There’s no denying that beautiful design and smart User Experience design (UX) help sell more products and retain more users.
But often, the true geniuses behind some of the most iconic and commonly used interfaces remain unknown. In this blog post, we’re sharing the top UX agencies for 2024. From smart mobile and web apps to intricate design feats in the physical world. Here’s a look at the firms behind some of the world’s UX marvels.
Top UX Agencies for 2024 [User Experience Design Agencies]:
1. Duck.Design
Location: New York | London | Berlin | Hong Kong | Vilnius
Notable Clients: HSBC, UBS, Fantom, IronFX, Virgin Media, P&G, Burger King
Min. Project Size: $1,000+
Duck.design is a design platform that has served as the design partner for startups, small businesses, as well as Fortune 500 brands. Included in their long list of capabilities are UI and UX design services. Their team of 50+ full-time design experts implements tried-and-tested approaches to prototyping, product validation, and design. The end product — authentic apps that users actually enjoy using. They will help you with user flows, compatibility, accessibility, data visualization, and user research. Unlike many of the other agencies that charge you per project, Duck.design charges a flat, monthly fee that includes unlimited requests and revisions.
User Experience Services:
- Research and development
- Design & animation
- Quality assurance
- User research
Duck.Design
Your brand designs are too important to be left in the hands of unreliable freelancers or expensive creative agencies. Why not hire an experienced, full-time designer who knows you by name and your brand by heart?
50+
New York, London, Berlin, Hong Kong, Vilnius
Best for:
Small and Medium Companies
Duck.Design
Your brand designs are too important to be left in the hands of unreliable freelancers or expensive creative agencies. Why not hire an experienced, full-time designer who knows you by name and your brand by heart?
2. Conversion
Location: London | Vancouver | New York
Notable Clients: Facebook, Microsoft, Canon, Google, Samsung, Toyota
Min. Project Size: $10,000+
Conversion was born when two agencies that focused on A/B testing and SEO respectively decided to put their years of experience to better use and form an experimentation and mixed-methods research agency. Included in their list of services is user experience research.
Their team will go beyond simply evaluating your website’s performance and studying analytics. Instead, they’ll get to the reason behind your website visitors’ behavior. They’ll use their research for an A/B testing hypothesis and to understand the result of the A/B test. Then, in those instances that A/B testing can’t be done, they’ll turn to their UX research alone.
They boast extensive experience in a number of research methodologies, but their primary method is usability testing. Other methods that they often use are surveys, onsite polls, contextual interviews, and diary studies. Their team usually takes between two and four weeks, but depending on the scope, goals, and methodology, it can either be shorter or longer.
User Experience Services:
- User experience research
- Conversion rate optimization
- Conversion-centered design
- Effective personalization
Conversion
Conversion is the world’s leading conversion rate optimization (CRO) agency. Unlike other digital agencies, they focus entirely on Conversion Rate Optimization – and they're extremely good at it.
50+
London, New York, Vancouver
Best for:
Medium, Large, & Enterprise Businesses
Conversion
Conversion is the world’s leading conversion rate optimization (CRO) agency. Unlike other digital agencies, they focus entirely on Conversion Rate Optimization – and they're extremely good at it.
3. Moburst
Location: London | New York | San Francisco | Miami | Tel Aviv
Notable Clients: eBay, Nielsen, Pfizer, Uber, Dunkin’ Donuts
Min. Project Size: $50,000+
Moburst is an end-to-end agency that has grown to become an undisputed leader in digital marketing. Providing one of the world’s most downloaded apps, with over 1 billion downloads, it has worked with global giants like Samsung, Google, Reddit, TikTok, and Discovery in improving their services and accelerating business growth.
The mobile-first agency offers intuitive and customizable technology that can be leveraged for marketing campaigns. It gives access to a suite of features that can help you optimize creatives and metrics. Its 360° App Store Optimization (ASO) can recreate a brand’s digital storefront by incorporating best practices to boost local growth, cultural relevance, and conversions.
Moburst has a creative design team your brand could collaborate with for strategic storytelling. It even has a custom creative service on its platform, through which you can design banners, video ads, screenshots, and more. You can develop a perfectly designed mobile UX/UI that translates into revenue generation.
The Moburst platform also has optimized features for paid search ads, social media channel ads, RTBs, and search. Marketers can determine how best to make use of resources in media buys. Most importantly, Moburst assists with delivering a successful influencer marketing campaign. Its proprietary data-driven approach can vet the most suitable influencers on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and more.
