We were lucky to catch up with Quintece Hill recently and have shared our conversation below.

Quintece , thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s jump right into how you came up with the idea?

Studio Q Design UX didn’t start as a business idea—it started as a pattern I couldn’t ignore.

For over two decades, I was deep in the world of high-end interiors—designing, building, managing complex projects, and being trusted with big visions and even bigger budgets. From the outside, it looked seamless. Behind the scenes, it was anything but. While I as growing fast and scaling my projects and portfolio, some projects were a swift kick in teh butt! Not because of the design but because of misalignment—unclear approvals, scattered client communications, and trying to use systems that were never built for how creatives actually work.

I found myself designing more than spaces. I was quietly designing workflows, decision frameworks, and client experiences just to keep projects moving. That’s when it clicked: the real design problem wasn’t just the space—it was the systems needed to design the process and experience.

The shift into product design and UX strategy felt less like a pivot and more like putting a name to what I’d already been doing in my own interior design practice for years. I realized creative industries are full of incredibly talented people trying to operate inside clunky, borrowed systems that don’t understand them, or protect their creative tool, THEIR MINDS.

So Studio Q Designs UX evolved.

Now, I design digital products and strategic systems for creative businesses—tools that bring clarity to chaos, structure to creativity, and actually support the way designers think and work. The logic was simple: I’ve lived the problem, solved it in real time, and know exactly where things break and wanting them to be improved.

That kind of insight isn’t theoretical—it’s earned. And that’s what makes this not just viable, but necessary.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your background and context?

I started my career in interior design, building a boutique studio that delivered high-end residential and experiential spaces—projects that required not just creativity, but precision, coordination, and an ability to manage a thousand moving parts without dropping the vision.

Over time, I realized my real strength wasn’t just designing beautiful spaces—but designing the journey to completing those exceptional spaces and experiences. That realization led me of studying the user experience and ultimately to UX product design and strategy—where I now focus on building digital tools and systems specifically for creative industries like interior design and proptech.

Today, Studio Q Designs creates products and frameworks that help creative businesses operate smarter. I am designing client experience systems, approval workflows, internal tools, and digital platforms that reduce chaos, prevent costly client misalignment, and make the business side of creativity feel intuitive instead of exhausting.

What sets me apart is simple: I’ve lived both sides. I’m not designing these products and experiences from theory—I’m designing from my own lived experience. I understand the emotional side of creative work just as much as the operational side, and I bridge that gap in a way that feels natural, not forced.

What I’m most proud of is this evolution, taking everything I’ve learned from over 20 years in the field and transforming it into something scalable that can impact more than just one project at a time, but an entire industry.

The main thing I want people to know is this: I’m here for the creatives who are brilliant at what they do but tired of wrestling with how to make it through it. My work is about helping them shift from being creative people trying to do business… to business people doing creative things—with systems that finally support them.

What do you think is the goal or mission that drives your creative journey?

My mission is rooted in redesigning how creative businesses function. Moving them from reactive and fragmented to intentional, structured, and scalable. I’m deeply driven by solving the kinds of problems most people work around instead of fixing the invisible friction in workflows, communication, and decision making that quietly costs time, money, and energy.

But just as important as the work itself is how I do it. I genuinely crave being in the room, or the virtual room, with other sharp, curious, solutions-oriented creatives. The kind of people who challenge ideas, build on them, and aren’t afraid to rethink the way things have always been done. Part of my mission is to intentionally build that kind of ecosystem around me, a village of talent, intelligence, and integrity. I feel the best solutions don’t come from working in isolation, they come from collaboration.

Have you ever had to pivot?

As for pivoting, my entire transition into UX product design is the clearest example.

There wasn’t a single dramatic moment, it was a series of realizations. I saw that the same issues were showing up across projects, clients and in conversations with colleagues: misalignment, unclear approvals, breakdowns in communication. I could keep solving them case by case, or I could step back and design something bigger.

So I pivoted, from design spaces to designing solutions. It is/was NOT easy and still isn’t. It meant learning a new discipline, reframing my professional identity, and become confident stepping into rooms where I wasn’t the expert yet—but I knew the problem better than anyone.

That pivot wasn’t about starting over. It was about recognizing that the value I brought had outgrown the container I was delivering it in and having the clarity to build something even better!

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.studioqux.com
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quintece-hill-mattauszek
• Other: Quick Interior Designer portfolio access:
  https://quintecehill.my.canva.site/quintece-hill-interior-designer

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