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Independent studio · Orange County, CA

Design and front-end build, from one desk, at published prices.

You need a site or a product interface designed properly, and you would rather not spend three weeks getting quotes to find out what that costs. Every rate and every package is published on this page, and each price is hours multiplied by an hourly rate — so any number here can be explained by the work behind it.

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Damien Komala, founder and principal designer of Project Rockwell

Founder / Principal

DAMIEN KOMALA

OC / CA

Services

Three practice lines.

Sold individually or bundled into one engagement. The third is not a bolt-on — it is how the first two now get made.

  1. Web Design & Build

    Marketing sites that convert visitors into customers — fast, responsive, and built to perform.

    • Marketing sites, landing pages, campaign microsites
    • WordPress, Webflow and Next.js builds
    • WooCommerce storefronts, catalogue and checkout UX
    • SEO-aware information architecture
    • CMS handoff so your team can self-edit after launch
  2. UI/UX & Product Design

    User-centred interfaces for complex SaaS platforms, grounded in research and design systems.

    • UX strategy, discovery interviews, research synthesis
    • Information architecture, user flows, journey mapping
    • Wireframes through high-fidelity Figma prototypes
    • Design systems — component libraries and tokens
    • iOS and Android app design, store-ready deliverables
  3. AI-Assisted Design & Build

    The newest line, and the reason the rest ships faster than it used to.

    • AI-accelerated concepting and art direction
    • Rapid prototypes generated from spec, then hand-corrected
    • Agentic development with Claude Code and MCP
    • Context and prompt engineering, test-driven
    • AI-assisted Git → Vercel deployment pipelines
Expertise

Core competencies.

Most designers think either visually or technically. I do both — pairing design craft with production-level front-end skill, a strategy-first mindset, performance marketing that ties the design back to acquisition, and hands-on agentic AI development.

Design

08 competencies
  • UI/UX Design
  • Design Systems
  • High-Fidelity Prototyping
  • Responsive Web Design
  • Mobile App Design (iOS/Android)
  • Brand Identity & Creative Direction
  • Interaction Design
  • Wireframing
Selected work

Products, dashboards, interfaces.

A sample. The full case studies live on the portfolio and on Behance.

Full portfolio
  • OrbitGuard Ops

    Satellite Operations Console

  • Hunter Water Management

    Irrigation Management Console

  • Newport Social Society

    Private Members' Club

  • One Corporate Wellness

    B2B Wellness Site & AI Assistant

  • Events by Ness

    Client Website

  • Tyler 4 Data

    Client Website & AI Assistant

Track record

  1. 60% company growth at PropStream

    Contributed creative strategy to initiatives that drove a 60% increase in company growth.

  2. PropStream's first native iPhone app

    Led the design and launch from concept to App Store, delivering a consistent iOS and Android experience.

  3. PropStream Academy

    Architected a customer education platform that measurably reduced support ticket volume and improved retention.

  4. Blockchain-secured loan application

    Designed multi-persona UX with distinct, role-specific interfaces for buyers, vendors and loan officers inside one design system.

  5. Scalable Figma design systems

    Built and maintained systems across multiple SaaS products, compressing design-to-dev handoff and keeping visuals consistent.

  6. 37 law firm websites

    Deployed through a custom Bootstrap templating system, dramatically improving production efficiency and consistency.

Pricing

Published rates, so you can budget before we talk.

Most design studios make you request a quote to find out whether you can afford them. I would rather you knew now. Every fixed price below is hours multiplied by my hourly rate and rounded to a clean number.

One hourly rate, two bands

Hourly rates by service type
ServiceRateWhat it covers
Web design & design concepting$75/hrDiscovery, art direction, page design, design systems
Front-end build$75/hrHTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, Next.js
Product & UX consulting$125/hrResearch, flows, prototypes, design-system architecture
Rush delivery+25%Compressed timelines under two weeks

Hours are tracked and reported. Two-hour minimum on hourly work.

  1. First conversation

    Free 30-Minute Intro Call

    No cost and no obligation. We talk through what you are trying to build, and you leave knowing whether I am the right person for it — if I am not, I will say so.

