in-house design team as a service

in-house design team as a service

From Frankenstein

From Frankenstein

to Delight

to Delight

Hire the in-house specialized design team your devs will fall in love with.
We make PLG SaaS sticky and help them grow from $1M to $10M ARR.

Jim

Product design & CRO

Jo

Branding & Illustration

Mo

Motion & Interactions

Ana

Data

& Tracking

12+ years of experience

Obsessed with shipping

Based in EU and US

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👋 I am Jim - your future Design Lead

Is this what you're going through
at this moment?

Is this what you're going through at this moment?

Is this where you are right now?

You’re a dev team without a designer, and your CEO spends too much time directing design decisions

Shipping new features takes too long — going from idea to production feels slow and painful

Your SaaS UX is out of control and blocking growth — features don’t connect well, and your design system is messy

Users ignore many of your features — adoption is low despite great functionality

Your trials onboarding is confusing and outdated, so trials don’t convert to paid customers

Is this where you want to get to ASAP?

You have a senior design lead that's specialized in PLG SaaS and fully owns your design strategy and frees up time from the CEO

Your dev team ships weekly and moves fast without getting blocked

Your SaaS is easy to use and high converting with a seamless consistent UX and great conversion rates

Your SaaS is sticky and users use most of your features

New trials quickly convert to paid customers — they see the value and onboarding is effortless

If this answer is yes, then keep scrolling…
We're the perfect fit.

Hired and loved by PLG SaaS teams across US and EU making $1M to $15M of ARR

"Our weekly design call is one of my favourite calls of the week"

Amar Ghose, CEO at

HERE IS A FACT:

A single designer won't be able to make your SaaS #1 choice in your industry

A single designer won't make your SaaS #1 choice in your industry

Instead you need an in-house design team that can cover the full spectrum of SaaS product design.

UX & UI
PLG Strategy
Design Systems
Branding & Motion
Conversion Optimization

To get there you have 3 options.

And SaaS founders have told us we're the best one.
Both in terms of price and ROI.

(I guess that's why they keep working with us after 3 years of being their design team…)

Freelancer

Hire a single freelancer

In house team DIY

Hire a team on your own

In house team done right

Design skills

You don't need just UX.
You need strategy, UX, PLG, and product branding expertise.

Great at one thing only (UX)
Also stitching together freelancers creates chaos.

Very expensive and time-consuming to assemble a team of designers with all these skills.

You get a dedicated team led by a product designer skilled in UX, PLG, and CRO alongside with a brand and motion designer.

We focus solely on SaaS, train weekly with top mentors from companies like Zappier, and use a proven PLG design playbook.

time to hire

You can't spend 6+ months interviewing and reaching out to great designers.
You need to hire somebody now.

You can hire fast but hard to convince them to commit for a very long-term partnership since they're looking for multiple clients.

Takes at least 6 months and lots of $$$ spent on recruiters, plus all the valuable time the CEO spends scouting and talking with designers

We have a specialized, trained team ready for you to start next week and we have hiring systems in place to constantly find new designer and scale your team when needed.

Finding awesome designers and stitching them together to create world-class work is our job so that you don't have to spend a minute on it.

quality

You can't afford a bad hire.
You need world class quality. A proven track record and a tested design playbook to follow.

Even if they are good it's really hard to find designers that specialize into SaaS and product-led growth and that also won't work on 10 different projects and give you enough attention.

Finding SaaS PLG specialized is super hard and time consuming and even if you do you need to spend time and money training them and keeping them up to the world-class standards.

We specialize in PLG SaaS and we have a network on mentors we work with weekly to learn about new best practices.

Training and research is at the core of what we do.

Also every designer is exposed to many SaaS industries and all together we're creating and evolving an internal design playbook with all growth best practices for PLG SaaS.

in house commitement

You need in-house experience and daily iterations.
Not slow outsourcing.

They usually work on 5 different projects

There is no difference between building your own in-house team and hiring us when it comes to how your team operates.

We give you the same experience as in-house team but 3x times better and with higher ROI.

We are diverse design team that no freelancer and no in-house hire can beat in design quality and speed.

Your team works only with you and one more SaaS company so that they get exposed to different industries and insights and have enough room to focus on your SaaS And go very deep.

scale

When your dev team grows, your design teams need to follow fast.
You can't wait for months to add another designer.

Stiching freelancers together creates chaos

Hiring another design can take a least 6 months and then you also need to onboard them

Our core job is to offer amazing, trained designers with a world-class design playbook.

