Independent digital projects

Mike Norris Designs

Apps, tools, games, publishing systems, and useful digital products.

Independent software and digital publishing projects built to be useful, portable, accessible, and easy to use.

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Mike Norris Designs / Apps

Build. Publish. Use.

Independent software with a purpose.

Apps Portable browser-based tools

Games Interactive experiments and entertainment

Publishing Systems for digital content

Portable by design

No unnecessary cloud lock-in

Applications

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A growing collection of independent applications, utilities, games, and digital projects.

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Offline Utilities

Practical applications designed to work without requiring constant cloud services or online accounts.

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Interactive Apps & Games

Browser-based interactive projects, novelty apps, games, experiments, and entertainment software.

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Publishing Tools

Applications and systems for creating, organizing, packaging, and distributing digital content.

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Project scope

What We Build

Software and digital systems built around the job they need to perform.

Self-Contained Web Apps

Applications built primarily with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that can operate directly in modern browsers.

Offline Software

Portable utilities and applications designed to remain useful without forcing users into subscriptions, accounts, tracking systems, or permanent cloud dependence.

Interactive Projects

Games, novelty applications, experiments, visual projects, and unusual ideas turned into functioning software.

Digital Publishing

Tools and systems for creating, organizing, packaging, presenting, and distributing digital products.

Design philosophy

Built to Work

Mike Norris Designs focuses on practical digital products rather than unnecessary complexity. Projects are designed around the job they need to perform, with an emphasis on portability, straightforward interfaces, and long-term usability.

Portable

Applications should be easy to move, distribute, and use.

Practical

Features should exist because they serve a purpose.

Independent

Software should not require unnecessary subscriptions, accounts, tracking, or permanent dependence on outside services.

About

About Mike Norris Designs

Mike Norris Designs is an independent software, design, and digital publishing operation developing applications, utilities, interactive projects, games, publishing tools, and experimental software.

Projects range from simple browser applications to larger offline-first software systems, with individual products receiving their own dedicated pages as they are released.

Browser-first HTML, CSS, and JavaScript remain a practical foundation for portable software.

Offline-aware Products can be designed to remain useful even when a network connection is unavailable.

Expandable New applications and dedicated project pages can be added to this hub as they are released.

The Mike Norris Designs Network

Individual applications and projects are published through dedicated pages and related Mike Norris Designs properties.

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Mike Norris Designs is an expanding collection of independent applications and digital projects. New releases and project pages will be added here as they become available.

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