Services

Fractional UX

Retainer-based Consulting

What you get

  • Seasoned UX leadership embedded in your team

  • Onboarding workshop with product team + stakeholders

  • Needs assessment: product, processes, gap analysis

  • Prioritized strategic roadmap

  • Ongoing design support: wireframes, prototypes, design system

  • Strategic planning, design reviews, team alignment

  • Design operations and process optimization

  • Workflows accelerated by AI

  • Mentoring of UX staff

What you don’t get

  • Costs and risks of bringing in an agency

  • Lengthy recruitment timelines

  • Complexities of hiring a full-time resource

Who it’s for

  • Startups & scale-ups

  • Agencies

  • Product teams needing UX leadership but aren’t ready to hire full-time

Retainer pricing

  • Starting at $5,000/mo.

  • Billed on a monthly retainer

  • Flexible weekly engagement
    (e.g. ~8-16 hrs/wk

  • Flexible scope of work

Ensuring a great user experience is how we make products people will love – products your customers can’t live without.


Patrick Kuntz
Founder, Artifact


Product Accelerators

Usability & WCAG Audit
Detailed usability & WCAG analysis of a product or section, plus a prioritized list of actionable recommendations
Starting at $3,600

Project-based Consulting

Rapid Prototype Sprint
Solve a tricky workflow or usability problem and test it fast; great for keeping dev moving forward or pitching a new feature to leadership
Starting at $6,000

Research Sprint
Rapid user interviews and synthesis to unblock key decisions
Starting at $9,000

UX Process Level-Up
Team assessment and strategy sessions to improve your team’s UX effectiveness
Starting at $12,000

Design System
Develop or evolve a design system and component library to accelerate both design and dev teams
Starting at $20,000

Who it’s for

  • Teams needing one or more specific deliverables

  • Timeline-driven initiatives

  • Specific outcome-based requirements

Hourly pricing

  • Starting at $180/hr

Book a free 30-minute Discovery call.

Let's explore whether fractional UX leadership makes sense for your product team.