“They combined original ideas with a strong work ethic and consistently high standards.”
Dmytro Babat, Director
PlusOne Moving
[Dedicated design team]
Hire design engineers
Scale product and digital design with a team that can take ideas all the way to production.
Your team is strong but overloaded
Your roadmap grew faster than your design team could keep up. Now the product is waiting on screens, marketing needs a launch page, sales needs a deck, engineering needs the next feature designed, and another “small” request has just landed in Slack. Your options:
Hire another designer
Hiring makes sense when you need permanent design capacity. And a designer still needs engineering to ship a prototype.
Bring in freelancers
Freelancers can start quickly, but you still need to give them context and direction. They require oversight and coordination.
Send projects to an agency
An agency works well when you have a clearly defined project, but it can be harder to work with when priorities shift from sprint to sprint.
Design Embed is more design shipped. Without adding more headcount
Habitat plugs into your team and takes ownership of work from problem to production. Our design engineers can prototype, design, build, and ship, so work doesn’t stop at a Figma file or wait for another team to pick it up.
First delivery in under 2 weeks
We turn requests into shipped design quickly, so you don’t have to wait weeks for a designer to get up to speed.
AI-accelerated workflow
We use AI to speed up research and iteration, while senior designers stay responsible for quality.
Figma and code editor, equally comfortable
We can prototype, build, and ship the experience, rather than handing designs over to engineering.
This is not an agency retainer
Habitat designers work alongside your product, marketing, and engineering teams, just like your internal designers.
Your tools
We work in the tools your team already uses, from Slack and Figma to Linear, Jira, and Notion.
Your workflow
We work around your roadmap, sprint priorities, and deadlines, so the design support can change as your priorities do instead of following a fixed project scope.
Your team
You work with dedicated senior designers who build deep context around your product instead of rotating between projects and requests.
Your decisions
Your team owns the decisions. We add the design capacity to help you move them forward faster.
What our teams have shipped
- Lucend · AI / data centers · Launch StackComing soonA prototype helped turn an early idea into three clients and, eventually, $3.3M in funding.
- Baselane · Fintech · Design systemComing soonThe team spent four months building a design system with us, then used it to complete a full rebrand in four hours.
- Bagel AI · AI SaaS · Website & brandWe helped the startup launch a website in 1.5 months, as it prepared for a $5.5M seed round.
Who you’re embedding
Senior design engineer
Every embed is a guaranteed senior designer, and it’s the same one throughout.
Specialized in AI-native products
Our designers build AI products, so they already know the patterns these products need.
AI-accelerated
Work gets done in days because our process is built around AI from ideation through handoff.
Deployment-mature
Our design engineers take the work from design to deployment. They move from Figma into Claude Code or Storybook, ship live sites in Framer and Webflow, and connect design systems to your codebase.
How it works
- 01
Capacity call
Bring us your roadmap and let’s discuss where design is slowing you down and what kind of design capacity you need (product, marketing, design systems, or a mix).
- 02
Embed
We join your existing workflow, working in your Figma, Slack, and design system. You get more design capacity without having to manage a separate agency process.
- 03
Set priorities
You decide what matters most. We can work on a new feature this sprint, a landing page next week, and your design system after the launch. The design capacity stays with you while the priorities can change.
- 04
Ship
Work moves ahead with async communication and status calls whenever you need them. Our account manager is your point of contact for any question.
- 05
Ramp up or down
Adjust the team as your needs change. Ramp up for launches and new initiatives, or scale down when the workload does, without hiring or letting people go.
From the teams that worked with us
52 reviews“They combined original ideas with a strong work ethic and consistently high standards.”
Dmytro Babat, Director
PlusOne Moving
“We are extremely lucky to have worked with them and would highly recommend them to anybody.”
Thorben Scheidegger, Co-Founder
FinTech Company
“Their designs connected perfectly with what we wanted, and the collaboration was very pleasant.”
