About Northcave Studio

A web design studio in Dhaka.

Northcave Studio designs and builds websites, landing pages, web apps and mobile apps for small businesses and agencies in Bangladesh, the US, the UK, Europe and the Gulf. Every project starts with a free working draft, so you see the site before you pay for it.

How Northcave started

Northcave started in 2026. It began as freelance work on an online platform, building websites and software for small businesses. As the projects grew, so did the team, and it became a studio that builds for small businesses and agencies.

One idea shaped how it works. Most agencies ask you to approve a quote and a plan before you see anything. We wanted to turn that round. So we promise a working draft of your website, free, within 6–12 hours of your brief. Then you decide.

A working draft of your website, free, within 6–12 hours of your brief.

Today Iftekhar Newaz and Anika Mehjabin run the studio, with a small group of senior developers who build alongside them. We have also built 46 public sites for our own archive, so you can open real work before you write to us.

Why Northcave

North

North is direction.

“True north” is the fixed point you navigate by. For a business, it is the one clear idea everything else answers to. We help you find it and keep every decision pointed at it. It also says where we work: we build from Dhaka for clients across the world.

Cave

Cave is where visual storytelling began.

Some of the oldest images people ever made were painted on cave walls. Some researchers believe those painters gave animals extra legs or heads so they would seem to move in flickering firelight. In a way, the first motion graphics were made in caves. We take that as our brief: tell the story, and make it move.

Mission

We find a brand's true north and bring it to life through websites built with craft and care.

Every business has one clear idea it should stand for. We find it, then build a website, with motion that means something, that carries it to the right people anywhere in the world.

Vision

To prove that a studio in Dhaka can set the standard for web design worldwide.

Cave paintings outlasted the people who made them because they were made to last and made to move people. We want our work to be remembered the same way, and to be the place ambitious brands come to be seen, understood and remembered.

What we do

We are a web design and development studio. We build small business websites, landing pages, Next.js web apps, mobile apps and online shops. We design the interface, redesign existing sites, and look after them with monthly maintenance.

Clients come from many kinds of business, so we know website design by industry, from real estate and restaurants to education, healthcare and professional services. For businesses at home, see our web design company in Bangladesh page.

From the studio's archive

All 46 builds →

DWELLORA

Real Estate website design

INDESORE GROUP

Manufacturing website design

ATELIER VESPER

Fashion website design

Five tenets, held under tension.

01.

Fast, draft in hours not weeks

Most studios sell process, because process is what they can bill for. We sell the thing itself. A brief that arrives in the evening has a working draft by morning. We don't rush it. We've just removed everything that sits between the thinking and the making. The status meeting, the handoff document, the internal review round. None of it ever made a website better. It made agencies feel safe. Founders don't pay for safe. They pay for a link they can send their co-founder tonight.

02.

Custom built, never templated

You can feel the difference between a site built from a template and a site built from its subject. A template starts with sections and pours your content in. We start with what you actually do, and build the structure out of that. It's why our restaurant demo reads like a kitchen firing schedule and our law firm demo reads like a legal brief. The subject decides the form, every time.

03.

Small team, senior-only

We're a small senior team on purpose, and there is no layer between you and the people doing the work. You talk to the person designing and building your site, not to an account manager relaying messages to a production floor you never see. Everyone here is senior enough to make decisions in the room, which is what keeps a draft moving in hours instead of waiting on someone else's review cycle. You always know who made every call on your site, because you've met them.

04.

Designed to feel alive

On the modern web, how a page moves is part of what it says. A hero that breathes tells a visitor the company is alive. A button that responds to pressure tells them someone cared about the details. We design in movement from the first sketch, choosing easing curves alongside the palette rather than bolting them on at the end. And we keep the discipline that makes motion mean anything: one moment per screen, stillness everywhere else.

05.

Free first draft, zero risk

The free 6–12 hour draft is a rule we point at ourselves. If we have to win the project after you've already seen real work, we can't coast on a signed contract, pad a timeline, or hide behind a slide deck. Every project starts with us proving it. If the draft doesn't earn the build, you keep the draft and we learn something. That trade has made us better every time.

How we work

Six steps, no ceremony.

STEP 01

Discovery

One call, or one written brief. We ask about your customers and your revenue, not your colour preferences. The palette falls out of the business.

STEP 02

Wireframe

The argument of the page, in grey boxes: what a visitor sees first, believes second, clicks third. Approved in hours because there's nothing pretty to argue about.

STEP 03

Design draft

The 6–12 hour deliverable. Real type, real palette, real copy, deployed to a live link. This is the moment the project is actually decided.

STEP 04

Motion pass

Easing, reveals, the one orchestrated moment the page will be remembered by. Reduced-motion fallbacks are built here, not retrofitted.

STEP 05

Development

Next.js, semantic HTML, and Core Web Vitals in the green. The site you approve is the site that ships. No 'it'll look right in production'.

STEP 06

Launch

DNS, analytics, OG images, sitemap. Then two weeks of watching it, included, because launches surface what previews never do.

The team

The people who do the work.

Iftekhar and Anika run the studio. A small group of senior developers builds alongside them, so you always know who made each call on your site.

Iftekhar Newaz

Founder & CEO

Iftekhar Newaz started Northcave Studio in 2026 and leads it as Founder & CEO. He sets the direction and the design standard for every project.

“Every site in our archive was built as if it were the studio's only client. Yours gets the same treatment. For the hours we're cutting it, nothing else exists.”

newaz@northcavestudio.com

Anika Mehjabin

COO & CMO

Anika Mehjabin is COO & CMO. She runs the studio's operations and marketing, and keeps every project moving.

“A deadline is a promise. We only make the ones we intend to keep, then we keep them.”

anika@northcavestudio.com

Northcave Studio at a glance

Started: 2026
Based in: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Founder & CEO: Iftekhar Newaz
COO & CMO: Anika Mehjabin
Works with: Small businesses and agencies
Markets: Bangladesh, the US, the UK, Europe and the Gulf
Languages: English and Bangla
First draft: Free, within 6–12 hours
Prices from: $200 for a landing page; $600 for a full website
Email: hello@northcavestudio.com

About Northcave Studio: questions

Where is Northcave Studio based?

Northcave Studio is based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. We work online with small businesses and agencies in Bangladesh, the US, the UK, Europe and the Gulf.

When did Northcave Studio start?

In 2026. It began as freelance work on an online platform and grew into a small studio building websites and software for small businesses and agencies.

Why is it called Northcave?

North is direction: the fixed point you navigate by, which for a business is the one clear idea everything else answers to. Cave is where visual storytelling began, on cave walls. We find your true north and bring it to life with motion.

Who runs Northcave Studio?

Iftekhar Newaz, Founder & CEO, and Anika Mehjabin, COO & CMO, run the studio with a small group of senior developers.

Free first draft · 6 to 12 hours · no contract

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