SaaS Product Design Services for products that outgrew their original design
SaaS products don't break. They accumulate. A feature here, a workaround there, a flow that made sense at launch and hasn't been touched since. The product grew. The design didn't keep up. Now the team is building on top of something that was designed for a different product, a different user, and a different set of problems.
Tanya Donska provides SaaS product design services for the product it actually became – the complexity, the roles, the edge cases, the flows that need redesigning before the next feature makes everything worse. Embedded, senior, in your Figma before the next sprint.
Expertise
Most SaaS product design problems have been there longer than anyone's comfortable admitting. Below is what SaaS product design actually looks like in practice.
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Users don't get past signup
The onboarding works. Users still don't get it.
A new user lands in the product with no context, no patience, and something specific they wanted to try. The onboarding was designed by people who already understand the product. That's the problem. Every step that feels obvious to the team is a step a stranger has to figure out alone. Most of them don't bother.
Tanya Donska designs SaaS product onboarding for the person who's never seen it before – the flows, the empty states, the moments where a stranger decides whether to keep going. Product design for SaaS that gets users to the value before they leave to try something else, and the UI/UX is part of that.
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Users cancel at month three
Users signed up. Month three – they cancel.
The product works. Users know it works. They cancel anyway because it never became something they couldn't imagine working without. That's a design problem. The value is there – it's just not visible enough, not often enough, not at the right moment. Month three churn is rarely about the product. It's about the SaaS product experience design failing to surface what the product is actually doing for them.
Tanya designs SaaS products that remind users why they're paying – the dashboards that show progress, the moments that surface value before renewal, the flows that turn occasional users into ones who'd notice if it was gone.
The outcome:
A product that justifies itself without a check-in call from sales.
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New user meets power user
Built for the person who already knows it – used by one who doesn't yet.
The new user needs guidance. The power user needs to move fast and never wants to see it. Most SaaS product design solves for one of them and quietly frustrates the other. Too much onboarding and the expert feels patronised. Too little and the new user never figures it out. The product ends up with a help centre that exists to compensate for the interface.
Tanya designs SaaS products for both users simultaneously – the flows that guide without condescending, the shortcuts that exist without cluttering, the interface that gets out of the way on day three hundred without abandoning anyone on day one.
The outcome:
A product that works for the user who just signed up and the one who hasn't looked at the docs since 2023.
Engagement models
We know something's wrong. We don't know what.
Tanya gets into the product, finds what's broken, and fixes it into dev-ready Figma – the kind that ships without a three-hour handoff call.
We need senior design. We're not ready to hire.
When product needs a senior designer but hiring takes three months and the headcount isn't there yet. Tanya embeds part-time – in the sprints, in the Figma, in the decisions – and runs the design the way a senior hire would. Without the onboarding, the equity conversation, or the six-month notice period if it doesn't work out.
We know what's wrong. We need it fixed.
Tanya scopes it, designs it, and hands over dev-ready Figma or clean code – full specs, async support through the build. Defined scope, defined output, no surprises.
How DNSK.WORK is different
Most design agencies run the same playbook. Here's what DNSK.WORK doesn't do.
DNSK.WORK – a UI/UX design agency without the agency part.
Selected SaaS Product Design Work
Choosing the right SaaS Product design agency is easier when you can see what they actually ship. Not case studies written to impress – the real work, the real problems, the real outcomes.
From the American Dental Association to IQVIA. Products where the UX design failing isn't a bad quarter, it's a headline.
Research Staff Portal for IQVIA
Prometheus Research (now IQVIA) partnered with us to design their Research Staff Portal
DERE Portal for The American Dental Association
Launching DERE, the first national platform built to improve patient outcomes through smarter insight
The ASH Research Collaborative
ASH RC is a nonprofit accelerating research and care for blood diseases
ResearchHub
ResearchHub is a platform built to change how science is shared – faster, more open, and built around real collaboration.
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What is SaaS product design?
What is SaaS product design?
Designing software products that people pay for every month and can cancel at any time. That constraint changes everything – the onboarding has to work, the value has to be obvious, the interface has to serve both the new user and the one who's been there two years. It's a specific discipline within Digital Product Design. Tanya Donska has been doing this specifically for ten years. DNSK.WORK exists because of it.
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What does a SaaS product design agency actually do?
What does a SaaS product design agency actually do?
The good ones get inside the product, find what's breaking the metrics, and fix it. The rest run discovery phases and hand over a deck. Tanya Donska built DNSK.WORK to be the first kind – embedded in your product, senior throughout, focused on the flows that are actually costing you activations and renewals. That's what SaaS Product Design at DNSK.WORK looks like in practice.
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What is SaaS product UI/UX design?
What is SaaS product UI/UX design?
The full stack – flows, interface, interactions, and the experience that connects them. In SaaS, every UI/UX decision has a direct line to revenue. A confusing onboarding shows up in trial conversion. A dashboard that doesn't surface value shows up in month three churn. Tanya Donska has spent ten years making those connections. That's what UI/UX Design Services at DNSK.WORK is built around.
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What is SaaS product experience design?
What is SaaS product experience design?
How users experience the product over time – not just the screens, but the arc from first login to daily habit. Most SaaS products design the screens well enough. The experience connecting them is where users get lost – and where UX Design Services at DNSK.WORK spends most of its time.
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How do you design a SaaS product properly?
How do you design a SaaS product properly?
Start with where users drop off, not where the product starts. SaaS products are usually built from the inside out – feature by feature, sprint by sprint. Users experience them from the outside in. The two perspectives rarely match until someone maps them properly. That's the first thing Tanya Donska does – and it's the same thinking behind SaaS Web Design at DNSK.WORK.
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How do you design a SaaS product for a startup?
How do you design a SaaS product for a startup?
Same principles, less time. Get users to value fast, surface that value clearly, build the flows to change as the product does. DNSK.WORK has worked with early-stage products where the brief changes every three weeks – that's what Startup Web Design at DNSK.WORK is built for.
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What does SaaS dashboard design involve?
What does SaaS dashboard design involve?
SaaS dashboard design is the part most teams treat as a display problem. It is not. The dashboard is where users decide whether the product is working for them. What data to show, in what hierarchy, at what moment – those are retention decisions disguised as layout decisions. Tanya designs SaaS dashboards that surface value before the user has to look for it: the metric that tells them the product is doing its job, the moment that reminds them why they are paying, the progress indicator that shows what has changed since last week. Done right, the dashboard is the strongest retention tool in the product.
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Do you handle SaaS landing page design?
Do you handle SaaS landing page design?
Yes – and SaaS landing page design is different from general web design in one specific way: the visitor already knows what the product category is. They are evaluating you against alternatives, not trying to understand what software does. That changes everything about what the page needs to do. The positioning needs to be specific enough to exclude the wrong buyers and compelling enough to keep the right ones. Tanya designs SaaS landing pages that speak to the person who has already seen three competitors and is looking for a reason to commit.
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How much do SaaS design services cost?
How much do SaaS design services cost?
Three models. The Diagnosis Sprint is $2,250 – three days in the product, a prioritised list of what is broken and why it is causing churn or drop-off, with dev-ready Figma for the critical fixes. Fixed scope SaaS design services run at $100 per hour, typically $8,000–$25,000 depending on scope. The embedded retainer is $7,500 per month with a three-month minimum – right when the product is moving fast and needs senior design judgment in every sprint. Most clients start with the Diagnosis Sprint before deciding on more.