A small studio doing meaningful work.
Mindful Code is a small, independent studio. We take on projects where the work matters, where getting it right has real consequences for researchers, visitors, communities, or collections.
We are not a full-service agency. We are two people who have spent years building software for academia, museums, and the charitable sector. We understand the domain, so you skip the months of explaining and get something better than a generic agency would build. We understand the constraints: complex stakeholders, data that cannot be lost, systems that need to last.
James Alvarez
Design and development
Designs and builds applications across web, mobile, and interactive media. Background in cognitive psychology (PhD, Sussex) and over a decade in the university sector. From concept workshops through to production code, across Laravel, Vue, React Native, Unity, and machine learning. Winner of the BPS/ATSiP Award for Technical Support in Psychological Research. jamesalvarez.co.uk
James Hughes
Research software engineer, UCL
PhD in psychology. Research software engineer at UCL’s Centre for Advanced Research Computing. Brings depth in data, analysis, and scholarly practice across the university sector. Work spans clinical tools deployed in NHS settings, digital health interventions tested in national trials, and research software for neuroscience and the arts. ORCID · UCL profile