Niek Design Group® / SaaS Product Design

SaaS Product Design
for startups ready to scale

A partner who understands your product well enough to help you build it better.

Seed to Series A × Growth × Fundraising

Product design · UX · Systems

Niek Design Group Designs Apps For

Seed to Series A Startups

You have a product and early users, but design is not keeping up with your roadmap. You need consistent support without the overhead of a full internal hire.

Growth Stage Teams

Your product is scaling, but the experience has not kept pace. Onboarding is patchy, the UI is inconsistent, and the team knows something needs to change.

Founders Preparing to Raise

Your next funding round requires a product that reflects where the company is headed, not where it started.

Teams Without a Design Lead

You have engineers and a roadmap but no one owning product thinking and UX direction. We fill that gap.

How we work as a product design partner

The data makes the case for better SaaS and app design.

More than design execution. We work as an embedded product design partner for SaaS teams, not a vendor delivering files. We learn your product, your users, and your goals, and we stay involved as both evolve. That ongoing context is what separates a design partner from a design service.

If it feels unclear, outdated, or rushed, it quietly works against you… even if everything else you do is solid.

Fix the onboarding experience before it costs you users

90%

of users churn if they do not understand a product's value within the first week of signing up.

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Reduce drop-off with clearer user flows

40–60%

of users drop off after signup due to poor onboarding experiences.

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74%

of potential customers will switch to a competitor if the onboarding process is too complicated.

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Design systems that keep users engaged long term

50%

improvement in retention rates with an effective onboarding experience.

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Turn new users into paying customers faster

more likely to become paying customers when users complete an onboarding checklist.

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What we deliver

Five things we can deliver to your team

Every engagement is scoped around what your product actually needs and structured around your roadmap, not ours.

Product Strategy

Aligning design decisions with business goals before a screen is touched.

User Flows

Structuring the core journeys your users take through the product for clarity and efficiency.

UI Design & Prototyping

Interfaces that are intuitive, consistent, and built to perform across your core workflows.

Design Systems

A shared visual language your team can build inside without breaking consistency every time something new ships.

Developer Ready

Handoff documentation that reduces back and forth and speeds up implementation.

Our capabilities

Strategy

  • Product auditing
  • User research
  • Proof of concept
  • Minimum viable product
  • Conversion rate optimisation
  • Product management
  • Project management

Design

  • User experience strategy
  • User experience design
  • User interface design
  • Design systems

Development

  • React
  • NextJS
  • React Native
  • Swift

03 / Partnership Process

Stay close to the work

How ROI shows up in our process.

01 — BUSINESS

Understand the business first

We define the goal, understand the people the product needs to serve, and determine what has to be true for the work to be worth building.

02 — DESIGN

Design and engineering move together

Ideas are shaped around both the experience they need to create and the realities of what it takes to ship them.

03 — CONTEXT

Context stays with the product

There is no point where the design gets handed off and the thinking behind it disappears. Staying this close to the work requires focus.

Not sure where to start?

Start with a UX audit

If your product has usability issues, onboarding drop-off, or conversion problems you have not been able to diagnose, a UX audit is the right first step before committing to an ongoing engagement. It gives you a clear picture of what is actually wrong and the most efficient path to fixing it.

Explore the UX audit
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Let's build a product
that scales

Your product experience should support growth, not slow it down. If you are ready to work with a team that treats design as a strategic function rather than an execution layer, start here.

Typical response time: 2 to 8 business hours