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Freelance product designer for startups, Series A teams and agencies.

Hire a product designer who ships real code, not Figma files.

I design your marketing site and your web or mobile product, then build both in real code with Claude Code, in the stack your team already uses. One person, no handoff, live in 4 weeks. Hire me for a fixed-scope project, or as your fractional designer by the month.

  • 4 weeks per project, start to live
  • 1 spot left next month, for a project or a retainer.
  • 5.0 client rating
  • Guarantee or you stop paying
LDU
Legal platform, Singapore
Qualified enquiries a month through the site
3.4×was 11 a month
Of new matters opened in the client app
64%was email and phone
Of enquiries now in the four added languages
41%was English only

Built in two months. Marketing site in 5 languages, CMS, partner portal, client app.

Case 1 of 3: LDU, Legal platform, Singapore.

Companies I have designed and built for

Problem, then answer

You are here for one of six reasons.

Pick the one that sounds like your week. It turns into what I do about it.

What is actually happening

It works. It does the job people pay for. But the screens look like an internal tool, so prospects assume the product is half built and they price you like it is.

What I do about it

Up to 15 product screens, designed and built.

Real front end code for your web or mobile app, not a mockup. Loading, empty, error and success states are all covered, because those states decide whether a product feels finished.

Designed week 2, built week 3

Most people arrive with two or three of these at once, and one project or one month of retainer covers all of them. Meanwhile a better looking competitor keeps winning demos you should win.

The offer

Everything included. Nothing billed extra.

Hire me per project, or as your fractional designer by the month. A project ships two things at the end of week 4: a marketing site built to convert, and your product as a working front end you can click through. On the retainer you get the same work, one request at a time. Here is the list.

A marketing site built to convert

Up to 8 pages: home, product, pricing, about, and the ones you actually need. One job and one action per page, written in real code instead of a page builder, so it loads fast and your team can edit it.

Up to 15 product screens, web or mobile

Designed and built as working front end code in the stack your team already uses, instead of a folder of PNGs for someone else to interpret.

A working prototype, every state covered

You click through the real thing, not a picture of it, before your engineers wire it up. Loading, empty, error and success are built too. Nobody quotes for those states, and they decide whether a product feels finished.

Nobody includes this

A component library

Your team builds new screens in your style without booking me again. Agencies usually charge a retainer for this part.

Nobody includes this

Copy structure for every page

Headline, subhead and section order, drafted around one action per page, so you are not staring at lorem ipsum two days before launch.

Nobody includes this

Two weeks of fixes after launch

Something breaks, I fix it. No invoice, no change order, no conversation about scope.

If it is on this list, it is included. If you want something that is not on this list, we talk about it before we start, not in week three. A project goes live in four weeks or you stop paying, and if it takes me six weeks instead of four, that is my problem, not your invoice. If you pick the retainer and cancel in the first 30 days, I refund that month and you keep everything I made.

The work

Everything here was drawn by the person you would be hiring.

Thirteen of them on this page, nine years of doing it, and on most I wrote the front end as well as designed it. No team, no handoff, no one else's judgment in the middle. That is the standard your own project starts from. The case studies say what each one was and what it moved.

See the case studies

The comparison you are already running

You have a few options. Here is the honest math.

  • Hire a designer

    Slow and permanent

    Time to live

    14 to 20 weeks

    Real cost

    €110,000+ a year, all in, plus recruiter

    Stuck with

    A salary and a hiring risk

  • Use an agency

    Slow and expensive

    Time to live

    10 to 16 weeks

    Real cost

    €60,000 to €120,000

    Stuck with

    Account managers and change orders

  • Let an engineer do it

    Fast but unfinished

    Time to live

    3 weeks

    Real cost

    The features they did not build

    Stuck with

    A product that looks like it does not work

  • Do nothing

    The most expensive

    Time to live

    Never

    Real cost

    Every deal lost to a better-looking competitor

    Stuck with

    The same problem next quarter

  • Hire me per project

    Fast, fixed, finished

    Time to live

    4 weeks

    Real cost

    One fixed fee, agreed up front

    Stuck with

    Nothing. It ends.

  • Hire me fractional

    Flexible and finished

    Time to live

    Starts next month

    Real cost

    A monthly fee, cancel any month

    Stuck with

    Nothing. Cancel any month.

The real cost of waiting is not the fee. It is two months of runway spent looking unfinished.

Social proof

What the people who hired me said.

The offer is new. The person behind it is not. These are founders, engineers and product leads I have designed and shipped for, in their own words.

