Mango, I want to be
your designer.
Fifteen years of SaaS and product design, mostly embedded with engineering-led teams. I design close to the medium, communicate in the language developers speak, and deliver work that actually ships.
SaaS UI,
end to end.
Flows, layouts, interaction details — iterated until they’re right, in close collaboration with the engineers building them. Four projects that show how I work.
Strong product, strong retention — but users were dropping before reaching the core value. Top of funnel was leaking.
Ran user interviews to find the drop-off. Rebuilt onboarding from scratch. Shipped a design system so every iteration after moved faster.
Paid trial starts up 250%. Team left with a repeatable process and a system they could extend without me.
Engineering-led founders with no design process. Strong vision, no execution path. Needed a product perspective embedded from day one.
Rebuilt the dashboard, built the design system, ran user interviews to validate the roadmap before a line of code was written.
41% ARR growth in 6 months. Founders built product instincts that outlasted the engagement. Company entered acquisition talks.
Successful consumer app expanding into B2B enterprise. Two very different user types. One product surface to serve them both.
Designed a workspace and permission layer on top of the existing product. Consolidated three design systems into one responsive system spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
2M+ total users. $1.2M enterprise ARR in year one. Three fragmented systems became one — the team shipped twice as fast after.
HR teams managing candidate pipelines in spreadsheets and email. The workflow was genuinely complex — the interface couldn’t be.
Designed end-to-end: campaign wizard, CRM view, smart search and filtering, live metrics dashboard. Iterated in the browser from rough to polished, in close collaboration with engineers.
A production SaaS interface HR teams can navigate without training. Shipped iteratively through tight cycles with direct engineer collaboration throughout.
What founders
and CTOs say.
“Joshua is one of the best designers and all-around teammates I’ve worked with.”
“Joshua is an async magician who managed to deeply understand our customers.”
“He understands the wants and needs of users and how to visually express them.”
“Josh was invaluable in helping us envision how our product could evolve.”
Taste, clarity,
and iteration.
The things Mango mentioned are the things I care most about.
Engineers are collaborators, not customers
I’ve shipped code. I know what “too complex to build” looks like before an engineer has to say it. I work alongside dev teams — not ahead of them — and my handoffs actually build.
Iterate, don’t reveal
I don’t disappear for two weeks. I share early, share rough, and get feedback before investing in polish. Small loops, fast cycles.
I think in systems
Every screen considers what comes before and after it. I’m not solving for the current state — I’m building patterns that hold up as the product scales.
Direct feedback is a feature
Tell me what’s wrong. I won’t take it personally. Candid, specific feedback is how good work gets made — the faster it comes, the better.
15 years of design.
No agency. Just me.
I’m Joshua Wold. I’ve spent 15 years doing product design across consumer apps, B2B SaaS, mobile, and e-commerce — almost always as the sole designer embedded inside an engineering-first team. That’s the environment I do my best work in, and it’s exactly what Mango is describing.
I’m not an agency. There’s no account manager between us. I move fast, speak developer, and I genuinely enjoy refining interfaces over long engagements rather than handing off and walking away. The work getting better with each iteration is the whole point.
I live in Post Falls, Idaho. I write novels, run trails, and spend probably too much time thinking about why some interfaces feel obvious and others don’t.
Ready when
you are.
Available for ongoing, part-time work. If there’s a fit, I’d love even a short conversation.
joshua@joshuawold.com