Design and buildfor people whocan't affordto get it wrong.
One senior designer, developer, and founder — strategy, UX, UI, and production code, start to finish. From early-stage products to million-user scale. Nothing lost in translation.
Why it's different
“Most designers can't build. Most developers can't design. The handoff is where projects go to die.”
Agencies give you layers: account managers, junior designers, a developer who's never read the brief. You pay premium prices for the hours spent managing the gap between strategy and execution.
UXImpact is one senior person — a designer who writes the code, a developer who understands users, a founder who has been on your side of the table. Strategy, UX, UI, and production code, unified from first conversation to final deployment.
One point of contact. One owner. Zero lost in translation.
Services
A project,
or a partnership.
Build something one-off, or partner with me every month. Priced clearly, delivered by one senior person — with more ways to work on the services page.
Website Design & Build
Look the part. Work perfectly.
Most agencies give you Figma files and a handoff document. You get the finished website — strategy, UX, UI design, and a fully built site on a modern tech stack, delivered ready to launch. One person, complete ownership, no handoff gaps. Whatever the scope, the quality of thinking and execution is the same.
Every build starts with a web brand guide
Your colours, typography, and design system — defined and documented as a permanent brand asset before a single screen is designed. It's the foundation everything else is built on, and it's yours to keep.
Work together,
every month.
The smart way to work when you need design and development regularly.
A fixed monthly partnership — your senior designer and developer on tap. Predictable cost, priority turnaround, and one person who knows your brand inside out. More senior than a hire, more flexible than an agency, and no recruitment or overhead.
~4 days a month · rolling
Keep your website and product sharp and growing, month after month.
~8 days a month · 3-month min
Your embedded studio across the whole roadmap — the closest thing to hiring, without the hiring.
Work
Selected work.
Design and code working together — SaaS platforms, consumer apps, and high-converting sites.
Clients
In their
own words.
“We knew the brand didn't reflect the work anymore. Sam got it immediately — pushed back in the right places and came back with something we're genuinely proud to send clients to. The quality of enquiries since has been noticeably different.”
John
Owner, Mendip Handyman
Further references available on request.
Working with
Process
Fast enough for a startup.
Thorough enough to get it right.
Discover
Understand the problem first.
Before anything is designed, we get to the real problem — your goals, your users, and what success actually looks like. Rooted in UX research and design-thinking, and sized to the project: a single sharp call, or a full discovery sprint. Solve the right problem, and everything downstream gets easier.
- The real problem, clearly framed
- User needs & goals mapped
- Success criteria and scope agreed
Design
Strategy becomes interface.
It starts with your brand — a web brand guide defining your colours, typography, and components, documented as a permanent asset. From there, structure to screens: wireframes establish the architecture, high-fidelity UI brings it to life. Every decision is tied to an outcome — nothing decorative for its own sake.
- Web brand guide — colours, type & components
- Wireframes & user flows
- High-fidelity UI designs
Validate
Test the thinking before we build it.
An interactive prototype, put in front of real users where it counts — so we build on evidence, not assumptions. Feedback drives the refinements, and the design is locked only once it's earned it. It's how good software gets made: de-risk the thinking before committing it to code.
- Interactive prototype
- Tested & refined with real feedback
- Signed off with confidence
Ship
Design that actually reaches your users.
Fully built and deployed, or polished dev-ready files — whichever fits your setup. Written by the same person who designed it, so there's no handoff gap and nothing lost in translation. The goal was always a product that launches. That's what you get.
- Production build or dev-ready handoff
- Tested across devices
- Live and ready to grow
About
The person
behind it.
Discovery workshopHi, I'm Sam — a senior product designer and front-end developer based in Bath, and the person behind UXImpact. I built this to work directly with founders and ambitious businesses who need design that actually ships and makes a measurable difference.
I've spent 13+ years across product design, UX, and front-end development — enterprise products used by over a million monthly active users, early-stage SaaS built from scratch, and everything in between. I've been a founder too, which means I understand both sides of the brief.
What makes working with me different is the combination. Most UX designers can't build. Most developers can't design. I do both — which means fewer handoffs, faster delivery, and a finished product that works the way it was designed to.
I know what it feels like to be under pressure to ship something good, fast, on a budget that isn't infinite. I won't waste your time, I'll tell you what I think, and I'll treat your project like it matters. Because it does.
When I'm not at a screen, I'm with my kids, running obstacle races, or thinking about problems I haven't solved yet.
Contact
Let's build something
worth building.
Tell me what you're working on. I'll come back within 24 hours. No hard sell — just a conversation about whether I can help.
One person. Full ownership.
You deal directly with the person designing and building your product — no account managers, no briefing chains, no junior work.
Startup pace. Senior quality.
I've shipped for million-user products and zero-to-one startups. Fast doesn't mean sloppy — you get both, without the agency overhead or the junior tax.
I'll tell you what I think.
You're not paying for someone to say yes to everything. If I think the approach is wrong, I'll say so — and offer a better one.
Or reach out directly
hello@uximpact.designGrab a time that suits you
A relaxed 30-minute chat about your project.