Excellent UI and UX design is a thing that makes your product great in usability, memorable for customers and capable of standing out from the competitors - yes, you may find such promises in the offer of any design agency that works with digital products.

Everything seems simple - designers usually use similar tools. Then, why do some design teams create designs that make products really great and the users feel satisfied using the product, while designs produced by other companies can provoke an outflow of customers, due to unpleasant or mediocre user experience? Just think about the following aspect: 70% of online businesses that fail do so because of bad usability - and it's a really significant number.

Sure, your product should have a strong idea at its core. But what will be the final user experience of interaction with the app is, actually, the task of design.

We are the design and development agency of digital products and for 8 years on the market we have acquired expertise in the field of UI / UX.

What's really important to point out is that the wonderful design is not about marvellous animation and colors, or non-standard site structure - in reality, it is a solution that is best suited for users of your product and their requirements. Sometimes incredible, creative visual design distracts users from their goal on the platform.

It's one thing to just run a functional product. But to create a design which helps the user to get what they really need in a minimum of time and leave pleasant emotions is a real challenge for designers.

Yes, at present there are enough digital design agencies, but only a few of those truly accepted the challenge and do launch products that changed the reality for years.

Therefore, we have compiled a list of companies, located in the USA, that produce really great UI/UX design, which in our opinion, can be considered the best in our niche today. Basically, most of them often provide identical services and we have tried to find and highlight differences in the approaches, specializations, and design experiences of each of the companies on this list.

Let's get started!

Only-design focused companies

Ramotion

“We are a digital product design agency” - ramotion.com

Ramotion - development company home page

Ramotion is a company of multidisciplinary digital product experts. In a small team, they create solutions for growing startups and Fortune 500 companies.

Over 10 years of experience, Ramotion has defined their formula for quality products: to involve experts into working on certain projects exclusively and, accordingly, work with only a few clients at a time. The services provided include producing UI/UX design and brand identity, as well as marketing assistance.

Founded: 2009

Location: California, USA

Team Size: 50+

Hourly rate: $100 - $149 / hr

Key clients: FireFox, Netflix, Adobe

Clay

“Clay is a UI/UX design and branding agency in San Francisco” - clay.global

Clay - development company home page

They are one of the best companies that focus exclusively on UI/UX transforming brands through strategy, visual identity, and websites.

Clay practises applying behavioral science to create user experience and, in truth, run a really awesome design that many users face every day. It's about apps for Coca-Cola, Facebook, Slack identity, and Jacquard by Google app.

Founded: 2009

Location: San Francisco, USA

Team Size: 32 members

Hourly rate: $150 - $199 / hr

Key clients: Google, Facebook, Coinbase, Slack, Samsung

Designit

“Designit is a call to action to make the difference we want to see in the world.” - designit.com

Designit - development company home page

Designit is one of the agencies that set the tone of UI/UX design in the digital world. It's probably due to the fact that innovation and creativity is not just a value, it's a part of their workflow.

The company has worked with a wide range of industries, from energy, finance, and healthcare to the scientific and public sectors. They are oriented at long-term partnerships with progressive businesses, nonprofits, academia, and advocate deep, thorough work on the product.

From a small office in Denmark, Designit has grown into a huge design company with studios all over the world.

Founded: 1991

Location: New York, San Francisco, Seattle

Team Size: 290+

Hourly rate: $150 - $199 / hr

Key clients: Digital Hub Denmark, Sephora, Acer Predator, Lufthansa

Social Driver

“Go beyond the ordinary” - socialdriver.com

Social Driver - development company home page

Company works with UI/UX and brand design for social network apps and other platforms. Most of the implemented solutions are public or social projects, educational platforms.

Therefore, they focus on partnership, collaboration and creativity. So, yes, Social Driver is a company that strives to make society better with building strong partnerships and developing creativity.

