DevMarDe or an in-house team for design?
Hire in-house when the product is your core business and you can fill three roles. Use DevMarDe to ship before that team exists, or alongside it for the disciplines you have not hired.
- 3
- directions on real screens
- 2
- themes shipped by default
- 1
- design system, this site
Side by side
The case for an in-house team
The case for DevMarDe
Full-time attention and product knowledge
Start in two weeks instead of a three-month hiring cycle
Institutional memory
All three disciplines from day one
Right when the work is your core business
Scale up and down monthly
We build to hand over, so hiring later is easier, not harder
What design includes with us
- Brand guide with logo, type, colour and usage rules
- Figma library with tokens and components
- Exported tokens (CSS, Tailwind, JSON)
- Templates for the ten most common screens
- Written handover guide
Engagement terms
- Brand sprint. 3 weeks, fixed price
- Design system. 4 to 6 weeks
- Ongoing. Optional monthly retainer
100
Lighthouse performance on this site. Same for SEO, accessibility and best practices
5
products of our own in production
3
practices, each with a named lead
1 day
reply time on every enquiry
4.9
from 9 reviews
Questions people ask
- Do you do logos only?
- Rarely. A mark without a system drifts within months. The brand sprint produces the mark and the rules together.
- Can you work inside our existing design system?
- Yes. The audit step tells you what to keep. We extend rather than replace where that is honest.
- Do you build what you design?
- Usually. Development is one of our three pillars, so the same team ships it.