Design Engineering forAI-native product teams
Your engineering already moves at AI speed. Design Engineering keeps design moving with it: a designer who understands the technology well enough to direct AI agents, build working prototypes, and make product decisions next to your developers.
What Design Engineering covers
Design that lives close to the product: prototypes, systems, and interfaces built with the same tools and constraints as engineering.
- Claude, Codex and Cursor workflows
- Context and prompt design
- Working prototypes
- Direct design-to-code handoff
- Component libraries
- Design tokens
- Dashboards and admin tools
- Complex workflows
- Agent and chat interfaces
- Model output and error states
- 50–100% allocation
- Monthly agreement
How we bring a Design Engineer into a team
A short path from identifying the bottleneck to having a Design Engineer in your everyday work.
Bottleneck assessment
We look at where design slows product development down compared with the pace your engineering already runs at.
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Matching the Design Engineer
We propose a person from our curated network based on capability, technical fluency, and fit with your team.
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Working inside the team
The Design Engineer joins your everyday work: design, prototypes, and product decisions move at the same cadence as engineering.
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Scaling or hiring
The allocation is adjusted as your situation changes. If the person becomes permanent capability, you can hire them.
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Tuomas Kaartoluoma
Co-founder & Design Engineer
“The best product decisions come from someone who understands what the technology can actually do. That is what Design Engineering is about.”
Why teams choose Design Engineering
Design Engineering is our specialty. It exists because product development changed and design had to change with it.
Design at engineering pace
Design stops being the step that everything else waits for.
Technical fluency
A designer who understands the stack makes fewer unrealistic decisions and creates less rework.
Curated network
Every Design Engineer is vetted for capability, AI fluency, and team fit before we propose them.
Option to hire
If the person becomes a permanent part of your capability, you can hire them onto your own payroll.
Design Engineering in practice
Examples of work where design happened close to the product and the implementation, not at a distance from it.
Trusted by leading companies
We work with product teams building business-critical digital products.
Design Engineering FAQ
Common questions about Design Engineering and how a Design Engineer works with a product team.
Let's schedulea quick chat
Let's see together where your product is and what kind of design support it needs. No sales pitch, no commitments – just an honest assessment of whether this model makes sense for you.
Mikki Aalto-Ylevä
30 min • Free consultation
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