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CASE 01 · Studio product · design + development

Frekans Studio.

Bilingual sound lab; sounds are synthesized on the device, every piece carries its evidence level.

LIVE → frekans.studio

PROBLEM

Frekans Studio is a sound lab offering sounds for sleep, relaxation and focus, and it sets itself a hard rule: each of its 357 sessions is shown only as strong as the weakest scientific claim it rests on. What is not known is written down just as plainly. In the site’s own words: "'It doesn’t work' and 'the evidence isn’t sufficient yet' are different things."

APPROACH

Design, sound engine and code come from one hand. Every sound is generated by a single signal-processing core on the visitor’s device; no audio file is downloaded from a server. The evidence library links 35 claims to 196 sources, every citation verified against its Crossref or PubMed record. Turkish and English are equal: every section carries the same number of addresses in both languages.

RESULT

  • 0.45 sload time on desktop
  • 0.40 sload time on a phone
  • 2languages
  • 986URLs

MEASURED: 2026-10-23

  1. LCP 452 ms · CLS 0 · TTFB 281 ms
  2. HTTP/2 · 2 languages · 986 URL sitemap
  3. llms.txt ✓ · SVG · 56 req · 724 KB

IN TWO LANGUAGES

Listeners read in their own language.

  1. trTürkçe
  2. enEnglish

LOAD, FRAME BY FRAME

Opens in 0.45 seconds.

Frames from an animation-free recording; time from the case ledger (cold load, 1440×900, median of 5 runs).

Context

Frekans Studio offers sound for sleep, relaxation and focus, and does so under a rule it sets for itself: every piece shows its evidence level, and a session is never presented as stronger than the weakest claim it rests on. The site says it plainly in its own words: “‘It doesn’t work’ and ‘the evidence isn’t sufficient yet’ are different things.” The reader wants to know what can be trusted before listening.

  1. Sound → generated on the device, no file download
  2. Every session → as strong as its weakest claim
  3. # the site’s own claims, from its "How it’s made" page

Strategy

Trust is built with evidence, not with tone: every session card carries an evidence-level badge, the evidence library links 35 claims to 196 sources, and sentences follow the certainty language of GRADE and the Cochrane Handbook. The product follows the same principle: no account, no analytics, no advertising, and the sound is generated on the device.

CLOSE-UP

The crops are real regions of the live site; each caption is the section’s own heading.

Şu an neye ihtiyacın var? — frekans.studio
Sesleri keşfet. — frekans.studio
Kanıt kütüphanesi — frekans.studio
Aynı ayarları kendin kur — frekans.studio
  1. 01Şu an neye ihtiyacın var? frekans.studio/
  2. 02Sesleri keşfet. frekans.studio/
  3. 03Kanıt kütüphanesi frekans.studio/kanit
  4. 04Aynı ayarları kendin kur frekans.studio/nasil-yapildi

Structure

The homepage opens onto listening: four doors by need (sleep · relax · focus · explore) and a ready session. The library holds 357 sessions; the evidence library, the claims; the guides, brainwave bands and frequencies — each on pages of their own. The sitemap holds 986 URLs across two languages.

ARCHITECTURE

The lines are measured layout: container width and section rhythm are read from the live page, not drawn by hand.

frekans.studio
frekans.studio 1364px

Design

Headlines speak in a thin, narrow voice set in Imbue 300. The measured palette carries a green-leaning black, grey tones and a single mint green. There is no raster image on the page: waves and icons are SVG, and the field that visualizes the sound is built as a still engraving, a 2D canvas or WebGL2 depending on the device.

MATERIAL

Imbue — frekans.studio
Imbue · 300 · 140px

Headline typography — the specimen line is measured from the live page’s computed style.

#e8ebe5 · #a0a89f · #0a0d0c · #9fd0b2 · #ece9e2

Measured palette: the page’s three most frequent neutrals plus its saturated accents.

Interaction

Sound never starts on its own; when the listener presses Play it opens softly and never jumps. In the resonance lab bells and bowls are struck by hand, the tuning experiment compares 432 and 440 blind, and the results stay on the device. Nothing on screen flashes more than three times a second; with reduced motion preferred, the field returns to the still engraving.

