Hire a Designer Before You Hire an Engineer
It’s month three. Your engineers just pushed an MVP, demo day looms, and the UI already feels like a patchwork quilt. Fixing the flow means rewriting half the front-end. Cue the burn-rate sweats.Now rewind. Imagine you’d spent the first four weeks with a product designer mapping user journeys and mocking clickable prototypes. The same demo now wows investors—and the code you do ship survives intact for months.That second timeline is real, repeatable, and dramatically less expensive. Here’s why.
