Community 04 · Design
Fair4Design, design freelancers validated by their peers.
Designers who understand users, structure design systems and deliver usable interfaces. Chosen by their peers, supported by one of them, with a 10% margin written on the quote.
The community’s profiles.
Fair4Design brings together six roles in three families, research and service, interface and system, art direction and content, each entered on work delivered rather than on a title; strategy, roadmap and prioritization belong to Fair4Product, and the two communities refer needs to each other.
Research and service
UX designer
User research, journeys, information architecture, mock-ups tested with real users.
Service designer
End-to-end journeys, touchpoint mapping, linking the service delivered with the organization that delivers it.
Interface and system
UI designer
Interfaces, components, states and edge cases, handover to the development teams.
Design system lead
Component library, principles, documentation, governance of the system and its link with the code.
Art direction and content
Art director
Visual identity, consistency of a brand universe, creative direction.
Content designer
Interface text, brand tone, clarity of messages and journeys, editorial consistency.
Strategy, roadmap and prioritization belong to Fair4Product; Fair4Design studies users, structures design systems and draws the interfaces that follow.
The tools our experts work with.
A designer joining a team has to be productive on the tooling already in place, not impose their own. The tools most often used on the community’s missions:
- Figma
- FigJam
- Sketch
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Storybook
- Zeroheight
- Tokens Studio
- Miro
- Maze
- UserTesting
- Framer
- Lottie
Five situations where Fair4Design is called in.
01
A journey users abandon.
Sign-ups start but never finish. A UX designer observes, identifies the blockages and proposes a tested journey.
02
A product whose screens do not look alike.
Each team draws its own components. A design system lead sets up the shared library and documents it.
03
An interface redesign to run.
A product that has aged, uses that have changed. A UI designer reworks the screens, a UX designer checks that they serve the journeys.
04
A brand to carry into the product.
The identity exists on paper, not in the interface. An art director turns it into visual rules that can be applied.
05
A service that depends on several teams.
The customer moves from one channel to another with no continuity. A service designer maps the complete journey and a content designer clarifies the messages.
Joining Fair4Design.
You enter Fair4Design through a 30-minute meeting with its community lead, not through open registration: the lead opens access after meeting you, and across all communities one profile in three presented is retained.
- 1A 30-minute video call with the community lead. The discussion covers work actually delivered: the context, the approach, the choices defended, what was tested and what failed.
- 2The community lead validates your entry. If your background fits, they tell you during the call and ask whether you prefer a profile pre-filled from your LinkedIn page, or a CV you send. They then validate your entry: criteria reviewed with the ecosystem’s experts, references checked with previous clients.
- 3You receive an invitation to the talent space. An invitation link lets you create your password and enter. If the link has not been opened, a reminder goes out three days later.
The same price as everywhere at Fair4B.
The expert’s rate, 10% for Fair4B, 10% redistributed to the members who brought, selected and followed the mission: the three lines are written on the quote, before the first profile.
On a design mission, this means two concrete things. The client knows the share that goes to the expert and the share that goes to Fair4B, so they can compare two offers on a real basis. And the community lead who received the selected expert receives a share of the redistribution: the quality of selection is rewarded, not just claimed.
Questions about Fair4Design.
How much does a UX designer freelancer cost?
A freelance designer’s daily rate is built on three variables: how rare the specialty is, experience on products actually delivered, and the level of responsibility on the mission. Fair4B states its margin, 10%, from the brief: the client therefore knows exactly what share goes to the expert.
What is the difference between a UX designer and a UI designer?
A UX designer works on uses: user research, journeys, information architecture, testing. A UI designer draws the interface itself: components, states, visual details, handover to developers. Many designers do both; the brief says how much of each is expected.
How does Fair4B select its design experts?
In three steps. A 30-minute meeting with the Fair4Design community lead, on work actually delivered. The lead then validates the entry, drawing on the ecosystem’s experts and having references checked with previous clients. Then the invitation to the talent space. This selection is one of the five roles paid through redistribution.
Fair4Design or Fair4Product?
Fair4Design for user research, design systems and interfaces. Fair4Product for strategy, discovery, roadmap and prioritization. When a need touches both, the two community leads talk to each other; you do not have to choose alone.
How quickly does Fair4B propose a shortlist of designers?
Fair4B replies within 24h and presents its first profiles within 48h of receiving the brief. These timeframes come from the circuit: the request goes straight to the Fair4Design community, whose members know their peers’ availability.
What is the difference between Fair4Design and a design-specialized IT services firm?
An IT services firm charges a margin it does not disclose. Fair4B states 10% from the brief and redistributes an equivalent share to the members who made the mission possible. Selection is led by the Fair4Design community lead, not by a sales team.