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Sprints, systems & retainers

Engagements, and what each one ships.

Whether you are validating a first release before seed funding or untangling five years of UI debt across an enterprise platform, every engagement from the Brooklyn studio ends in production-ready Figma files that you own outright.

01

0-to-1 MVP design sprint

For founders and product teams turning a validated idea into a buildable first release. Three structured weeks map the core jobs to be done, cut scope to the high-signal workflows and end in a clickable Figma prototype tested with real target users.

  • Information architecture and end-to-end user flows
  • Interactive prototype for customer and investor testing
  • Starter UI kit and documented screen specs

From $6,800 · three-week focused sprint

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02

Figma design system & tokens

Stop rebuilding buttons, modals and data tables differently on every squad. Your live UI is audited, then rebuilt on semantic Figma Variables mapped to CSS/Tailwind or iOS/Android tokens, with contribution rules agreed alongside your front-end engineers.

  • Semantic colour, spacing and type variables
  • Accessible multi-state components, dark mode included
  • Storybook-aligned usage documentation

From $5,400 · multi-platform component library

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03

UX audit & flow redesign

For when users sign up but stall before activation, or support tickets pile up around one confusing workflow. Analytics drop-offs and session recordings are reviewed, defects logged by severity, and your highest-leverage flow redesigned ready to build.

  • Heuristic friction audit
  • WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility check
  • Redesigned onboarding or checkout flow

$2,450 · one-week diagnostic plus redesigned core flow

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04

Discovery & usability testing

Two days of watching real customers attempt critical tasks saves two quarters of building the wrong feature. Non-leading discussion guides, six to eight recorded 45-minute sessions, and friction themes synthesised into timestamped clips and clear UI recommendations.

  • Participant screener design
  • Live task-based prototype testing
  • Video highlights and a prioritised opportunity roadmap

$3,100 · 6–8 moderated sessions plus synthesis

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05

Embedded design retainer

Senior product design velocity for Series A/B and profitable SaaS teams, without a four-month recruiting cycle. Elena joins your Slack and Linear or Jira workspace, ships scoped feature explorations twice a week and runs design QA on pull-request previews.

  • Standups and weekly feature specs
  • Figma component library upkeep
  • Month to month, with 14 days' notice to pause or wrap up

$4,800 a month · weekly sprint cadence

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06

Handoff & implementation QA

For teams with approved visual concepts who want no ambiguity before engineering estimates the work. Every missing breakpoint, truncation rule, skeleton loader and focus sequence is specified, then the staging branch gets a visual and interaction QA pass.

  • Responsive breakpoint matrices
  • Empty, error and loading states completed
  • Focus-order annotations and a staging bug bash

$1,350 · spec hardening and staging review

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Occasional notes

Useful updates, not clutter.

A short note when a new project write-up goes up, plus the occasional piece on process. Around six emails a year.

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What the price includes
The price includes 5 hours of extra work to change the colours, the font family and the font size, add or remove pictures and paragraphs, and add visual effects and other tweaks. The design is 100% finished before anything is paid. Guaranteed.