Design
Guides
Long-form guides on product design, fractional models, and the decisions founders get wrong. The detail behind the short answers.
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- 01
How Founders Can Get Senior Product Design on a Startup Budget
How to access senior product design without the $200k overhead. A guide to the four engagement models and the stage where each one actually fits.
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Fractional Head of Design vs Full-Time Hire: What Early-Stage Startups Actually Need
A strategic guide for founders comparing fractional design leadership vs full-time hires, covering costs, equity, and product design for startups in 2026.
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How to Design a Startup MVP Without Wasting Months on the Wrong Features
A validation-first playbook for scoping a zero-to-one MVP: the 100 Euro test, the 3-Screen Rule, and parallel design-engineering to avoid the feature trap.
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