Design that ships, not just looks good
Research, structure, UI, and a design system that outlives the project. Plus engineering pairing if you need it.
Customer Research
User interviews, journey maps, and competitor teardowns. We talk to your actual customers before we draw a single screen, so the design solves the right problem.
Wireframes & User Flows
Low-fidelity flows that lock the logic before pixels get expensive. You see the full product structure on one page, fast.
High-Fidelity UI
Pixel-perfect Figma designs with components, states, and responsive breakpoints. Production-ready handoff for engineering.
Design Systems
Tokens, components, and patterns documented in Figma. The system scales with your product and outlives any individual designer.
Interactive Prototypes
Clickable prototypes for user testing before code starts. Test the riskiest flows with real users, iterate cheap.
Brand & Visual Direction
Logo refinement, typography systems, color palettes, illustration style. The visual language that makes your product feel like itself.
Research first, pixels second
Four phases. User research before wireframes. Wireframes before pixels. Pixels before code.
- 01 1–2 weeks
Research
Interviews with your users, competitor audits, jobs-to-be-done mapping. Outcome: a written design brief that the whole team agrees on.
- 02 1–2 weeks
Structure
Information architecture, user flows, and wireframes. We lock the logic before any pixel work, so changes stay cheap.
- 03 2-week sprints
Design
High-fidelity screens, components, and interactive prototypes. Weekly reviews. Real user testing on the riskiest flows.
- 04 Ongoing
Handoff & Support
Figma handoff with engineering, plus design QA during build. We stay on through development to catch the details that always come up.
The kinds of teams we design for
Product design is the right call when you need senior craft, customer research, and a designer who thinks like an engineer.
Startups defining a product from scratch
You have an idea, maybe a deck, no design. We help you turn fuzzy concepts into a coherent, testable product before you commit engineering budget.
Engineering-led teams without a designer
Strong tech, weak UX, growing user complaints. We embed as the design function until you're ready to hire one in-house, or stay on indefinitely.
Products mid-rebrand or redesign
Your product works but looks dated, or your brand has evolved past the current UI. We modernize without breaking what users love.
Products growing past their original design
Features keep accreting, the UI gets messier, navigation breaks down. We restructure and ship a system the next 50 features can fit into.
The design stack we use day to day
Industry-standard tools, opinionated workflows. Designed for clean handoff to engineering.
Figma
Single source of truth for design. Components, variants, auto-layout, dev mode handoff. Our design files live here.
FigJam + Miro
User flows, journey maps, research synthesis. The thinking that happens before pixels.
Maze + Userbrain
Unmoderated user testing on prototypes. Cheap, fast signal before engineering invests.
Iconography & Type
Custom or curated icon systems, typography pairings tested across the product, accessibility built in (WCAG AA min).
Design Tokens
Color, spacing, and type tokens that translate cleanly into Tailwind, CSS variables, or React Native StyleSheet.
Storybook
Component library documented and visually tested. Designers and engineers see the same source of truth.
Real products with real users, designed and built by the same team.
Showslide ↗
Designed our own browser-based presentation platform from scratch. Brand, system, every screen.
Slashscore Developers ↗
Redesigned the developer profiling product end-to-end. New integrations, social features, and an invitation-only onboarding flow. The Resume 2.0 for developers.
TravelPro ↗
Redesigned a golf-travel marketplace with smart search and trustworthy review patterns.
What teams ask us about design
Short, honest answers. If yours isn't here, book a call and we'll answer it directly.
Do you offer design without engineering?
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Yes. We take product design engagements as a standalone service. You can hand the Figma files to your own engineers, or come back to us for the build.
What does product design cost?
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Fixed-scope design engagements come with a defined total upfront, sized to your screens, research depth, and design system scope. Ongoing design work runs on a clear monthly retainer. Book a 30-minute call and we'll give you a concrete range.
How long does a design project take?
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A focused MVP design lands in 3 to 6 weeks. A full product redesign with research and a design system runs 6 to 12 weeks. We lock the timeline in the brief, before any work starts.
Do you do brand and logo design too?
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Yes, when it fits the product engagement. We're not a pure branding studio, but logo refinement, type systems, color palettes, and visual identity are part of most product design projects.
Will you work with our existing brand?
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Yes. If you have an established brand, we design within it. If the brand needs evolution, we propose changes with rationale and you decide what stays.
Do you do user research, or just visual design?
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Both. Every project starts with customer interviews and competitor research. Visual design without research is decoration. We do design that solves real user problems.
Three ways to work together
Fixed-scope design, embedded designer, or staff augmentation. Pick the model that fits your stage.
Fixed-Scope Project
Best for clear design scope and a fixed budget.
- Defined screens and deliverables
- Fixed timeline and budget
- Signed SOW before kickoff
- Figma files and design system handover
- Design QA during engineering
Dedicated Designer
Best for products needing ongoing design partnership.
- A senior designer embedded with your team
- Sprints, reviews, and iteration
- Research, system, and screen work
- Flexible scope as you grow
- Optional engineering pairing
Staff Augmentation
Best for adding a senior designer to your team.
- Senior product designers
- Embedded in your workflow and tools
- Scale up or down on a sprint's notice
- Your process, your standards
- No long-term lock-in
What else we do
One team, one contract, full product journey.
Ready to design a better product?
Book a 30-minute call with the founders or send a message. We reply within one business day.
Talk to the founders directly
No sales pitch. We'll give you a concrete cost and timeline range on the call.
Tell us about your project
Share what you're building, where it's at, and what you'd like our help with. We reply within one business day.