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Dedicated UX designer for your product.

Overview

A senior UX designer embedded in your product, without the classic recruitment timeline.

A dedicated UX designer is a senior product designer embedded full time in your team: your rituals, your roadmap, your sector. They run user research, structure journeys, build prototypes and maintain your design system, with the continuity a freelancer juggling four clients cannot give you.

Target

For PME suisses and growing commercial companies with a live product and roadmap but no senior design owner. Ideal when design questions block developers, when a previous freelancer broke continuity, or when a full in-house hire is too slow or too heavy for where you are now.

Details

Your product needs design, not just pretty screens. User research, journey structure, prototyping, iterations, design system. All of that takes time and continuity.

We match you with a senior dedicated UX designer. Embedded in your product team, your rituals, your roadmap. Picked for your sector and your product type. Not a freelancer juggling four clients.

Why your product needs a dedicated UX designer, not just screens

Most products do not fail because the visuals are wrong. They fail because the flows were never structured, the research was skipped and every screen was decided in isolation. A dedicated UX designer fixes the cause, not the symptom.

Hiring takes months in Suisse romande, and a freelancer rotating across four clients rarely builds the context your product demands. You lose momentum, and your roadmap stalls while design questions pile up.

MAWT places a senior dedicated UX designer inside your team so design becomes continuous, owned and aligned with your business goals from the first week.

  • Structured user journeys instead of one-off screen decisions.
  • Real user research feeding the roadmap, not assumptions.
  • One owner who keeps design coherent across releases.
  • No recruitment delay, no four-client freelancer split.

How our dedicated UX designer process works

We match you with a senior human picked for your sector and product type, then embed them in your existing rituals. The work is continuous and extractable, so progress is visible every sprint.

Our process is built for Swiss SMBs and growing commercial companies that need design depth without building a full in-house team.

  • 1. Discovery: we map your product, users and current pain points.
  • 2. Matching: we assign a senior dedicated UX designer aligned to your sector.
  • 3. Onboarding: they join your roadmap, standups and tooling.
  • 4. Research: interviews, journey mapping and usability testing.
  • 5. Design: wireframes, interactive prototypes and iteration.
  • 6. System: a design system built when your product is ready for one.
  • 7. Continuity: the same designer evolves the product over the long term.

What a dedicated UX designer delivers for your team

A dedicated UX designer is a senior product designer who works exclusively on your product as an extension of your team, with no intermediaries and no layers between you and the person doing the work. They own the full design cycle: discovery interviews, user research, information architecture, journey mapping, wireframes, interactive prototypes, usability testing and the design system that keeps everything consistent. Because they are embedded in your rituals and roadmap rather than splitting attention across several clients, they accumulate deep product context that compounds release after release. That continuity is the difference between scattered screens and a coherent product experience. For Swiss SMBs and growing companies, it means design moves at the speed of the business, with one accountable senior human translating user needs into decisions your developers can build. You get the design maturity of an in-house lead without the recruitment timeline or the fixed overhead of a permanent hire.

Benefits come before features here: faster shipping, fewer reworks and a product users actually understand.

  • A coherent experience across every screen and release.
  • Validated decisions grounded in real user evidence.
  • Faster handoff to developers, fewer costly reworks.
  • A design system that scales as your product grows.

Who a dedicated UX designer is right for

This service fits PME suisses and growing commercial companies that have a real product and a roadmap, but no senior design owner. If design questions keep blocking your developers, you are the right fit.

It pairs well with a dedicated developer or a fractional tech lead when you need design and build to move as one unit.

  • growing companies shipping fast but accumulating UX debt.
  • SMBs with a product team but no senior designer.
  • Teams that tried freelancers and lost continuity.
  • Founders who need design owned, not outsourced ad hoc.
What it includes
  • Senior profiles only
  • User research, journeys, prototyping
  • Design system when relevant
  • Embedded in product team
  • Long term continuity
Deliverables
  • A senior dedicated UX designer embedded in your product team.
  • User research, interviews and journey mapping that guide the roadmap.
  • Wireframes and interactive prototypes ready for developer handoff.
  • A design system built when your product is ready to scale.
  • Long term continuity with one accountable senior human.
Comparison

Dedicated UX designer vs freelancer vs in-house hire

CriteriaDedicated UX designer (MAWT)Freelancer / in-house hire
Time to startDays, no recruitment cycleWeeks of search, or months to hire
ContinuitySame senior human, long termRotation, or single fixed salary risk
Product contextDeep, embedded in your ritualsShallow, split across clients
SenioritySenior profiles onlyVariable, hard to vet
ScopeFull cycle plus design systemOften screens only
CommitmentFlexible, scales with roadmapFixed overhead or short engagement
Takeaways
  • A dedicated UX designer is a senior human embedded full time in your product, not a freelancer split across clients.

  • They own the full cycle: research, journeys, prototyping and the design system.

  • Starts in days, with no recruitment delay and no fixed permanent overhead.

  • Built for PME suisses and growing commercial companies that need design depth fast.

  • Continuity is the value: deep product context that compounds every release.

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Frequent questions

What is the difference between a dedicated UX designer and a freelancer?

A freelancer typically juggles several clients and delivers isolated screens. A dedicated UX designer works exclusively on your product, embedded in your rituals and roadmap. That continuity builds deep product context and keeps the experience coherent across every release.

How fast can a dedicated UX designer start?

Within days, not the weeks of freelance search or the months of a permanent hire. We match you with a senior human picked for your sector, then onboard them into your standups, tooling and roadmap so useful design work begins almost immediately.

How is a dedicated UX designer priced?

Pricing follows commitment and scope rather than a fixed salary. You scale the engagement with your roadmap, from focused part time involvement to full embedding, without the overhead of a permanent hire. We agree the scope together before starting.

Is a dedicated UX designer right for a small team?

Yes. Equipe a taille humaine teams benefit most, because one senior owner removes the design bottleneck without forcing you to build a full design function. You get in-house level maturity sized to where your product actually is today.

Does the designer build a full design system?

When your product is ready for one. Early on, the priority is research, journeys and prototyping. As the product scales, your dedicated UX designer builds the design system so components, patterns and decisions stay consistent across the whole experience.
Next steps

Ready to embed a senior dedicated UX designer in your product?