SaaS design mentorship
Build a
high-converting and
user-friendly SaaS
by shipping
weekly 80/20
design tweaks.
Guided by your mentor
Jim
Made for SaaS devs and dev teams
Learn and use the design and growth strategies we've used
to help SaaS teams grow to $2+ million in ARR
Apply to join
Maximum capacity is 5 people - 3 spots left
Try for free for 7 days - cancel anytime
why you are here
Building a SaaS product as a developer without design help is freaking hard.
You're making $10k+ MRR and you've proven market interest, but your budget is tied up in engineering and marketing.
Design is slowing you down, struggling to ship as fast as you’d like, because you're spending too many hours to figure the right UX and UI for your features.
Your website and onboarding aren't converting (enough) visitors to customers and your product isn’t turning users into fans.
If this sounds like you keep reading.
We built this design mentorship program for SaaS developers exactly like you.
Design won't be a blocker or slow you down anymore and you'll have a senior design mentor to get help from.
You'll start shipping high-quality features fast. You won't have to figure out the right UX on your own and you'll save many engineering hours by avoiding UX mistakes that will require you to rebuild features.
Your conversions will go up and you'll get more customers. You'll apply best-practices and optimize the core parts of your funnel to convert more visitors into customers.
Here’s what you can expect in the first weeks of your mentorship
GROW YOUR WEBSITE AND ONBOARDING CONVERSIONS
You’ll increase your website conversions, improve your onboarding activation and start growing your revenue.
Together, we’ll clear up your website’s positioning so visitors instantly understand your value. We’ll improve your first-time user experience with an onboarding flow that excites new signups.
We don’t believe in growth hacks so if you expect to 10x your revenue overnight, this is not the program for you.
Monthly PLG report
⚡ Website sign ups
+15%
😍 Trials activated
+30%
💳 New customers
+20%
❤️ NPS
+20%
IMPROVE YOUR FEATURES UX
Your SaaS will become easier to use—not just prettier
Most designers focus on UI and the visual aspect of your product. Instead, we’ll focus on helping you improve your UX, usability and conversions with proven design and CRO best practices.
Your SaaS product will be intuitive, user-friendly, and designed to convert. But don’t worry, we won’t sacrifice style. 😉
"I used the new UI yesterday and liked it. It will follow more modern layout and it was therefore intuitive to pick up."
A customer of
SHIP FASTER WITH 80/20 WEEKLY RELEASES
You’ll start shipping much, much faster.
Long projects and complex (re)designs can drain your energy and morale. That’s why we’ll focus on weekly 80/20 design tweaks: low-effort changes that have a high impact.
We’ve done this for clients like Firm24, KnowledgeOwl, and CaptainBook, helping them ship weekly instead of getting stuck in endless dev cycles.
😥 Big redesigns
😥 Long projects
⚡Small releases scoped and designed using the 80/20 principle
Loved by SaaS developers
all around the world
"This is so valuable to us! I recommend this to anyone who is serious about their SaaS, really"
how it works
Learn and use the design and growth strategies we've used
to help SaaS teams grow to $2+ million in ARR
Weekly group design coaching call
Get unstuck and ship fast with guidance from Jim, by joining the weekly design coaching session.
We keep it small, just 5 people per session, so you’ll always get the attention you need.
You can ask questions about improving conversions, usability, and user behaviour, not just how your product looks.
Instead of growth hacks, we’ll focus on behavioural psychology to help you build a product your users value.
Exclusive space for async feedback
Get a design review and feedback anytime. Just post your questions and Jim will reply with a video.
Didn’t make the weekly call? Post your question anytime. You can ask as many questions as you need.
Expect a response within a few hours or up to 1-2 days.
Watch an example response from Jim
"I just loved Jim's video, I was not sure of what value I'd get but now I saw it, I told myself that even if I paid tenfold the price, it should be worth it. You get a mix of advice on visual design, wording/copywriting, UX and best practices on conversion, with small details where I thought « oh, good insight, that's a quick win I can easily implement » and some AHA moment with advice that totally changed the vision of my landing page, now it's impossible not to see that approach on my LP. Thanks!"