Founded: 2011

Location: Washington, USA

Team Size: 60+

Hourly rate: $150 - $199 / hr

Key clients: American Academy of Family Physicians, American Nurses Association, The Education Trust

Method

“Bring your digital vision to life” - method.com

Method - development company home page

It is an experienced digital design agency, founded in 1999. According to its founder, from the beginning, Method wasn't interested in defining an industry, or its specification. They were just passionate about making products and services that would build and define strong brands.

So, their clients are big brands and organizations as partners on the journey from now to what's next.

Founded: 1999

Location: New York

Team Size: 100+

Hourly rate: $150 - $199 / hr

Key clients: Ubisoft, Renault, McDonald's, Microsoft, San Francisco Ballet

Momentum Design Lab

“Silicon Valley Expertise. Global Mindset.” - momentumdesignlab.com

Momentum Design Lab - development company home page

Momentum is positioning itself as an innovative design thinking-based team. Their approach is to create projects in the symbiosis of human empathy and intelligent data to significantly improve user experience.

They work with research, UX/CX strategies and design to make the products users trust. And they succeed!

Founded: 2002

Location: California

Team Size: 25+

Hourly rate: $150 - $199 / hr

Key clients: Fiserv, Walmart, Capital Bank

Eight Bit Studios

“We mash up UX, design and tech to create lively, people-friendly apps.” - eightbitstudios.com

Eight Bit Studios - development company home page

If the company can be described in such a way, Eight Bit Studios is a team of empathic designers. They promote empathetic UX solutions dreaming to shape a better world for everyone. Most of the projects in the portfolio are mobile apps aimed at creating strong emotional connections (like social networks or messengers), and the agency produces full-circle design and brand identity.

Having worked in the field for 13 years, Eight Bit Studios have decided to stay small, and this probably helps them adhere to the company's values when working on each task.

Founded: 2008

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Team Size: 30+

Hourly rate: $150 - $199 / hr

Key clients: Echo Global Logistics, New Balance, Hasbro

Full-circle development companies

Unified Infotech

“Your technology partner for innovative and impactful digital solutions” - unifiedinfotech.net
Unified Infotech - development company home page

Unified Infotech positions itself as a consulting-led "Boutique Digital Transformation Agency'', they are the end-to-end solution partner, which provides proactive planning and design, develops and scales web, mobile app and custom software solutions.

Global businesses, especially banks and startups, choose to work with them because of their conservative approach, which has its advantages when the client needs such stability and specific expertise of the development partner.

Founded: 2010

Location: New York, NY

Team Size: 150+

Hourly rate: $50 - $99 / hr

Key clients: CITI BANK, NBC Universal, OPENREEL INC.

Perpetual

“Build your vision with us” - perpetualny.com

Perpetual - development company home page

Perpetual is a product design and development company, focusing on UX and development of the products. Their mission is to develop great user experiences and cutting edge software for selected clients.

For now the company has completed a range of projects for large corporations in the media and financial services field. After the recent launch of the EdTech startup, they have been growing rapidly in the education technology field.

Founded: 2012

Location: New York, NY

Team Size: 20 members

Hourly rate: $50 - $99 / hr

Key clients: Reuters, MIT, The Inside

Wildebeest

“LA`s top software engineering and digital marketing agency” - wildebee.st

Wildebeest - development company home page

It is a boutique custom software consultancy team, that provides custom web app design and development, applying Internet of Things, and experiential installations.

Wildebeest has experience working with the world's largest corporations, such as Disney or General Motors, and funded startups they were interested in. What really sets the agency apart is that being a very small team they are capable of implementing really large-scale projects and are a real role model in their field.

Founded: 2014

Location: Los Angeles, California

Team Size: 10+

Hourly rate: $200 - $300 / hr

Key clients: Google, Microsoft, Disney, General Motors

ArcTouch

“We create lovable apps and digital products” - arctouch.com

ArcTouch - development company home page

ArcTouch is a UI/UX design and development company, aimed to help companies forge meaningful connections with their customers and employees through custom digital products.

They decided to be a business app creator when App Store was just first announced. Since then, they have worked with Fortune 500 companies, midsize businesses and influential startups, conducting hands-on expertise and being concerned with profits of their clients.