Awards and Accolades: 2022 Most Effective Mobile Campaign, 2022 Telly Awards Gold Winner, Top 1000 Global Company in 2022, Adweek’s Fastest Growing Agencies of 2022
User Experience Services:
- Conversion rate optimization
- Concept and Design
- UI / UX
- App Development & Design Services
Moburst
Moburst is a full-service agency that helps companies scale and become category leaders. We love user experience and truly believe in creating memorable experiences through high-end design and development. We won 32 awards for our work in 2022 as we ...
50+
New York City, San Francisco, Miami, London, Tel Aviv
Best for:
Small Business, Midmarket, Enterprise
Moburst
Moburst is a full-service agency that helps companies scale and become category leaders. We love user experience and truly believe in creating memorable experiences through high-end design and development. We won 32 awards for our work in 2022 as we ...
4. Thrive Internet Marketing Agency
Location: Arlington, Texas
Notable Clients: TRU Kii, Dean Technology, Softroc, Bravo Physio
Min. Project Size: $1,000+
Thrive Internet Marketing Agency excels in user experience testing, ensuring your digital platforms offer seamless and engaging user journeys. By evaluating how users interact with your website or app, Thrive identifies usability, accessibility, and satisfaction pain points, transforming insights into actionable enhancements. This process not only helps in making informed decisions for interface improvements but also significantly boosts usability and overall user satisfaction. With a focus on reducing bounce rates, increasing conversions, and building brand loyalty, Thrive’s comprehensive UX testing services are designed to elevate your digital presence and ensure a positive first impression that lasts. Choosing Thrive means investing in a data-driven approach to unlock the full potential of your digital investments, promising a staggering ROI on user experience optimization.
User Experience Services:
- Research and Strategy Development
- Quality Assurance
- Comprehensive User Research
Thrive Internet Marketing Agency
Thrive Internet Marketing Agency is a full service agency specializing in UI/UX, Web Design, Branding, SEO, PPC, Social Media Management, Link Building, and more.
50+
Arlington, Texas
Best for:
Enterprises, Large and Small brands
Thrive Internet Marketing Agency
Thrive Internet Marketing Agency is a full service agency specializing in UI/UX, Web Design, Branding, SEO, PPC, Social Media Management, Link Building, and more.
5. Clay
Location: San Francisco
Notable Clients: Coca-Cola, Meta, Sony, UPS, Samsung, Cisco, Google, Stripe
Min. Project Size: $100,000+
Clay is a UI/UX design and branding agency. They create world-class digital products, web design, and branding. They focus on improving conversion and increasing customer engagement. The agency creates products and services that provide outstanding usability while fully embracing your brand’s personality.
Clay also believes business software deserves the user‑friendliness and aesthetics of best‑in‑class consumer apps and transforms legacy enterprise platforms into delightful, consumer‑grade experiences, designing new B2B products that people love using.
As a full-service UX design agency, they work closely with their clients to define, design, and develop transformative user experiences across all platforms and brands’ touchpoints.
They believe the digital products and user interfaces they create are easy to use, look great, and represent your brand in the best way possible. They always assign a multidisciplinary team of senior UX designers, developers, and other specialists led by one of their design directors and overseen by a co‑founder.
User Experience Services:
- User research & testing
- Brand experiences
- CX, UX, and interaction design
- Design systems
- Motion design
- Interactive experiences
Clay
Clay is a UI/UX design and branding agency in San Francisco.
10 - 50
300 Broadway, San Francisco, CA 94133
Best for:
Enterprise
Clay
Clay is a UI/UX design and branding agency in San Francisco.
6. Sculpt
Location: Iowa City
Notable Clients: NetScout, Adobe, Schneider Electric, Store Domains
Min. Project Size: $5,000+
Sculpt is a B2B social media marketing agency. It works with top industrial brands such as Adobe, Blend, Velo3D, and more. Established back in 2012, its goal is to help elevate marketing strategies and performance.
Sculpt specializes in B2B social media marketing, with services like brand lift and customer acquisition, creative testing, organic and paid social growth, and executive consulting. The agency assists in developing successful multi-channel campaigns that can convert impressions and visits into actual sales. It also provides marketing automation features that alleviate errors, and let the tedious work in paid socials be fool-proof all throughout the campaign.
The agency enables content creation, analytics, C-suite attention, and influencer nurturing to fill the top of your sales funnel.
Sculpt
Sculpt is a B2B social media marketing agency. We help clients use paid and organic social media to reach their customers, inspire their advocates, and close more deals.
