Hire UX designers who think like product owners
Hire dedicated UX designers from a staffing partner that has spent two decades shipping software where design actually carried the product. We place senior researchers, UI designers, interaction designers, and design systems specialists in the Philippines for SaaS, fintech, and enterprise teams. Every designer on the bench is pre-vetted, full-time, and ready to start in as little as 7 days.
UX design teams trusted by enterprises, scale-ups, and Fortune 500s
Previously founded VinSolutions ($150M+ exit) and Stackify
I have hired UX designers and watched them carry the product
I am not a designer. I am a CTO and a founder who has hired and worked alongside dozens of UX designers across four companies, and I have watched what separates a designer who ships product from one who only ships mockups. At VinSolutions, our UX was the reason auto dealers picked us over more established competitors. At Stackify, our designers had to make sense of dense, technical telemetry for engineers who would not tolerate a clumsy interface. Both experiences taught me that hiring UX is harder than hiring engineers because the bar is harder to test for.
AI is changing what that bar looks like in 2026. It has never been easier to spin up a pretty good interface from a prompt. The catch is that the output of those tools looks like every other Tailwind or Material app on the internet. If you want a generic product, that works. If you want a product that is genuinely easy to use, well thought out, and looks different from the vanilla competitors, you still need a real UX designer doing the judgment work. It is the same reason I hired an interior designer when I remodeled my house. I could have made every decision myself based on what I thought looked good. I wanted the expertise of someone who had worked with dozens of other clients and had seen what works and what does not. A senior UX designer does the same thing for your product, and they also keep you from making mistakes you would only see months later.
Today Full Scale staffs senior UX designers in the Philippines for SaaS, fintech, and enterprise product teams. Our designers are trained on the Product Driven framework from my book, they run real user research, they ship design systems, and they work directly with your engineers rather than throwing files over a wall. If you are serious about hiring offshore UX designers who can actually own the product, you are in the right place.
AI ships vanilla UX, real designers ship the difference
AI is reshaping every part of software development, and UX is no exception. It has never been easier to spin up a passable interface from a prompt. If you want a generic product that looks like every other Tailwind or Material app on the internet, that is a fine option. It is also what your competitors are shipping.
If you want a product that is actually easy to use, well thought out, and looks different from the vanilla competitors, you still need a senior UX designer. That is the work AI cannot do for you, and it is what we hire and train for at Full Scale.
AI ships the vanilla. Designers ship the difference.
AI design tools can produce a passable interface in minutes. The output looks like every other Tailwind or Material app on the internet, because that is what the models were trained on. If your competitive position is built on a product that looks different and feels easier to use than the vanilla alternatives, you still need a senior UX designer doing the actual judgment work. AI is a force multiplier on the parts where taste does not matter, and a wall the moment it does.
Product Driven design
Our designers are trained on the five pillars from Matt's book: Vision, Focus, Clarity, Ownership, and Courage. The result is UX designers who push back on bad product decisions, ask whether a feature should exist before designing it, and own the outcome of what ships. They are not pixel-pushers waiting for a brief, and they are not a generator that hands you whatever looks good in the first pass.
Read Product Driven, the bookA good UX designer is the same reason I hired an interior designer when I remodeled my house. I could have made every decision myself based on what I thought looked good. But I wanted the judgment of someone who has worked with dozens of other clients and has seen what holds up and what does not. A senior UX designer does the same thing for your product. Their job is also to keep you from making mistakes you will only see months later.
Dedicated UX designers, starting at $35 an hour
That rate covers a senior UX designer in the Philippines working full-time on your product, with payroll, benefits, HR, and equipment all handled by Full Scale. The same role hired locally in the US costs $130K to $180K a year, and that math is what drives most of our clients to call.
- Full-time, dedicated UX designer
- Pre-vetted by senior product designers
- Works your hours, your tools, your Figma org
- Payroll, HR, equipment, benefits handled by us
- US-based account manager you can escalate to
- Two-week money-back guarantee if it isn't a fit
Full Scale has made the Inc. 5000 five years in a row and is Great Place to Work certified. We have been doing this since 2018, and pricing isn't the only reason clients stay with our UX design company, it's the easiest reason to call.
The reason offshore UX works here
You can also hire dedicated developers in the Philippines across every stack we staff, alongside design, with the same vetting bar, retention numbers, and engagement model.
English-fluent by default
The Philippines is the third-largest English-speaking country in the world. User interviews, stakeholder reviews, and design critiques work the way they do with any US team member.
Real time-zone overlap
Most of our UX designers shift their hours toward the US business day, giving 3-4 hours of real-time overlap with East and West Coast teams, so design reviews and stakeholder feedback happen live during shared hours rather than crawling through 24-hour async handoffs.
Deep design talent pool
Cebu and Manila produce thousands of design and HCI graduates a year. The Philippines has a long tradition of visual craft and digital product work, which means deep, ready talent across UX, UI, and product design.
Cultural alignment with US teams
Filipino designers grow up on US business norms, US product UX, and US tech culture, so design crits, direct feedback, and collaborative workflows feel familiar from day one. These teams integrate fast rather than needing constant management.
