Notes on product design and AI product UX
Plain-language notes on product design, design engineering and AI product UX, from the studio.
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Working with a design studio in Bangladesh: time zones, payments and process
What it is like to hire a design studio in Dhaka from the US, UK or EU: overlap hours, how we communicate, contracts, invoices and straight answers.
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Prompt box design: patterns for AI products
The input box sets the tone for an AI product. Patterns for example prompts, context chips, attachments, controls, keyboard and mobile use.
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How much does a SaaS design agency cost?
Why agency prices are hard to find, how the common pricing models work, what moves a quote up or down, and what our own public prices are.
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How to design an MVP: what to cut and what to keep
A practical way to decide what your first version must do: write one promise, map one flow, make a cut list and plan for version two.
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Empty states in SaaS: rules and examples that work
An empty screen is a chance to tell the user what to do next. These are the rules we use, with patterns for tables, dashboards and search.
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How to choose a SaaS design agency: a checklist
A practical checklist to run before you sign with a design agency: who does the work, what is fixed, what you own and how updates reach you.
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Design engineering: what it is and why product teams hire for it
What a design engineer does, how the role differs from front-end and product design, and how a small team can get the same effect.
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SaaS onboarding: how to design the first five minutes
How to pick the one result a new user should reach first, cut sign-up steps, and choose between tours, checklists and empty states.
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Design agency vs freelancer vs in-house designer for a startup
A fair look at the three ways to get product design, what each does best, and where a studio like ours is the wrong choice.
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AI product design: what changes when the output is not fixed
AI features can return a different answer every time. Here are the extra states to design, how to set expectations, and what to hand your engineers.
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What a UX audit covers, and what you should get at the end
What a UX audit looks at, how the findings get ranked, and how to tell a useful report from a long PDF that nobody opens twice.
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Style debt: how to keep design and code from drifting apart
Hardcoded colors, heading sizes that don't match, dark mode that breaks. That's style debt. Here's how we set up color, type and tokens so the design file and the code stay in step.
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