Product UX that survives real users
Flows, empty states, and edge cases treated as product work, not a happy-path mock that dies in QA.
UI / UX · Flows · Systems · Handoff
UI / UX designers who ship interfaces, not moodboards
A UI / UX hire is not “someone who can make a Figma file.” iQud designers turn requirements into usable flows, component systems, and handoff-ready interfaces, not a moodboard that never got implemented.
- Flows you can ship from
- Component systems, not one-off screens
- Handoff engineers can actually use
- First work in about a week
UI / UX delivery signals
- 5 dTypical time to first design in the repo
- UXFlows and states, not a pretty empty screen
- UISystems that survive the next feature
- 2 wkSprint cadence with design review
The UI / UX seats we actually staff
“UI / UX” is not one job. We match on the product surface you need, the same stacks behind iQud’s live UI / UX Design and Tailwind pages.
01 02 UI systems, not one-off screens
Components, spacing, and variants owned so the next feature does not invent a new button, not a Figma page of disconnected frames.
03 Handoff engineers can ship from
Specs, states, and Tailwind-ready structure in the same engagement, not a “dev will figure it out” dump.
04 Tailwind-ready interface work
Utility-first UI that maps to the frontend the team already ships, not a custom CSS novel nobody wants to maintain.
05 Design in the sprint, not a side deck
Reviews, tickets, and iteration in your rituals, not a two-week blackout followed by a surprise file.
06 When a frontend or React seat is better
A React implementation bench or a CSS-in-JS engineering seat still wants a different hire. We will say so on the intro call instead of forcing a designer-only profile onto a build brief.
Tools they open on day one
Every tile is a live iQud technology or service page. The strip below is the interface stack these designers already ship (HTML, CSS, and Tailwind), not React, Angular, or the full frontend catalog.
From intro call to a design in the sprint
A UI / UX hire should be shipping flows and handoff in your tools, not sitting in a two-month onboarding theatre while the Figma file stays a rumour.
1 Map the design gap
UX vs UI vs system work, existing components, seniority, overlap hours, and what “done in 30 days” looks like in handoff.
2 Shortlist real designers
We match available UI / UX specialists to your brief and share relevant flow, system, or handoff work.
3 You interview
Meet the human who will join standup. Validate how they talk through an empty state, a failed handoff, and the last system they actually owned past the mock.
4 First sprint in your tools
File access, tickets, and first design in the cadence, typically inside a week once you say go.
Start with one seat. Grow if the backlog says so.
Most clients embed a single UI / UX designer first. A pair or a UX/UI split only when the work actually needs it.
One embedded designer
A UI / UX specialist joins your squad, takes direction from your lead, and works in your rituals.
Best forClosing a flow or system gap without a new vendor process
Dedicated UI / UX seat
A stable owner for the flows, the component system, or the handoff, with senior review on the sprint.
Best forA product that needs a named design owner
Scoped design initiative
A defined slice: a new flow, a system cutover, or a Tailwind-ready interface with contracts already in motion.
Best forA milestone you can point at, not an open-ended moodboard
UI / UX hiring rates, in writing
Two ways to staff a UI / UX designer. Hourly for spikes and defined tickets. A dedicated monthly seat when you want someone in your standup every day, at a lower effective rate than running the clock.
Hire by the hour
$20/ hour
Flexible UI / UX capacity for feature spikes, reviews, and scoped tickets. You only pay for hours worked.
- Same UI / UX designers as a monthly seat
- Best for overflow, a flow fix, or a single release
- Start fast, pause when the spike is done
- Billed against actual hours, not a retainer
Best value
Hire for a month
$2,000/ month
A named UI / UX designer on your sprint, about 160 hours of dedicated interface capacity, with senior review in the cadence.
A full-time month at $20 is $3,200. This seat is $2,000.
- Named designer in your files, tickets, and standup
- UX, UI, and handoff in the same engagement
- Month-to-month. No annual lock-in.
- Lower cost than the same hours billed at $20
Rates are for dedicated UI / UX designers (flows, component systems, handoff-ready interfaces). Seniority mix and overlap hours are confirmed on the intro call. We will not quote a stack we do not already ship.
Why product teams staff UI / UX here
A mediocre designer produces a pretty screen that works in Figma. These designers produce flows and systems that survive real users, real states, and your next release.
Product work, not “who can make a Figma file”
They live in empty states, handoff, and why last week’s screen failed because the error path never had an owner.
Your files, your tickets, your hours
GIFT City overlap with Europe and the US. Design reviews happen live when your leads are online.
Senior eyes on the sprint
Mid-level speed without unsupervised system debt. Review is part of the engagement, not an extra SKU.
Ten clients a quarter, on purpose
We do not run a revolving bench. Capacity is limited so the designer you interview is the one in standup.
UI / UX hiring questions
Start with one. Most clients embed a single senior or mid-level designer, then add a pair if the flow or system backlog justifies it.
All three when they are product work. A UX seat owns flows and states. A UI seat owns components and variants. A Tailwind seat maps the interface to what the frontend already ships. We will only shortlist designers on stacks we already ship.
That is a frontend hire, or a React / Next.js hire, not this design seat. Say so on the intro call and we will not force a designer-only profile onto a build brief.
After we map the role and you approve the hire, first design work typically lands within a week, faster when the files, tickets, and existing system are ready.
Yes. Figma or your design source, Jira, your standups. We do not invent a parallel process unless you ask for one.
Hourly ($20) is for spikes and defined tickets. You pay only for hours worked. The monthly seat ($2,000) is a named UI / UX designer on your sprint, about 160 hours of dedicated capacity. The same month billed hourly would be $3,200. Seniority and overlap hours are confirmed on the intro call.
Give the product a designer who can ship past the moodboard
Tell us flows vs systems vs handoff, and the first interface you want in the sprint. We’ll come back with a named profile, a start window, and a two-week plan.