25% off your first month
Design mentoring & leadership on-tap
Level-up your design team
Get senior-level design leadership for your growing design team without the need to hire - all for a simple, low monthly fee.
Design support you'll love or your money back*
No minimum contract. Cancel anytime.
STARTups we've helped through creative LEADERSHIP
Design mentoring benefits
Over 10 years of experience
Your mentor will have over 10 years of individual experience in leading design teams, mentoring designers, and designing for business growth.
Proven design leadership
Elevate the design output, consistency, quality, and success of your design team with strategic, proven design leadership
No additional design hires
Save money on senior-level designers that cost over £100k+, and elevate your design team with mentoring at less than 1/10th the cost
Find design gaps
Identify edge cases, missing interactions, use-cases and more
Improve quality
Elevate the quality of your design work with experienced creative direction
Better communication
Mentor designers in communicating designs and presenting to stakeholders
more consistency
Spot inconsistencies and connect your designs together in systems
increase efficiency
Improve the pace and impact of your design team's work
Find opportunities
Identify powerful new flows, journeys, or interactions to benefit your business
What our clients say
"We chose Chris and We Are Heroes because they continuously demonstrated the skills that we value highly - proactive and honest communication, open collaboration and deep expertise in their field."
Jillur, Founder @ Ontopop
"As a young startup with diverse creative needs, Chris from We Are Heroes ticked all the boxes for us in getting us ready to go to market. The flexibility & quality of work stands out as a great offering."
Rich, Product Manager @ Changelab
"It's been incredible working with Chris from We Are Heroes. A lot of credit for Alva's positive growth can be given to their approach."
Phil, Co-founder @ Alva
"Chris was honestly fantastic to work with - I couldn’t recommend We Are Heroes enough. Amazing attention to detail and skills across a broad range of areas from website design, to app design, to webflow."
Dom, Founder @ Runna
Design-led growth, made easy.
CHoose your mentoring or leadership plan
Choose your plan level and set up a kick-off call with us to discuss your unique needs.
Set goals & Book calls in with your mentor
Set your strategic goals and book in calls for mentoring sessions, and schedule design strategy work via Slack or Notion
Elevate your design team
Work with your mentor to define design strategy for your business, and work with your design team to help mentor them and elevate your design work.
Some of our work
Replace traditional design leadership with a more flexible solution.
Benefit from over 10 years of experience leading design teams for large companies through to small startups, defining design systems, high-level design strategy and more.
We'll work with you to mentor your design team, work across design strategy for your business, and bring design best-practice to your design efforts and team development.
Avoid the hassle and cost of hiring design leadership, and use a more flexible and affordable solution to optimise and mentor your design team.
We'll work with you to mentor your design team, work across design strategy for your business, and bring design best-practice to your design efforts and team development.
Avoid the hassle and cost of hiring design leadership, and use a more flexible and affordable solution to optimise and mentor your design team.
Use your time however you need.
1 to 1 designer mentoring or group calls
We'll spend time with your designers on a call and mentor 1-on-1, or we can sit with multiple designers and help them align direction and critique design work.
Design reviews & Creative direction
We'll review your designs, leave detailed feedback, and make suggestions on how to improve in order to get to where you need to be.
Strategy docs, user research & more
If you opt for the leadership plan, we'll be able to use your time to create strategy documents, conduct user-research, create team targets, suggest product optimisations and more!
Grow designer & design maturity with our designer development track.
Your designers will be able to follow our 30+ step designer development plan, to build their design confidence, maturity and quality, as well as the maturity of design in your organisation.
Avoid ineffective, expensive design courses that try to condense years of learning down into weeks, and get your designers on a development track that works with them on an individual basis.
Avoid ineffective, expensive design courses that try to condense years of learning down into weeks, and get your designers on a development track that works with them on an individual basis.
Who is design mentoring & leadership for?
STARTUPS
From SaaS to e-commerce, we know what it means to be scrappy and iterate quickly and often. We'll help your small, growing team of designers elevate their work and become more efficient.
Small design teams
It can be hard to ensure everyone on growing design teams are all pushing in the same direction, especially without the experience. We'll help your team align, grow and learn.
AGENCIES
It can be tough to ensure all projects have access to senior-level design talent and direction. We'll help your designers deliver quality work, with rationale and confidence across your projects.
Solo Designers
If you're working by yourself either freelance or as a contractor, it can be hard to know what to do to improve your skills. We help upskill you and provide senior mentorsip whilst you work.
Our Plans
1 call/week
Basic
We'll spend up to 1 hour a week on a call with designers on your team mentoring them, helping them elevate their designs, solving problems and more.
We'll help with:
- Figma or design tool support
- Improve design quality
- Improve design consistency and efficiency
- Improve design proficiency
- Creative direction
- Support with care and empathy
- *14 day money-back guarantee
25% off your first month
£600/mo
(ex VAT)
2 calls/week
Growth
We'll spend up to 2 hours a week on 2 calls with designers on your team mentoring them, helping them elevate their designs, solving problems and more.
We'll help:
- Figma or design tool support
- Improve design quality
- Improve design consistency and efficiency
- Improve design proficiency
- Creative direction
- Support with care and empathy
- Designer development track
- *14 day money-back guarantee
25% off your first month
£900/mo
(ex VAT)
3+ hours/week
Leadership
We'll work with you as a part-time design leader for your business. Helping mentor designers on calls, crafting strategy documents, setting team targets, and more.
This includes:
- Everything in the Pro plan
- Design strategy & documentation
- Design team targets/OKRs
- Detailed design reviews & feedback
- We'll join a Slack channel with your design team
- Optimisation & user research
- *14 day money-back guarantee
25% off your first month
From £1800/mo
(ex VAT)
Not sure if mentoring or leadership is right for your team? Need more support?
Let's chatWho are We Are Heroes?
A design leader & Product designer with 10+ years experience
We Are Heroes is Chris, a design-leader with over 10 years experience leading design teams for large corporates and startups alike, helping them grow their businesses through exceptional design and strategy.
A published design writer and speaker
Chris has been published in numerous online publications from UX Collective to Prototypr, Tealfeed, and many more, writing about developments in product, UX, and design, and how to grow and lead design teams.
A creative business leader
Chris bootstrapped We Are Heroes - a design subscription business - to offer high-quality, strategically led design to over 30 different startups from pre-seed to series C, across industries from healthcare to e-commerce, data analysis, SaaS, recruitment, fitness, and more. He has also worked with numerous startups, preparing their design efforts for funding rounds, building pitch decks and more.
