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Sola Studio supports teams that need practical help with interface clarity and UX review, product-facing frontend implementation, accessibility review and remediation, or a clearly scoped next step around an interface, flow, or customer journey.
Sola Studio is useful when the next step is practical, but not yet clearly scoped: a screen or flow needs direction, frontend work needs capacity, an accessibility concern needs review, or a product-facing issue needs to be made easier to discuss and act on.
A screen, flow, or product-facing issue is not working — and not yet clearly mapped
Your team can sense that something in a screen, flow, form, or copy is harder to understand or act on than it should be — but the problem has not yet been clearly scoped or mapped.
Frontend work needs to keep moving
Your frontend capacity is stretched, but opening a full-time role would mean recruitment, budget, and internal coordination that may not fit the current need.
Accessibility findings need review or selected remediation
You need to understand accessibility issues, prioritize findings, or address selected frontend accessibility issues within a realistic scope.
The team needs a clearer next step
You want support from someone who can connect product context, frontend constraints, UX, accessibility, and market-facing communication into practical next steps.
Sola Studio is run by Yoko Shiina, an independent frontend consultant and engineer working across React, Next.js, TypeScript, API integration, accessible web development, and product-facing communication.
Before specializing in frontend engineering, Yoko worked across advertising, customer-attraction strategy, web production, information architecture, and client-facing project work. That background shapes the way Sola Studio connects business context, user expectations, wording, interface behavior, and what people need to understand before they decide, hesitate, or move forward in a page, flow, or customer journey.
Sola Studio is designed as focused professional support: clear scope, written context, practical handoffs, and enough frontend and UX awareness to make the next step easier to discuss, prioritize, and act on.
Interface Clarity
Structured review of screens, copy, and flows — mapping where users hesitate, stop, or misread.
Available as UI/UX Review for broader scoped work across multiple screens or flows, or as Conversion Friction Series for a single defined conversion flow.
Frontend Partner
Ongoing frontend support for product-facing interfaces and implementation work.
For teams that need practical frontend capacity across React, Next.js, TypeScript, forms, flows, API collaboration, refactoring, or component-based interface work.
Accessibility
Accessibility-aware review and selected frontend remediation within realistic scope.
For teams that need to understand accessibility issues, prioritize findings, and move selected frontend accessibility work forward with practical implementation awareness.
Free tool
Try the free Conversion Leak Estimator for a rough estimate of possible opportunity loss from friction on one conversion flow — before moving into review.
Sola Studio is useful where an issue is not only visual, technical, linguistic, or procedural, but sits between what users need to understand, what the interface needs to support, and what the team needs to decide next.
Interface clarity and UX judgment
The work looks at what users, stakeholders, and engineers need to understand, trust, and move through — across screens, copy, flows, and the decision load placed on users.
Frontend-grounded judgment
React, Next.js, TypeScript, forms, flows, components, APIs, and implementation constraints can be considered when shaping recommendations, review findings, or next steps.
Accessibility-aware practice
Accessibility is treated as part of practical frontend and product quality, especially where forms, flows, states, components, and implementation details affect real use.
Clear scoped support
Work is delivered with enough written context and scope clarity that the output can be discussed, handed off, or acted on without reopening the full engagement.
Most business engagements start with a short inquiry and a 30-minute discovery call to understand the context, check service fit, and identify what needs to be confirmed before work begins.
For scoped services, Sola Studio usually confirms NDA needs where relevant, materials, access, assumptions, exclusions, quote, payment, and contract documents before the engagement starts.
This keeps the work practical: a defined start, confirmed scope, and no unclear open-ended commitment.
How we work togetherHere are some of the projects we have worked on at Sola Studio.
A real-world internal dashboard project focused on making high-risk CSV-based operational updates safer and easier to handle through the interface. The work covered specification design, validation logic, error UX, and implementation-aware coordination across product, frontend, and backend constraints.
A multilingual site project involving information architecture review, usability research planning, and UX improvement proposals across a site serving up to around five languages. The work focused on booking flows, decision-making content, and structural clarity rather than translation alone.
A keyboard-first flashcard app designed to help non-native speakers practice interviews with more confidence. The app was built with screen reader support, motion control, and structured semantic markup as part of the core UX rather than as a later add-on.
Practical tools and public apps from Sola Studio for real workflows, clearer decisions, and everyday use.
Open-source Tailwind Color Contrast Checker
Free estimator for conversion flow friction
Interview Flashcard Practice App
Share a little context about what you are working on.
The inquiry is a good starting point even if the scope is not yet clear.
