Design measured in completed tasks, not applause
Flows before pixels, states before decoration, and systems that survive the tenth screen. Boltout designs the way its engineers build, because they work on the same products.
Accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA, verified before handoff
Tooling
Figma, component-aligned
Measured by
Task completion & conversion
How Boltout applies it
In Boltout products
Boltout products share design systems where tokens and patterns map to components that actually ship. The system stays small enough to maintain and grows with the products, not ahead of them.
Inside ventures
A venture still being defined gets a short discovery sprint, stakeholder interviews, competitive audit, flow sketching, producing a lightweight spec engineering can build against while leaving room to pivot.
With partners
Live products get redesigned without stopping feature work, phased by surface: navigation and shell first, then high-traffic flows. Where brand guidelines fight usability, the tradeoff is shown with numbers so the partner decides.
What this covers
- User flows and journey mapping before high-fidelity work
- Design systems: tokens, type, and spacing mapped to real components
- Full-state design: empty, loading, success, failure, permission denied
- Prototyping and targeted usability review
- Accessibility factored in from the wireframe stage
- Developer-ready handoff with spacing and behavior notes
- Discovery sprints for products still being defined
- Baseline metrics and post-launch iteration
How it works
Discover proportionately
For internal or expert users, a few shadowing sessions beat a hundred survey questions; for high-volume consumer flows, analytics pairs with targeted usability review. No research theater when the problem is obviously a broken form field.
Structure the flows
Journey maps and states come before high-fidelity decoration. Engineers get every state, empty, loading, success, failure, permission denied, not a PNG that only looked nice in Figma.
Build the system
Tokens, components, type, and spacing are defined against the real component library, with short feedback loops that keep a PM and tech lead in the room and cut design-to-dev ping-pong.
Verify before handoff
Keyboard navigation is tested and designs are verified against WCAG 2.1 AA before handoff. Baseline metrics, task completion, time-on-task, or conversion, are set before shipping so quality is measurable, not subjective.
Stack we reach for
- Figma
- Framer
- Storybook
- Rive
- Lottie
- Spline
- Tokens Studio
- Maze
Common questions
Figma is typical, but the handoff matters more than the tool. If a partner team uses something else, the work adapts as long as exports and specs stay honest.
Usually, by phasing surfaces: navigation and shell first, then high-traffic flows. Parallel tracks need coordination so engineering is not rebuilding the same screen twice.
Contrast ratios, focus indicators, and touch target sizes are factored in from the wireframe stage, and every design is tested with keyboard navigation and verified against WCAG 2.1 AA before handoff. A choice that fails accessibility gets an equivalent that preserves the visual intent.
Baseline metrics are set before shipping, task completion rate, time-on-task, or conversion depending on what the surface does, then reviewed post-launch and iterated. Design quality is measurable; subjective approval alone is not the bar.
By milestone or time and materials, depending on discovery risk. When the problem is undefined, work starts with a small paid discovery so neither side pretends the scope is fixed.
Related specializations
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