(01) The brief
Harnesses ship every week. Most claims of “better” rest on a single lucky run.
Challenge
node-q builds hbench, an open engine that runs coding agents like Claude Code, Codex and Gemini CLI on benchmark tasks. They needed a public home for the results that engineers would trust, not another leaderboard with one big number.
Approach
We designed the brand and the board around a single idea: a score always comes with its uncertainty. Every version gets its own row, every row gets a 95% interval, and crashed runs stay visible instead of quietly disappearing.
(02) The product
Sixteen pages across desktop, tablet and mobile, each in light and dark. A few of them below.
(03) The identity
A mark drawn from the loop it measures.
Two diagonal paths meet, cross and keep going. Inputs converge, the node runs and evaluates, and the output feeds the next loop. The same 45° grid sets the type, the icons and the progress bars.
(04) What shipped
A public board that's live at nodeq.tech, and a system the team keeps building on.
- Pages designed
- 16
- Breakpoints, desktop to mobile
- 3
- Themes from one set of tokens
- 2
- Interval on every score
- 95%