Pushing pixels is not the same as designing product
Anyone who can open Figma can deliver mockups. Building a product experience that holds up in front of real users requires a different bench entirely. When you outsource UX design or hire offshore UX designers, this is the gap that decides whether the project ships something users actually want. Here is what we test for, and what most offshore design shops skip.
Real research, not just persona templates
Junior designers download a persona template and call it research. Senior UX designers run actual user interviews, synthesize transcripts, and defend findings to product and engineering. We hire for designers who have shipped research that changed a roadmap.
Design systems, not one-off screens
We test for designers who can build and maintain a Figma component library, define design tokens, write usage docs, and review contributions from other designers. Most offshore UX shops ship pretty screens that fall apart the moment a second designer touches the file.
Interaction design beyond static mockups
Real UX work covers state machines, empty states, error states, loading patterns, transitions, and edge cases your PM forgot to spec. We test for designers who think in flows, not screens, and who can prototype interactions in Figma or with code-adjacent tools.
Accessibility done right
Designers on our bench understand WCAG 2.2, color contrast, keyboard navigation, screen reader semantics, and the difference between accessible-by-default and accessibility as an afterthought. Most offshore designers cannot tell you the AA contrast ratio without Googling it.
UI craft on top of UX rigor
A senior UX designer should be able to ship polished visual design, not hand a wireframe to a separate UI team. We test for typographic taste, layout judgment, brand sensitivity, and the ability to produce production-grade designs without three rounds of cleanup.
Product judgment, not order-taking
The best UX designers push back when a feature should not exist, when a flow is solving the wrong problem, or when the requested screen is going to confuse users. We hire for designers who can hold a position in a room full of engineers and PMs, not just execute what's handed to them.
Hire dedicated UX designers for the work that actually matters
Most UX hiring conversations skip past the actual project. What kind of design work do you need done? Greenfield product discovery, a redesign of a stale SaaS app, a design system from scratch, or research that finally tells you whether the next feature is worth building? As a UX design company that bills for hours rather than fixed-bid projects, our designers ship across all of it. Here are the UX design services we get hired for most often.
User research and discovery
User research means real interviews, contextual inquiry, surveys with statistical rigor, and synthesis that produces insights your team can actually act on. We run discovery work that informs the roadmap rather than rubber-stamping it. Findings come with verbatim quotes, behavioral patterns, and prioritized opportunities.
UX and UI design
End-to-end product design from low-fi wireframes through high-fidelity, production-ready UI. Our designers handle information architecture, interaction design, and visual design on a single brief instead of splitting across three specialists. Expect designs that engineers can build without a redesign cycle.
Prototyping and usability testing
Interactive prototypes in Figma, Framer, or code-adjacent tools that real users can actually try. Pair that with moderated and unmoderated usability testing on Maze, Lookback, or UserTesting, and you get evidence-based design decisions instead of opinions.
Design systems and component libraries
Production-grade design systems with token architecture, Figma component libraries, usage documentation, and contribution workflows. Our designers have built and shipped systems that scale across thirty product surfaces and keep working when the org grows.
Mobile and responsive UX
Native iOS, Android, and responsive web UX on the same bench. Designers who understand platform conventions (HIG, Material), gesture patterns, and how to design for thumb zones, notch hardware, and split-screen layouts. Mobile UX is not a desktop design squeezed into 375px.
Redesigns and design audits
Heuristic audits, accessibility audits, and full product redesigns for SaaS, fintech, and enterprise tools that have outgrown their original UX. We diagnose the gap between current state and what your users actually need, then ship the redesign in phases that engineering can actually execute.
Eight UX specializations, one staffing partner
Most product teams need more than one role. Hire dedicated product designers, senior UX researchers, design systems specialists, and mobile UX designers from a single vetted bench. Mix and match seniorities as the project requires.
Product Designers
End-to-end product designers handle research, IA, interaction, and high-fidelity UI on a single brief. They ship from a blank Figma file through engineering handoff without a relay race.
UX Researchers
Dedicated researchers run interviews, surveys, diary studies, and usability tests. They synthesize findings into something product and engineering can actually use, not a 70-slide deck that no one reads.
UI Designers
Visual specialists with typographic taste, layout judgment, and the craft to ship production-ready UI. They work fluently in Figma, with auto-layout, variables, and component variants as a baseline.
Interaction Designers
Specialists in motion, state, and flow. They prototype transitions, define micro-interactions, and design the empty states, error states, and edge cases your PM forgot to spec.
Design Systems Designers
Engineers in pixels. They build token architectures, Figma component libraries, contribution workflows, and the usage docs that keep a system from rotting after the original designer leaves.
Mobile UX Designers
Native iOS and Android specialists who understand HIG, Material 3, gesture patterns, and platform conventions. They design for thumb zones, hardware notches, and split-screen layouts rather than retrofitting desktop.
UX Writers and Content Designers
Microcopy, error messages, empty-state language, and onboarding flows. UX writers on our bench partner with designers and engineers, not marketing, and they treat copy as part of the interface.