10 - 50
Iowa City, IA
Best for:
Designed for established Enterprise B2B brands
Sculpt
Sculpt is a B2B social media marketing agency. We help clients use paid and organic social media to reach their customers, inspire their advocates, and close more deals.
7. Online Optimism
Location: New Orleans | Washington, DC
Notable Clients: Stratus, SpecBooks, Decide DeKalb, NCTA, The Data Center
Min. Project Size: $1,000+
Online Optimism brings fun and positivity to digital marketing with its team of talented and optimistic digital marketers. As a creative agency, they provide services in digital advertising, social media marketing, search engine marketing, content marketing, graphic design, and more. They also specialize in building and designing websites, UX optimization, and comprehensive website maintenance.
Using a data-driven approach, they help clients get the best results for their marketing budgets and achieve practical, long-lasting outcomes. Their numerous client testimonials and case studies testify to the team’s dedication and expertise.
One of their featured works is redesigning a law firm website dedicated to helping veterans understand and navigate the VA Claims Manual. Having a ton of resources, the firm has outgrown its old site and was looking for a way to make visitors find the information they need quickly. Online Optimism redesigned the existing website to feature an easy-to-navigate manual complete with a search bar and clickable table of contents. On top of this, the backend was also simple and easy for the firm’s internal team to update.
Founded in 2012 by CEO Flynn Zaiger, the company has served numerous organizations across the country. Some industries they’ve served include cybersecurity, education, government, healthcare, eCommerce, non-profit, and hospitality.
Awards and Accolades: Top Web Design Agencies of 2023 – IMH, Top Digital Agency – UpCity Marketplace
User Experience Services:
- Responsive mobile design
- User experience design
- Brand messaging
- Backend development
Online Optimism
Online Optimism is a creative digital agency that makes you feel a bit more Optimistic about your online marketing & design. Their organization works in Digital Advertisements, Design & Creative, Social Media, and Search & Content. With a team of two...
10 - 50
Our offices are located in New Orleans, LA, and Washington, D.C.
Best for:
Medium and Small Business
Online Optimism
Online Optimism is a creative digital agency that makes you feel a bit more Optimistic about your online marketing & design. Their organization works in Digital Advertisements, Design & Creative, Social Media, and Search & Content. With a team of two...
8. DigitalDesign.NYC
Location: New York
Notable Clients: Forbes, Scholastic, Walmart, VTS, L’Oreal
Min. Project Size: $5,000+
DD.NYC is a UX and UI design agency, specializing in the creation of top-tier digital products, web design, and branding with a strong emphasis on user experience. The agency is dedicated to enhancing user engagement and boosting conversion rates by designing products and services that offer superior usability while fully embodying your brand’s unique personality.
DD.NYC firmly believes that business software should offer the same level of user-friendliness and aesthetic appeal as the best consumer apps. The agency excels in transforming legacy enterprise platforms into enjoyable, consumer-grade experiences, and designing new B2B products that users love to interact with.
As a comprehensive UX design agency, DD.NYC works intimately with its clients to define, design, and develop transformative user experiences across all platforms and brand touchpoints. The agency’s commitment to creating digital products and user interfaces that are not only easy to use but also visually appealing ensures your brand is represented in the best light possible.
Every project at DD.NYC is handled by a multidisciplinary team of senior UX designers, developers, and other specialists. Each team is led by a seasoned design director and supervised by a co-founder, ensuring that every piece of work delivered is of the highest quality and meets the agency’s rigorous standards for user experience design.
Awards and Accolades: 2023 Webby Nomination, 2022 Top B2B Companies Global by Clutch, CSSDA Website of the Day 2023, 2023 Annual Anthem Awards, Best Innovation Award X2
User Experience Services:
- UI/UX design
- Branding
- Mobile app design
- Enterprise app design
DigitalDesign.NYC
DD.NYC® is an award-winning NYC digital design agency for branding, web design, UI/UX & packaging design!
10 - 50
New York, NY
Best for:
Midmarket, Enterprise, Small Business
DigitalDesign.NYC
DD.NYC® is an award-winning NYC digital design agency for branding, web design, UI/UX & packaging design!
9. Cleverly
Location: Los Angeles
Notable Clients: Uber, PayPal, WeWork, Postmates, Bungie, Lego, Unilever
Min. Project Size: $1,000+
Cleverly is the best in the business when it comes to B2B marketing on the LinkedIn platform. The agency supports small- and medium-scale companies using customized campaigns in their B2B lead generation. Over 1,500 B2B companies trust them with 480+ five-star client reviews.
