Taking one new project for the next quarter
Design that survives contact with engineers.
Independent product designer working with small software teams on interfaces, design systems and the handover that usually goes wrong.
11 years
Designing products
Why people choose us
The details, in numbers
Designing products
Products shipped
Project at a time
How I can help
Six ways teams engage me
Every engagement ends with documentation your team owns outright.
Selected work
Four recent projects
Full case studies with the messy parts included are available on request.
How I work
Fewer files, better handover.
Most design work fails after the last mockup is approved. So I work in your repository, name things the way your engineers name them, and hand over states, edge cases and copy alongside the screens.
- One client at a time, so feedback never waits in a queue
- Weekly rate agreed up front, invoiced every second week
- Components named and structured to match your codebase
- Recorded walkthroughs so nobody has to remember the details
The lookbook
A closer look
A project, week by week
What working together looks like
A predictable rhythm, with something reviewable at the end of each week.
Week one: context
Interviews, analytics and a written problem statement we both agree on.
Week two: directions
Two or three routes explored in the real product, not in isolation.
Week three onward: build out
The chosen direction is built across states and edge cases with weekly review.
Final week: handover
Specs, tokens, components and a recorded walkthrough for your team.
Testimonials
In their words
“Marlowe joined for one project, reframed the problem in week one, and shipped it in ten.”
Shipped in 10 weeks
Ingrid Solberg
VP Product
“No handoff decks and no juniors. The work arrived finished.”
Two engagements
Ravi Nair
Founder
“The clearest product thinking I have hired in years, and it came with the drawings to match.”
Retained for next year
Clara Whitlock
Head of Design
The team
The people you will actually work with
Marlowe Chen
Product designer
Interface and systems work for 11 years
Takes one project at a time, from the first sketch to the shipped interface.
Priya Anand
Design engineer
Front-end and design systems
Builds the interfaces to spec so nothing is lost between drawing and release.
Have a project in mind?
Send a paragraph about the product and the problem. You will get an honest answer, including a no if I am not the right fit.
Ledgerline
One project at a time, never juggled · Fixed weekly rate, no surprise invoices