Service 07 / 10 / Design From $36k/mo × 1–3 designers

Design that ships,
not impresses.

Senior designers paired directly with engineers. Specs become Figma becomes shipped UI in one motion — without the deck-to-design-to-engineering relay race that drops the baton three times.

$36k
From / month
1–3
Designers
2w
Demo cadence
0
Slides delivered

Design inside
the engineering loop.

Our designers ship in your repo, attend your standups, and review your PRs. No wall between Figma and production.

A / Research

Research that respects time

A week of generative work, not a quarter of discovery theater.

  • 8–12 user interviews wk 1
  • Job stories written
  • Competitive teardown visual
  • Analytics review baseline
  • Synthesis brief shared
B / System

A design system

Tokens, components, docs — code-coupled, not Figma-only.

  • Tokens (Style Dict) JSON
  • Components paired Figma/React
  • Storybook mandatory
  • Accessibility WCAG 2.2 AA
  • Dark mode first-class
C / Surfaces

Production surfaces

High-fidelity flows ready for engineering, with edge cases.

  • Empty state designed
  • Loading state designed
  • Error state designed
  • Per-role variants where needed
  • Motion spec frame-rate
D / Voice

UX copy

Words are interface — written, not Lorem.

  • Voice + tone guide short
  • Microcopy in Figma always
  • Email + transactional paired
  • Error messages actionable
  • Localization-ready ICU

Design that lands
in production.

The deliverable isn’t the Figma file. It’s the shipped UI.

01

Job-stories brief

A short, written articulation of what we’re building for whom and why. Becomes the lens for every design and engineering call.

02

Design system

Tokens, components, documentation — coupled between Figma and your React/SwiftUI/Compose codebase, not just a Figma library.

03

Production flows

Every primary user journey designed end-to-end including the unhappy paths. Hand-offs include named React components, not pixels.

04

Motion spec

Frame-rate-honest motion described in code-ready terms: durations, easings, choreography across the page transition.

05

Accessibility review

Contrast, focus order, screen reader, keyboard. Reviewed by humans, not lint. WCAG 2.2 AA as the floor.

06

A/B test shapes

For high-leverage flows, alternative designs ready for measured comparison — not opinions, evidence.

Three shapes
of design work.

From a single senior designer embedded with your team to a full design + research squad.

Single designer

Embed solo

From $36k/mo · 1 designer
  • One senior product designer
  • In your standups + PR reviews
  • Components paired Figma ↔ code
  • 12-week minimum
Most common

Design pair

From $66k/mo · 2 designers
  • Senior + supporting designer
  • Light research baked in
  • Voice + microcopy ownership
  • Quarterly design review
Full squad

Design squad

From $98k/mo · 3 designers + researcher
  • Researcher + 2 designers + UX writer
  • Generative + evaluative research loop
  • A/B test design + analysis
  • Design ops support

A predictable shape
around creative work.

Our designers are senior, not stylists. The process is built to channel their judgment, not constrain it.

01 / Week 1

Brief & research

Job stories, interview round, competitive teardown. Output: a written brief that engineering, design, and the business agree on.

02 / Week 2–3

System foundation

Tokens, primitive components, motion language. Storybook live in your repo. The system exists before the screens do.

03 / Week 4+

Surfaces in cadence

Two-week cadence: design Monday, build Wed, demo Friday. Edge cases (empty/loading/error) shipped with the happy path.

04 / Ongoing

Measure & refine

Quarterly review: what shipped, what worked, what we’d redesign. A/B results for high-leverage flows folded back into the system.

Things buyers ask
on the first call.

If something isn’t answered here, ask in your intro email — we keep this list short on purpose.

Do you work with existing design systems?+

Yes — extending Material, Carbon, Tailwind UI, or your in-house system is common. We’ll write a short audit of what to keep, what to override, and what to retire.

Brand or product?+

Product. We don’t do brand identity, marketing campaigns, or illustration packs. If you need brand, we partner with one of two studios we trust and stay focused on the application.

Figma or something else?+

Figma is the default. We can work in Penpot if you’re open-source-only. Sketch only if you really need to. Our final deliverable is the production code, not the Figma file.

Do you handle research too?+

Light research yes — interview rounds, analytics review, usability sessions. For full ongoing research programs we bring in a senior researcher on the full-squad tier.

Got something hard
that needs to be real?

Send a paragraph about the problem. We’ll come back inside 48 hours with a written take — team shape, cost envelope, riskiest assumptions.

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