What sets Cleverly apart is they can use data from thousands of outbound campaigns to craft personalized assets for a specific brand. From design, copy, lead magnets, campaign management, and getting positive responses straight to your inbox for email marketing. Its team determines how best to maximize budget allocation and staff attention.
Cleverly
We run LinkedIn ads that actually convert. Our agency gets more of your ideal prospects to convert into customers through irresistible LinkedIn Ad funnels and proven outbound B2B lead generation campaigns — 100% done-for-you.
10 - 50
Los Angeles
Best for:
Businesses of all sizes
Cleverly
We run LinkedIn ads that actually convert. Our agency gets more of your ideal prospects to convert into customers through irresistible LinkedIn Ad funnels and proven outbound B2B lead generation campaigns — 100% done-for-you.
10. Neuron
Location: San Francisco | New York | Boston | Los Angeles
Notable Clients: Hootsuite, Vendr, eGain, Paycom, Hackbright Academy
Min. Project Size: $20,000+
Based in beautiful Silicon Valley, Neuron is a UX/UI design and digital strategy agency. With clients including Ford Models, Paycom, Harvard University, Sony, GM, and more, Neuron works with forward-thinking companies to grow to new heights. How do they do that? Through the power of digital products and services that are not only intuitive and engaging but also deliver measurable results. Neuron’s founders started the company on an architectural foundation thanks to their careers in the field. Their comprehensive training is fundamental to their ability to solve common problems through systematic design thinking. They help create blueprints, not designs, to ensure seamless developer hand-off. Neuron specializes in UX Design in mobile, web, eCommerce, and software.
Awards and Accolades: COMM 2022 Winner, UX Design Awards 2023, GoodFirms Top App Designing Company, Expertise.com Best UI UX Design Agencies in San Francisco 2023
User Experience Services:
- UX/UI Designs
- Wireframes and Flows
- Visual and Interaction Design
- User Testing
- Prototypes
- Product Strategy
- Design Systems
Neuron
Your UX/UI design partner for B2B workplace products.
10 - 50
San Francisco, New York, Boston, Los Angeles
Best for:
Medium Sized Brands
Neuron
Your UX/UI design partner for B2B workplace products.
11. Iron Roots
Location: Austin
Notable Clients: Stanford University, Warner Bros, Netflix, DC, Gopuff, Gillette
Min. Project Size: $5,000+
Iron Roots has been the go-to partner for a wide array of digital marketing services. The company provides data analytics, media buying, social media, and influencer marketing. Its goal is to bolster growth and customer acquisition for clients amidst a sea of competition.
The agency’s strength is its in-house technology—it can customize creative generation and marketing optimization for brands. Iron Roots prides itself on being a cross-industry service provider. For instance, it created exponential growth for the Indigenous Cultures Institute’s outdoor festival. Meanwhile, it did an entirely different campaign for DC’s launch of the Justice League movie. Iron Roots taps into what a brand’s niche needs, and what will create buzz and conversions in the end.
Its social media influencer development service involves hashing out the objectives, networking with relevant personas, and creating a unified content approach. Iron Roots also has an experienced team for content, analytics, and growth management.
Iron Roots
Iron Roots is an Austin-based, data-driven, creative shop whose specialty in acquisition utilizes unmatched strategies through paid and social channels. Clients range from fast-growing eCommerce companies to brands like Netflix, Gillette, Warner Bros...
10 - 50
Austin, TX
Best for:
Startups and enterprises
Iron Roots
Iron Roots is an Austin-based, data-driven, creative shop whose specialty in acquisition utilizes unmatched strategies through paid and social channels. Clients range from fast-growing eCommerce companies to brands like Netflix, Gillette, Warner Bros...
12. Humbleteam
Location: Prague | Brooklyn
Notable Clients: Nexar, Stoovo, Realtify, Seedcamp, Techstars
Min. Project Size: $20,000+
With offices in Europe and North America and clients like NASA, there’s nothing that Humbleteam needs to be humble about. Their mission — to create a better experience for all users when they’re using digital products. They do this by always keeping the fundamentals of the design process in mind and experimenting on a daily basis.
Their team of big design enthusiasts has helped more than 130 startups across various industries, including transportation, crypto, and consumer goods. For example, when they were tasked by the one and only NASA to create a user-friendly web app to optimize resources and storage areas on the International Space Station, they employed smart search to make everything easy to locate and even track. This is just one case study that proves that no project is too big for Humbleteam.
Awards and Accolades: Red Dot Awards, Awwwards, CSS Design Awards
User Experience Services:
- Product UX/UI
- Branding
- Design thinking and research
- Mobile UI Design
Humbleteam
Humbleteam helps startups and enterprises create successful digital products through design and branding. The agency’s clients have raised over $540M on the strength of products produced by the team.
