UI/UX Design

Design that makes users want to come back

From user research and wireframes through clickable prototypes to a production-ready design system. We sit with your users, shape the experience together, and leave your engineers handoffs they can build from on day one.

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US-based engineering team
How we work

Design that earns repeat use, not just a nice first look

Three principles guide every design engagement.

01

A real person, doing a real thing

Design has to help an actual user finish an actual task. We start there and stay there through every screen.

02

AI helps, humans decide

AI accelerates research, exploration, and component generation. The feel of your product still comes from a person.

03

Clean handoff, no design debt

Tokens, components, and a documented system land in your repo. Your team owns the design language on day one.

Who we partner with

Three common scenarios we see

01

Technical founders whose UI is starting to hold the product back

You can ship anything engineering-wise, but the screens look like they were built by people who already knew the product. You want a partner who’ll make the experience feel as considered as what’s under the hood.

02

Growing teams whose screens don’t feel like the same product anymore

Every feature ships a little differently, engineers keep rebuilding the same button, and users are quietly confused. We work alongside your team to build a design system that speeds engineering up and makes the next hundred screens easier to ship.

03

Product teams watching good users drop off for design reasons

Activation is dipping, support tickets ask where to find things, users churn before they get value. We start with a focused audit, surface the friction with real evidence, and redesign the flows that move the needle on repeat use.

What you get

Every deliverable, defined before a contract is signed

User interview planning and facilitation
Jobs-to-be-done framework analysis
Heuristic evaluation of existing product
User flow mapping and critical path analysis
Persona and ICP definition
Usability testing and synthesis
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Information architecture and navigation design
High-fidelity screen design
Responsive design for web, tablet, and mobile
Interaction and animation specifications
Dark mode and accessibility variants
Design QA against implemented product
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Color token and typography scale definition
Component library with atoms, molecules, and organisms
Interactive component states and variants
Usage guidelines and do/don't documentation
Design library organized for engineering handoff
Icon set and illustration style definition
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Annotated design files with spacing, states, and behavior
Developer-ready component specifications
Design system documentation and usage guide
Responsive breakpoint definitions
Asset export package (icons, illustrations, images)
Design QA support during the engineering build
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Built as a real partnership

Why teams partner with us

A free working session before you commit, designers you can reach, and a design system your team fully owns on day one.

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You don’t pay until you see real design

We start with a free 30-minute review and a small sample of how we’d approach your product. You pay when there’s design work on screen, not before.

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The team you meet at kickoff is the team you keep

The same US-based team stays on your project from research through handoff. The person walking your team through the prototype is the one making the calls, with no art-director theater or junior delivery underneath.

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Your team owns the system on day one

Figma library, tokens, components, documentation, and research archives all live in your workspace under your accounts. When you take it in-house or bring in another partner, there’s nothing to untangle.

How AI shows up in the work

AI in the process. Humans on the calls that matter

We’ve built AI into our design practice where it earns its keep. It makes us faster and more thorough. It doesn’t decide what your product feels like. That part is still a designer who’s sat with your users.

Faster research

Research synthesis, in hours not weeks

We use Claude and ChatGPT to pull themes from interview transcripts, support tickets, and usage data in hours, not weeks. Designers get a clean starting point and spend that time with users instead of sticky notes.

Quicker exploration

Faster exploration, more options on the table

With tools like Figma, v0, and Lovable, we prototype three or four directions in the time it used to take to build one. You click through real screens, give feedback, and watch the work reshape in real time, not three weeks later.

Where humans stay

The feel of your product still comes from a person

Voice, brand, interaction model, accessibility decisions, the calls that make your product feel trustworthy or not. A designer who’s sat with your users owns those. AI helps us get there. It doesn’t get the last word.

If you want AI inside your product too, say so on the call. We’ll tell you honestly where it would move a metric for your users, and where it wouldn’t.

How we work together

From first research call to design your engineers can build

01

We listen first, to your users and your team

User interviews, a friendly teardown of what you have today, and a short conversation with your team. AI-assisted synthesis helps us spot patterns quickly, so we come back with a shared picture of where you’re losing users.

02

We sketch the bones with your team, not around it

We work out information architecture, critical flows, and content hierarchy together in real time, so no one is surprised by a final Figma file. Your product manager, engineers, and support leads are in the room while the structure gets decided.

03

We design in the open, in short loops

High-fidelity screens, components, and the design system live in your Figma workspace from day one. Weekly demos, decisions in the open, and a designer making the final call on what feels right.

04

We hand off clean and stay close through launch

Annotated files, tokens, component docs, and accessibility notes your engineers can build from without back-and-forth. We stay close through the build for design QA, then leave you a system to keep using.

We had the engineering team but no design sense, and it was starting to show in the product. Elevate sat with our users, took our rough ideas seriously, and came back with something our customers complimented.
Alex T., Co-Founder  ·  B2B SaaS Platform
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Project scope estimator

What might your design engagement cost?

Two quick questions, an honest range, no email required. If the numbers don’t line up with what you were picturing, we’ll tell you that on the call.

What are you building?
Web Application
Mobile App
AI Product or Automation
Cloud / DevOps
UI/UX Design
Full Product Suite
What’s your starting point?
From scratch
Modernizing what’s there
Extending what’s in production
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Let’s design something your users want to come back to

Book a free 30-minute design review. We’ll walk through your product with fresh eyes, flag the highest-leverage fixes, and show you how we’d approach it. No commitment, no follow-up spam.

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Design work, done with real partners

FAQ

The design questions we hear most often

Both, and the research comes first. Every engagement starts with user interviews, a look at how the product gets used, and a short conversation with your team about where things are breaking. We don’t open a design tool until we have a shared picture of the problem.

Two ways. Inside our process, AI helps us synthesize interviews, pull patterns from usage data, and explore more variants during ideation. That saves real time and money. Inside your product, we add AI only where it makes a genuine difference for users (smart search, summarization, assistive flows). In both cases, a designer still makes the call on what ships.

An organized Figma workspace inside your account with annotated screens, a complete design system (tokens, components, states, documentation), accessibility notes, and research archives. We stay involved for design QA during the engineering build so what ships matches what we designed together.

If you’re shipping more than a few features a quarter, you’ll earn it back quickly. A design system is the reason the tenth feature ships in half the time the first one did. If you’re still pre-product-market-fit with a handful of screens, we’ll tell you honestly that a lightweight starter is plenty for now.

That’s most of what we do. We start with a heuristic review and user research, then redesign the information architecture before the visual layer. We phase the rollout with your team so users aren’t hit with a new product overnight, and your engineers aren’t rebuilding everything at once.

A focused product redesign or new product design usually runs $25,000 to $80,000 depending on screens and research depth. A full design system build lands between $30,000 and $60,000. Use the estimator for a rough range, or book a free call and we’ll tell you more precisely.

You own the Figma file, tokens, components, and research archives from day one, so nothing is held hostage. We stay close through the engineering build for design QA, and after that we’re available on retainer, a short-term support window, or just a call when you need a second set of eyes on a new feature.

Let’s make your product worth coming back to

Book a free 30-minute design review. We’ll look at your product with fresh eyes, point to the highest-leverage fixes, and show you honestly where we’d start and what it would take.