Which designers can you hire through Alpina Tech?
We place designers who work inside your product team, next to your engineers and your product owner. We do not sell template packs or one-off logo jobs. Most requests fit one of the roles below, and each role has its own page with the vetting detail.
| Role | Hire this role when | Page |
|---|---|---|
| UI/UX designer | The product needs one person to own interface, research and usability across screens | Hire UI/UX designers |
| Product designer | A feature area needs an owner from problem framing to shipped UI | Hire product designers |
| Figma designer | Files are messy, handoff is slow, or engineers need a component library to build from | Hire Figma designers |
| User flow designer | Sign-up, checkout or onboarding loses people and nobody knows where | Hire user flow designers |
| Mobile app designer | You ship on iOS and Android and need platform patterns, gestures and thumb-reach layouts | Hire mobile app designers |
| SaaS designer | The product is dashboards, permissions, dense tables and settings | Hire SaaS designers |
| Edtech designer | Learners, instructors and progress tracking drive the screens | Hire edtech designers |
| Web designer | You need a marketing site or landing pages that engineers can build quickly | Hire web designers |
If you are unsure which row is yours, describe the problem on the intro call. A symptom such as “trial users drop in week one” or “every team has its own buttons” usually points to a role faster than a job title does.
How do we vet designers?
A portfolio shows finished screens, not how someone decides. We check four things before a profile reaches you.
- Portfolio walkthrough. The candidate explains one shipped product: the constraint, the options they rejected, what they would change now, and which parts a colleague did. Vague answers about “the team” end the review.
- Scoped design exercise. A small problem close to your domain, such as redesigning one flow with an awkward edge case. We judge the reasoning and the handling of states, not the polish of the mockup.
- Work with engineers. The designer reviews a screen that engineers built from a design and explains what drifted and why. We listen for empty, loading and error states, and for how they answer a developer who says a layout cannot be built as drawn.
- File hygiene. We open a real Figma file. Layers have names, components are not detached, spacing comes from auto layout, and colors and sizes come from variables instead of loose hex values.
Do you need a designer, or a design system?
A designer solves a product problem. A design system solves a consistency problem across teams and codebases. They overlap, but the hire differs.
- One product with unclear usability: hire a UI/UX or product designer, or start with our UI/UX design services.
- Several teams shipping different versions of the same button: you need tokens, a component library and documentation in code. That is project work for our design system agency, and a Figma designer fits as a partner inside it.
- A product idea that still needs shaping before any interface: product design services cover discovery and prototypes.
For an example of a designer-led result, see our B2B SaaS onboarding redesign. For the engineering side of the same topic, read how a multi-team design system was rolled out.
How can you engage a designer?
| Model | Fits | How it works |
|---|---|---|
| Dedicated designer | A roadmap that needs steady design capacity | One designer joins your standups, files and backlog |
| Designer inside a dedicated team | Product, design and engineering delivered together | Part of a dedicated team we assemble around your product |
| Staff augmentation | A gap on your existing design team | Your process, your tools; see IT staff augmentation |
| Short project | An audit, one flow or a prototype | Fixed question, fixed output, then a decision about continuing |
We start after a short intro call about the role. You then receive a curated shortlist, and you interview the designers before anything is signed. Rates run from $50 to $150 per hour, depending on seniority and how much research and strategy the role carries.
What does a designer do in the first weeks?
A quick audit comes before new screens. The designer reads your analytics and support tickets, walks the live product, lists the inconsistencies, and agrees with your product owner on the first problem to solve. The first deliverable is usually one reworked flow, tested with a handful of real users and handed to engineering in Figma with annotated states.
When is a designer the wrong hire?
If nobody can build what is designed, a designer adds a backlog of pictures. Pair design with engineering capacity first. If your problem is a slow site rather than a confusing one, you need a front-end engineer; see our front-end developers. And if the goal is a one-time visual refresh with no owner afterwards, a short project fits better than a permanent hire.
