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Fractional UI/UX Design Services

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Scalable • Flexible • Cost-Effective • Affordable

There are times that hiring a full-time professional design studio isn't necessary, especially if the workload doesn't justify a full-time engagement or budget constraints are an issue. You might need design services for only 40 hours a month over a few months or for a limited, one-time project lasting just few weeks.

Fractional design services are perfect for application design, offering flexibility and expertise without the commitment of a full-time hire. Whether you need design support for a specific phase of your project or ongoing design input for a week or more each month, fractional services provide the right level of engagement. This approach ensures high-quality design tailored to your project's needs while keeping costs manageable, making it ideal for startups and businesses with fluctuating design requirements. Scale up or down at any time, but we do have a minimum engagement of 40 hours per month. This is especially useful for early project design, where the scope of work isn't quite figured out and you need our help in rapid prototyping or wireframing it.


Fractional Design
Fractional Design Services Are Perfect For:

Companies leveraging fractional UX services do not have to cover our medical insurance, contribute to our retirement plans like a 401K, or provide us with paid time off, all of which can add substantial costs to maintaining a full-time employee. This financial efficiency allows businesses to allocate resources more strategically, investing directly in projects rather than in long-term employment benefits.

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Software Application UI / UX / IXD / UCD

Fractional design services are perfect for application design, offering flexibility and expertise without the commitment of a full-time hire.

Whether you need design support for a specific phase of your project or ongoing design input for a week or more each month, fractional services provide the right level of engagement. This approach ensures high-quality design tailored to your project's needs while keeping costs manageable, making it ideal for startups and businesses with fluctuating design requirements.

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User Research & Interviews, UX Auditing & Consulting

The Skins Factory can provide targeted expertise exactly when you need it. Whether it's conducting comprehensive user research to inform your design decisions, auditing your existing user experience to identify areas for improvement, or offering strategic consulting to enhance usability, fractional services offer a flexible and cost-effective solution. This approach ensures you have access to specialized skills and insights on a part-time basis, making it perfect for projects with variable needs and budgets.

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Proof-of-Concept (PoC) Design & Minimal Viable Product (MVP) Design Phase

Our designers have the expertise needed to quickly and efficiently bring your ideas to life. This approach allows you to access our top-tier design talent on a part-time basis, ensuring high-quality design work without the overhead of a full-time hire. Whether you need initial design concepts, rapid prototyping, or iterative improvements, The Skins Factory's fractional services provide the flexibility and cost-efficiency crucial for early-stage projects, helping you validate and refine your product vision with precision.

Including:
Prototyping Wireframing Mockups Storyboarding Conceptual Design User Flow Diagram Low-Fidelity Prototype High-Fidelity Prototype
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Integration With Your Own In-house Design Team

By providing specialized expertise on a part-time or project-based basis, these services can complement and enhance the capabilities of your existing team without the commitment of a full-time hire. This model allows companies to tap into our diverse pool of experience, skills and perspectives, fostering innovation and addressing specific challenges with precision. Additionally, our fractional UX designers can bring fresh insights and best practices from their varied experiences across different industries, promoting a cross-pollination of ideas that can elevate the overall quality of the in-house team's work. Get a boost to your project design from a studio that's been setting design trends for over two decades.

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Replacing the Need to Have an In-house Design Team

Fractional UX Services eliminate the need for maintaining a full-time, in-house design team, which can be costly and resource-intensive. Instead, you can access The Skins Factory's top-tier UX professionals who bring a wealth of experience from diverse projects and industries. Our expert designers integrate seamlessly with your existing team, providing targeted support for specific projects or ongoing needs. This approach not only reduces overhead costs but also ensures that the UX design efforts are led by highly skilled professionals, resulting in higher quality outcomes and greater innovation. By leveraging fractional UX services, you can remain agile, quickly adapting to changing market demands and technological advancements without the burden of permanent staff.