10 - 50
USA, Czech Republic
Best for:
Small and Large Brands
Humbleteam
Humbleteam helps startups and enterprises create successful digital products through design and branding. The agency’s clients have raised over $540M on the strength of products produced by the team.
13. Imaginary Cloud
Location: London | San Francisco | Lisbon | Coimbra
Notable Clients: RE/MAX, ThermoFisher Scientific, EY, Nokia, Sage
Min. Project Size: $5,000+
Imaginary Cloud came into existence with the objective of empowering businesses to launch successful digital products through exceptional User Experience (UX) Design. Instead of merely assisting businesses in designing products, the agency provides a comprehensive plan, starting from the project’s inception and following through every step of the way. The aim is to increase usability, efficiency, and the overall success of the digital product while meeting the needs of the users.
One of the key services offered by Imaginary Cloud is the creation of engaging user experiences. This process involves a systematic approach from research to ideation and finally to development. The goal is to provide a holistic and intuitive user experience. Through their innovative Product Design Process, they can reduce the time and cost of design by up to 50%, ensuring realistic project schedules and mitigating redesign costs.
Imaginary Cloud goes beyond merely creating an engaging user experience; the agency also aims to increase business profitability. Through a meticulous user experience design that enhances conversions, the agency assists in growing revenue and business value.
The agency boasts a track record of successful projects, one such example being Mucho, a service that simplifies home-cooked meals. Mucho needed a new interface with a quick workflow that emphasized the photos of recipes. Imaginary Cloud stepped in and designed an intuitive, photo-focused interface that resulted in over 10,000 downloads for the app.
Awards and Accolades: Top Web Developers 2023, Top 1000 Companies – Clutch, Best Workplaces Europe Award, 1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies – Statista
User Experience Services:
- User Experience Audit
- UX/UI Design
- Prototype design
- Mobile development
- Web development
- Product design process
Imaginary Cloud
Custom development with fast, reliable & debt-free processes | Helped +300 business leaders scale through Product Ideation, Development & Improvement | Best-in-class Europe-based developers | Delivering world-class software while reducing up to 50% o...
50+
Portugal, United Kingdom, United States
Best for:
Small and Medium Size Businesses
Imaginary Cloud
Custom development with fast, reliable & debt-free processes | Helped +300 business leaders scale through Product Ideation, Development & Improvement | Best-in-class Europe-based developers | Delivering world-class software while reducing up to 50% o...
14. Clever Code Lab
Location: Poltava
Min. Project Size: $5,000+
A user experience design agency with years of experience and proven results, Clever Code Lab, based in Ukraine, caters to B2C/B2B brands wanting to place users at the forefront of their products.
In applying brand guidelines to user experience, they lean towards simple, interactive UI to strike an emotional connection with users. Their method is rooted in recent research and involves weaving interaction design, visual design, information architecture elements, and other elements of interface design intricately to capture the mood of products and communicate brand values.
Whether you’re looking to create or revamp your digital storefront to boost conversion, or you’re undergoing a rebrand, the brainboxes at Clever Code Labs comprise some of the most experienced product and software engineers, strategists, creatives, and UI/UX designers to run your design ideas by as you launch impactful products.
User Experience Services:
- Web design
- Illustrations
- Mobile development
- Web development
- Landing pages
Clever Code Lab
Whether working with a startup or an established brand, Clever Code Lab is the go-to partner for creating captivating and memorable online experiences that resonate with users and drive engagement. They aim to help clients transform their digital pre...
10 - 50
UA, Poltava
Best for:
Small Business, Midmarket
Clever Code Lab
Whether working with a startup or an established brand, Clever Code Lab is the go-to partner for creating captivating and memorable online experiences that resonate with users and drive engagement. They aim to help clients transform their digital pre...
15. Ideo
Location: Chicago | Shanghai | London
Notable Clients: City of Boston, Planned Parenthood, Rockefeller Foundation, Kaplan
Min. Project Size: Contact IDEO for pricing details.
It’s hard to imagine a world without Ideo, one of the most popular UX design agencies. Their design thinking movement has helped shape countless ideas, prototypes, and successful products. Some of their most iconic work includes designing the first-ever Mac mouse and a Palm PDA. They’ve also been involved in newer concepts like Acensia Diabetes Care’s internet-enabled blood glucose monitoring system and helped Vivo, China’s top-selling smartphone manufacturer, transform itself into a brand China’s young consumers love.
