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Ship UX your customers actually love.

An experienced product designer reviews your AI-coded product across the four lenses that move metrics — usability, accessibility, brand, and edge cases — with a prioritised fix list in 48 hours. Or set up your app's design system in AI tools and enable your team to create on-brand pages 10× faster.

48hFrom submission to fix list
4Audit lenses, every page
$299Single audit, no contract
7dMoney-back if it's not useful
A note before we begin

AI is incredible at shipping functional UI. It passes Lighthouse, gets to production fast, gets the job done. But there's still a gap between code that works and design that converts, retains, scales — empty states with no scaffolding, secondary buttons that disappear, eight KPIs in a row when one should be hero.

I'm an experienced designer. I close that gap by offering design audit/fix as a service — async, in 48 hours, for the price of a couple's dinner out.

Christine Zhong
Yours, Christine Zhong

One audit. Four lenses.

Every finding includes the reasoning behind it — what's wrong, why it matters, and how to fix it. No vague "this needs work."

01

UX rationale

Turn drafts into products users actually finish, love, and come back to. Every flow gets a reason it converts — or a reason it leaks. A hero that earns cold visitors, onboarding that survives Day-1, modals that earn the ask before they take.

  • Higher activation
  • Better Day-1 retention
  • Fewer drop-offs
02

Accessibility

Roughly 1 in 4 of your users has a disability — low vision, color blindness, motor differences, or screen-reader use. If your UI doesn't work for them, they can't buy from you, and competitors who design for them get the sale. I check contrast, tap targets, labels, and keyboard nav so every visitor has a real shot at converting.

  • +20% addressable market
  • Lawsuit-defensible
  • Inclusive by default
03

Brand compliance

Look like a real company, not a Lovable template. Off-brand drift is the first thing customers feel and the last thing they can name. I diff every screen against your tokens so polish compounds into trust — and trust into premium pricing.

  • Premium positioning
  • Trust at first glance
  • Consistent at scale
04

Spot edge cases

The polish that protects retention. AI ships happy paths; real users hit empty states, errors, slow loads, and small screens. Every edge case I close is a churn moment you don't pay for in support tickets, refunds, or rebuilds later.

  • Lower churn
  • Fewer support tickets
  • Ready to scale

Recent reviews.

Real submissions, reviewed end-to-end. Click a pin on any case to see the finding, the reasoning, and the fix.

AI-generated · Lovable
apex.ai/landing

Why Polish?

How it stacks up against hiring a designer for the same work.

Hiring a designer

The old way

Hire an agency, freelancer, or full-time designer to own the work from start to finish — weeks of briefs, calls, and revisions before anything ships.

  • $5,000–$10,000 per design project
  • 2–4 week turnaround
  • Slack channels, calls, status meetings
  • Generic recommendations, no citations
  • Sign a contract before they look
  • You sit in their queue, not yours

Polish

The new way

Start with something. Your PM, engineering team, or business stakeholders already shipped a draft. Unsure if it's right? Polish reviews it on UX, accessibility, and brand compliance, and hands back a prioritised fix list.

  • $299 flat for a single UX, accessibility & brand-compliance audit
  • 48-hour turnaround, every time
  • Async by default — no calls unless you want one
  • Every fix cites a specific principle
  • One-page form to start. No contract
  • First-come, first-served. Book and ship

How it works.

Submit, I review, you ship — and if you're ready to scale, Foundations closes the loop.

01

Submit your brief

I take your brief — the problem, target user, and context — along with the URL or HTML and your design system or brand guideline. One form, five minutes on your end.

02

I run the audit

I review every component across UX, accessibility, brand compliance, and edge cases — with findings backed by proper rationales and design principles.

03

You ship

I provide a Notion brief and video walkthrough, and a prioritised fix list with reasoning behind each suggestion. Lands in 48 hours, ready to act on.

04

Foundations setup

I help set up your existing app's design system / UI guidelines inside AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Lovable) so anyone on your team can create on-brand pages 10× faster, without traditional design handoffs.

Christine Zhong

Meet the Designer.

I'm Christine, the designer behind Polish. I personally review every page submitted — and give practical, actionable feedback you can apply immediately.

I'm a senior product designer with 9+ years of experience, including leading AI design work at PwC Australia, where I worked on GenAI tools used by 8,000+ consultants globally.

Today, I focus on helping teams integrate AI into how products get designed and built. I design AI-powered workflows and build design systems inside tools like Claude that let teams generate on-brand UI directly from prompts — so designers and non-designers can prototype and ship up to 10× faster. Earlier, I helped build the design system behind Foxtel's iQ4 TV interface.

I built Polish after auditing hundreds of AI-generated UIs and seeing the same gaps — and knowing exactly how to fix them.

  • 9+ years in end-to-end product design, including AI at PwC Australia
  • Designed and shipped GenAI tools used by thousands globally
  • Specialist in integrating AI into design + development workflows
  • Built design systems that AI agents can interpret to generate on-brand UI, enabling teams to prototype and ship up to 10× faster
See full background on LinkedIn

One price. No surprises.

Pay per design review, scale on retainer — or set up Claude Foundations once so anyone on your team can prototype on-brand.

Single audit
$299

One flow, up to 5 screens. Full report in 48 hours.

  • Notion report
  • Loom walkthrough
  • Prioritised fixes with reasoning
  • Up to 5 fixes per audit
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Retainer
$1,499/mo

For teams shipping 3+ AI-coded flows monthly. 1 flow, up to 5 screens per audit.

  • 3 audits / month
  • 4 hours fix pairing
  • 30-min monthly call
  • Slack Connect access
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Foundations

Set the foundation. Ship on-brand from now on.

$1,999one-time

A one-time setup that enables your team to create on-brand pages for your existing app — from now on. I integrate your app's design system into AI tools (Claude, Cursor, Lovable) so anyone on your team can ship pages 10× faster, without traditional design handoffs.

Lock in my brand

What you get

  • AI-ready design system
    Your UI guidelines packaged into files AI tools can actually use to generate on-brand pages.
  • Brand voice built in
    Voice & tone rules structured for AI — so every modal, error, and CTA sounds like your product (not generic AI).
  • Prototyping workflow (docs + video)
    A simple, step-by-step guide so anyone on your team can start building immediately — no designer onboarding needed.
  • First-page audit (free)
    I review what your team ships and give concrete fixes to make sure everything works in practice.
Need to ship past the prototype?

I also offer consultation on connecting your AI tool to your Git repo — auto-commit, PR review, and release flow — so prototypes turn into shipped code without leaving the workflow. Quoted separately →

Common questions.

What kinds of pages do you audit?

Anything generated with AI — landing pages, dashboards, internal tools, AI onboarding flows, and more.

How is this different from automated tools?

Automated tools (Lighthouse, axe-core, Stark) catch the rule violations. They miss the design taste — generic AI aesthetics, weird hierarchy, broken state design, brand drift. I do both.

What's a design.md?

A markdown file describing your design system — tokens, type, components. If your DS lives in Figma, I'll extract from Figma. If you don't have one, I'll work from your CSS or propose a baseline.

What if I don't like the audit?

If the report doesn't surface 5 fixes worth shipping, you don't pay. Full refund within 7 days, no questions.

Do you sign NDAs?

Yes — automatic on retainer. For one-offs my standard contract has a confidentiality clause; ask if you need something specific.

Ship UX your customers love.

Loved by users, accessible to all, on-brand at scale, engineered for the edge cases — shipped in 48 hours.

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