    Free30 minutes
    • What you are building and who it is for
    • A rough sense of scope, budget and timeline
    • Which package or rate is likely to fit
    • An honest answer on whether I am the right fit
    Book the call
  2. Then, if it fits

    Discovery & Direction Sprint

    A paid first step that ends with a written scope and a fixed price — credited in full against any project booked within 30 days.

    $3004 hours
    • Goals, audience and competitive review
    • Audit of your current site, if you have one
    • Sitemap and recommended page structure
    • Written scope with a fixed project price
    Book a sprint
  • Landing Page

    One page that has to do a single job well.

    $0

    16 hours

    • One long-form page, designed and built
    • Copy shaping from your material
    • Mobile-first, tested at real widths
    • Enquiry form wired to your inbox
  • Website Redesign

    Your content, rethought and rebuilt.

    $0

    20 hours

    • Up to 5 pages using your existing content
    • New visual direction and page structure
    • Performance and accessibility pass
    • Redirects so you keep your search rankings
  • Most booked

    Starter Site

    A complete small-business site, custom designed.

    $0

    30 hours

    • Up to 5 pages, designed from scratch
    • Custom design — no theme, no page builder
    • Enquiry form and basic on-page SEO
    • Analytics install and handover walkthrough
  • Brand + Web Bundle

    Identity and site designed as one system.

    $0

    50 hours

    • Logo, colour palette and type system
    • Brand guidelines document
    • Everything in the Starter Site
    • Consistent assets for print and social
  • Business Site

    A larger site you can edit yourself.

    $0

    55 hours

    • Up to 10 pages, designed from scratch
    • CMS so your team can edit content
    • Blog or news section
    • Third-party integrations as scoped
  • E-commerce & Custom

    Stores and app-like builds, scoped individually.

    From

    $0

    100+ hours

    • Product catalogue, cart and checkout
    • Payment and shipping configuration
    • Custom application work as needed
    • Scoped after a Discovery Sprint

In every package

  • Two rounds of revisions
  • Responsive across phone, tablet and desktop
  • Accessibility pass against WCAG 2.2 AA
  • Analytics installed and verified
  • A handover walkthrough so nothing is a black box

Billed at cost, never marked up

  • Hosting and domain registration
  • Premium plugins or licences
  • Stock photography
  • Paid typefaces

Further revision rounds beyond the two included run at the hourly rate.

Damien Komala
Founder & principal
Damien Komala
Education
BA, Art & Design — The Art Institute of Cincinnati, 1998
Awards
Two-time Summit Creative Award winner, 2013
Based in
Orange County, California
Who you would be working with

Design craft meets technical fluency.

I'm a senior UI/UX and web designer with over 27 years of experience across SaaS, fintech, real estate and e-commerce. Having hand-coded 300+ websites, I design with a deep understanding of what is actually buildable — which eliminates the friction between the design studio and the development sprint.

I've led design for products like PropStream's first native iPhone app and PropStream Academy, and I build scalable design systems in Figma that compress design-to-dev handoff and keep experiences consistent across platforms.

How it works

The terms, in plain language.

Payment schedule
Projects under $1,500 are split 50% deposit and 50% on launch. $1,500 and above are split 40% deposit, 30% at design approval, and 30% on launch.
You own everything
On final payment, the design files, the code, the domain and the hosting account are yours. Nothing is held hostage and there is no proprietary platform to stay locked into.
Scope changes are quoted first
Anything outside an agreed scope is estimated and approved by you in writing before it is worked. You will not receive a surprise invoice.
Estimates hold for 30 days
Availability is first-come. Booking a start date requires the deposit.
Start a project

Tell me what you are building.

The first conversation is a free 30-minute call. Tell me roughly what you need and I will tell you which rate or package fits — and if I am not the right person for it, I will say so.

Replies land within one business day.

Or reach me directly

Still deciding?

Read the pricing. Every number on it is hours multiplied by a rate, and the Discovery Sprint exists precisely so you do not have to guess which package you need.

See the pricing