MVP design services:
from idea to a working MVP in four weeks

An MVP should prove the idea fast, so ours ends as a working build, not a design file. As an MVP design agency for startups, we take you from idea to a product people can use in four weeks, at a fixed $12,500.

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Start from zero or from your build.

Retainer terms: minimum three months, then cancel anytime with 30 days' notice. All prices in USD or USDC.

3-day trial

Freethree days

A Glow designer works on your actual product for three days. You get real screens, not a pitch, and you owe nothing if you stop there.

  • Three days with a Glow designer
  • Real screens on your actual product
  • No contract, no commitment
  • Nothing owed if you stop there
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Discovery Week

Start here
$3,500one week

One week to work out what your MVP needs: who it's for, how it works and what to build first. The plan is yours to keep, and the fee comes off your MVP if you start within 30 days.

  • Who your MVP is for
  • How it works and what to build first
  • A plan you keep either way
  • Credited toward MVP within 30 days

MVP

$12,500four weeks

Fixed scope, fixed price and a senior team. You finish with a working build. Start a retainer within 30 days of your MVP and we credit $2,500 toward your first month.

  • A working build, not a design file
  • A core flow designed to activate and retain
  • Dev review of architecture, security and scale
  • Free 3-day trial included
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Enterprise

Bigger product or several teams? Enterprise adds senior capacity from $20,000 a month, priced after a call.

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What you get
in four weeks

The product’s core flow mapped end to endScreen structure before visual designFinished product interfaceThe product’s component systemA usability test running on the clickable buildDeveloper documentation and tokens

Every path through the product is agreed before anything gets built. This MVP UX design work decides whether users reach the value at all.

Wireframes for each screen, approved while a change still costs an hour, not a sprint.

MVP UI/UX design at full visual quality across every core flow. Nothing that looks generated or templated.

Buttons, inputs, states, color and type built as one set, so every next feature costs less to design.

Test it with real users, demo it to investors and align co-founders, all on the product itself rather than a slide.

Specs, tokens, states and assets, plus our developer's notes on what will break at scale.

Built for founders whoneed to move fast

MVP design for startups usually starts from one of four situations. If none of them is yours, you'll know in three days, not three months.

01 / 04

You have an idea but no design team

You know what the product should do. You need someone to turn it into real screens fast, without a three-month hiring process.

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02 / 04

You need a prototype for your next round

Investors want to click through something real. You need a product that holds up once they start asking questions.

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03 / 04

You want to test before you build

Before engineers write production code, you want real users to try the product and show you what works.

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04 / 04

Your product has AI inside it

Chatbots, recommendations, copilots, ML dashboards. These need a designer who has shipped AI products before, not one learning on your budget.

Report · Q3

Churn rose in two segments after the pricing change.

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[01]AI Challenges

Building an AI product?
We’ve designed for this before.

Most design agencies treat AI products like any other web app.

Where the interface breaks

Then the AI does something unexpected, and the interface has no answer for it.

How we handle AI UX challenges

AI MVP design is a big part of our work, across fintech, edtech, logistics and SaaS. If AI sits at the core of your MVP, that experience comes with the project.

  1. 1How do users correct or override AI output?
  2. 2How do you show confidence levels?
  3. 3What should the screen show while the model is working?
  • Dropcall · AI calling product
  • Echo · AI call intelligence
  • CryptoGenie · AI crypto prediction

No waiting, no waste: a working MVP in four weeks

Many agencies spend the first two weeks on research and loose directions, so real UI work starts in week three or later. Here is where our four weeks go instead.

  1. Week 1: Discovery & structure. Core flow agreed. Scope locked, no creep. Direction approved by Friday.
  2. Weeks 2 to 3: Design & build. A working build, not mockups. Flows built to activate and retain. Senior-level visuals, no AI slop.
  3. Week 4: Dev review & handoff. Architecture and security checked. A roadmap with three ways forward. The working build is yours.

Two ways to build it,and you pick at kick-off

Both routes trade the same two things: speed and control. Pick one and see how the balance shifts.

A. Vibe-first

Design and build happen together in AI build tools, with no Figma stage. The faster route.

B. Figma-first

Visual direction is set in Figma first, then built. Slower and more exact, for complex products.

Why founders choose
Glow Design Agency

01Fixed price, no surprises

Fixed price

The invoicegrows every weekthe number we agreed

023-day free trial

Trial · 3 days

Working with usa leap of faithtried for three days first

03Faster than hiring in-house

Time to start

Designstarts after hiringstarts this week

04Direct access to senior designers

Team · seniors

Your designersbehind an account managerin your Slack

Frequently
asked questions

MVP design turns an idea into the simplest version of your product that real users can use: the core flow, the screens around it and the logic that connects them, scoped to what proves the concept. Most MVP product design ends with a design file. Ours ends with a working build. For how an MVP compares with other launch strategies, see MVP vs MMP vs MLP.

Four weeks for one platform. The exact scope, and with it the timing, is confirmed on the intro call. Our AI-assisted process speeds up research and assembly, while the product decisions get the same time and attention as always.

$12,500, fixed: four weeks, one platform, a senior team, 50% upfront. Scope is set by the core flow, not a screen count, so we agree on what the product must do before we start. No retainer commitment is required.

To design an MVP that fits four weeks, we keep one core flow that delivers the main value, plus the minimum around it: sign-up, the key screens and a way to see whether people use it. Admin panels, extra roles, settings and edge cases usually wait. Here is how we scope an MVP in one week.

A prototype shows how the product will work: clickable screens, no real data behind them. An MVP is the product people actually use. We still prototype flows inside the project to test them early, but you leave with a working MVP.

An MVP covers the core flow, the minimum a real user needs to get value and tell you whether the idea holds. Full product design adds a broader feature set, multiple user roles, admin panels and more complex interactions. The MVP is constrained on purpose, and that constraint is what makes it fast.

Three routes, and we tell you which one the build needs. Production-Ready Development turns it into production code. Slop Fix improves the design and UX without touching the code. Both start from $5,000 and are quoted after a short review, because the same service can be two screens or a hundred. If the roadmap keeps producing work, a design retainer covers it at $12,000 a month.

Yes. At handoff, the working build, design files, specs and assets are yours. You can keep working with us, hand the build to your own engineers or take it anywhere else.

Yes: web apps, iOS, Android and cross-platform products. One MVP covers one platform. SaaS MVP design usually starts on web, consumer products often start on mobile, and our mobile app design follows the same process with mobile-specific patterns.