Design and creative recruiting from Jaipur. We ask to see the messy middle, not the tidy case study.
Two monitors. One shows a Figma file with 41 pages, most of them abandoned. The other shows a candidate on a call, scrolling back to the version that got killed. That second file is the interview.
What we place
Designfield is a small recruiting shop in Jaipur. We place product designers, UX researchers, motion and brand people with product teams — in Bengaluru, Gurugram, Pune, and increasingly right here off JLN Marg, where the studios are ten people and the founder sits two desks from the designer.
We ask for the rejected direction. The screen the PM hated. The Rive prototype that ran at 12fps until someone fixed the mesh. We do not screen on tool logos. Figma, After Effects, Framer, Blender, Dovetail — those are keyboard shortcuts, not judgement. Judgement is knowing when a flow needs research and when it just needs a decision.
How we work carefully
A written brief before we source anyone. Portfolio review by someone who has actually shipped. An NDA in place before unpublished work leaves a laptop. Straight talk about the 60- and 90-day notice periods that quietly break Indian design offers, about relieving letters, UAN transfers, and what a Jaipur cost-of-living number really means against a Bengaluru band.
We run three or four searches at a time. No more. Design hiring goes wrong quietly — a bad hire looks fine for four months, and then the design system forks.