That's why we interview new designers weekly and we constantly scout for amazing design talent you can add within a week when needed to your team.

hand-off and collaboration with dev team

You don't need a dribbble designer.
You need a designer that understand techincal complexity and designs to ship.

Most of the times focused too much on UI

Hard to find these designers to hire them full-time

We design with your devs.

We prototype ideas fast and adjust scope with them and we follow the 80/20 approach always aiming for high ROI on our designs with low technincal complexity.

We also embrace best practices like design systems.

pricing

You can't afford spending 200k per year and be locked in with annual contracts.
You need flexibility and a smaller budget.

You pay thousands of $$$ to recruiters and then you have to hire for a full year at least, give bonuses, train the team and everything that comes with in-house hires.

Flexibility is at the core of what we're offering.


We offer 3 plans starting from $8.5k per month, we charge on a monthly basis and you can cancel whenever you want.

We've been the design team at KnowledgeOwl for 2 years now. Here is what Pete, their CTO, thinks about us.

Jim

Jim

Jim

What are the top #3 reasons you love working with us?

pete

pete

pete

  1. You take the time to really try to understand the thing you are designing for before you jump into it

  2. You are very good at scoping out projects and delivering what you say you will on time

  3. You are very responsive to the needs of our team and help out even when it isn't something we've specifically scoped

Jim

Jim

Jim

What’s something unique that’ve found in us and you really like? is there something specific?

pete

pete

pete

I think it's the holistic approach to design, like I mentioned previously where you really get into the product and figure out what it's doing instead of just jumping right into designing something that's pretty

how it works

It's the same as hiring in-house.
But with 5x higher ROI and without the headache.

We don’t take tasks — we own and lead design.
We create projects, ask the right questions, and work daily with your dev team.
You focus on strategy and growth; together we make your SaaS world-class.

daily slack comms

We collaborate 1:1 daily with your engineers to support them and we're in your Slack providing any support that's needed

Weekly design call and releases

We scope and review the releases we'll design each week in a workshop-driven format that's focused on ideation.

Monthly retro

Each month we make sure quality and experience of working with us is a 5-stars one

WEEKLY ACTIVATION WORKSHOP

Onboarding never stops - that's why each week we host an ideation workshop to review our onboarding experience and identify improvements

weekly training to stay world-class

We have in our team world-class mentors from companies like Zappier that coach us weekly on brand strategy, CRO, PLG, and copywriting

Want to learn more?

Here is a podcast episode between Jim (lead designer) and Amar (CEO) where we discuss how design works in ZenMaid

pricing

The power of a senior in-house design team
at the price of a full-time lead.

The power of a senior in-house design team
at the price of a full-time lead.

The power of a senior design team at the price of a full-time lead.

Pause or cancel anytime

No scopes, no quotes, no billable hours

Basic

$8,500 / month

Who it's for

Teams with 3 developers
ARR: $1M to $2M

What's included

A specialized product design team with lead product designer, an illustrator and motion designer

Bi-weekly product design call to review and scope the new releases

1 growth releases per week

1x delight releases per week

Weekly activation workshop

Bi-weekly marketing website hackathon

Pro

$12,500 / month

Who it's for

Teams with 4-6 developers
ARR: $2M+

What's included

A specialized product design team with lead product designer, an illustrator and motion designer

Weekly product design call to review and scope the new releases

2x growth releases per week

1x delight releases per week

Weekly activation workshop

Bi-weekly marketing website hackathon to ship new changes and experiments

Ultra

$16,500+ / month

Who it's for

Teams with 7+ developers
ARR: $5M+

What's included

A specialized product design team with lead product designer, an illustrator and motion designer

Weekly product design call to review and scope the new releases

3x growth releases per week

1x delight release per week

Weekly activation workshop

Bi-weekly marketing website hackathon to ship new changes and experiments

Not sure? Order your UX video audit and get a taste of working with us.

No calls or meeting required. Get your money back if you're not satisfied.

$499 one-time

Personalized expert video UX audit of your SaaS first-time user experience

UX issues that make users drop off your onboarding flow

Practical tips and examples on how to improve your onboarding flow

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Podcast for non-designers

Learn what makes SaaS products sticky and unforgettable. 

© 2025 Love At First Try B.V. - All rights reserved.

🇳🇱 Founded in The Netherlands

Podcast for non-designers

Learn what makes SaaS products sticky and unforgettable. 

© 2025 Love At First Try B.V. - All rights reserved.

🇳🇱 Founded in The Netherlands