# Hire a UI / UX Designer | $15–35/hr

> Hire a dedicated UI / UX designer for $15–35 per hour. Research-led product design, prototypes, and launch-ready interfaces from a vetted Sentient Arc designer.

Sentient Arc offers dedicated UI / UX designers at $15–35 per hour, depending on project and seniority. Research, prototyping, and launch-ready interface design, starting with a free consultation.

## Rate & engagement
- **Rate:** $15–35/hr
- **Engagement:** Part-time or full-time
- **Start:** Within 1 week
- **Overlap:** 4+ hrs your timezone

## Pretty is not the same as usable
Products rarely fail because the visuals were weak. They fail because the flow asked too much, the empty states explained nothing, and the one action that mattered was three taps too deep.

Design detached from engineering fails differently: beautiful mockups that cannot survive real data, real breakpoints, or a real sprint budget. Both failures are expensive after launch and cheap before it.

## Evidence in, interfaces out
Design decisions start with research: user interviews, usability tests, and journey mapping sized to the question at hand, so opinions lose arguments to evidence early and cheaply.

Output is engineered for handoff: design systems with tokens, high-fidelity prototypes, motion specs, and a designer who stays through implementation review instead of disappearing at export.

## What they own
- **User research & testing**: Interviews, usability tests, and journey maps that replace design-by-opinion with evidence.
- **Product & interface design**: Flows, high-fidelity screens, and design systems that hold up across states and breakpoints.
- **Prototyping & motion**: Interactive prototypes and motion studies in Figma, Framer, and Rive that answer before code.
- **Engineering handoff**: Tokens, specs, and implementation review, so what ships matches what was designed.

## Stack
- **Research:** User research, Usability testing, Journey mapping
- **Design:** Figma, Design systems, Prototyping, Motion studies
- **Handoff:** Framer, Webflow, Rive, Dev-ready specs

## FAQ
**How much does it cost to hire a UI / UX designer?**

A dedicated UI / UX designer costs $15–35 per hour, depending on seniority and scope. A free consultation reviews your product before you commit to anything.

**Do you redesign existing products or only design new ones?**

Both. Redesigns start with a usability audit of the current product, so the work targets the flows that are actually losing users instead of repainting everything.

**How do designs get to my developers?**

As design systems with tokens, annotated specs, and interactive prototypes. Implementation review is part of the engagement, so the build is checked against the design before release.

**Can the designer work inside our existing brand?**

Yes. Most engagements extend an existing brand into a coherent product interface; where no system exists, the designer builds one as part of the work.

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