Emmanuel from Fodmapedia
curated library of real-life examples
Get design inspiration and ideas by looking how successful SaaS companies do it. Don't start from scratch.
The curated swipefile gives you a glimpse into how top SaaS companies design their products.
It's a library of standout examples we’ve handpicked while working on million-dollar SaaS brands.
Updated monthly, it saves you hours of research while giving you access to examples you wouldn’t find otherwise.
UX components and micro-tutorials
Use design patterns and components we've tested with million-dollar SaaS companies. Don't re-invent the wheel.
You’ll get building blocks for everything from landing pages to onboarding flows.
Most design kits like TailwindUI prioritize visuals, but these components are designed for UX and conversions.
Each component comes with a tutorial and extra tips, e.g. how to write a hero headline that converts.
real results
Our key difference?
We practice what we teach.
Every day, we design for million-dollar SaaS companies, and this program is our way of sharing this knowledge with dev teams who can’t hire us to design for them.
pricing
A smarter way to build and grow your SaaS.
Get senior design support without breaking the bank.
Your other options
low roi
Do it on your own with courses
As a founder, your time is money. If you’ve got a SaaS with paying customers, you don’t have time for courses when you should be building features and chasing growth. A mentor cuts through the noise and saves you time—and money—by giving you the guidance you need to move faster.
Cost: $2.000+ per month
Hire a junior designer
Hiring a junior might seem cheaper, but it costs you time and money to guide and review their work. Without a senior designer, their UX mistakes can spiral into costly design debt. I’ve seen it happen, and it gets messy fast.
Cost: $3.000+ / month
Hire a senior designer
Hiring a senior designer would be ideal, but it’s just not in your budget right now. Your resources need to go to engineering and marketing, and a senior designer is a luxury you can’t afford at the moment.
Cost: $8.000+ / month
SaaS Design Mentorship
Made for developers
high roi
$499 / month
plus local taxes
Improve your UX and grow your conversions by using established design patterns that are tested by million-dollar SaaS products
Save engineering time by avoiding UX mistakes that require you to rebuild features in the future
Unlock growth opportunities with design patterns you didn't know about
Apply to join
Maximum capacity is 5 people - 3 spots left
Made for devs - no design experience required
Try for free with a 7-day trial. We want to make sure this is a good fit for you before you decide to join. The only way to do that is to check out our mentorship space, join a weekly group coaching session and ask some questions. That's why we're offering a 7-days trial that includes access to one mentoring session and 2 questions questions in the feed.
Learn and use the design and growth strategies we've used
to help SaaS teams grow to $2+ million in ARR
your mentor
Who is Jim, and how is Love At First Try
different from other design studios?
👋 Hey, It's Jim here!
14 years ago I started out as a full-stack developer. I later became a UI engineer and then evolved into a product designer. Ever since then, I've been helping brands improve their UX, conversion rates and onboarding flows.
Throughout my career I’ve always loved learning through observation, reverse-engineering and 1:1 mentoring.
This mentorship is what I wish I had when I was starting 10 years ago. It's a subscription for developers building B2B SaaS that's making $10K+ MRR, with no real design help. This isn’t a course or a theoretical framework—it’s an actionable mentorship designed to help you ship weekly design improvements.
Why should you work with me?
I've helped 20+ SaaS products grow through 1:1 coaching and hands-on design. These products range from early-stage seeking product-market fit to high-growth products making $2M+ ARR.
As a Design Lead, I helped grow TicketSwap grow their conversions and UX with a user base of 5+ million unique users.
I was a boot camp coach at one of the world's leading online design school Interaction Design Foundation.
Before getting into design, I was a UI and web engineer for 5 years. This helped me understand all the layers of building a software product and think like an engineer.
I’ve been working in the SaaS industry for 14 years now.
One last thing about me. I practice what I teach.
I spend 60% of my time building and growing SaaS products for our clients and myself, and 40% of my time sharing all this knowledge, through this mentorship and my social media content.
I believe traditional agencies are broken.
Here is how we're different.
I believe the traditional agency model is broken. And it's all because of the way agencies make money.
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 - We only work with 3 clients per year to pay our salaries and keep our company alive. 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.
👉 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.
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 sell proven methodologies and design patterns that drive real results for them.
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
