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Brand and product design, one project at a time.
Fixed scope. Fixed fee. A date you can hold us to.
12+ years — YC founders, Twitch, and a founder's seat of our own
What you get
The whole point is finishing.
One person
You meet the designer. The designer does the work.
Fixed fee
Quoted up front. No meter, no surprise invoice.
Real dates
Your deposit holds a slot on the calendar, not a place in a queue.
No new software
Email, plus one link that always says where things stand.
Counted revisions
Every round is named up front, and the system counts them.
Written record
Every decision, dated. Yours as a document on delivery day.
Services
What lands in the box.
Engagements
Pick one. Prices are on the page.
Find what's costing you.
From $2,500
Design Audit
~1 week
A paid teardown of your live product, quick wins flagged first.
- Full teardown of your live product
- Prioritized issue list
- Recorded walkthrough + written report
- 60-minute findings call
Live by Friday.
$3,500
Landing Page Sprint
3 days
One page, designed and shipped in three working days. Works only if you review same-day.
- One page, desktop and mobile
- One round of changes, reviewed same day
- Built and shipped in your stack
- Optional CMS (adds two days)
Get understood in five seconds.
From $6,000
Landing Page
~4 weeks
Three concepts, you pick one, then two rounds of refinement on it.
- Three concepts — you pick one
- Two refinement passes, desktop and mobile
- Built and shipped in your stack
- One round of revisions
- Optional CMS
As good in hand as on screen.
From $5,000
Packaging & Print
3–5 weeks
Your brand carried into packaging, print, and physical product.
- Packaging design + dielines
- Print collateral
- Production-ready artwork
- Printer / vendor handoff
Consistency without you in the room.
From $9,000
Design System Sprint
3–4 weeks
Tokens, components, and docs your team can build on.
- Audit of your current UI
- Color, type, and spacing tokens
- Core component library in Figma
- Usage docs + handoff walkthrough
Look like who you're becoming.
From $15,000
Brand, Identity & Product
6–8 weeks
A brand and a product — visual and UX — that match who you're becoming.
- Brand direction + visual identity
- Logo, core assets, custom font
- Full product UX redesign
- Design-system foundations
Blank page to shipped product.Most popular
From $22,000
0→1 — Brand, Product, Build
8–12 weeks
Brand, product design, and front-end build in one. Designed and shipped, not handed off.
- Brand + identity from scratch
- End-to-end product design
- Front-end build in your repo
- QA + polish pass
Your design team, a few days a month.
Quoted
Fractional Design Partner
Month to month
Set days each month, working alongside your team on whatever's live.
- Product design + design reviews
- Design-system upkeep
- Async + live availability
- Rolling roadmap input
How it works
Three steps, then it ships.
01
Book
A call, or pick an engagement and pay the deposit. You leave with a price and a start date.
02
Review
Work arrives as a page built for reading. Two working days to react, every time.
03
Receive
Delivery day: the full package, the decision record, and a real ending.
The approach
Projects fail on the machinery, not the design.
“Four weeks. It took nine.”
Plans are laid against what's already booked. You get a later start, never a fictional finish.
“I had to chase them for a status update.”
One link, in every email. It always says what week you're on and whose turn it is.
“A month vanished and nobody could say where.”
The work moves in turns. One side visibly has the ball — including when it's us.
“I wanted to help. Nobody told me how.”
Every handoff says what decision is needed and what feedback is useful right now.
“Then came the invoice for ‘out of scope.’”
Out-of-scope requests get priced in writing, immediately — while saying no is still free.
“Six months later, nobody remembered why.”
Decisions are recorded as they happen and handed over as a document.
Six of twelve. Read the rest →
Instead of
Versus the alternatives.
| This studio | Agency | Freelancer | Full-time hire | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who does the work | The person you met | A junior, after the pitch | The person you met | Depends who you land |
| Cost | Fixed, quoted up front | Fixed, plus change orders | Hourly, uncapped | $180k+ and equity |
| Dates | Checked against capacity | Sold, then re-sold | Best effort | n/a |
| Status | A live page, no login | A weekly call | You ask | Standup |
| Revisions | Counted, stated up front | Billed when convenient | Goodwill | Unlimited |
| Ships code | Yes, in your repo | Rarely | Sometimes | Sometimes |
Kind words
From kind folks.
Julie is the only designer we've worked with that works like a founder. She doesn't require a vision quest to make good design — she just works fast and gets shit done.
The perfect combination of founder + product designer for any early stage company. She really gets the founder's POV and she's able to produce immaculate UX work!
She is unafraid to ask difficult questions and is committed to advocating for design. With a critical eye, she can dream up novel ways of doing the same things.
FAQ
Common questions.
Who actually does the work?
Me. No handoff to a junior after the pitch.
Why “from” prices?
Scope moves the number, so it's quoted on our call and fixed from then on. No meter.
What do you need from me?
Two working days at each review. Take four and the delivery date moves out by two, visibly.
Can you work in our codebase?
Yes — modern React/Next front ends. Several engagements include the build.
How many clients at once?
A couple. That's the whole reason the dates hold.
Do you take equity?
Sometimes, alongside or instead of an invoice. Raise it early.
Now booking August · 2 spots left
Let's make something people love.
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