Hire product designers · Cape Town
Hire UI/UX and product designers in Cape Town
Mobile-first, low-bandwidth products with mobile money built in, from a senior team on overlapping hours.
Hire senior UI/UX and product designers from Clarigo Infotech. Our designers turn ideas into clear, beautiful products: UX research, user flows, wireframes, pixel-perfect UI in Figma, design systems and clickable prototypes for web and mobile apps. Because designers and developers sit in one team, designs ship exactly as intended. Recently we designed LivSocial's social platform end to end.
10+
Years of delivery
600+
Projects delivered
20+
Countries served
25-30
Days to a live MVP
Get a free consultation
Tell us what you need. A senior engineer replies within one working day.
Mobile-first and built for real conditions
African businesses need products that work on any phone and any connection, with mobile money and local payments built in.
Works on any connection
Lightweight apps and sites that stay fast on slow networks and older phones.
Mobile money and local payments
M-Pesa, Flutterwave, Paystack and card payments integrated.
Overlapping hours
Two and a half to four and a half hours from India, so most of the day overlaps.
Cost-effective delivery
Senior engineers at offshore rates with full code ownership.
What our designers do
UX research and strategy
Understand your users, map journeys and find where people get stuck before anything is designed.
Wireframes and user flows
Structure every screen and step so the product is easy to use from the first tap.
UI design in Figma
Polished, on-brand interfaces for web and mobile, ready for developers.
Design systems
Reusable components, colours and typography so your product stays consistent as it grows.
Clickable prototypes
Test ideas with real users and show investors a working-feel product before building.
Redesigns and UX audits
Fix confusing flows and dated screens in an existing app or website to lift conversions.
Built for Cape Town teams
Time-zone overlap
South Africa is three and a half hours behind India, so our working days overlap for most of your morning and early afternoon.
The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)
We design to POPIA's conditions for lawful processing: purpose limits, security safeguards and data-subject access, with data hosted in South African cloud regions when required. We sign NDAs before work starts.
Billing
Invoices in South African rand (ZAR) or US dollars. Senior designers are typically $25 to $49 (USD) per hour, or a fixed price for a defined design project.
Industries we work with in Cape Town
Cape Town startups use us for SaaS, e-commerce and AI products, with a strong daily overlap in working hours and privacy designed to POPIA.
Mining
Mines invest in safety, monitoring and automation systems. Our developers have built products for this sector and join your team quickly.
Financial services
Banks and insurers lead in mobile and digital channels. Senior engineers who understand this sector's systems and data.
Retail
National chains expand e-commerce and loyalty programmes. Add experienced developers without a long hiring process.
Tourism and wine
Operators and estates sell to international visitors online. Our developers have built products for this sector and join your team quickly.
Your working day with us
Our team's hours, in Cape Town time
06:30–16:00
Monday to Friday
Overlap with your working day
09:00–16:00
About 7 hours every day
Daily stand-up
09:30
Cape Town time, plus written updates every evening
What we set up for Cape Town
Languages
Local payments
Data hosting
AWS Africa (Cape Town), Google Cloud africa-south1 (Johannesburg) and Azure South Africa North, in your own cloud account, so data stays where your rules require.
Choose how you work with us
Dedicated developer
A full-time senior engineer who works only on your product, inside your tools and stand-ups.
Best for ongoing product work
Dedicated team
A small pod (for example 2 engineers, a designer and a project lead) that owns a product end to end.
Best for building a new product
Fixed-scope project
A clear scope, timeline and price, such as an MVP live in 25 to 30 days.
Best for a defined first version
How it works
1. Tell us what you need
Share the role, skills, time zone and how long you need the developers. Free, no commitment.
2. Meet your developers
Within days we introduce senior engineers matched to your stack. Interview them before you decide.
3. Start with a trial sprint
Start with a short paid sprint so you can judge code quality, communication and speed.
4. Scale up or down
Add or remove developers as your roadmap changes. You keep full ownership of all code.
See what we've built
Try it yourself, free
Free browser tools from our team. No sign-up needed.
Hire UI/UX and product designers: questions from Cape Town
Do you work with companies in Cape Town?+
Yes. Clarigo Infotech works with companies across Cape Town, including Cape Town, Stellenbosch, as part of clients in 20+ countries. We work remotely from India with one in-house team.
What time-zone overlap do we get from Cape Town?+
South Africa is three and a half hours behind India, so our working days overlap for most of your morning and early afternoon.
How do you handle the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)?+
We design to POPIA's conditions for lawful processing: purpose limits, security safeguards and data-subject access, with data hosted in South African cloud regions when required. We sign NDAs before work starts.
Which currency do you bill in, and what does it cost?+
We bill in South African rand (ZAR) or US dollars. Senior designers are typically $25 to $49 (USD) per hour, or a fixed price for a defined design project.
Do you work with mining companies?+
Yes. Mining is one of Cape Town's key sectors, and senior engineers who understand this sector's systems and data.
What time are your meetings in Cape Town time?+
Our team works 06:30–16:00 Cape Town time, so we overlap with your day from 09:00–16:00. Daily stand-ups are usually at 09:30 your time.
Can you build in English and Afrikaans and isiZulu?+
Yes. We build interfaces and content in English and Afrikaans and isiZulu, and test them with native speakers before launch.
Can you redesign our existing app or website?+
Yes. We start with a UX audit to find what confuses users or hurts conversions, then redesign in stages so you see improvements quickly.
Who owns the designs?+
You do. All design files, assets and the design system belong to you.
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