To be a real graphic designer takes years of learning your craft, it's no different than any other profession: And honestly you get what you pay for in this world. What you did with that designer is known as "spec work" and frankly no real designer would touch that.
Yes if you are starting a company i can see sweat for equity, but even then you'd want to issue shares in said company...
Then I will figure something out thank you for the help
Either save the money, or invest the time and do it yourself. By the way there's no crime in a first project not having design. And not for nothing it couldn't hurt to learn a bit about UI even if you don't do that over the long run!
I will do the latter since I have no way to do the first. Thank you again.