Founded: 2009

Location: San Francisco, California

Team Size: 200+

Hourly rate: $100 - $149 / hr

Key clients: Hawaiian Airlines, Audi, PayPal

Majestyk

“We imagine, design & build digital products.” - majestykapps.com

Majestyk - development company home page

Founded in 2011 with a collaborative spirit, Majestyk named themselves a team with expertise of a traditional agency and the agility of a startup.

Majestyk`s vision is that the company's success is in great products and great people. Their experience and launched products can prove that.

Founded: 2011

Location: New York, NY

Team Size: до 20

Hourly rate: $150 - $199 / hr

Key clients: IBM, Ally, Audiomack

Spire Digital

“Innovation, transformation, and disruption since 1998” - spiredigital.com

Spire Digital - development company home page

Spire Digital, part of Kin + Carta, is a Denver-based digital product development firm that transforms business through design and technology. For over 22 years, they have provided web, mobile design and development using IoT, wearables, AR/VR, AI, or blockchain to the world's top companies.

We would say that Spire is a good combination of conservatism, which gives confidence to clients from large companies, and innovation, which allows them to make really impactful digital solutions, within one development agency.

Founded: 1998

Location: Denver, Colorado

Team Size: more than 200

Hourly rate: $100 - $149 / hr

Key clients: Lockheed Martin, TomTom, USDA

MentorMate

“Offshore Made Easy” - mentormate.com

MentorMate - development company home page

MentorMate is a long-term partnership oriented global design and development company.

What really makes them stand out is their striving to not just be a digital partner, but to make friends with their customers and create such an easy-to-work atmosphere throughout the whole development process. It is difficult to tell unequivocally how it affects the product quality. But this approach definitely allows the client to enjoy time spent with the team.

Founded: 2001

Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Team Size: 500+

Hourly rate: $50 - $99 / hr

Key clients: AstraZeneca, DTN, Edmentum

GeekyAnts

“Research. Collaborate. Build.” - geekyants.com

GeekyAnts - development company home page

GeekyAnts is a design and development studio that has expertise in building web and mobile solutions. They have worked with around 500+ clients all over the world, mostly in healthcare, finance, education, banking and gaming industries.

In short, GeekyAnts do everything related to web and mobile apps, and are passionate about building world-class products.

Founded: 2006

Location: Redding, California

Team Size: 200+

Hourly rate: $25 - $49 / hr

Key clients: Google LLC, Siveco Romania, ChildMind Institute, PayPoint

Goji Labs

“We leverage software development to grow your venture, scale your impact, and propel your mission forward.” - gojilabs.com

Goji Labs - development company home page

Goji Labs is a web and mobile app development company with little experience, but really good solutions and launched products. Their services include product strategy, UX/UI design, web, mobile app, and IoT development.

Their powerful idea is that no great venture should be held back by technical execution. And so for years they have been successfully cooperating with companies and startups, as well as with prominent global organizations.

Founded: 2014

Location: Los Angeles, California

Team Size: 15

Hourly rate: $100 - $149 / hr

Key clients: World Health Organization, World Wildlife Fund, USC

Blue Label Labs

“Build and transform your business through strategy, design and app development.” - bluelabellabs.com

Blue Label Labs - development company home page

Blue Label Labs is a development agency that works side-by-side with ambitious brands to implement customer-centric and truly user-validated digital products. In most cases, they work with enterprise clients, implementing strategic business consulting, user-centric design, and development of their projects.

Before working with the client, the agency has a special "ritual" - the team makes a solemn promise to its partners. Blue Label Labs promises "to do our very best and to always strive to do the right thing for your project, your users, and your team".

Founded: 2009

Location: New York, NY

Team Size: 25+

Hourly rate: $100 - $149 / hr

Key clients: Bloomberg News, Google/Alphabet, Fender

Tapptitude

“We design/develop/launch/maintain products that delight your users and grow your business.” - tapptitude.com

Tapptitude - development company home page

Tapptitude is a mobile-focused company, which provides great mobile design and development. They implement projects in the fields of real estate and business automation, working mainly with funded startups.

