Hire UI and UX designers
Figma, design systems, prototypes, research
Product designers who work in a repository rather than a portfolio: design systems developers can build from, prototypes you can test on real people, and interfaces that survive contact with real content.
The most expensive design problem is not an ugly interface. It is a beautiful one that cannot be built as drawn, ignores empty states and forty-character names, and has to be renegotiated screen by screen while developers wait.
Our designers work the way engineers need them to. Figma files with a real component library, variables for colour and spacing, auto-layout that mirrors how the code will actually be structured, and states drawn for loading, empty, error and far-too-much-content. Interaction notes get written. Specifications get handed over. Not a flat image and a conversation somebody half remembers.
They do the research half too when budget allows. Five to eight usability sessions on a prototype will find more problems than a month of internal argument, and cost less than building the wrong thing once. When research is out of scope they will still tell you plainly which parts of a design are assumptions.
Accessibility belongs in design, not in a development ticket. Contrast, focus order, target sizes and error copy are decided in Figma, because retrofitting WCAG 2.2 AA into a built interface costs several times what designing for it would have.
When a dedicated designer is the right call. There is a product with a roadmap and developers waiting on screens. A design system needs building once so three teams stop diverging. Conversion or activation is poor and nobody has watched a real person try. Or the interface grew by accretion over four years and needs one coherent pass.
When it is not. A single landing page or a logo is fixed-price work, not a monthly engagement. If what you mostly need is production-ready front-end code, hire a React or Next.js engineer who can work from a UI kit.
Every engagement leaves you owning the Figma files, the component library and the documentation, in your workspace from day one.
What they do
Product interface design
Screens and flows for applications and dashboards, with every state drawn: loading, empty, error, and content that runs three lines too long.
Design systems
Figma component libraries with variables, tokens and documentation that map cleanly onto the code your developers actually write.
Prototypes and testing
Clickable prototypes and five to eight moderated sessions, with findings written as changes to make rather than observations to admire.
Marketing and landing design
Pages designed around a message and a measurement plan, with variants ready for the conversion tests that follow.
Accessibility in design
Contrast, focus order, target sizes, error and instruction copy settled in Figma, so WCAG 2.2 AA is never a retrofit.
Developer handover
Specifications, interaction notes, exported assets, and time in your stand-up, so the build matches the design without a negotiation per screen.
Skills
Seniority & rates
Sample profiles
Engagement models
Hourly
For bursts of work and part-time needs. Minimum 40 hours. Time tracked in Hubstaff, reported weekly.
- Pay for logged hours only
- Scale up or down weekly
- Same senior engineer throughout
Dedicated monthly
One engineer, full-time, inside your team and your tools. Eight hours a day, five days, in your timezone window.
- 15-day risk-free trial
- Free replacement, no argument
- Daily stand-up, sprint reporting
- NDA + 100% IP assignment
How to hire
Show us the screens you haveDay 0
A login, a Figma link or a set of screenshots. What the product does, who uses it, and which screen causes the most support tickets.
Portfolios matched to your problem48 h
Two designers chosen for the problem rather than for prettiness. Dashboards if you have a dashboard. Plus a short read on your current interface.
Interview, and look at a messy file2–4 days
Ask to see a working Figma file, not a case study. Layer naming and component structure tell you how the handover will go. No charge at this stage.
One flow, designed and reviewedDays 1–15
A real flow designed, prototyped and reviewed with your developers inside the fortnight. You see how they handle states, edge cases and handover before committing.
In the stand-up, in the reviewOngoing
NDA and IP before the first file, your Figma workspace, and design QA raised before release rather than after. Pause on 30 days' notice.
FAQ
Do your designers write front-end code?
Some can produce HTML and Tailwind for a landing page, but we do not sell them as engineers. The stronger combination is a designer working beside a React or Next.js developer from the same team: shared conventions, and the handover cost largely disappears.
Can they work without a researcher?
Yes, and most engagements run that way. Senior designers run their own sessions with five to eight participants, which finds the majority of usability problems. Larger quantitative research is a separate scope and we will tell you when it is genuinely worth the money.
What do we actually receive?
The Figma file with a component library and variables, prototypes, specifications and interaction notes, exported assets, and documentation. All of it in your own Figma workspace, owned by you from the first day rather than transferred at the end.
How do they work with our developers?
In your stand-up, your tracker and your review cycle. They design against your existing components where those exist, review builds against the design, and raise a design QA list before release instead of complaining after it.
Can they redesign our site without losing search traffic?
Yes, if that constraint is in the brief from the start. Keep URLs and heading structure, preserve content depth rather than cutting text for whitespace, and involve whoever owns SEO before the layout is signed off. We have seen more traffic lost to a beautiful redesign than to any algorithm update.
Tell us the role. Profiles in 48 hours.
No retainer to see CVs, and no invoice until the trial ends and you say yes.