As a top UX agency in the world, they chart a path that leads to more successful projects than duds, simply because they hire some of the smartest talent out there. Ideo has an army of 700 with offices across North America, Europe, and Asia.
User Experience Services:
- Design thinking
- Product design
- Interaction design
16. Frog
Location: San Francisco | London | Bangalore | Mexico
Notable Clients: Ikea, Volvo, Alto, Yona, MeMed
Min. Project Size: Contact Frog for details.
Frog makes our list of top design agencies in the world and is one of the oldest. This 50-year-old agency has evolved from industrial design but stays true to its openness and love for all things design. Like Ideo, they expand beyond digital and have been known to design furniture. Being around for over 50 years has seen them work with large and new brands. Clients include UNUM, SF Moma, ride-sharing app Alto, Intel, and others. Frog has a staff complement of 500 with offices across various global locations, including major cities in the US, Europe, and Asia.
User Experience Services:
- Product design
- Service design
- CX Strategy
- Customer research & insights
17. Eleken
Location: Kyiv | British Columbia
Notable Clients: HighPoint, Acadeum, TextMagic, Hotspot Shield, Abode, Peep
Min. Project Size: Offers monthly subscription pricing. Contact Eleken to learn more.
Eleken is a young and independent UX design agency. Their passion is the design and development of web and mobile products. Their work includes some amazing blends of technology and design. For example, when Koemei needed a way to present a seamless in-content search feature, Eleken came up with a sleek and simplified means of helping people find information (think terms and keywords) among their files. Eleken works with startups and large organizations.
User Experience Services:
- User experience design
- SaaS design
- Web design
- UI/UX audit
- Mobile design
18. Fjord
Location: London
Notable Clients: Huggies, Signet Jewelers, IHG Hotels & Resorts, Netflix, Tuvalu, Prada
Min. Project Size: Reach out for pricing details.
Fjord was founded in 2001 and is part of Accenture Interactive. As a design and innovation consultancy, their focus is on bridging human experiences with the digital and physical world.
Their work spans various industries. From helping The Ontario Government devise a better way for Metrolinx passengers to travel, to designing a way for NatWest customers to better manage their finances using an app called Bó. As a division of Accenture, they are spread across the globe. Fjord has 33 studios, including Atlanta, Auckland, Austin, Barcelona, Berlin, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Canberra, Chicago, Copenhagen, Dubai, Dublin, Helsinki, Johannesburg, Lima, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seattle, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, Washington, D.C. and Zurich.
Awards and Accolades: Dan Wieden Titanium Grand Prix (Cannes Lions 2023), World’s Largest Digital Agency, Leader in Commerce – Forrester Wave
User Experience Services:
- Design consultancy
- Service design
- Marketing design
- Business design
- User experience insight
- User experience design
19. Fantasy Interactive
Location: San Francisco | London | New York
Notable Clients: Balenciaga, Harrods, Indeed, Avon, Netflix, Google
Min. Project Size: Get in touch for pricing.
Fantasy was born in 1999 and has been producing amazing work ever since. They’ve been the brains behind some of the largest brands on the planet. Their client list includes the likes of Netflix, UFC, The Met, CAA, Master Class, and The Weather Channel, to name a few. Their ability to strike a chord with customers and produce amazing work has made them a magnet for clients from various industries.
User Experience Services:
- User experience design
- Creative concepting
- Creative strategy
- Visual design
- Product design
20. UX Studio
Location: Budapest
Notable Clients: Netflix, Brenntag, Samsung, HBO, Google, United Nations
Min. Project Size: $1000+
UX Studio is one of the smaller, younger, but fast-growing UX agencies today. Founded in 2013, they’ve since gone on to expand their presence to work with clients from across the world. They’ve also produced stellar work. They’ve helped the UN redesign its food distribution platform, designed HBO GO, a European on-demand streaming platform, and gave Societe’s website a new look.
As a 40-strong team of user experience professionals, they have been able to accomplish a fair amount in 7 years. More recently, they’ve been recognized by Clutch as a top UX design agency in 2019. UX Studio has also left its mark on the industry. Their book titled “Product Design – A comprehensive guide to designing digital products people will love” is a 199-page manual that’s worth the read.
Awards and Accolades: Clutch’s Top UX Design Agency 2019
User Experience Services:
- UI/UX Design
- UX research
- User experience audit
- UX training
- Expert reviews
21. Work & Co
Location: Sao Paulo | Copenhagen | Los Angeles | Brooklyn
Notable Clients: Aldo, Aesop, Epic Games, PGA Tour, Gatorade
Min. Project Size: Contact Work & Co. for a quote.
