Hire Dedicated
UI/UX DesignersVetted by Miracuves · Embedded in Your Product Team
Add a senior product designer to your team — vetted for research rigor, design systems, and developer handoff quality. Full-time or part-time, direct Slack access, replacement guaranteed. Miracuves vets dedicated designer candidates through skills assessment, paid trial, and reference checks — then embeds them in your Figma workspace with weekly demos and direct access.
Senior Product Designer
6+ yrs · Figma · Design Systems · Full-Time Available
What a dedicated UI/UX designer does inside your product workflow
This is not a one-off freelancer for mockups. A Miracuves dedicated UI/UX designer embeds in your product cadence — your Figma workspace, your sprint reviews, your stakeholder demos. They own flows end to end from research insight to pixel-perfect handoff. Miracuves matches for production delivery inside your design toolchain — Figma files, critique rituals, and dev handoff — not parallel agency silos that require chase-down for every update. You keep product ownership; we supply vetted design capacity that ships under your definition of done.
Every designer passes a portfolio audit and live critique before matching. You select from practitioners who have shipped real products — not template portfolios assembled for bidding platforms. Miracuves staff augmentation is not the right fit when you need a single logo on a slide deck with no repository access, when compliance requires employees on your payroll only, or when the role is purely executive coaching without hands-on delivery. In those cases we say so upfront and can recommend a full build engagement via our software development or clone solutions catalog instead. Compare sibling hire models and full-build options in the related section below.
From a recent engagement — redesign under deadline pressure
"Our agency handed off 40 inconsistent screens two weeks before launch. Miracuves matched a designer who rebuilt the design system in five days, cut engineering rework by half, and stayed on through our Series A raise."
To Do 2
Checkout flow usability test
FeatEst: 3 pts
Mobile nav pattern exploration
FeatEst: 3 pts
In Progress 2
Onboarding wireframe iteration
FeatAssigned: TM · Day 2
Design token audit
QaAssigned: TM · Day 2
Done 3
Stakeholder interview synthesis
QaClosed: Done
Component library v2 shipped
FeatClosed: Done
Accessibility contrast fixes
BugClosed: Done
Every engagement includes this — no add-on tiers
Your Figma Workspace
Added to your design files from day one. All screens, components, and research live in your workspace under your ownership.
Weekly Design Demo
Every Friday, flows and rationale presented live — not static file drops without context.
NDA + IP Assignment Day One
Bilateral NDA and IP assignment signed before any detail is discussed. All design assets belong to you.
Async-First Communication
Daily written updates via Slack regardless of timezone, plus live sync during your guaranteed overlap window.
Design System Maintenance
Components, tokens, and documentation kept current — not one-off mockups that engineering cannot build.
2-Week Replacement Guarantee
If the designer isn't the right fit within the first 2 weeks, Miracuves replaces at no additional cost.
Miracuves vs Toptal, Turing, and Upwork — an honest comparison
Marketplaces optimise for transaction volume. Miracuves optimises for embedded delivery accountability — published rates, vetting you can verify, and a replacement guarantee if the match fails. Use this table when stakeholders ask why not Toptal, Turing, or Upwork — we answer plainly because the wrong engagement model wastes quarters. Procurement teams use it to compare IP ownership, overlap hours, and who remains accountable when delivery slips — not just hourly rate on a spreadsheet.