What makes them special? The company simply takes on projects that they like, looking for solutions to make the product the best it can be - and they manage to run successful mobile apps that users love.

Founded: 2013

Location: New York, NY

Team Size: 80+

Hourly rate: $50 - $99 / hr

Key clients: Tenor, Glorify, Wellory, Ontapp

Work & Co

“We design and ship digital products that transform companies.” - work.co

Work & Co - development company home page

Work & Co can truly be called a great company - both in the team size and in the experience they have for now. It is an agency that works with a wide range of industries, focusing on development and UI / UX design. Almost all W&C clients are big global brands.

What concerns their approach towards partners, it is a fully-dedicated team. Work & Co allocates small, senior teams for projects that are hands-on from start to finish. That is their formula of the best digital products.

Founded: 2013

Location: Brooklyn, NY

Team Size: 400

Hourly rate: $100 - $149 / hr

Key clients: IKEA, Apple, Gatorade

Beyond

“Go further. We partner with people who want to design a better future.” - bynd.com

Beyond - development company home page

Beyond is creative designers, insightful strategists, and exceptional engineers gathered in one team. They develop UI / UX solutions for enterprises and midmarket and implement them in great digital products.

What is really interesting about the partner approach is that they choose to work with forward thinking clients, whose projects allow the team to unleash their potential. Beyond is super dynamic and striving to do just the work that inspires them.

Founded: 2010

Location: San Francisco, California

Team Size: 200+

Hourly rate: $150 - $199 / hr

Key clients: Google, Gap, Warner Bros

Working on this list, we were faced with the question: “What actually makes these teams really great?”. Non-standard design? Famous customers? Just good luck?

We've done a little research and now are ready to share a few points that we think distinguish really good UI / UX companies among their competitors. Let's look!

They remain small

Scaling turns some companies into digital product factories. Yes, it has a positive effect on the profit, but the products significantly lose both quality and impact. This is the main beauty of small teams - they have the opportunity to put all their effort in the product they are working on. And product users feel it.

Their approach towards the partner

In fact, the word "partner" is key here. The best UI / UX companies do not collaborate with you as with clients, they treat you as partners. The difference in approach is that both parties are interested in the best development of the product.

Accordingly, such teams are not interested in short distance races and mainly focus on long-term partnerships. Brands show a high level of trust in such companies because of their approach.

The product is the main focus

It means that companies building products work on not just implementing all customer's requirements, but on making the product itself the best. Sometimes it's about experience, sometimes it’s more about good quality discovery stage and user analysis.

Throughout the development, designers are fully involved into the process and bring their experience-based ideas to launch the best possible version of the product. Good design teams are characterized by high empathy and understanding of user needs. Sounds simple. But, in practice, such teams become the best among thousands of competitors.

They have a market specification

There are some debates: is it good or bad for designers to have an industry specification? After analyzing the top companies from the list, we can say that specification is undoubtedly a feature of great companies. It is obvious - to choose the industry and become the best in it! And, in practice, it works.

It also gives the partner a certain level of guarantee of the product's success, because the company knows all the pitfalls and solutions that will help enter the market, find users, and grow the platform - depending on your goals.

About LinkUp Studio

It would be unfair to forget to mention LinkUp Studio on this list at least because we are one of the full-circle digital product design and development companies, and we can boast of significant experience and 100+ successfully implemented products.

The LinkUp Studio team has more than 60 experts, located in Ukraine, Eastern Europe, working on products they love - from the idea analysis to after-launch support.

“Their hearts are invested in the project. The partnership feels much stronger than it would with others.”

CEO, Tim Ruppert on Clutch

After all, more and more development companies are appearing on the market every year. And even after you applied all the necessary filters (like the check size, location, team experience, etc.), there are still so many candidates that it seems you don’t have enough time to analyse and choose.

If you are now interested in finding a partner to develop your product, we would like to advise you to study Building Digital Products podcast, especially the episode about searching for one. You may find these tips critical.

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