Design Subscription

Starting at

$

4,995

/mo

About this service

Summary

Designed for businesses seeking continuous design support, the Design Subscription offers a flexible, on-demand design service that adapts to evolving needs. Requests are submitted, broken down into manageable tasks, and worked through with a progressive cadence, ensuring a seamless workflow. Each customer retains full control over their request pipeline, managing prioritisation to align with business objectives.
This holistic service is tailored to support start-ups and scale-ups across various industries, particularly those leveraging technology. Deliverables are structured to be either comprehensive or individual, depending on the specific needs of each customer.
With a user-centric approach, the service integrates UX Discovery to inform products with research-driven insights. UI Design translates these into intuitive, accessible, and engaging interfaces, while Visual Design strengthens brand identity through typography, colour, imagery, and layout. Additionally, Design Systems establish scalable, reusable frameworks that enhance consistency and efficiency across digital experiences.
This retained design service operates as a monthly subscription, providing continuous design expertise with the flexibility to cancel anytime. It’s a cost-effective and scalable solution for businesses looking to maintain high-quality design standards without the overhead of an in-house team.

What's included

  • 💎 Discovery

    Workshops, interviews, surveys, observations, stakeholder insights, competitive analysis, and empathy mapping are at the heart of our process for uncovering core user motivations and pain points. These invaluable insights drive the creation of a clear problem statement, serving as a foundation for developing a strategic product roadmap that aligns business objectives with user needs, ensuring impactful and user-centric solutions.

  • 🧩 UX Design

    Concise problem statements, in-depth personas, user journey maps, and a high-level roadmap are essential for aligning user needs with business objectives. These elements guide the creation of preliminary design concepts, including wireframes and clickable prototypes, which illustrate potential design directions. Subsequent usability testing, such as A/B testing, yields detailed reports and user feedback summaries, ensuring informed design decisions and continuous improvement.

  • ✏️ UI Design

    Translating strategic insights into intuitive, visually engaging, and accessible interfaces. Through wireframing, prototyping, design systems, and interaction design, it ensures consistency, usability, and brand alignment. Every element is crafted to enhance user engagement while meeting business objectives, delivering a seamless and aesthetically refined digital experience.

  • ⚙️ Design Systems

    Unified framework of reusable components, guidelines, and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across digital products. By defining typography, colour palettes, UI components, and interaction patterns, it streamlines design and development workflows, enhances collaboration, and maintains brand integrity while optimising the user experience.

  • 🎨 Visual Design

    Creating compelling, cohesive, and engaging digital experiences through typography, colour, imagery, and layout. By balancing aesthetics with functionality, it enhances brand identity, improves usability, and strengthens user engagement. Every visual element is designed with purpose, ensuring consistency, accessibility, and an intuitive user experience that aligns with business goals.

Recommendations

(5.0)

Mark Dunbavan • Stack Studio Ltd

Client • Jan 17, 2025

So me and Richard were in the same agency for 2 years, Midnight Agency. We worked on various projects together and Richard was the lead UI architect on all of them. He is thorough and questions things to get to the bottom of the problem that is being solved. We worked on 2 large projects that involved deep UI and Richard was a huge influence on the direction of how the project was built and the tools we used to build it.

Ben Coleman • WWF-UK

Client • Jan 3, 2025

An expert in UI and UX design, Richard is my go to digital designer. Richard worked with WWF-UK to create the design and development of the mobile-first website for Sir David Attenborough's Netflix documentary film 'A Life On Our Planet'. Richard possesses an outstanding ability to understand user needs and translate them into intuitive, seamless designs. What sets Rich apart is his collaborative mindset and ability to communicate complex ideas effectively. I would highly recommend!

Eileen C • Poly Studios

Client • Dec 11, 2024

Richard is a great designer, understood our complicated style requirements and delivered earlier than expected!

Eileen at Poly Studios hired Richard and recommends working with them


Client • Dec 23, 2024

Simon Rupniak • Lima Delta

Client • Sep 24, 2024

I've worked with Richard at several creative agencies over the years including Lima Delta. Over that time we've worked together on a wide variety of projects from pitches and proposals through to the gritty phases of production and implementation. He has always set himself apart as a source of valuable knowledge and advice as well as being an amazing creative talent. I've always trusted him to do high quality creative work and continue to do so!

Lisa Zibamanzar

Client • Sep 19, 2024

It's always a huge pleasure working with Rich. Whenever we do have the opportunity to collaborate, I always come away feeling inspired by his creativity and knowledge. If I'm looking for fresh ideas and insight on a project I'm working on, Rich is always the first person I reach out to! He always approaches projects with such professionalism, attention to detail, and incredible creative flair. On top of his excellent skillset, he's driven by great values, and is an awesome human.

I worked with Richard to design and build a standalone editorial platform for Meta to promote content creators across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific region. With his UX insights, Richard skilfully crafted an interface that beautifully showcased the content of 200 diverse creators from Instagram and Facebook across 23 markets. His ability to embrace challenges, adapt to different languages and requirements, and collaborate seamlessly with the team made a lasting impression.


Skills and tools

Web Designer
Product Designer
UI Designer
Adobe Creative Suite
Figma
Framer
Maze
Miro

Industries

B2B
FinTech
SaaS

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