MOBILE

Three real 390 px frames; the alt text is the page’s own title.

Uyku, odak ve binaural sesler · Frekans Studio
Kanıt kütüphanesi · Frekans Studio
Kütüphane · Frekans Studio
  1. 05Uyku, odak ve binaural sesler
  2. 06Kanıt kütüphanesi
  3. 07Kütüphane

Lessons

Limiting a claim is the most honest way to strengthen it: at Frekans every session carries the strength of its evidence on its card, and the machine reader finds the same grading in the first lines of llms.txt. A sound site without sound files is the technical side of the same principle: a 724 KB cold load that does not grow with the length of a session.

MEASUREMENT AND ARCHITECTURE

Measured values

Cold-load measurement dated October 23, 2026: Largest Contentful Paint 452 milliseconds, Time to First Byte 281 milliseconds, layout shift 0. Connection HTTP/2, 724 kilobytes transferred in total across 56 requests. The homepage carries no raster image; the waves and icons are SVG, and the largest paint is the headline itself.

A sound site without sound files

None of the 357 sessions in the library is a recording: each is described in code and a seed, and the sound is computed in real time in the browser on an AudioWorklet. Rain comes from a droplet model, a bowl from its modes, noise from its color model. Exporting to a file and the phone app use the same core; there are not three sound engines, but one engine running in three places.

The performance consequence is plain: with no audio file to download, page weight does not grow with the length of a session. A forty-five-minute sleep session and a three-minute breathing break open with the same engine. How a performance budget is set is written up separately.

Evidence level as an interface element

Every scientific claim is given one of six levels: strong, moderate, preliminary or mixed, insufficient, traditional practice, and claim-free sound environment. A session is never shown as stronger than the weakest claim it rests on. Sentences follow the certainty language of the GRADE working group and the Cochrane Handbook: "probably", "may", "we don’t know".

Today the evidence library links 35 claims to 196 sources. Every citation is verified against its Crossref or PubMed record; every claim has a version and a changelog. Draft cards stay visible for transparency but are not used in recommendations. The badge on a session card is the visible tip of this layer: whatever the card offers, the library states how well it is known.

Limits for the ear and the eye

The output chain has four stages: a blocker that filters zero-frequency offset, a 20 kHz limit that cuts above the audible band, an envelope that caps any rise in level at 6 decibels per second, and a peak limiter that never lets the output exceed −1 dBFS. The limiter and the band limit cannot be removed by any setting: safety is not a preference but a part of the engine.

The image follows the same principle: the field that visualizes the sound is built as a still engraving, a 2D canvas or WebGL2 depending on the device, with heavy drawing done on a separate thread so it never touches the sound’s timing. Nothing on screen flashes more than three times a second (WCAG 2.3.1); with reduced motion preferred, the field returns to the still engraving. What the reduced-motion preference asks for is written up separately.

Two languages, equal

The site is in Turkish and English. The 986 addresses in its sitemap split exactly in half between the two languages, and every section, from sessions to evidence cards and guides, carries the same number of pages in both. Equality here is not a translation ratio but a rule: what is published in one language exists in the other. What hreflang does is written up separately.

For the machine reader

The structured data layer carries WebSite, Organization, Person, SoftwareApplication and AboutPage. The app is described with a free offer and with web, iOS and Android as operating systems. llms.txt sits at the root and opens with the explanation of the evidence levels: an answer engine quoting a session reads, in the same place, how well it is known. JSON-LD basics and the difference between llms.txt and robots.txt are explained separately.

The crawler rules are written out too: search and answer-engine crawlers are listed by name and every page is open to them; only the interface endpoints and development experiments stay out.

The studio’s own product

This case differs from the others in one respect: Frekans Studio is not client work but the studio’s own product. Design, sound and code come from one hand; the site’s credits also name the AI partner used in development. The method is the same as in the other cases, and so is the limit: user numbers and listening time are not written here, because the site deliberately does not collect them.

Source

The site is live and its address is open on this page; the measurement can be repeated with the browser’s own developer tools. Every citation in the evidence library carries the source’s persistent identifier (DOI or PMID); the structured data types can be read as JSON-LD in the page’s head. The figures in this case are dated October 23, 2026 and change as the site changes.