Martian project team
Arthur Objartel
Product Designer
Anton Senkovskiy
Account Manager
Currents is a test observability platform for running, debugging, and analyzing Cypress and Playwright suites in CI. It grew with a small team of strong engineers who wrote high-quality code but had to make hundreds of design decisions on the spot, like choosing icon and font sizes, colors, and filter options.
Currents came to Evil Martians to improve their UI and standardize design decisions. In just seven weeks, our team ran an AI-assisted UI audit and built a design system that can be used by engineers or agents …without a designer in the room. This allows Currents to invest in distribution and gives the team a design foundation that grows with the product.
Why Currents hired Evil Martians
Andrew Goldis, CEO at Currents, wanted to improve the experience for the users and his team. “Every time we want to work on something new, we need to go back and decide whether we need to reuse components or introduce new ones. And then we need to invest additional time into polishing them or we just use old school components,” he said.
Since Andrew was operating with a lean team, he didn’t have the resources to define the necessary app design guidelines and standards internally. This is when we came in.
There were two business triggers that made hiring us urgent:
- AI was amplifying divergence. The Currents team was using Cursor and Claude for code generation, but without a design foundation, every AI-assisted PR risked adding new components. Andrew wanted the design system to be AI-readable for consistent future deliveries.
- GTM was being held back. In devtools, the way a product looks plays a big role in the purchasing decision. Currents had a steady user base, but the UI had certain challenges to address before the team could feature it confidently in ad campaigns, on the landing page, or in sales demos.
