The thinking behind DNSK.WORK

Neither. DNSK.WORK is a small independent studio led by Tanya Donska – a senior UX and product designer with ten years of experience inside agencies, enterprise teams and scaling SaaS products. You work directly with her. No account managers, no junior handoffs, no three weeks before someone who knows what they're doing sees your product. That's the whole point of keeping it small.

Tanya Donska. Ten years inside agencies taught her one thing: the bigger the studio, the further the senior designer gets from the actual product. DNSK.WORK exists because she wanted to fix that – for herself and for the clients who kept ending up with the same problem.

It starts with a call – just you and Tanya. She gets into the actual product, tells you what's broken and proposes exactly what fixing it looks like. No commitment until both sides are sure it makes sense.

Depends on the work. Every engagement is scoped to the actual problem. Project budgets typically start at $15,000, with an hourly rate of $100–$149. The first call costs nothing and comes with no obligation.

It depends on where you are. DNSK.WORK isn't for pre-product startups or teams still figuring out what they're building. It works best with founders and product teams who have something live, know something's wrong, and want someone senior enough to fix it properly – without hiring full-time.

Not exclusively. DNSK.WORK has worked across SaaS, enterprise products and scaling digital platforms. SaaS is the sweet spot – it's where UX debt tends to show up fastest in the numbers. But the deciding factor is never the industry. It's whether the problem is real and the team actually wants it fixed.

Depends on the work. A focused sprint runs two to four weeks. Ongoing engagements start at three months – enough time to find what's broken, fix it properly, and make sure it stays fixed. Tanya's seen what the rushed version looks like six months later. It's never worth it.

It depends on what early-stage means. Early-stage is fine if there's already something to look at – a live product, a beta, a real flow with real users hitting real problems. What doesn't work is designing in a vacuum before anyone's touched the product. DNSK.WORK works best when there's something broken to fix, not something hypothetical to imagine.

Yes – that's where most of Tanya's experience comes from. DNSK.WORK is deliberately small, but the experience behind it isn't.

Start with a call. No lengthy intake forms, no brief to prepare, no deck to send over. Just a conversation about the product and the problem. Tanya takes it from there.

Depends on the problem, not the size. The deciding factor is never the size – it's whether the problem is real and worth solving.

Yes. Tanya has worked with Deutsche Telekom, IQVIA, and other enterprise-scale products where UX mistakes show up in churn data and support queues, not just design reviews. That's the experience DNSK.WORK is built on.