Ask HN: Why did your startup hire its first designer?

Related questions I'm curious about:

- What stage was your company at when it hired its first designer? (e.g., funding round, number of employees, etc.) - What were the other candidate solutions to the problem you were solving by hiring a designer? Why did hiring a designer win out over those other solutions?

I'm around in this Google meet for the next few hours if anyone wants to pop in and chat real time about this: https://meet.google.com/tku-izyd-kpz