Animation platform, Pizza at LottieFiles
Your product, designed
and built every week.
Without hiring a designer.
We’re two senior product designers in Singapore. We join your team 2 or 4 days a week and design and build right in your Figma and your codebase.
Site monitoring dashboard
E-commerce store
Music product landing page
ShopBack app and design system, Pizza at ShopBack
Retail loyalty app
What you get
Skip the hire
Get senior design and build without a hiring process. When you’re ready to hire, we can help train your new designer.
Design and code, one team
The team that designs it also builds it. Nothing gets lost in a handoff, and there’s no dev shop to chase.
Work with the founders
You deal with Pizza and Castelin directly from the first call. There’s no account manager in between.
Month to month
One flat fee a month. Pause or cancel monthly, because we’d rather earn every month than lock you in. Your work lives in your Figma and your repo from day one.
What clients and colleagues say
“It was a seamless experience collaborating with Pizza and Cas. They brought a fresh perspective, aesthetic, and multi-disciplinary expertise to the project, providing additional value to the project. Their professional approach and smooth communication made a complex process feel effortless. I can’t recommend them highly enough as design partner!”
“It was a great experience working with Pizza in getting our new website design up. Pizza is professional, responsive and helpful. All we had to do was hand him the designs and vision, and he executed it seamlessly.”
“What sets Pizza apart is his strong grasp and appreciation of business priorities. He understands the importance of aligning design decisions with overarching organizational goals and always strive to deliver designs that not only look exceptional but also drive measurable results.”
“Pizza always amazed me with his business insight and brilliant techniques for solving problems. He understands complicated matters even when outside of his direct area of expertise.”
“His ability to inspire and motivate his team is unmatched, and his leadership style fosters a collaborative work environment that encourages creativity and innovation.”
How we work
Kickoff
One call to start. You give us access to your Figma and your repo, and we agree on what to work on first.
You set the priorities
Send requests the way your team already works: Slack, email or your tracker. No design process yet? We’ll bring ours. You decide what comes first.
We design it
We design the flows and screens in your Figma. We check accessibility and follow your design system.
You review, we refine
Updates come async, with calls for the big moments. We refine the work in short rounds with your feedback.
We build it and ship it
We build it in your codebase and get it live with your engineers. Then the next item starts. Each month you decide to keep going, pause or stop.
Who you’ll work with
I’m Pizza Yap, a product designer based in Singapore.
I’ve spent 18 years in product design, most recently leading design at LottieFiles and before that building experiences and design systems at ShopBack and Grab. I like working closely with founders and small teams where decisions move quickly.
Now I design and build for founders who need senior design every week but aren’t ready to hire for it. I use AI to move faster, and I make the design calls myself.
I’m Castelin Tan, a product designer based in Singapore. I started in 2008 making e-learning for banks like Maybank and Hong Leong Bank, then moved into UI/UX for AIA, OCBC, Ascott and Yokogawa.
I like working with teams in specialised fields like finance and insurance, where domain details shape every design decision. AI helps me learn a new domain quickly, so I get to the right design sooner.
Pricing
A monthly retainer for ongoing design and build. Projects for one piece of work, at a fixed price agreed before we start. All prices in US dollars.
Monthly
Design systems
Design systemsAgent-ready
Tokens, components and docs, in Figma and in code, that your team and AI agents all build from.
fromUS$12K
Just need an audit? From US$3.5K.
- Tokens & components
- Figma and code in sync
- Docs written for agents
- Audit of what exists
Projects, for any team
Websites
Landing pages and marketing sites, built to load fast and convert.
fromUS$5K
One landing page. Multi-page sites from US$10K.
- Landing & marketing pages
- Framer or custom code
- CMS setup
- SEO & performance
- Hosted on Vercel
Web apps
SaaS products, dashboards and internal tools, from first flow to production.
fromUS$15K
After launch, a retainer can keep it shipping.
- Product & UX design
- Dashboards & data UI
- Auth, database & backend
- Component library
- Shipped to production
Native apps
iOS and Android apps that feel at home on the device.
fromUS$20K
After launch, a retainer can keep it shipping.
- Expo (React Native) or SwiftUI
- iOS & Android
- Motion & gestures
- Onboarding flows
- Store-ready builds
Async updates day to day. Calls for the big moments.
Capabilities. One team, from first screen
to shipped code.
Websites
Web apps
Native apps
Strategy
Strategy
Strategy
Content Architecture
Sitemaps
User Journeys
Product Vision
User Flows
Rapid Prototyping
Roadmapping
App Concept & Flows
Rapid Prototyping
iOS / Android Guidelines
Design
Design
Design
Landing Pages
Responsive Layouts
Micro Interactions
Art Direction
Product Design
Design Systems
Interaction Design
Dashboards & Data UI
Mobile UI
Design Systems
Motion & Gestures
Onboarding Flows
Build
Build
Build
AI-Assisted Builds
Framer (On Request)
CMS Setup
SEO & Performance
Vercel Hosting
Full-Stack Development
Convex Backends
Clerk Auth
AI-Assisted Coding
Component Libraries
Expo (React Native)
SwiftUI
Clickable Prototypes
Dev Handoff & Specs
FAQ
Before you book a call
Funded startups, seed to Series B, that have launched and have engineers but no senior designer. We’re based in Singapore and work remotely with teams in the US and elsewhere. Not a startup, or not launched yet? Start with a project. Projects are open to any team.
We work mainly remotely and async. Day to day, updates come through Slack or email, and the work lives in your Figma and your repo. On the days we work with you, we overlap with your team for up to 3 hours, in your morning or your afternoon, whichever your team needs. That’s when we take calls and quick questions.
Two days of senior design and build every week, which is about 8 to 9 days a month. Spend them on whatever is next on your list: a new feature designed and built, a messy flow fixed, a UX audit or design system upkeep. If that’s not enough, Dedicated gives you 4 days a week.
You can, and once you’re ready, you probably should. Product designer roles on YC’s job board mostly list US$120–250K a year before benefits (October 2026). Part-time is two days a week from both of us for US$120K a year. That’s 4 person-days a week, against a full-time hire’s 5. In return there’s no hiring process, and one team covers design and code. When you do hire, Pizza has managed design teams before, so we can help train your new designer. They start with everything we made, because it’s already in your Figma and your repo.
The studio’s two founders, Pizza Yap and Castelin Tan. You talk to us directly from the first call, with no account manager in between.
The retainer is billed monthly, and you can pause or cancel monthly. Tell us in Slack or by email. Nothing needs handing back, because the work is already in your accounts.
It stays with you. From day one we design in your Figma and build in your repo, so nothing lives only on our side. If you pause or stop, your team picks up right where we left off.
Book a call and tell us what you’re building. If the retainer fits, we agree on what to work on first and a start date. If a project fits better, we agree on scope, timeline and a fixed price before any work starts. We run at most 2 retainers at a time, and Dedicated counts as two, so sometimes there’s a wait.
Yes. We can pick up an existing design, design system or codebase and build on it, or start fresh if that’s faster. New web builds default to Next.js on Vercel, and native apps use Expo (React Native) or SwiftUI. Framer is available for websites on request.
It’s documented for your AI coding tools as well as your team. Tokens, components and usage rules live in files that tools like Claude Code and Cursor read, so the UI they generate starts from your system. On a retainer, we keep yours up to date.
We price by where your company is based, in line with local rates for senior design and build. Singapore prices are for companies based in Singapore. Companies based anywhere else pay in US dollars.