Elliot Rylands
Lab

Things I’ve built to understand the medium.

Side projects, experiments, and tools. The building isn’t a hobby, it’s how I keep my design decisions honest. Some of it you can use right now.

EHR experiment · Live

Let AI read the record before the clinician has to.

A fictional patient brief. AI reconstructs physical health, wellbeing and unfinished care, then shows its receipts. The clinician keeps the judgement.

Open Patient State →
Booking experiment · Live

Those dates don't quite work.

A blocked night shouldn't dump you back to an empty calendar. Nearly keeps the trip you asked for, then offers stays you can actually book.

Open Nearly →
Booking experiment · Live

What if booking understood how people negotiate time?

Most booking software is a database with extra steps. Hold keeps one reservation on screen: services assemble with Motion, unavailable 10:00s become a question, better matches drift toward the centre.

Open Hold →
Clinic experiment · Live

Don't spend the appointment reconstructing the week.

A thin fake chart. The home program on the phone is the same rings on the treatment-room iPad. Write into a day. Thursday was a flare. Recap is optional.

Open Chart →
Studio site · Live

Fathom maps the dark.

A deep-ocean survey studio. Scroll is a descent: sonar loader, pinned layers, selected surveys.

Open Fathom →
Checkout experiment · Live

The checkout you already know, moving.

Stripe already won the object. Tender keeps that shape and spends the craft on Motion: a card that fills as you type, a CVC flip, a pay button that becomes a check. Nothing is charged.

Open Tender →
Design engineering · Live

I spent the evening designing, anatomising, and engineering a button.

Not another build tutorial. Learnings at the design and engineering bridge: why I made it, how I moved fast across codebases, how I tested accessibility, and what I would take to an engineer next.

Open Autopsy →
Free tool · Live

Card sorting, without the signup wall

A free card sorting tool for UX research. Build a study, share one link, get a CSV back. The whole study is encoded in the URL, so there are no accounts, no servers, and nothing stored anywhere.

Use the tool
Free tool · Live

A phone that wears your design system

A design system isn't a Figma file. It's an environment you live inside. Set yours by hand — three token layers, a live phone OS, and a shareable link that carries the whole system.

Boot it →
Free tool · Live

Tree testing, without the signup wall

The companion to the card sort. Paste your navigation, set tasks, and share a link to find out whether people can actually find things. Success rate, directness, and full paths export as CSV, all in the browser.

Use the tool
White-label · Live

UX Lab, white-labelled for Jane

A white-label build of UX Lab, the workshop facilitation product, rebranded end to end for Jane. Same guided sprints, whiteboard, and facilitation tools, wearing another company's identity to prove the product can be licensed.

See the build
Commerce experiment · Live

A merch pipeline with no ecommerce platform

The store runs on the Printful API for fulfilment and Lemon Squeezy for checkout, stitched together with a webhook route in this site's codebase. No Shopify, no plugins, orders flow through automatically.

See the store

More tools are on the bench. If one of these saves you a research tool subscription, tell someone about it.