Why it matters
Without ongoing design support, the product runs on patches: engineers improvise UI, screens drift, onboarding and funnels weaken. You pay not for pretty frames, but so feature growth doesn’t kill conversion and team speed.
After release the product grows with tweaks and new screens — without design it becomes chaos. Retainer covers the queue, A/B mockups and a living design system in sync with dev.
Without ongoing design support, the product runs on patches: engineers improvise UI, screens drift, onboarding and funnels weaken. You pay not for pretty frames, but so feature growth doesn’t kill conversion and team speed.
In this engagement:
We lock the task channel, priorities, and cadence (typically weekly). You pick a retainer or hour pack — we run the queue, hand off layouts for build, align states, and keep the design system current. Scope and SLA are set after a short review of the live product.
After a quick product and workflow review we typically hit cadence in the first working week: priorities locked, queue taken, first layouts delivered against the SLA we agree at kickoff.
Both. Retainer when fixes and features are steady; hour packs when load comes in waves. We lock the commercial frame after reviewing volume, UI complexity, and the SLA you need.