Why Choose Us
Freelancer vs. Agency

The Skins Factory is a superior choice compared to hiring a traditional freelancer or using one of the freelancer networks. With decades of real-world experience, we bring a level of professionalism & expertise that ensures your projects are handled with the utmost attention and care. Our team offers unmatched reliability, consistently delivering high-quality results that meet your expectations and deadlines. Additionally, our unrivaled communication means you are always kept in the loop, with clear and transparent updates throughout the project.

Choosing The Skins Factory means investing in a partner dedicated to your success, providing a seamless and stress-free design experience in a format that suits your needs and budget.

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Got Questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
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How Do We Start?
It all starts with an email or a phone call. We're always available for a free discussion about your company or project needs. Once we determine the scope of work together, you can decide on the duration of our engagement.
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How Do You Book Fractional Design Time?
We offer Fractional Design Services starting at just 40 hours per month, allowing you to book as much time as you need. This flexible arrangement is prepaid and lets you mix and match our UI/UX and other design services during the booked period. It's your time to allocate as you see fit, as long as the tasks fall within our design capabilities. We excel in designing everything from user interfaces to enhancing overall user experience. Use your time to have us audit pain points in your application's design, create new UI assets and improve usability.

While we don't offer coding services directly, we partner with an excellent local development studio that many of our clients work with successfully. We'd be happy to make an introduction.

Note: A time-sheet will available online to you & your team whenever you want to view it. We log time increments of 1/4 hour at a time.
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How Often Would We Book The Skins Factory?
The choice is entirely yours. You can book us for a single session for a specific number of hours or reserve a monthly time slot for a set duration. There are no contractual commitments beyond what is mutually agreed upon. Unlike annual subscriptions, each client determines the duration and extent of our services. If a multi-month contract is what you require, we are more than willing to accommodate that as well.

Please note that once your time period is booked, it is dedicated exclusively to you. To ensure our commitment to your project, we do not overbook, making the booked time non-refundable for the month in which payment is received. For multi-month agreements, you have the flexibility to cancel the contract at any time, for any reason. Our engagement will conclude at the end of the current paid time period, ensuring clarity and flexibility throughout our partnership. We have a stellar reputation spanning over two decades, so you're in good hands.
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What Happens If We Run Out Of Time?
If we happen to use up the time allotted, but you still want more work to be done that month, you can always add more time as long as we have the bandwidth to do it. If the time block runs out, there will be an interruption of service until more time is secured.
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What Happens To Unused Time?
Unused fractional time does not roll over to the next month. Due to commitments to other clients and projects, allowing unused time to carry over could impact our productivity and obligations to those clients.
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Is Your Fractional Design Service Similar to Freelance Networks like Toptal, Fiverr, and Upwork?
No, it's not. We're well aware of those freelancer sites for UI/UX design. With us, you're hiring a professional, respected & trusted design studio with over 25 years of experience. We've explored a few of those networks to see what they were like. What we found on one of them was, freelancers bidding on fixed cost projects without a clear scope of work being shown to them ahead of the bidding process. How can you estimate the cost of a project when you don't know what the deliverables are?
Ask yourself this:
  1. Can you afford to work with unknowns?
  2. Are they reliable? Will they show up to get the job done?
  3. Do they have the experience to get the job done properly?
  4. Will the deliverables be of the highest quality?
  5. Can you trust their reviews, or were they exchanged for discounts?

If the answer to any of those questions is "I don't know" then The Skins Factory's Fractional Design Services is the perfect solution for you. There is no guessing whether we'll show up and get the job done. There's no question about our reliability, quality, or level of effort.

 

Design Services

REDUCE CHURN. INCREASE ACTIVATIONS. GROW FASTER.

We design with one objective: measurable growth across your product lifecycle — removing friction, clarifying user journeys, and aligning modern design with real user intent.

