tenpixls

STOP. READ THIS BEFORE YOU SCROLL DOWN.
DO NOT APPLY IF:

• YOUR PORTFOLIO LOOKS LIKE EVERYONE ELSE'S. If your portfolio items could be swapped with any other designer's work and nobody would notice, we're not a match. We're looking for a distinct visual voice, not competent repetition of trends.
• YOU COLOR WIREFRAMES (UX) AND CALL IT UI DESIGN. This is the single biggest reason we reject designers. You receive a wireframe - your job is to transform it, not decorate it. The wireframe defines information architecture: what has visual weight, flow, and order. You can restructure sections, add or remove visual elements, rethink how the content is presented - but you must preserve the hierarchy and intent. If your instinct is to take a gray placeholder, swap it for a stock photo, pick a color palette, and call it done - that's not design. That's coloring. We need someone who thinks.
• YOU CAN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR BEST AND YOUR WORST WORK. If everything in your portfolio is "pretty good" and nothing is clearly a level above the rest, your taste hasn't developed enough for this role. We need a designer whose sense of quality is sharp enough to judge their own output honestly.

Still here? Good. Keep reading.

What this role actually is

You own the visual layer of everything we ship - websites, SaaS products, landing pages. You receive strategic wireframes and transform them into UI designs that look completely different visually but preserve the exact same information architecture.

This means:

• You look at a wireframe and see what it's really saying: which element carries the most weight, how the eye should flow, what the user should do next. Then you build a visual system around that intent.
• You care about typography, spacing, and hierarchy at the pixel level. Not because you're obsessive, but because you understand these details directly affect whether users read, click, or leave.
• You can defend every design decision with reasoning, not taste. 
• You handle feedback like a professional. Clients will have opinions. Some will be wrong. You push back with evidence when it matters and adapt when it doesn't.

Your portfolio must show

• Work where your visual thinking is immediately obvious. We're not digging through average work looking for potential.
• If every project looks like the same template with different colors, that tells us you have one move.
• At least 1 project where you can walk us through how you went from a brief or wireframe to the final design - what you changed, what you kept, and why. We'll ask about this on a call.

Tools

• Figma (primary — you live in it)
• Photoshop
• Google Workspace (Docs, Slides, Sheets)
• Slack

Scope

• SaaS products
• Marketing websites
• Landing pages
• Design systems and component libraries

About us

Studio tenpixls™ is a design and development agency. We're small, direct, and quality-obsessed. No sticky note workshops, no 40-page research decks nobody reads, no busywork. We do focused work that ships and performs.

You'll work directly with the founder, our content strategist, and our dev team. No layers of management. Your work goes from Figma to the browser, and you'll see it live.