Making waves in the design world can only be done through impeccable work. And with 348 staff members who care about design, product strategy, and engineering, Work & Co delivers. They’ve worked with large brands like Apple, Virgin America, Chase, Ikea, Aldo, and Google. Their iterative design approach, coupled with rapid prototyping, regular testing, and optimization has helped them accomplish meaningful results. Over 90% of their clients offer the agency additional work and they’ve shipped over 207 products to date.
User Experience Services:
- User experience design
- Product concepting
- Rapid prototyping
- Game design
- Motion design
22. Method
Location: Atlanta | Denver | London | New York
Notable Clients: KFC, Full Swing, Ben & Jerry’s, PepsiCo, The North Face, Intel, TED
Min. Project Size: Reach out for pricing.
Founded in San Francisco in 1999, Method has been able to channel its creative flair for 20 years. In 2011, they were acquired by GlobalLogic, a project engineering and software development firm. In their time, Method has helped McDonald’s, DAZN, Hitachi, Costa Coffee, Manchester City Football Club and more define and create pleasurable customer experiences.
User Experience Services:
- Product design
- User experience design
- Service design
- Brand strategy
- Product development
23. Momentum Design Lab
Location: New York | San Mateo | London
Notable Clients: Bayer, Best Buy, Wells Fargo, Citibank
Min. Project Size: $50,000+
Momentum Design is an 18-year-old user experience agency. They are headquartered in San Mateo and focus specifically on digital UX design. Their clients span both B2B and B2C markets, and they’ve informed the design of some of the most complex solutions around. For example, they helped Get Real Health revitalize its brand with an app that aggregates data from various sources to offer stakeholders critical information at the tap of a button. Their design has also been described as intuitive, and they are known for delivering over and above their requirements.
Awards and Accolades: #1 UX Agency for 7 Years in a Row – Clutch
User Experience Services:
- User experience design
- Product engineering
- User interface design
- Web development
- Visual design
24. Praxent
Location: Austin
Notable Clients: Bluestar, Open Lending, Newity, Austin Capital, Dimensional
Min. Project Size: Schedule a call to learn more.
Praxnt is a digital UX agency that’s found its niche in the financial services industry. As such their focus is on custom software development, modernizing legacy systems, digital strategy, and web app development. They’ve also been recognized for their work having won the Inc. 5000 award in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Their clients include Bunglo, Nrg, The City of Houston, TicketCity, and more.
Awards and Accolades: 2020 Greater Austin Business Awards (Customer Experience category)
User Experience Services:
- Mobile application development
- Portal development
- UI design
- Web application
- User experience design
- Usability testing
- Prototype development
25. Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g)
Location: Silicon Valley
Notable Clients: American Express, Google, Best Western, eBay, Capital One, National Geographic, Visa, Sony, Verizon, PWC
Min. Project Size: Reach out to learn their consulting prices.
While NN/g was founded in 1998, the idea was born five years earlier. Co-founder Don Norman set the foundation for user experience, coining the term while at Apple. Over the next 21 years, NN/g has excelled at providing nothing shy of true design ingenuity. NN/g’s methodology, like other agencies, is steeped in research, but theirs is far deeper. To date, they’ve tested over 2,000 interfaces, completed more than 4,000 user observations, analyzed thousands of hours of recorded user tests, and run countless focus groups and remote user tests. The firm has offices in the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Singapore.
User Experience Services:
- User experience training
- Virtual UX courses
- Emotional design
- User experience consulting
26. Infinum
Location: New York | Amsterdam | London
Notable Clients: Philips, CurrencyFair, Coca-Cola, P&G, AstraZeneca
Min. Project Size: Contact Infinum for pricing.
Infinum has been around for 15 years. In that time, they’ve grown to a 243-person firm with offices in New York, Croatia, and Slovenia. Their services also expand to software development and have worked with some of the largest brands around today. These include Bayer, Universal, Samsung, T-Mobile, and Coca-Cola. They are known for having a young team charged with energy and the ability to adapt to produce great work.
User Experience Services:
- Software development
- Interaction design
- Product analytics
- User interface design
- User experience design
27. The Gradient
Location: Lviv
Notable Clients: Nasdaq Dubai, Philips, Daimler, Qatar Airways, Azercell
Min. Project Size: Get in touch for pricing details.
The Gradient is a digital product design firm. They work with startups and enterprises, helping them find the most effective and user-friendly means of translating complex technology into intuitive user experiences. Their UX strategy, design, and testing skills were behind Showdown Live, a platform where you can play live trivia game shows on your phone to win real-life gift cards from retailers like Amazon, Target, Walmart, Best Buy, and Starbucks. They’ve also influenced larger, more ambitious projects like Sentryc’s solution to fighting the misuse of brand assets online.