Design Ops and Product Analysts
The people who keep the design org running: tool admin, workflow templates, design QA, and the analytics work that closes the loop between launch and the next iteration.
UX expertise tuned to your industry
As a UX design company that has been around for over a decade, we have placed dedicated UX designers into nearly every industry that ships software. Domain knowledge cuts onboarding time in half, so we match designers to projects where they have already shipped real product.
SaaS & Scale-ups
B2B SaaS UX is our home turf. Designers on our bench have shipped onboarding flows, admin consoles, settings hierarchies, and dashboards for multi-tenant platforms at every scale from seed-stage to public companies. They understand role-based UX, in-app billing patterns, and what enterprise buyers expect to see in a demo.
From Figma component libraries to full research programs
Whether you want to hire UX researchers for a discovery program, hire product designers for a greenfield SaaS build, or outsource UX design on a legacy app redesign, the bench covers every layer of the design stack. Pick what you need. We will match a UX designer fluent in it.
Hire dedicated UX designers, two ways
Most clients start with a single dedicated UX designer and grow into a full design team. Either way, you get full-time designers who sit on your standups, work your hours, and ship product against your roadmap. Both options are staff augmentation at the core: dedicated, long-term designers embedded in your team rather than freelancers, shared resources, or a project shop on the side.
Dedicated designer
Full-time, exclusive, sits on your standups.
- Full-time UX designer assigned only to your project
- Works your hours, your tools, your Figma org
- Joins your standups, reports to your product lead
- We handle payroll, HR, equipment, retention
- Two-week money-back guarantee
Dedicated design team
Multiple designers, embedded as a pod.
- 2-10 UX designers staffed together as one pod
- Optional research, UI, and design ops included
- Operates as a design team inside your product org
- Scale up or down by a head with 30 days notice
- Account manager you can escalate to in the US
How to hire a dedicated UX designer from Full Scale
We skip the 3-6 week recruitment cycle and the cold sourcing entirely. Our bench of senior UX designers in the Philippines is already built and vetted (see how we hire), and every step below has a named owner on our side.
Discovery call
30 minutes with our team. We learn your product, your roadmap, the seniority level you need, and whether you want a researcher, product designer, or design systems specialist. We don't pitch on the call, we walk through what you actually need from a hire.
Designer match
We pull 1-3 pre-vetted UX designers from the bench whose portfolio, seniority, and prior product experience line up with what you described. You see their full case studies and their actual project history.
Portfolio review and interview
You interview the candidates the way you would interview any senior hire: portfolio walkthrough, design exercise, system design conversation, and a critique of one of their past projects. Pass anyone you don't believe in.
Contract & onboarding
Sign once. We handle every contract, payroll, equipment, and HR detail in the Philippines so you don't have an offshore entity to manage. You just get a designer.
First file shipped
Your designer joins your standups, gets access to your Figma org, and ships their first design in week one. Our delivery managers stay involved to make sure ramp-up doesn't stall.
Full Scale vs the other ways to hire a UX designer
Every hiring path has trade-offs. Here is how a dedicated UX designer from our UX design company compares against the alternatives most teams consider first when they want to hire UX designers.
| Feature | Full Scale | Freelancer / Dribbble | Design agency | US recruiter / FTE hire |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-vetted senior UX bench | ||||
| Time to first hire | 7 days | 1-3 days | 2-4 weeks | 6-12 weeks |
| Dedicated full-time, not shared | ||||
| Founder-led product oversight | ||||
| Sits on your standups, your tools | ||||
| Long-term retention | 93%+ | low | varies | varies |
| Two-week money-back guarantee | ||||
| Handles payroll, HR, equipment | ||||
| US-based account management | n/a | |||
| Typical fully-loaded cost vs US | ~40-50% | varies | ~70-90% | 100% |
When offshore UX is the wrong call
Most pages like this would tell you offshore UX is always the right move. It is not. Below are the cases where we have either passed on a project ourselves or told the client they should not hire dedicated designers from anyone, us included. If any of these match what you are doing, we will say so on the discovery call rather than sign you up and hope it works out.
You don't have a real roadmap yet
Very early stage exploration where the product changes weekly is the wrong fit for a dedicated UX designer. What you need is a co-founder, a freelance generalist, or a designer-in-residence who can absorb the thrash. A long-term hire needs accumulated product context to be productive, and that context is exactly what you do not have yet.
Your work is genuinely on-soil regulated
Certain DoD contracts, ITAR-covered systems, and a narrow slice of regulated workloads require US persons on US soil. If your design work touches classified UI or PII flows in those domains, we will tell you on the call, not after the contract.
The scope is fixed and short
Think a one-time landing-page redesign, a four-week brand refresh, or a single onboarding flow that ends on a known date. Hire a freelancer or a specialist agency for those. Dedicated UX designers earn their value over months and years, and a short fixed-scope job rarely runs long enough to pay back the ramp-up.
You can't actually fill a designer's time
If you only have 10 hours of well-defined design work a week, a dedicated full-time UX designer will end up idle or pulled into work you didn't budget for. That ends badly for both sides. Part-time engagements and fractional design hires exist for this reason, and we are not them.
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