Bear LiuFractional Design Partnership
From US$4,000 / month
Senior product design judgement and hands-on support, without hiring full-time.
We work against agreed priorities, stay close to the team, and keep the most important product work moving forward.
No screen quotas or task-by-task scoping.
How do we get senior product design judgement and execution, week after week, without hiring full-time?
A Fractional Design Partnership gives you an experienced product designer inside the team, without adding a full-time role.
I stay close to product decisions, design the critical work, collaborate with engineering, and follow the product through implementation and release.
How the partnership runs
Questions answered where your team already works
Stay close to product decisions without adding another meeting.
Agree on what matters before work starts
Review priorities, constraints and trade-offs before design effort goes in.
See the thinking behind the work
A short async walkthrough of the week’s design, decisions and open questions.
Review the build, not only the mockups
Stay involved through implementation, QA and the details that affect the final experience.
I work across the product where senior judgement, product thinking and hands-on design will make the biggest difference.
Direction
- Product and UX direction
- Prioritisation
- Roadmap input
- Product decisions and trade-offs
Design
- Critical flows
- New features
- Product improvements
- Prototypes
- UX and UI systems
Shipping
- Developer collaboration
- Design QA
- Iteration and feedback
- Launch support
- Follow-through after release
One-month minimum
Enough time to understand the product, build context and make useful progress.
Regular product and design sessions
A consistent rhythm for priorities, reviews and key decisions.
Async by default
Slack, short walkthroughs and focused conversations keep momentum without a meeting-heavy process.
Priority-based scope
We agree on what matters most rather than buying a fixed number of screens.
Best for small product teams that need senior design depth
- You already have a product or MVP in market.
- Important product decisions keep landing on the founder or product lead.
- You need senior design judgement and hands-on execution.
- There isn’t enough need for a full-time senior designer yet.
- You want someone who can work directly with product and engineering.
From stalled MVP to App Store approved
Audit, onboarding and launch priorities
Clarified the first-run experience, removed low-value steps, and aligned the team around the critical path to launch.
Core flows and product structure
Reworked the dashboard and key actions so the product was easier to understand, use and build forward from.
UI system, conversion and release readiness
Established UI rules, refined key conversion flows, supported implementation and QA, and got the app through App Store review.
Reached an App Store-approved release state in roughly three months.
“Refreshing, because it’s been so much easier to work with you than the previous designers we had. Insightful: I’ve learned a lot from seeing how you work and how you present ideas. And efficient.”
From US$4,000 / month
Most partnerships begin after a Focused Product Audit or Critical Flow Sprint, so we already understand the product and the first priorities.
Start with a focused first month, then continue month to month if the partnership is useful.
Start with a Focused Product Audit. Continue within 14 days and the full US$900 audit fee is credited towards your first month of the Partnership.