Guides

Notes from the work: onboarding, dashboards, AI features, Framer sites and hiring a designer, with the real numbers behind them.

AI code review UX that developers trust: Review comments developers read instead of resolve.
Checkout UX best practices: A checkout that explains itself, even in a demo.
Data table UX design: Tables people can scan in a few seconds.
How to define an activation metric: Pick the event that means value, past setup.
How to design a book-a-demo page and flow: From the demo button to a call on the calendar.
Design handoff to developers: The short list engineers need before they build.
Design system examples for startups: Borrow the parts a small team can keep up.
When a startup needs a design system: Start small: tokens, ten components, every state.
How to speed up design at a startup: Faster design by drawing less of it twice.
Designing alerts to avoid alert fatigue: Alerts developers act on instead of muting.
Designing AI features users trust: AI features people can check before they trust.
Designing AI summaries that help people decide: Summaries that help people decide, not skip.
Developer tools UX lessons from CodeAnt: Onboarding built for the org, not one user.
How to design live score pages: Live pages you can read in a glance, at any scale.
Developer tool website best practices, from building one: A site a developer can judge without a sales call.
Developer tool onboarding, benchmarked across 14 tools: Fourteen developer tools, read for steps and admin gates.
Do product tours work?: When a tour helps, and what to build instead.
How we doubled trial-to-paid at CodeAnt: Doubling trial-to-paid by fixing the admin wall.
Empty state design for SaaS products: What a blank screen should say, and where it should lead.
Error message UX best practices, with rewrites: Errors that tell people what to do next.
How to brand an event, from poster to stage: One identity, from the bus stop to the main stage.
How to judge a founding designer's portfolio: 20 examples: What to look for before you hire your first designer.
Framer review for startup websites: Where Framer earns its price, and where it doesn't.
Framer SEO guide for startup websites: Framer does the plumbing. Structure is still yours.
Framer vs Webflow for a SaaS marketing site: Pick the builder your team can keep shipping on.
How much a Framer website costs: The plan, the build, and the bills after launch.
Framer website examples for SaaS: Real Framer sites, and the feature each one uses well.
Freelance product designer cost in 2026, by region: Rates by region and seniority, with sources.
How to give feedback to a designer (a guide for founders): Name the problem. Let the designer find the fix.
Heuristic evaluation for SaaS products: Nielsen's ten heuristics, on real product screens.
What a founding designer is, and how to hire one: Hire your first designer when design blocks a number.
How to hire a freelance product designer: Scope, test and contract a designer in a fortnight.
How to get a logo for your startup: A logo that still works at 16 pixels.
How to measure UX in a SaaS product: Measure the behaviour the design was meant to change.
How much MVP design costs in 2026: What MVP design costs, line by line.
What to include in an MVP design: Cut the MVP by risk, not by feature list.
Payment failure UX for timeouts, declines and retries: Failed payments people can recover from.
The product design process for startups: A loop you can run in a week.
Product designer vs UX designer vs UI designer: Three design titles, and which one to hire first.
Prototyping with AI tools: Prototypes a stranger can use while you watch.
How to reduce time to value in SaaS: Find the waits in onboarding, then remove them.
How to reduce support tickets with UX: Fewer tickets, by fixing the moment it goes wrong.
SaaS product design examples, by screen state: The unglamorous screens that make a product work.
Conversion rate optimization for SaaS websites: Fix the message before you test the button.
SaaS dashboard design for managers and contributors: Dashboards that show each role where to act.
How to structure a SaaS landing page: One section for every doubt a cold visitor has.
SaaS onboarding examples and what each gets right: Seven real sign-up flows, read for what they get right.
SaaS pricing page design: Answer the bill question before sales has to.
SaaS signup flow best practices: Ask for less at the door, and ask for it later.
SaaS website design examples, and what to copy: Eleven SaaS sites, and the one thing each gets right.
SaaS website redesign cost and timeline: Scope a site rebuild so the quote holds.
Security dashboard design for engineering teams: Every finding gets an owner and a fix state.
Startup brand identity examples: Six identities, and the one move each gets right.
Brand identity for startups: A small brand kit you can ship now and keep using.
How much does branding cost for a startup?: What a brand budget buys, and what it shouldn't.
Team invite and admin approval flows for B2B products: Let the person with intent bring in the person with access.
How to audit UI inconsistency with a UI inventory: Count the button styles, then keep one.
How to run usability testing on a budget: A five-user test a founder can run this week.
How to do a UX audit, step by step: From scope to a ranked fix list, in six steps.
UX writing and microcopy for SaaS: Product words that remove tickets and unblock setup.
How to migrate a website without losing SEO: Rankings belong to URLs, so move them on purpose.
SaaS website redesign process, step by step: Rebuild the site without losing what already works.
Where to find a designer for your startup: The places founders hire designers, side by side.
Working with a product designer in India: Design from India for teams in any time zone.
What YC startup websites are built with in 2026: 231 YC homepages, checked one by one.