Platforms We Design For
  • Desktop Apps
  • Browser / Web Apps
  • Mobile iOS & Android
  • Kiosk & PoS
  • Smart TV & Gaming
  • Wearables
  • AR / VR
  • Automotive / Infotainment
UI/UX & Application Design
  • UI/UX Design
  • IXD / UCD
  • User Research
  • MVP Design
  • PoC Design
  • Rapid Prototyping
  • UI/UX Auditing
  • Legacy Modernization
Industries Served
  • SaaS, ERP, CRM, BI, SCM, HRM, LMS
  • FinTech, Digital Banking & Crypto
  • Data, Networking & Telecom
  • Real Estate & Hospitality
  • Healthcare, HealthTech & Pharma
  • Cybersecurity & Risk Management
  • Media, Gaming & Entertainment
  • EduTech & E-Learning
Web & Systems Design
  • Web Design
  • Web Development
  • SEO Services
  • Design Systems
  • UI Kits
  • Style Guides
  • Generative AI Artwork
Outcomes We Drive
Reduce Churn Boost Activations Improve Adoptions Increase Conversions Modernize Legacy UI Grow Revenue
Development Services

ENGINEERING & CODE DELIVERY, BY A TRUSTED PARTNER.

We own design and user experience. They handle engineering. Together we turn your best ideas into reliable, production-ready products that drive tangible business results.

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Cloud, Data & Infrastructure
  • Cloud & Security
  • Business Intelligence
  • Data Analytics
  • DevOps
  • Legacy Modernization
  • 3rd-Party Integrations
  • Automations
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Application Development
  • AI & ML Development
  • LLM & Agentic AI
  • Enterprise & SaaS
  • Full-Stack Web
  • Front-End Augmentation
  • Mobile iOS & Android
  • Blockchain Platforms
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Strategy & Consulting
  • Technology Consulting
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Software Consulting
  • IoT & Embedded
  • Smart TV & Gaming
  • AR & VR
⟨/⟩ Coding & Technology Expertise
ASP.NET Angular AWS Bootstrap C# C++ Dart Django Flutter Golang Java JavaScript Kotlin Laravel Microsoft Azure NestJS Next.js .NET Node.js Objective-C PHP Power BI Python React Ruby on Rails Salesforce Swift Three.js TypeScript Unity Vue.js
Portfolio
Case Studies

While we recommend viewing our extensive UI/UX design portfolio found here, here are a few case studies to view. Click the preview images to view the full project.

FortifyData UI/UX Design
FortifyData
Cybersecurity Web Platform Application Design
The Skins Factory + FortifyData: A Winning Collaboration in Cybersecurity Risk Management UI/UX Design.

FortifyData, a world-leading Cybersecurity Risk Management platform, brought The Skins Factory's UI and UX designers to redesign their core browser application. Our team refined & redesigned over 40 screens, while modernizing the user interface and weaving neumorphic elements into the analytics' visual design.

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Recognize Me Mobile App UI/UX Design
Recognize Me
Social Media Mobile App UI/UX/UCD Design
"I want to be able to put a name to a face" the client told us.

This sparked a mobile app design project that took almost six months from start to completion. The Skins Factory's designers transformed a one sentence concept into a fully designed mobile application. Over 600 screens were designed across 5 colors and 2 versions, including light and dark mode.

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HODLIT Cryptocurrency App UI/UX Design
HODLIT
Crypto Exchange Mobile App UI/UX Design
Revolutionizing the Mobile Cryptocurrency Experience: A Look at HODLIT's UI & UX Redesign

HODLIT, a mobile cryptocurrency exchange platform, approached The Skins Factory to do a full redesign of their mobile application's UI & UX design. We opted for a sleek "panther black" backdrop infused with subtle undertones of deep purple, ensuring any color incorporated later would pop off the screens.

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DocPanel Healthcare App UI/UX Design
DocPanel
Healthtech Application UI Design — Dark Mode
Radiology Reading Services Healthcare Application UI/UX Design

DocPanel, the world's largest radiology marketplace connecting imaging providers and patients to a network of over 700 US-based academic and subspecialty radiologists. Our app designers seamlessly integrated a clean, sleek visual design language with generous white spaces to enhance the UI and combat eye fatigue.

Disclaimer: All patient names & non-patient names appearing in these works are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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