



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're more than just designers.
We're a mix of a product manager, 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.
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
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Leading design for 3+ years and helped team to grow past $1M in ARR
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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)
Agencies are too slow.
Freelancers are too narrow.
In-house hires take 6 months to find.
We're the third option you didn't know existed.
Hiring a designer
Hiring
Time to start
6 months to hire
Start Monday
Skills
One person, one strength
Full team: UX, brand, PLG, research
Quality
Hit or miss
Guaranteed. We are deeply specialized.
Cost
$150k+ salary + benefits + equity
Starts at $8,500
Commitment
Hard to unwind a bad hire
No annual lock-in. Upgrade or downgrade anytime
Growth skills
Designers think pixels, not conversion
Experts in product-led growth
Autonomy
You're still PM-ing the designer
We own and lead UX, brand, and PLG outcomes

