| Factor | Miracuves | Toptal-class | Turing-class | Upwork / direct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vetting depth | 98% rejection + paid trial sprint | Top 3% claim | AI-matched pool | You screen alone |
| Who owns delivery | Miracuves accountable | Marketplace escrow | Platform SLA varies | Your HR + eng |
| Pricing transparency | Published monthly rates | Quote after brief | Quote after brief | Salary + benefits |
| IP & design asset ownership | 100% yours, your Figma workspace | Typically yours | Typically yours | Employee |
| Replacement guarantee | 2 weeks, no extra cost | Limited window | Varies by plan | Re-hire cycle |
| Timezone overlap | 4+ hrs confirmed in writing | Often optional | Often optional | Local only |
| Best for | Embedded product delivery | One-off expert tasks | Scale fast, less vetting | Long-term core team |
Why teams hire dedicated ui/ux designers through Miracuves
Specialist talent for ui/ux designers is hard to hire locally — and mis-hires cost quarters. Miracuves matches vetted practitioners who embed in your Figma workspace and design rituals, own outcomes under your governance, and stay accountable through a written engagement — not anonymous marketplace transactions. Every hire page cross-links to Miracuves technology, vertical, and clone catalogs so you can compare staffing versus full product delivery with one vendor. Use these benchmarks when writing your internal role spec — salary bands, trial scope, and toolchain expectations — so Miracuves can match profiles that fit your governance.
How Miracuves vets every UI/UX designer
Before a team member is shown to any client, they pass seven specific competency checks.
Role Screening
45-min call — depth of experience, project context, problem framing.
Skills Assessment
Role-specific exercise solved live or via structured work sample.
Work Review
Senior Miracuves lead audits prior deliverables — not verbal claims.
Reference Check
Prior client or manager reference where applicable.
Culture & Comms
Clarity, responsiveness, ambiguous-requirement handling.
Paid Trial Sprint
Short paid trial on a real anonymized brief. The final 2% filter.
What your designer already knows
No tooling onboarding. They show up fluent.
Four ways to structure your design team
Start with one senior designer and scale into a research-design pod as your product complexity grows. Miracuves documents which practitioners join your squad, overlap hours, escalation path, and replacement SLA in the engagement letter — whether you embed individuals, a multi-role pod, or fractional leadership alongside delivery.
Solo
Single Dedicated Designer
One senior designer owning your entire product surface. Best when engineering leadership is strong.
Best for: Founders with in-house dev
Duo
Design + Research
Designer paired with a UX researcher for continuous discovery on a fast-moving roadmap.
Best for: B2B products with complex workflows
Pod
Design Squad
Lead designer, visual designer, and researcher running weekly discovery and delivery.
Best for: Funded startups scaling UX
Flexible
Burst Capacity
Add design capacity sprint-by-sprint for launches, rebrands, or audit sprints.
Best for: Seasonal release crunches
From signed NDA to first shipped flows
Most clients have a matched designer in their Figma workspace within 48 hours of agreement. This is the standard onboarding path — not a best-case story used only in sales calls. Miracuves confirms practitioner names, overlap hours, rate structure, and replacement SLA in your engagement letter before anyone receives tool access — not verbal promises after you have paused the roadmap waiting on paperwork.
Day 0 — Brief & NDA
You share product context, Figma access expectations, design-system maturity, and sprint cadence. Miracuves signs bilateral NDA before portfolio review. Matching criteria — seniority, research depth, handoff standards — documented in writing, not a vague creative brief. Escalation paths and access scope are documented at each phase — not assumed from a generic vendor onboarding deck.
Day 1–2 — Shortlist & Interview
You receive one to three portfolios that already passed vetting and a paid design exercise. You run your critique interview; Miracuves does not block direct designer access. Profiles include verifiable shipped work and component libraries — not Dribbble-only shots. Escalation paths and access scope are documented at each phase — not assumed from a generic vendor onboarding deck.
Day 2–3 — Workspace onboarding
Designer added to your Figma, Slack, and sprint tools. File structure, review rituals, and first sprint flows agreed in a 60-minute kickoff — not a week of vendor orientation. They use your tokens, naming, and handoff conventions from day one. Escalation paths and access scope are documented at each phase — not assumed from a generic vendor onboarding deck.
Week 1 — First design demo
Shipped flows or system updates demonstrated live every Friday. Async Loom updates daily inside your overlap window. Miracuves stays accountable if ramp is slower than agreed — replacement SLA applies. Escalation paths and access scope are documented at each phase — not assumed from a generic vendor onboarding deck.
