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Designshippers. Senior product design. Shipped.

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The window is spent before you type<br>MCPSolution designed & codedDesign system upgraded

Selling the thing you cannot photograph<br>Sales problem solvedSolution designed & codedThreeJS

Which Tom<br>AI AgentUI designed & coded

Cold start to PR in four hours<br>From problem to PR in hoursLarge existing codebaseUI & UX

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Add an extra shift to keep your product moving faster.

We’re on Amsterdam clocks. Six hours ahead of New York, nine ahead of San Francisco. Your night is our workday.

AI made your team faster.<br>It didn’t make your product look better.<br>Bigger clients buy on trust. Design earns it faster.

The looking-good part takes taste. We’re not engineers who learned Figma. Or designers who just vibe code prototypes. We’re a deliberately tiny design engineering studio. We’ve written HTML, CSS and JS by hand since long before AI. We know the medium, even if the machine types all of it now.

Claude Code writes the code; we direct it and judge everything in the browser, the way your users will. The taste is ours alone: the interaction details, the motion, the empty and error states nobody specs. Everything arrives as a pull request. Your team reviews and merges it, exactly like any other.

Design + Ship

Monthly<br>6 months

$12,000per month

Founding rate · monthly

A senior design engineering team on your roadmap. Flat rate, no contracts. We work with a very limited number of clients at a time , and that cap is what keeps the quality high.

Included

One point of contact: our Lead Design Engineer

One feature in flight at a time: designed, built, polished

Shipped as pull requests, in your stack and conventions

Interaction details, motion, empty and error states included

Live in days

Async first: a shared Slack channel, no meetings required

Pause or cancel anytime

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Not included: backend, infrastructure, DevOps, native mobile, production support, or maintenance of code we didn’t write. We work on branches and open pull requests for your team to review and merge. We never need production access or customer data.

Good question.

What counts as one feature?<br>A shippable unit of product: an onboarding flow, a settings page, a pricing page, a dashboard view. Not an epic. If it’s bigger than that, we slice it and ship it in pieces, one in flight at a time.

Who actually writes the code?<br>Claude Code and Codex write all of it, by design. Our work is everything around that: deciding what gets built, directing how it should feel, and judging the result in the browser the way your users will. Then your engineers review the pull request before anything merges, exactly like any other. The typing is automated. The taste isn’t. The same way a director doesn’t hold the camera.

Do you ever touch production?<br>No. Everything arrives as a pull request against your repo, on a branch. Your team reviews and merges on your schedule. We never deploy.

What stack do you work in?<br>React, Next.js, TypeScript and Tailwind are home turf. Anything modern and web-based is usually a yes. Just ask.

What don’t you do?<br>Backend architecture, native mobile, infrastructure. We wire into your existing APIs; we don’t build them. If a feature needs new backend work, we’ll spec what we need from your team and build against it.

How fast is "days," honestly?<br>A typical feature lands as a first PR within days of the brief. The honest variable is review turnaround. Ours is overnight: comments left at the end of your day come back answered by morning. Yours is up to you.

How do we communicate?<br>A shared Slack channel and the PR threads. Async by default, in writing. One kickoff call to start; after that, no required meetings.

What if we want changes?<br>That’s the process, not an exception. We iterate on the feature in flight until it merges. We don’t count revisions.

Who owns the work?<br>You do, entirely. It merges into your repo, under your IP. We work inside your access controls, and we’ll sign your NDA.

Can we pause or cancel?<br>Anytime. Flat monthly, no contracts. Pause when the roadmap is quiet, resume when it isn’t.

Who are we?<br>We are Designshippers, previously Fairpixels. A team that has designed brands and products for world-class SaaS companies for over fifteen years. The products we shipped are used today by teams at NASA, Whoop, Meta and Square. We obsess over the details that make software feel exceptional, and we know which ones move activation and conversion.

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