Senior UI/UXdesigners, animators,in your product team.
Add one senior designer, a focused duo, or a full product design pod to your team, month to month. No hiring cycles and no agency layers.
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Every engagement connects product thinking, user experience, interface craft, and a system your team can keep building on.
Product strategy
We frame the opportunity, clarify priorities, and connect near-term decisions to the product you are building toward.
UX research
Lean, purposeful research gives the team evidence to make better decisions without slowing the roadmap down.
UI and interaction
From flows to polished responsive interfaces, we turn product logic into experiences people understand and enjoy.
Design systems
Reusable components and practical rules make the experience more consistent while helping product teams move faster.
Prototyping and testing
High-fidelity prototypes expose gaps early, align stakeholders, and let real users guide the next decision.
Right-sizedby design.
Start lean, expand when the roadmap gets ambitious, and reshape the team as priorities change. One monthly relationship, with exactly the design capacity you need.
Solo specialist
One senior designer embedded with your team for a focused, continuous stream of work.
- Dedicated design lead
- Weekly working sessions
- Best for one core product
Focused duo
Complementary skill sets: typically product design plus UX strategy or research.
- Two embedded specialists
- Parallel workstreams
- Best for speed and range
Full product pod
A complete design function with leadership, craft, research, and system thinking.
- Multidisciplinary team
- Flexible role allocation
- Best for ambitious roadmaps
Less ceremony.More shipped.
Your Zelios team works inside your rhythm, not outside it. Clear priorities in, reviewed design out, with momentum that compounds every month.
Align the lane
We map the product context, users, constraints, and the highest-value work ahead.
Embed the team
Your chosen designers join the tools and rituals your product team already uses.
Design in the open
Frequent working sessions replace big reveals. You see, steer, and validate the work as it takes shape.
Ship with confidence
Detailed interaction states, responsive behavior, and implementation-ready systems reduce development guesswork.
Reallocate anytime
Shift the mix from discovery to delivery, or grow from one designer to a full pod as the roadmap changes.
Products shapedfrom the inside out.
Selected engagements show how our embedded teams move from a knotty product problem to an interface with direction, rhythm, and a system behind it.
Capital-markets intelligence, designed end to end. Connect the marketing story, member experience, market intelligence, and billing in one coherent platform.
Runtime verification, made legible. Bring scenarios, payload checks, confidence scoring, integrity states, and the verification pipeline into one console.
Event publishing controls in one focused view. Make mobile release settings and product controls easy to scan within Amego’s wider event-management navigation.
A clear product story for online reputation. Explain what the product finds, how its privacy-first process works, and how it serves different audiences.
Real-estate valuation, sold like luxury property. Make a valuation platform feel as premium as the listings it evaluates.
An AI venture, launched with editorial confidence. Introduce an AI-native research venture to strategy teams with the calm authority of an institution, not the noise of a launch campaign.
Movement with a job to do.
The practicaldetails.
Clear answers about how an embedded Zelios team gets started and works alongside yours.
What is Zelios?
Zelios is a UI/UX design studio that embeds senior UI/UX designers and animators in your product team, month to month. Add one senior designer, a focused duo, or a full product design pod, with no hiring cycles and no agency layers.
Who is Zelios for?
Product teams that need senior design capacity without a hiring cycle. A solo specialist is best for one core product, a focused duo is best for speed and range, and a full product pod is best for ambitious roadmaps. Briefs can come from products at the idea, MVP, growth, or scale stage.
How much does a Zelios design team cost?
A solo specialist (one senior designer) starts from $2,000/mo. A focused duo (two designers) starts from $10,000/mo. A full product pod (4+ designers) starts from $25,000/mo.
How does the monthly retainer work?
We start by aligning the lane: the product context, users, constraints, and the highest-value work ahead. Your chosen designers then join your team, design in the open through frequent working sessions, and deliver detailed interaction states, responsive behavior, and implementation-ready systems. You can shift the mix from discovery to delivery, or grow from one designer to a full pod, as the roadmap changes.
How is Zelios different from a design agency?
Our designers join your team instead of orbiting it. There is no account-manager relay: the people in the room are the senior people shaping the work, and they share the same product context, constraints, and conversations as the team building it.
Do you require a long-term contract?
No long-term lock-in. Engagements run month to month, with scope and team shape reviewed as priorities change.
How do you collaborate across time zones?
We agree a dependable overlap window for live working sessions, then keep decisions, updates, and handoff notes clear enough for work to move asynchronously.
What tools do your designers use?
The ones your team already uses. Your chosen designers join the tools and rituals your product team already works in.
Do you offer motion design?
Yes. Zelios teams include animators, and we shape launch films, product stories, and motion systems that make complex ideas feel clear, immediate, and worth watching.
How quickly can a team start?
Once scope and availability are confirmed, we aim to assemble the right team and begin onboarding promptly. Exact timing is confirmed after we review your brief.
How do we get started?
Send a brief with your product stage, the challenge, and the team shape you are considering, or email info@zelios.co. We review your brief and reply within one business day.