Design for security products, priced as a project
I work with seed and Series-A cybersecurity vendors whose engineers ship the UI, often with AI tools, and where nobody owns what the analyst actually sees. Every security product is made of the same four things: what is connected, what is allowed, what needs approval, what happened. I have designed all four — four years on these four, six in security overall — for administrators and analysts who use them under load.
Founders and CTOs with a paying customer who has said the product is hard to act on; a channel partner or investor who wants the demo to land; or an engineering team generating screens faster than anyone can keep them consistent.
Three steps: understand, redesign, prove.
Understand
One hour with your customer’s users. I walk the product the way they do. Thirty minutes with your engineer on how UI gets built. Ends with: the five issues that matter most, ranked, with screenshots; we agree which screens to fix.
Redesign
The screens on the user’s critical path, including empty, loading and error states and the words on screen. Ends with: a clickable prototype.
Prove and hand over
Three to five real users try the prototype on real tasks. I fix what stalls them. Ends with: dev-ready spec, design tokens your tooling can read, and a before/after walkthrough.
Pilots are fixed price. The length and the price are set after a first call, to fit your scope. This practice is new, so there’s no client list to show you yet — the published case studies are what you can check. If the first step’s findings haven’t earned the rest, stop there: you keep them and pay only the first half. The pilot can also add the artifact your customer hands upward, whether that is a board summary, an incident report or audit evidence, designed with the person who has to produce it and quoted with the pilot. Larger scopes, monthly retainers and fractional design leadership are quoted after a first call.
Every engagement: 50% on acceptance, 50% on handover. If after the first step’s findings you would rather stop, stop; you keep the findings and owe nothing beyond the first half. I sign your NDA before we start. All work product is yours on final payment. GST extra where applicable.
Month to month, I keep the design system in a form your engineers’ tools can follow, check each release for inconsistency, and review new features before they ship. Priced on release cadence.
I am not a production front-end engineer. Your team builds; I make the spec precise and review what gets built. I do not do brand, marketing sites, or mobile consumer apps.
Email omkarpkh@gmail.com with one sentence about what you are working on. I reply within two working days.