Walk notes
Short essays on product design and how we work. Each one started on a walk.
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Your vibe-coded app is 80% done. The last 20% is design.
Vibe-coded apps usually have too much on the screen, not too little. Here's how a senior product design team fixes the last 20%: sorting content, setting hierarchy, and shipping it as working code. -
Should designers hand over code instead of Figma files?
Figma handoffs lose things twice, in understanding and in the build. Why Bondin now ships a working front end instead, and what that means for founders and engineers. -
What can a product design sprint deliver in two weeks?
A two-week design sprint won't build your whole product. It gets the part that matters most designed and working. Here's what Bondin usually fits into one. -
How much does product design cost for a startup in 2026?
Startup product design costs in 2026: freelancers, agencies, a senior in-house hire ($163k–$309k a year in the US), and Bondin's fixed-price $10k sprint or $12k/month partnership. -
Senior vs junior designers: why we only work senior
Why every designer on a Bondin project is senior: faster work, tested patterns, and better questions early, so founders pay for fewer revisions and fewer decisions to undo. -
Hourly vs fixed price: why we stopped billing by the hour
Why Bondin dropped hourly billing for fixed-price product design: creative work doesn't happen on the clock, AI makes work deeper rather than shorter, and founders need predictable costs.