Your design engineering team, without the hiring
We’re a design engineering studio built for B2B product teams. UX research, design systems, and design engineering.
I started EDL in 2021 to design great pixels. We still do. Look closely at anything we ship and you’ll see it.
But pixels were never the point. Somewhere around the sixth product team we worked with, I noticed a pattern. The products that held together weren’t the ones with the best screens. They were the ones that treated design as infrastructure. Something the product stands on, not a deliverable handed over at the end.
That changed how we work. When we join a team, we actually join it. We sit in the standups. We push back on the roadmap when it needs pushing. We care about your support queue and your release cadence, because that's where design shows up in the numbers.
And it does show up. One client shipped 48% faster once their design system stopped fighting them. Another cut support tickets by 23% in six months. Same features, same complexity. Better decisions, made earlier.
That’s the philosophy. Design as infrastructure. Built with your team, not handed to it.
Frederick Andersen
Founder
Nine creatives who’ve been in the trenches
Stéphanie maps the user journeys that engineering actually builds from. She turns complex product logic into clear flows and makes sure nothing gets lost between design intent and what ships.
Stéphanie Dorval
Experience Design
Modestas builds systems that survive contact with reality. He handles governance, component architecture, and the hard part nobody talks about: making sure the system is still being used six months after launch.
Modestas Sekstela
Design Systems
Frederick sets the direction and keeps the project honest. He bridges business goals with design decisions and will tell you when your roadmap needs rethinking. Probably before you ask.
Frederick Andersen
Founder
Dario cuts through noise to find the experience that sets your product apart. He brings brand thinking into product work, which is rare and valuable when your interface is your brand.
Dario Cardella
Product Design
Filippa takes complicated problems and makes them feel simple to use. She sharpens interfaces, reduces friction, and has a talent for spotting the choice that's confusing your users before they do.
Filippa Säll
Experience Design
Oskar is the reason your product won't look like every other SaaS tool on the market. He brings a visual craft that gives complex interfaces a sense of clarity and polish.
Oskar Siemion
Product Design
Maria translates what we do into words that actually land. She works at the intersection of design and language, with a sharp instinct for what makes a message resonate and why certain ideas stick while others don't.
Maria Santos
Marketing
Alessandro builds the design system foundations that scale products and keep them LLM-ready. He treats the architecture behind a product as a creative challenge, not just an engineering task.
Alessandro Longo
Design Systems
Jeanne makes sure the right people know what we do. She leads marketing and communications with a clear instinct for what deserves attention and how to give it the recognition it deserves.
Jeanne Lacelle
Marketing & Communications
Five things we won’t budge on
Work hard, play hard
Let’s see if we’re a good fit
If you lead product or design at a B2B software company and need senior design engineering capacity that actually ships, let’s talk.
No big presentations. No fluff. Just data, systems, and measurable results.
Frederick Andersen
Founder