Ongoing — Scale or exit
Add research, motion, or front-end pairing under the same engagement letter. Month-to-month with two weeks' notice. When staffing is no longer the right model, Miracuves can transition you to a full product build without changing NDA counterparty. Escalation paths and access scope are documented at each phase — not assumed from a generic vendor onboarding deck.
What happens after you say yes
NDA & creative brief
Product context, Figma access, and handoff standards captured before portfolio review.
Portfolio shortlist
One to three vetted designers — you critique and interview directly.
Figma & sprint kickoff
Workspace access, tokens, and week-one flows agreed in 60 minutes.
Build with Miracuves — staffing or full product delivery
Not sure staffing is the right model? Miracuves also ships complete products from 90+ clone bases and custom builds — same company, same NDA, same IP ownership. Many clients start with a dedicated designer, then expand into a squad or switch to a vertical clone deployment when scope clarifies. Every hire page links to published technology stacks, vertical clone deployments, and sibling engagement models so stakeholders compare staffing versus turnkey product delivery under one NDA counterparty.
Current page
Hire UI/UX designers
Embed vetted product designers in your Figma workspace with published monthly rates and a 2-week replacement guarantee.
Engagement model
Dedicated squads
Multi-role pods with delivery lead — backend, mobile, QA — accountable to a written sprint cadence.
Vertical solutions
Clone & vertical launch
Deploy on-demand, fintech, OTT, or marketplace platforms from production bases in days with full source code.
Type A catalog
Technology development
Flutter, React, Node, and 90+ technology pages — when you need Miracuves to own the build, not only embed.
Solutions catalog
90+ clone products
Uber, Netflix, Revolut-style solutions with honest stack attribution and links from every hire page.
Leadership
Fractional CTO
Technical leadership, hiring plans, and architecture governance without a full-time executive hire.
What hiring a dedicated UI/UX designer costs
Published rates. No request-a-quote wall.
Part-Time
20 hrs/week · ongoing support
- 20 hours per week dedicated
- Your Figma workspace access
- Weekly design demo updates
- NDA + IP assignment included
- 2-week replacement guarantee
- Cancel with 2 weeks notice
Full-Time
40 hrs/week · full design focus
- 40 hours, fully dedicated
- 4+ hour timezone overlap
- Weekly demo, design critiques
- Embedded in product sprints
- 2-week replacement guarantee
- Cancel with 2 weeks notice
Design Squad
3–5 people · scaling
- 2–3 dedicated designers
- Research + visual capacity
- Design system ownership
- Scales for launch crunches
- Direct access to squad
- Cancel with 2 weeks notice
What affects your monthly rate
Rates stay fixed for the agreed structure unless scope changes materially — Miracuves documents any rate adjustment before it takes effect.
Typical engagement structures
Part-time ($1,499/mo): 20 hrs/week for maintenance or advisory.
Full-time: published rate on this page · 40 hrs/week embedded.
Squad: custom quote for 3–5 roles with delivery lead.
Every engagement is month-to-month with two weeks' notice unless you request annual terms for rate lock.
What hiring a dedicated designer looks like in practice
A health-tech startup had investor diligence in three weeks but a fragmented onboarding experience that usability tests scored below 40% task completion.
Challenge
No unified design system, conflicting stakeholder opinions, and engineering already mid-sprint on backend work.
What Miracuves Delivered
Senior designer matched in 36 hours, five user interviews synthesized in week one, redesigned onboarding prototyped and tested before sprint end.
Outcome
Task completion rose to 78% in moderated tests. Designer remained full-time for nine months and now owns the entire design system.
Client Testimonial
We were two weeks from a board review with a product nobody could navigate. Miracuves placed a designer who ran research, rebuilt our flows, and gave engineering specs they could actually build from — all inside the first sprint.
M.L., VP Product
Digital Health · Series B
Engagement Brief
What clients say about Miracuves Hire UI/UX Designers
Verified on Clutch and Google — staffing and squad engagements where Miracuves remained accountable for delivery quality, not just resume forwarding. Clutch reviews below reference specific delivery outcomes — overlap hours, replacement speed, and how practitioners embedded in client repositories — not generic praise.
