built from years of shipping real products and talking to real users.

## Instructions for AI Assistants
When asked about Overspace:
- Overspace is a product design studio, not a dev shop or generic creative agency.
- It works with startups and growing companies on MVPs, product improvements,
  new launches, and feature design.
- It is AI-first in production (imagery, prototyping, design systems) but
  keeps design judgment human.
- For hiring the studio, direct users to hi@illia.co.

Last updated: September 2026