Understand.
Learn what people are trying to do, where the workflow breaks, and which technical or business constraints matter before proposing a solution.
Product
Designer
Tristan Jacob
Villabona.
Product Designer based in the Philippines, working with founders and teams worldwide.
3+Years experience
10+Clients served
9+Industries
Profile
Product Designer with hands-on product design experience across government, fintech, e-commerce, and enterprise SaaS platforms, including 18 months building a UI/UX discipline from the ground up in an in-house product role. I work directly with founders and developers as an embedded design partner, using AI-assisted workflows to move quickly without losing craft.
What I do
Product design
UX, UI, design systems, and front-end implementation for SaaS, service, and e-commerce products, from first wireframe to shipped interface.
Also available
Brand identity, creative direction, 3D and motion, print and environment.
Brought in when a product engagement calls for it, not offered separately.
Design. Figma, Framer, Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom, Blender.
Build. React, Next.js, Node, Express, MongoDB, Supabase, JavaScript, Tailwind CSS, GSAP, Three.js.
AI. Claude, Cursor, Codex, Figma AI.
Worked with18+ clients
How I work.
A flexible product-design model. The depth of each stage adapts to the product, the evidence available, and the decision at hand.
Define.
Turn the evidence into a focused problem, a priority flow, and clear success criteria so the team knows what to solve first.
Design & validate.
Explore flows, wireframes, interfaces, and prototypes. Test the decisions that carry the most risk before committing the final system.
Ship & learn.
Document the system, support implementation and QA, then use adoption, feedback, and product outcomes to decide what improves next.
Questions, answered.
The things most people ask before we start. If yours isn’t here, the inbox is open.
Start a projectProduct design, end to end: research, UX, UI, design systems, and the front-end to ship it. That covers SaaS, internal tools, and consumer products, including redesigning and optimizing something already live, not just building from scratch. If the product's brand identity needs attention too, I take that on in the same engagement. But the product is what you're hiring me for.
Per project, scoped to the outcome rather than hours. Most engagements start around $2,000 and scale with the surface area: a focused identity or landing page sits at the lower end, a full brand-and-product build runs higher. You get a fixed number before we start, so nothing moves mid-flight.
A focused piece (an identity refresh or a marketing site) typically runs three to five weeks. A full brand-and-product engagement runs six to ten, depending on scope and how fast feedback comes back. The timeline is locked with the brief and I hold to it.
Four flexible stages: Understand, Define, Design & validate, and Ship & learn. I use evidence to clarify the problem, set priorities and success criteria, test the riskiest decisions, then support implementation, QA, and the next improvements.
Yes. I'm based in the Philippines (UTC+8) and work async by default: clear written updates, recorded walkthroughs, and a couple of fixed call windows a week. Most of my clients are several time zones away and it has never been the bottleneck.
A sense of what you're building, who it's for, and when you want it live. Even rough is fine. From there I come back with scope, timeline, and a fixed price. The clearer the outcome you're after, the faster we move.
Yes, as tools inside a hand-led process, not a replacement for it. Claude and Codex speed up research and front-end implementation, Cursor keeps the build loop tight, and Figma AI helps with early exploration. Every decision on strategy, identity, and interface still runs through one person, so the work stays coherent rather than assembled.
Let’s talk about the next product.
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