The studio behind the work.
We started this studio after working on sites and tools that had to stay useful after launch. That changed what we value: clear editing, accessibility from the start, and a build people can maintain.
Plant Powered Pixels is a small family studio in Los Angeles, on the border of West Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Lincoln develops applications at UCLA and built the organizing tech for the union he organizes with. Billie brings design and operations. Together we build accessible websites, research tools, and web apps for organizations that care. Most of what we know about keeping them working came from projects that had to meet a standard and stay useful after launch. The longer story of Lincoln's university and organizing work lives at lbohn.info.
How a build grows
Fig 01 · Seedling
Every build starts small on purpose: real structure, real accessibility, a skeleton you can already click through. It looks modest in week one. Everything after is built on it.
Fig 02 · Shift
Then the shift: content, behavior, and the dynamic tooling fill in, pixel by pixel. This is where a site stops being a design and starts being a system.
Fig 03 · Maturity
A mature build holds its shape. It keeps meeting the standard it launched with, the people running it can keep it current, and growth has somewhere to go.
What that means
We build under the requirements, not around them.
Lincoln is a staff research associate at UCLA, building web applications for SUPER (opens in a new tab) (Substance Use Evidence Based Resource) and providing technical assistance to California's Service to Sciences Academy: government and university work held to WCAG and Section 508. Billie brings design and operations. We know what institutional-grade work takes because we've had to meet the standard ourselves.
We build the organizing tech we use every day.
We organize with WeHo Temps United. Lincoln built the union's public site and its private organizing dashboard: intake forms, member tracking, the views organizers actually check. Billie and Lincoln keep running both day to day, and the tools change as the campaign needs more from them. See it running at wehotempsunited.org (opens in a new tab).
Accessible from the first commit.
We target WCAG 2.1 AA from the first commit and include Section 508 where the work requires it. That habit comes from government and university work, where accessibility is part of the acceptance criteria.
Designed for the work after launch.
When the job calls for a backend, we structure the system and handoff so the people using it can keep the work current.
Built here
A Los Angeles studio. The work travels.
Two people, working with the nonprofits, local businesses, and unions we share a city with, and with organizations well past it.