Clutch · B2B SaaS
"The designer rebuilt our component library in nine days and cut engineering rework on UI tickets by half. Figma files lived in our workspace from day one — not a Miracuves-owned silo."
Google · E-Commerce
"Portfolio audit before matching saved us from another agency that sent Dribbble-only portfolios. Our matched designer ran moderated tests before we wrote a single line of frontend code."
Clutch · HealthTech
"WCAG remediation and mobile flows shipped under FDA-adjacent deadline pressure. Friday design critiques with engineering in the same call — rare for staffing vendors."
Questions about hiring from Miracuves
How is hiring a dedicated Miracuves designer different from 99designs, Dribbble, or Upwork?
Contest platforms optimize for volume and speed, not product continuity. Miracuves designers are vetted through portfolio audit, live critique, and a paid trial sprint before you ever see a profile — only about 2% of applicants pass. Once matched, they embed in your Figma workspace and sprint cadence as ongoing capacity, with a 2-week replacement guarantee and published monthly rates instead of per-project bidding wars.
Will the designer work inside our Figma files and design system from day one?
Yes. Dedicated designers are added to your workspace, libraries, and research repositories before the first sprint — not a parallel Miracuves folder you merge later. They extend existing components and tokens where possible, document decisions in your files, and hand off specs engineers can build from. All work product remains under your ownership via signed IP assignment before any project detail is shared.
Can a Miracuves designer run discovery and usability testing, not just visual polish?
Senior matches are filtered for research depth, not only UI craft. That includes interview guides, affinity mapping, moderated and unmoderated testing, and synthesis into prioritized design decisions. Vetting exercises require candidates to defend trade-offs to a non-design stakeholder — we reject profiles that only produce attractive screens without measurable product rationale.
We already have engineers but no design lead. Is a single dedicated designer enough?
For many seed and Series A teams, one senior product designer owning flows end-to-end is the right starting structure — especially when engineering leadership can partner on feasibility. Miracuves also supports scaling into a design + research duo or a three-person design squad without re-contracting if your roadmap outgrows a solo engagement. Structure and rate are confirmed in writing before anyone starts.
What happens if the designer's visual direction or communication style is not a fit?
The first two weeks include a no-cost replacement guarantee. If chemistry, craft level, or research rigor is not right, Miracuves sources an alternative profile without restarting a months-long search. After that, engagements remain month-to-month with two weeks' notice — no annual lock-in designed to trap you with a poor match.
Do you build and maintain design systems, or only ship feature screens?
Dedicated designers are expected to maintain systems discipline, not treat every sprint as a one-off mockup. That means component libraries, token updates, accessibility checks against WCAG 2.2, and documentation that stays current as engineering ships. For greenfield products, they can stand up a token-based system aligned to your React, Flutter, or native stack from the first release cycle.
What timezone overlap and communication rhythm should we expect?
Every engagement includes a minimum four-hour live overlap window, confirmed before start, plus async written updates in Slack regardless of timezone. Designers join your sprint reviews, present a Friday design demo with rationale, and remain reachable through your channels — not a separate account manager relay. Part-time engagements at $1,499/mo cover 20 hours per week for audit sprints or early-stage products.
Who owns Figma files, research recordings, and prototype IP?
You do — completely. Bilateral NDA and IP assignment are signed before work begins. Designers do not retain portfolio rights to your product assets, reuse your flows for other clients, or store deliverables outside your approved tools. This is standard for every Miracuves hire engagement, not an enterprise-only add-on.
Ready to add a dedicated UI/UX designer?
Tell Miracuves about your product stage, design maturity, and timeline. We confirm structure, overlap, and rate in writing before any commitment. Share stack, timezone, and first sprint goal — Miracuves responds with matched profiles, published rates, and bilateral NDA for review within one business day.
