James Homer

Independent studio and consultancy delivering full-stack development, systems architecture, and strategic/creative direction.

Co-founded and led digital development for a design studio, translating ambitious creative concepts into technically complex, shipped web experiences.

https://yes.studio

Website and CMS development for photographic agencies and artists, including East Photographic, Dan Holdsworth and Dan Tobin Smith.

Image retouching for fashion and advertising clients

Spatial Intelligens is the mobile companion app for the 19th International Architecture Exhibition at the Corderie dell'Arsenale (curated by Carlo Ratti, designed by sub under Niklas Bildstein Zaar).

The app uses computer vision to recognize what a visitor is looking at from a single photo, resolve their position in the space, and map it to the exhibition's curatorial framework. From there, users enter a dialogue with a conversational AI trained on the full depth of the exhibition content.

Beyond content delivery, the system constructs a live, spatially aware model of each visit—tracking project encounters, movement patterns, and thematic affinities. This enables visitors to see how their pathway overlaps with, diverges from, or uniquely expresses itself relative to the anonymized pathways of previous visitors, effectively turning the act of visiting into a fourth layer of intelligence alongside the exhibition's three curatorial frames: Natural, Artificial, and Collective.

As lead developer I was initially tasked with researching solutions and vendors to help meet the aims of the project — such as improving indoor location accuracy for the interactive map. I also created the specs and scope for the technical build for both frontend and backend development. I was responsible for setting up services such as auth, CI/CD, and logging/monitoring which included a feedback loop of user behaviour used as additional context for the LLM.

MOODS is a creative tool for self-inquiry. The app provides a framework to help explore and make sense of your inner world. It does this primarily through a chat interface that exposes a number of characters, the Archetypes. Each archetype is finely tuned to analyse and shed insight on a different aspect of the self. It draws on the deep well of human meaning-making — dreams and myths, symbols and shadows, the sacred and the strange — not to explain you, but to help you meet yourself.

Being part of a small team with limited funding, my role featured a variety of responsibilities — involvement in the early technical planning and scoping, bringing in talent from my network to fulfil roles, helping shape the founder's vision and mapping this to a logical framework, consulting on UX and visual design, full-stack development of the cross-platform app and supporting infrastructure, strategic planning of the MVP launch, supporting growth to $30k MRR within the first 3 months.

moods.world