Jim
Product design & CRO
Joe
Illustration & Branding
Mo
Motion & Interactions
Ana
Data
& Tracking
12+ years of experience
Obsessed with shipping
Based in EU and US
Why you're here
Your goal
Your goal is to become the #1 choice in your industry.
what's holding you back
You've grown to $1M+ of ARR, but your SaaS has so many features that UX is getting out of control.
You've no design team and you've built it with your devs
Your product's UX is confusing and is blocking your growth
Your first-time user experience and onboarding is poor and you need to level it up
Your features adoption is not good enough and your SaaS is not as sticky as it could be for your customers
In short, your UX is holding you back from growing to $10M ARR
what you need to get there
We've got something for you. Keep scrolling…
Hired and loved by bootstrapped
PLG SaaS going from $1M to $10M ARR
"Our weekly design call is one of my favourite calls of the week"
Amar Ghose, CEO @ ZenMaid
How it works
We join your team and lead the design of your SaaS on an ongoing basis.
We work as part of your team and integrate into your daily process and tools. We also do long-term partnerships. Our clients have been working with us for 3+ years and treat us as part of their team.
We communicate daily via Slack (and calls when needed)
We do weekly design calls and workshops where we strategize and plan what we should design. We come up with projects and UX improvements that we can ship in a short amount of time.
We deliver designs weekly and collaborate 1:1 with your engineers to support them.
We build new features, improve your onboarding and website conversions, and more by working closely with us on a weekly basis.
We grow your revenue and make your customers happier together.
We meet every month to hear what you like and what you don't and make sure you're always happy and satisfied with our process and work.
Your design team
Jim is your lead product designer and design growth strategist. He makes sure your users will find your product easy to use and that they will convert.
Ioanna is your brand designer. She makes sure our product and website illustrations and visuals, look unique and beautiful.
Mo is your motion designer. He makes sure your product stands out from the crowd and has a delightful experience with beautiful micro-animations and interactions.
Ana is your growth reporting and research assistant. She is the one that drafts every month PLG growth reports to measure and review our progress all together, and she also creates knowledge bases with insights from your customers that we can use in our product strategy and design.
pricing
Pause or cancel anytime
No scopes, no quotes, no billable hours
Basic
$8,500 / month
Who it's for:
Dev team size: 3 people
ARR: $1M to $2M
What's included
A specialized product design team with lead product designer, an illustrator and motion designer
1 growth releases per week
1x delight releases per week
Bi-weekly product design call to review and scope the new releases
Weekly product hackathon
Bi-weekly marketing website hackathon
Pro
$12,500 / month
Who it's for:
Dev team size: 4 to 6
ARR: $2M+
What's included
A specialized product design team with lead product designer, an illustrator and motion designer
2x growth releases per week
1x delight releases per week
Weekly product design call to review and scope the new releases
Weekly product hackathon
Bi-weekly marketing website hackathon
Ultra
$16,500+ / month
Who it's for:
Dev team size: 7+
ARR: $5M+
What's included
A specialized product design team with lead product designer, a senior product designer, an illustrator and motion designer
3x growth releases per week
1x delight release per week
Weekly product design call to review and scope the new releases
Weekly product hackathon
Weekly marketing website hackathon
Not sure yet?
Get a taste of working with us with a video UX audit
No calls or meeting required.
Get 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
We are your design team.
Not your agency.
our mission and manifesto
We're on a journey to build the #1 product design studio in the world for bootstrapped PLG SaaS navigating the growth stage (from $1M to $10M ARR)
We also believe the traditional agency model is broken.
So we built something new.
The revenue model (aka how you make money) impacts the quality of your work.
Many agencies make money by:
Charging high - they charge senior-level rates.
Paying low - they use junior designers behind the scenes or underpay designers.
Delivering as fast as possible - they focus on speed and minimize the time spent on each project to increase their profit margin.
This model is toxic for both clients and designers. It's like a design factory with zero design research and thought.
That's why I built Love at First Try, a design agency with a completely different revenue model. We have two revenue streams.
Services - Each team works with only 3 clients per year. By focusing on only 3 clients in a year, we’re able to dive deep into their businesses. This allows us to create designs that don’t just look good but improve user experience and drive revenue. We don't do short-term projects.
Products - We package our research, designs and knowledge into educational products that can be sold to and help thousands of SaaS teams. Instead of building an army of designers, we scale our revenue by selling products and by focusing on specialization and deep knowledge generation.
This model allows us to have high revenue without sacrificing quality.
The only way to scale our revenue is to deliver exceptional designs for clients because we then will sell proven methodologies and design patterns that drive real results for SaaS companies.
Simply put, we only succeed when our clients succeed. And that’s what sets us apart from other agencies. We don't sell hours. We sell results.
- Jim Zarkadas
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