Our Mission

Redesign your digital life.

fun.app is an all-in-one experience that allows individuals to design their own digital lives — more of a sandbox than an ultra-structured platform. At Fundamental Design Lab, we want to help you express yourself, see and be seen, and build a better platform for you to connect and establish yourself online.
Our values

Users first.
Builders second.

The thing people don’t expect: we built fun.app because we wanted to use it. That’s it. No VC mandate, no growth-at-all-costs mentality. We are users of the product as much as we are its builders.

That means we’re genuinely open to feedback, new ideas, and anything that makes the experience better. This isn’t a platform built in a boardroom. It’s a platform built by people who want a better internet. Check out our feedback community

Why Us

Two designers.
One focus.

Fundamental Design Lab is more than just a software publisher.

We are The Fundamental Design Lab.

Our flagship fun.app® — The Fun App — is a product demonstrating our efficiency in applying the fundamental design process:

Research — build real empathy and understanding
Innovate — identify essential user needs
Design — define solution models
Engineer — refine solutions for execution

The fundamental design process can be applied in all contexts — digital, human, B2C or B2B. Our vision is large, and we seek to apply the best design practices wherever they are needed, because design is fundamental.

Fundamental Design Lab, Inc.
(re)design your digital life.

Our Values
01
Design for User Control
Your feed, your filters, your experience. We build tools that put you in charge — not algorithms optimized for someone else's benefit.
02
Design for Transparency
We don't manipulate what you see, needlessly censor, or quietly tip the scales in anyone's favor. What you see is what's there. You don't have to trust us, we built it into how fun.app works.
03
Build to improve lives
We are users of our own products. We believe the best way to build a business is to create an experience users truly love.
04
Innovate on real needs
We are methodical. We are building something greater than features and polish. Fundamental Design Lab is grounded in solving needs efficiently through design thinking.
The Team

Lean team.
Big ambitions.

Right now we’re a lean team — two founders working with developers who believe in what we’re building. No bloated org chart, no committees. Just people who care about getting this right.

J
Jay
Co-Founder & Admin
Stanford designer focused on human centered design, founded the company to build something better in a world where things were getting worse.
T
Tyler
Co-Founder & CEO
Stanford designer who joined the team to help design a platform built from the best experiences possible.