About
Led by presence. Connected to the heart.
Alike is the design and experience studio of Graham “Guramji” Slick in Portland, Oregon, founded in 2026. We work in product design, design leadership, user experience and experiential space design: the screens people use and the rooms they remember.
Who leads the work
Graham “Guramji” Slick
Founder and creative director
“Everything we do, we do with heart and spirit.”
Graham spent thirteen years as a creative director, UX designer and product designer, mostly at agencies in New York and Portland, working for Columbia, Purdue, McGraw Hill Financial, Unilever brands, GE and Puma. In Portland he led product design for a solar company's software suite and designed advisor tools for a major financial services company.
In 2019 he began leading sound ceremonies as Aloka, which became Aloka Sound Bath House in 2025. Willamette Week's Best of Portland Readers' Poll named him the 2025 winner and a 2026 finalist for Best Sound Bath Experience, and Soho House, TEDxPortland and Lululemon have brought in Aloka to lead sessions for their people.
That second career shapes how Alike works. The studio sees a business from the website in and from the floor up: how guests arrive, what they notice and what brings them back.
Career
- 2026 to nowAlike, Portland. Founder
- 2019 to nowAloka, Portland (Aloka Sound Bath House since 2025). Founder and lead practitioner
- 2020 to 2023EyeCue Lab, Portland. Senior product designer and co-product owner
- 2018 to 2019Pow Interactive, Portland. Senior product designer
- 2015 to 2018Cinomadic, Portland and New York. Lead product designer
- 2014 to 2015Story Worldwide, New York. Associate creative director
- 2013 to 2014SSR, New York. UX designer
- 2010 to 2013Madzik Agency, New York. Creative director and UX
Studied graphic design and photography at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The name
Alike is Aloka with two letters changed: an i for the o, and an e for the a. It also names an idea the studio is built on: we're all alike.
For freelancers
Alike brings in independent designers, developers, writers, photographers and illustrators as projects require. To be considered, send your portfolio and rates to hello@alike.ooo.
Let’s create together
Got a project in mind?
We’d love to hear about it: a new product, a space, a digital experience or a bigger dream. Tell us what you need and when, and we’ll reply with next steps. If we’re not the right fit, we’ll say so.