our work
Love At First Try isn’t just our name. It’s the promise.
A product your users fall in love with the first time they touch it.
We design and build for that moment.
acquire
Convert more visitors into trials — by turning your website and brand into ones worth remembering
activate
Turn more trials into paying customers — by crafting an onboarding experience worth talking about
retain and expand
Make more customers excited to upgrade — by shipping new sticky delightful features
We think like founders and
design like product builders
We're more than designers.
We're a mix of a product owner, growth specialist, product designer and creative director.
You scaled your SaaS to $1M ARR and you need someone to lead your product's UX.
Someone who figures it out. Someone who owns UX end to end and brings your ideas to life, exactly the way you'd build them yourself, and even better.
That's exactly what we do at Love At First Try.
We lead and own your SaaS UX and growth optimization.
We prioritize what brings real growth. We understand engineering velocity, cost, and what a growth loop actually is — and design to move the business forward, not to get featured on Dribbble.
Our designers are veterans — 10+ years at companies like Zapier, who realized they're happiest in small teams where they can fully lead design instead of pushing pixels under a PM.
That's the profile. You get that designer and we provide the infrastructure that keeps them world-class.
- Founder, Jim Zarkadas
Leading design for 3+ years now and helped them scale from $1M to $4M ARR
Scheduling software for cleaning businesses
Leading design for 3+ years and helped team to grow past $1M in ARR
Knowledge Base software for enterprise companies.
Led their design for 2 yeas and helped them exit
Enterprise video hosting platform that makes corporate comms simple and secure.
Used by 1,000+ companies like HubSpot, AirBnB, Amazon and Facebook
Turns any website into data with undetected scraping technology.
$1M+ generated in mentorships per year
A marketplace of trusted source to find highly-vetted mentors & industry professionals to move your tech career ahead.
Backed by the founders of WeTransfer, JustEat, and TreatWell.
Centralized governance tasks and communication for Venture Capital firms.
Used by 100.000+ businesses in The Netherlands.
EU-based contract management and e-signing tool for SMBs
Most popular indie SaaS community in UK with $10k+ of MRR
The #1 founder community supporting you to ramen profitable, and beyond. An active Slack, remote co-working, expert AMAs, in-house mentors, masterminds, discounts and much more.
Used by teams like Paddle and UserZoom
Sales Enablement platform with the high adoption and low cost of maintenance.
Used by teams like Paddle and UserZoom
Sales Enablement platform with the high adoption and low cost of maintenance.
Backed by the founders of WeTransfer, JustEat, and TreatWell.
Centralized governance tasks and communication for Venture Capital firms.
Leading design for 3+ years and helped team to grow past $1M in ARR
Knowledge Base software for enterprise companies.
Used by 100.000+ businesses in The Netherlands.
EU-based contract management and e-signing tool for SMBs
$1M+ generated in mentorships per year
A marketplace of trusted source to find highly-vetted mentors & industry professionals to move your tech career ahead.
Most popular indie SaaS community in UK with $10k+ of MRR
The #1 founder community supporting you to ramen profitable, and beyond. An active Slack, remote co-working, expert AMAs, in-house mentors, masterminds, discounts and much more.
Led their design for 2 yeas and helped them exit
Enterprise video hosting platform that makes corporate comms simple and secure.
Leading design for 3+ years now and helped them scale from $1M to $4M ARR
Scheduling software for cleaning businesses
Used by 1,000+ companies like HubSpot, AirBnB, Amazon and Facebook
Turns any website into data with undetected scraping technology.
Brit's team
available
Brit
Product growth & UX (design lead)
Jo
Product delight (brand & illustration)
Mo
Product delight (motion & animation)
Mel's team
available
Mel
Riley
Product delight (brand & illustration)
Ethan
Product delight (motion & animation)
Jim's team
Fully booked
Jim
Product growth & UX (design lead)
Maya
Product delight (brand & illustration)
Zoe
Product delight (motion & animation)
Same as hiring in-house.
Without the headache.
With 5x higher ROI.
Agencies are slow and external.
Freelancers are all around the place and unreliable.
In-house hires take 6+ months to find and $180k in salary.
We're the fourth option you didn't know existed.
Freelancer
Hire a single freelancer
In house team DIY
Build a team on your own
In house team done right
Design skills
You need more than UX to grow a SaaS product
Great at one thing, usually UX.
Possible, but slow and expensive to assemble.
A dedicated SaaS design team covering UX, PLG, CRO, brand, and motion.
time to hire
You can’t wait months to hire designers
Fast to engage, but availability and continuity vary.
Burns 6+ months of interviews, recruiters, and founder attention.
A fully trained team starts in days and delivers immediately.
quality
You can’t afford the wrong design hire
Quality swings wildly and rarely matches SaaS growth needs.
PLG-level designers are rare, expensive, and hard to evaluate.
Only senior SaaS designers trained weekly on proven PLG patterns.
in house commitement
You need designers embedded day to day
Works well per project, less so across evolving systems.
Deep context, but rigid and slow to evolve.
Embedded like in-house with the flexibility of a squad.
scale
Your design capacity must grow with your dev team
Scaling requires coordination across multiple people.
Every hire delays progress by months.
Design capacity scales up or down without slowing delivery.
HAND-OFF & DEV COLLABORATION
Design must work in real code, not just Figma
Collaboration quality varies by experience and setup.
Shipping-minded designers are difficult to find and keep.
We design with engineers to ship fast, simple, and correct.
pricing
You need flexibility, not a €200k/year commitment
Lower commitment, variable long-term cost.
€200k+ per year locked into salaries, bonuses, and attrition.
From €8.5k/month for senior output without long-term risk.
