UI/UX Design Services for products built faster than they were designed

UI is the interface – what users see and interact with. UX is the experience – how easy, logical and satisfying that interaction is. For most products, the line between the two is blurry and doesn't matter much. What matters is whether users can do what they came to do without thinking too hard about it. When they can't, it's a UI/UX design problem.

Agencies, offshore teams, and independent designers. Most B2B companies try the first two before landing on the third. Agencies and UI/UX design companies move slowly and charge for the overhead. Offshore teams are cheap until the specs get lost in translation. A senior UI/UX designer embedded directly in the product is usually what works – someone accountable for the output, close enough to the product to make the right calls.

Look past the portfolio and ask how the work actually gets done. Who's on the account day to day? How long before anything gets designed? What does the handoff look like? A UI/UX design agency that leads with process is usually one where the process is the product. The best signal is a partner who wants to get into your actual product fast, not spend the first month in workshops.

Yes – and it's rarely treated as an add-on. Most products that come to DNSK.WORK have a mobile experience that was designed last, deprioritised every sprint, and shows up in support tickets as "the app feels clunky." Tanya treats it as a first-class surface, not a responsive afterthought.

Fewer people than you think, with more experience than you're probably getting. Most scaling products don't have enough design work for a UI/UX design agency – they have enough for one senior person who moves fast. The problem with teams is the senior spends half their time managing and half their time in the work. One senior designer embedded directly does more, faster, with less coordination overhead.

Not the textbook ones. Clarity over cleverness. Behaviour over aesthetics. Outcomes over outputs. And specificity – every UI/UX design decision has a reason, documented, traceable, not "it felt right on the day."

Less consulting, more doing. UI/UX design consulting at DNSK.WORK means Tanya in the product or your startup website – identifying what's wrong, proposing how to fix it, and executing the fix. No recommendations without implementation, no strategy without execution. If the problem is clear enough to consult on, it's clear enough to fix.

Three models. The Diagnosis Sprint starts at $2,250 – Tanya gets into the product, finds what is broken, and hands over a prioritised fix list with dev-ready Figma for the critical issues. Fixed scope projects run at $100 per hour, typically $8,000–$25,000 depending on scope. The embedded retainer is $6,500 per month, pause or cancel with 30 days' notice – right when the product is moving fast and needs senior UI/UX judgment in every sprint. No retainer required to start.

Audit first, then fix. Tanya gets into the actual product – not the Figma prototype, the live one with real user flows. She maps where users drop off, where the UI fights the UX, and what is creating friction. From that, a prioritised list of what to fix and in what order. Then design: flows, states, components, the gaps between screens nobody designed. Everything handed over in dev-ready Figma – no assets missing, no ambiguity about how it builds. Runs async, fits into your sprint cycle without adding overhead.

Yes – most clients are early-stage or scaling SaaS companies. The model is built for teams that need a senior UI/UX designer making the calls but cannot justify a full-time hire yet. Early-stage startups typically start with a Diagnosis Sprint – three days, clear answer, no long commitment. Series A and beyond usually move to the embedded retainer: Tanya in the sprints, the design reviews, and the decisions before they ship.

The design, yes. The build, no – and that distinction matters. DNSK.WORK produces dev-ready Figma: every state documented, every interaction specified, every edge case considered. A developer can build directly from it without a handoff call. If you need the build handled alongside the design, Tanya works closely with your development team or can point you to trusted developers for the build phase.