9 yearsdesigning and building software interfaces, for two-person startups and for AdidasZoef, LDU, Rebels, Collexa, Rabobank, Ordina
  • Highly recommend Milan! He is able to translate some rough concepts, ideas and content into great designs.
    Sander D., CEO at Zoef
  • Collaborating with Midosu Studio has been an absolute pleasure. Their expertise in web development and editing has truly elevated our website.
    Daniel L., Co-founder at LDU
  • I was really impressed with Milan and can only compliment him. He made really interesting designs, always showing good reasoning.
    Maxim M., Technical Director at Rebels
  • Great designer and easy to work with. Would definitely hire him again.
    Tyler M., Founder of Collexa
  • Milan always creates his wireframes with the structure of HTML and CSS in mind. Therefore it is easy for us developers.
    Ruth B., Business Analyst at Rabobank
  • Milan is a highly talented UX/UI designer. He possesses a deep understanding of customer and user needs, and delivers design fast.
    Laurent B., Full Stack Engineer at Ordina
  • Milan is a highly talented UX/UI designer. His guidance has been invaluable to my growth as a designer.
    Anoush M., Designer at Surelock IT Security Services

How it works

Four weeks, four steps, one person.

The person who scopes the work designs it and writes the code, with Claude Code building at the speed I design. There is no Figma-to-developer handoff, so nothing gets translated or lost. That is why four weeks is possible.

  1. We agree the exact page list and the exact screen list. That list does not change after this week.

    Your time
    One 90 minute kickoff call
    You get
    • Copy structure, sitemap, wireframes
    • Scope locked in writing

Total time you spend

5 hours

across four weeks. That is the whole ask, and it is the reason this fits around the work you already have.

  1. 1strong direction
  2. 2change rounds
  3. 0handoffs

A project gets speed, not open-ended exploration. Need research and user interviews first? Budget three months with an agency. On the monthly retainer the same four steps run in a smaller loop: you send a request, I design it, build it and ship it.

Who this is for

This is built for startups and small agencies.

This is for you if

Good fit
  • You raised a seed or Series A in the last 9 months and the clock is running.
  • You have 5 to 50 people and no designer, or one designer who is drowning.
  • You run a small design or marketing agency and need a designer who also builds, under your name.
  • Your product works but looks like an internal tool, and you need it live in weeks, not next quarter.
  • You would rather review working code than a Figma file.
  • You can sign off on decisions yourself, without a committee.

This is not for you if

  • You have not raised yet and a project fee, or a monthly retainer, is a real risk to your runway.
  • You want a logo, a brand book, and a naming exercise. I do not do those.
  • You need five rounds of stakeholder review. Four weeks does not survive that.
  • You want someone in your standups every day. I am not an employee.
  • You are shopping for the cheapest option. I am not it.

If you are in the right column, close this tab. I would rather you find out now than in week two.

Before you book

Questions people ask before they book.

  • Tell me on the first call. We either cut something to fit, I quote the extra before we start, or you move to the monthly retainer. On a project the fee never changes after we begin. That is the whole point.

    See what's included

  • I work with them. I build the front end. Your engineers keep building the product. I hand over code they can read, in the framework they already use.

  • Yours, where I can match it. React, Next.js and Tailwind are my default, written with Claude Code, which is why design and code come out of one pass. If you use something else, tell me on the first call and I will say yes or no honestly.

  • AI does the typing and I make the decisions. I design the system first, build it with Claude Code and review what ships, and you can watch the live build while it is being made. Your engineers get readable components in a framework they know, which is the part you can check. Figma is a step along the way, not the deliverable: you approve working code in a browser, not a picture of it.

  • Pick the project if you have a defined site or product to launch: fixed scope, live in four weeks. Pick the retainer if the product keeps changing and you need design and front end every week after launch. A project first and a retainer after is a natural order.

  • It is me as your product designer by the month, without a salary, a job post or a notice period. You send requests, I design and build them in code one at a time, in the order you choose, and you keep everything I make. It runs month to month and you can cancel any month. If you cancel in the first 30 days, I refund that month.

  • Yes. I design and build for your client, you present it as yours, and you keep the margin. I do not contact your client or list them as a reference. If you need an NDA, I sign it before we start.

  • I write the structure and a first draft for every page. You edit it. If you want a specialist copywriter, bring one in week 1 and I will build around them.

  • Only if the slot is open. I run one project at a time. The next start is next month.

  • You own everything. Code, design files, component library. You can hire someone, use your own team, or keep me on the monthly retainer. There is no lock-in either way.

    See what's included

  • Because you can see exactly who is doing the work. At an agency you meet the founder and get a junior. Here you get the person on the call. The risk is that I am one person with one calendar, which is why the slots are limited and why the date is guaranteed in writing.

    More about who does the work
Milan, who runs Midosu Studio
MilanFounder, Midosu Studio. The person on every call.

Start here

Tell me what you are building.

Eight short questions, one at a time. Most people are through it before their coffee gets cold.

  • About 2 minutes.
  • Nothing shared, nothing stored beyond my inbox.
  • A reply within one working day, or nothing at all.

Next start: next month. One project at a time.

Milan, who runs Midosu Studio

Milan. It is me asking, not a form.

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