Taking new projects · Clifton, NJ
Your AI product, designed and shipped in working code.
Barsky Design is a product & AI design studio in Clifton, NJ. We design the interface and how the AI behaves, then build it in React and TypeScript. What you launch is what we designed, with nobody in between rebuilding it from a Figma file.
- Design and code from one team
- Enterprise rigor at startup speed
- 8 products shipped
Not ready to book? See the work first.
Led by Hiram Barsky. 15+ years and 200K+ lines of shipped code, inside
- PNC
- Bank of America
- Deloitte
- KPMG
- Citi
- Cloudera
- 200K+
- lines of production code shipped
- 10,000+
- commits behind the products on this page
- 8
- products shipped, 7 publicly live
- 85%
- search-accuracy lift, DAE Search
- 15+
- years inside PNC, BofA, Deloitte, KPMG
- 6
- execs on record, Citi to KPMG
Shipped products
The problem
Your product is stuck between a designer and a developer
The idea holds up and the team can build. It stalls anyway, in the gap between whoever draws the screens and whoever has to make them work.
Beautiful mockup, no product.
You hire a designer and get a clean Figma file. Then you hire an engineer to rebuild it and spend three weeks explaining the vision a second time, and something gets lost every time it changes hands.
The cost:
Two months of runway gone to translation.
The AI feature stalls in the demo.
It looks great while the model is confident. Nobody designed the moment it’s unsure or flat wrong, so the first user who hits that moment stops trusting it.
The cost:
A feature that demos well, then gets quietly switched off.
Design demand outruns the team.
Your engineers are waiting on screens or building without them. The freelancer you brought in last month doesn’t know the product yet, so every brief starts over.
The cost:
Velocity drops and the product starts to look stitched together.
Patching it piece by piece is how most teams end up here.
A designer for the screens and a contractor for the front end, with a spec passed between them that neither one fully owns. Each piece looks fine alone. Then a real user touches it and the seams show.
So what does work?
One studio that designs the product and writes the code it ships in, including how the AI acts when it isn’t sure.
Every product on this page was built that way, concept to production with nobody handing anything off.
30 minutes to look at what you have and map what it needs.
Word of mouth
What the people who’ve worked with us say
“His ability to translate complex user requirements into intuitive, visually appealing designs sets him apart. His work consistently garnered positive feedback from colleagues and stakeholders alike.”
Alex Pantaler
SVP of UX/UI, Citi
“One of the most talented designers I have had the pleasure to work with.”
Attila Bodi
Lead Product Designer, Cloudera
“Unmatched in his ability to translate the often vague ideas from clients into beautiful, simple-to-use products.”
Daanish
Business Delivery Partner, Tata Consultancy Services
“Highly talented, creative, and perceptive. He asks smart questions to make sure he understands what clients need — and delivers clean, well-thought-out designs.”
Jon Hoberman
Senior Product Manager, FinTech
“He takes charge of any situation and sees any task through to the end. I recommend Hiram for any project as the Lead UX Designer.”
Robert Stein
Release Manager, KPMG
“Always innovating and looking to improve. I would suggest him for senior and leadership roles.”
Isrrael Gutierrez
Design Systems Developer, KPMG
A note from the founder
I spent fifteen years inside PNC, Bank of America, Deloitte and KPMG watching good design die in the handoff. A designer would get it right, an engineering team would get a PDF, and six months later the product looked nothing like the work.
So I started a studio where the same people design it and build it. We work out the flows and how the AI should act when it’s confident and when it’s guessing, then we write the React and TypeScript ourselves. Seven of the eight products on this site went out that way.
The first call is free and takes 30 minutes. Bring a napkin sketch or a product that’s already live. I’ll tell you straight whether we’re the right fit, and if we aren’t, who might be.
Hiram Barsky
Founder & Principal Designer, Barsky Design
The process
From a first call to a product that’s live
An engagement runs in three steps, and none of them is a discovery phase.
Step 1
Free 30-minute call
Bring the problem and who it’s for. If we can help, we scope the work together on the call. If we can’t, we say so.
Step 2
Design & build, in the open
We design the flows and the interface, including how the AI behaves, then build it in React and TypeScript. You see running software every week instead of a deck at the end.
Step 3
Ship, then hand over
It goes live in production code you own. Your engineers get a codebase they can extend the same day.
Shipped Games
Built solo, shipped for fun.
On the Bench
What we’re building right now.
Fire Lion: Space & Kids Mode
The word-casting game grew a boss-reward space shooter and a kid-friendly Cub Mode. Both are in trial now.
Watch the walkthrough →
Portfolio Ideation
Rethinking the portfolio as a working product. This is the thinking that became the site you are on.
Watch the walkthrough →
NudgeMe: A Design Dilemma
Working through the gym-notifications flow, and how a reminder should reach you without nagging you.
Watch the walkthrough →
Ring-Rival: Look, Feel & Controls
Tuning the boxing game’s look and feel, plus the touch controls that make a punch land with some weight.
Watch the walkthrough →
FAQs
Still got questions?
Do you deliver designs, or a working product?
Both. We design the experience and then build it in React and TypeScript, so an engagement can end in production code you own. Seven of the eight products on this site were made exactly that way.
Do you work on AI products specifically?
Yes, that is the core of the practice. We design AI-first products end to end, from the interaction model through how the AI behaves when it is confident, when it is guessing, and when it fails, down to the interface around it. NudgeMe, HerbaLink, and Stips are live examples.
Can you take a product from prototype all the way to production?
Yes. We build the real thing in React and TypeScript and ship it live. Most of the products on this site went concept to production that way, which is why an engagement here ends in working code.
Do you work with early-stage startups, or only large companies?
Both. We bring 15+ years inside PNC, Bank of America, and Deloitte, plus eight shipped products of our own. A founder with a napkin sketch gets the same rigor a bank would. A team that needs a senior hand gets someone who has shipped.
What does an engagement cost?
It depends on scope. A focused design sprint is a very different thing from a concept-to-production build. We work project-based or on retainer, and the free 30-minute call is where we scope it. You will leave with a clear picture either way.
How fast can we start?
We’re currently taking new projects. Book the free 30-minute intro call and if we’re a fit, work typically starts within a couple of weeks.
Stop paying for the handoff.
Thirty minutes on a call. We look at what you have and tell you what it needs, and whether we’re the right people to build it. Either way you leave with a plan.