DNSK WORK

Joined March 2025

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Helping Founders\Product Managers create effective designs that drive growth. A digital product design studio based in London, UK.

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Digital Product Design Services SaaS UX Design, SaaS website design

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Stop Calling Screenshots Design Strategy
Last Tuesday I got a "UX Strategy" deck. Six slides. Five screenshots of Stripe, Notion, Linear. One slide saying "we want something clean and modern like these." Zero actual strategy.
By DNSK WORKabout a month ago in Journal
The Professional Development Paradox: Why UX Teams are Struggling to Find Ready Talent
A senior design director recently shared a frustrating pattern she's been observing across her hiring cycles: "We interview candidates with impressive certification lists and comprehensive course completions. They can articulate every design principle perfectly. Yet when we present them with a real business challenge — something messy, cross-functional, with actual constraints — they freeze."
By DNSK WORK4 months ago in Lifehack
The 'Maybe Later' Is Killing your Onboarding
“Maybe later” — the soft opt-out on a modal, product tour, or first-run flow. A safety valve. A peace offering to an anxious new user.
By DNSK WORK4 months ago in Journal
SaaS Product Feels Complex? Give It a Spine
Complex vs. Confusing Call a product “complex” and most people picture Byzantine business logic and edge cases breeding in the basement. In practice, when founders and PMs say *complex*, they usually mean the UX is sagging under its own weight. Releases slow down.
By DNSK WORK4 months ago in Journal
Why SaaS Pricing Pages Fail
There’s one part of a SaaS product design that’s both painfully revealing and criminally underdesigned: the pricing page. It’s where value meets clarity – or confusion – or cowardice.
By DNSK WORK5 months ago in Lifehack
Designing for Discovery – a Practical Guide
Who this is for: founders, PMs, designers, and engineers who keep hearing “we already built that.” Outcome: measurably higher feature adoption with fewer support pings and shorter time‑to‑first‑use.
By DNSK WORK5 months ago in Lifehack
When Settings Become the Product
If your settings page is longer than your product, you are not empowering users - you are exporting your design indecision. Every toggle looks harmless on its own. Together they become a tax. The job is not to offer every possible pathway; the job is to choose on the user’s behalf where it makes sense, and offer control where it meaningfully changes the outcome.
By DNSK WORK5 months ago in Lifehack
Who Are You Designing For
This is a pocket reminder you can pin in Figma. Use it mid‑sprint when everything feels busy and the work risks drifting away from the person who actually needs help.
By DNSK WORK5 months ago in Lifehack
Stop Polite, Start Clear
TL;DR: Polite ≠ clear. Whispery UI erodes trust and slows decisions. Replace hedges with facts, say what happens next, and offer one confident action.
By DNSK WORK5 months ago in Lifehack
The No-Drama UI Reckoning
TL;DR: You probably don’t need a redesign. You need to strip bloat, align the UI with your current go-to-market, and make conversion paths painfully obvious. This guide shows you how to do that fast, with minimal politics.
By DNSK WORK5 months ago in Lifehack
What to Do When Your Button does nothing
Every UX designer has faced this moment: the button is there, but it doesn’t work yet. Maybe the backend isn’t ready. Maybe the feature hasn’t been scoped. Maybe it’s just... too late to remove it before launch.
By DNSK WORK6 months ago in Lifehack
Fake Persona Testing
Most of your product’s worst UX failures won’t show up in analytics. They’ll show up in support tickets. A user who accidentally backspaced their way out of the signup flow. Someone rage-clicking a modal five times on a cracked phone. Or trying to decipher your beautifully designed pricing page through Safari Reader Mode on an iPad from 2016.
By DNSK WORK6 months ago in Lifehack

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Stop Calling Screenshots Design Strategy

The Professional Development Paradox: Why UX Teams are Struggling to Find Ready Talent

The 'Maybe Later' Is Killing your Onboarding

SaaS Product Feels Complex? Give It a Spine

Why SaaS Pricing Pages Fail

Designing for Discovery – a Practical Guide

When Settings Become the Product

Who Are You Designing For

Stop Polite, Start Clear

The No-Drama UI Reckoning

What to Do When Your Button does nothing

Fake Persona Testing

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