Lucas Bonavita, Product Manager
Quicargo
“We’re getting everything we want and more.”
Seif Salama, Senior Product Marketing Manager
AngelList Venture
“They really care about the client’s needs.”
Peng Cheng, Founder & CEO
PauseAble
“Habitat Creative Company was smooth and had good deliverables compared to other agencies. They took feedback early and ensured the designs were translatable to actual development work.”
Kara Amantoy, Co-Founder & COO
Pickle
“The team was a great group of communicators and clear thinkers who were capable of empathy.”
Aboudy El Farkh, Founder
Aura Labs
“The team is dedicated to the project and focused on their client’s success.”
Greg Short, Co-Founder
Feeds Inc.
“They delivered the project on time and made sure my needs were fully satisfied.”
Tzur Rupin, CMO
Dots
“We saw a 340% increase in website traffic, 2.7x more time on site, and a 38% drop in bounce rate.”
Idan Benishu, Co-Founder & CEO
Bagel AI
“The designs they built were extremely tasteful and contemporary. They were fast in their work and communication.”
Jesse Johnson, Founder & Director
STORE 5a
“Habitat had a multi-step process for delivering business value but were flexible and considerate of our timelines.”
Mike Faber, CEO
Vendo
“They combined original ideas with a strong work ethic and consistently high standards.”
Dmytro Babat, Director
PlusOne Moving
“We are extremely lucky to have worked with them and would highly recommend them to anybody.”
Thorben Scheidegger, Co-Founder
FinTech Company
“Their designs connected perfectly with what we wanted, and the collaboration was very pleasant.”
Lucas Bonavita, Product Manager
Quicargo
“We’re getting everything we want and more.”
Seif Salama, Senior Product Marketing Manager
AngelList Venture
“They really care about the client’s needs.”
Peng Cheng, Founder & CEO
PauseAble
“Habitat Creative Company was smooth and had good deliverables compared to other agencies. They took feedback early and ensured the designs were translatable to actual development work.”
Kara Amantoy, Co-Founder & COO
Pickle
“The team was a great group of communicators and clear thinkers who were capable of empathy.”
Aboudy El Farkh, Founder
Aura Labs
“The team is dedicated to the project and focused on their client’s success.”
Greg Short, Co-Founder
Feeds Inc.
“They delivered the project on time and made sure my needs were fully satisfied.”
Tzur Rupin, CMO
Dots
“We saw a 340% increase in website traffic, 2.7x more time on site, and a 38% drop in bounce rate.”
Idan Benishu, Co-Founder & CEO
Bagel AI
“The designs they built were extremely tasteful and contemporary. They were fast in their work and communication.”
Jesse Johnson, Founder & Director
STORE 5a
“Habitat had a multi-step process for delivering business value but were flexible and considerate of our timelines.”
Mike Faber, CEO
Vendo
Have questions?
Onboarding takes 2–3 days, and first delivery lands in under two weeks. There’s no discovery phase, so we get to work immediately. Compare that to a hire: 3–6 months to find, close, and ramp.
You work with the same senior designer throughout the engagement, which means the velocity you build doesn’t disappear every time the work changes.
Freelancers vary in quality project to project and start onboarding from zero every time. Traditional agencies run on briefs, kickoff calls, and presentations. An embedded Habitat designer works inside your processes, so you get faster output, not a vendor to run.
Yes. Embedded capacity scales to the shape of the work, including small tasks, such as designing marketing materials.
Product design (we specialize in AI-native products), marketing design, brand design, design systems.
A flat monthly rate, with no hourly tracking. You get capacity and you can scale it up or down. Book a call so we can discuss your rate.
Let our designers take a fresh look at your product. For free
We’ll go through your product and come back with 3-4 specific things we’d change, along with why we’d change them. It’s the kind of practical feedback you’d normally pay for, and we’ll get it back to you within 48 hours.
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