Awards and Accolades: Top UX/UI Design Agency 2022 – Clutch
User Experience Services:
- User experience design
- Rapid prototyping
- User testing
- Design systems
- Product strategy
28. League \ Design Agency
Location: New York | Kyiv | Katowice (Poland)
Notable Clients: Muso.AI, InList, Powerbuilding, Synergy, Human Code, Tarilka
Min. Project Size: Contact them for detailed pricing.
League Design Agency is a mobile app, web app SaaS, and web design firm. Founded in 2018 by two friends, theirs is a story of what can happen when the best of both worlds meet. Today, the young design firm is home to a 25-man team and has over 43 companies from 16 countries as clients. As a young firm, they’ve worked with young and ambitious brands but also more established names like Whiskas.
User Experience Services:
- User interface design
- User experience design
- Corporate identity
- Web design
- Content design
29. Emerge
Location: Portland
Notable Clients: Lego, Target, Standford University, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Min. Project Size: Reach out for pricing.
Emerge is a UX agency that was founded in 1998. Like most design firms, theirs is directed by future-thinking and a passion to build the best products they can produce, products that people love. They’ve also received numerous awards along the way. These include a Davey, 1MA, W3, a Webby, and an Effie. They’ve worked with large brands. These include Nike, Alignment Healthcare, Icon Aircraft, Wacom, and Unilever.
User Experience Services:
- Web & mobile development
- Human-centered design
- Digital strategy
- Information design
- User experience design
30. Slide UX
Location: Austin
Notable Clients: Indeed, Harvard University, Atlassian, Bacardi, Silicon Labs
Min. Project Size: Book a consultation to learn their pricing.
Slide UX is a family design agency. They’re a 19-man team based in Austin, Texas and also have a strong focus on UI design. They’ve worked on some of the most complex projects around. From a new and innovative way for TicketCity clients to purchase tickets to helping Actian, a cloud and on-premise data management solution, create a single source of information in the form of a beautifully designed iPaaS product.
Awards and Accolades: Top US Digital Design Company 2023 – Clutch, Top UX Agencies 2023 – IMH, Top User Experience Agencies 2023 – Agency Spotter
User Experience Services:
- User experience design
- Interaction design
- User interface design
- User research
- Product design
- Rapid prototyping
- Design systems
31. Designit
Location: Sydney | New York | Tel Aviv | Copenhagen
Notable Clients: Sosu, Yamaha, Blox, Nespresso, LYS
Min. Project Size: Get in touch to learn about pricing.
Designit’s story began in 1991. Since then, the Copenhagen outfit spread across the globe and into cities filled with changemakers. Brands turn to Designit for help with crafting, launching, and optimizing products, and growth strategies. And Designit isn’t a one-time partner. Product optimization is an ongoing process. It requires the best talent and systems to deliver stellar results and Designit will help you realize results.
Awards and Accolades: Red Dot: Brands and Communications Design 2021
User Experience Services:
- Brand and graphic design
- User experience design
- Product design
- Design research
- Digital design and technology
32. Creative Navy
Location: London
Notable Clients: Philips, Gilead Sciences, Miele, General Motors, UNICEF
Min. Project Size: Contact them for prices.
Creative Navy is Headquartered in London, England with offices in Basel, Switzerland, and Berlin, Germany. Creative Navy’s a UI and UX-exclusive agency. Through product strategy, user research, UX and UI design, prototyping and user testing, usability audit, and web development, the agency breathes life into ideas. There’s also a strong focus on iterative design and the science behind what makes for a more intuitive product experience. Creative Navy believes that successes in the design process are short-lived and excellence must be continuously pursued.
And this philosophy has seen them work with some of the largest brands around. From Salesforce and Philips to Naspers and the Discovery Channel. They’ve also worked with clients in education, national security, oil and gas, healthcare, technology, and navigation.
Awards and Accolades: Top 5 Global UX UI Agency – Clutch, Top 10 UK UX/UI Agencies – The Manifest
User Experience Services:
- User experience design
- User interface design
- Prototyping and user testing
- Usability audit
- User research
33. WANDR
Location: Los Angeles
Notable Clients: Samsung, US Air Force, IBM, WWF, Kaplan, Tenable, PwC
Min. Project Size: Schedule a call to learn about pricing.
Wandr was born in 2016 in Los Angeles, California. Unlike other older outfits, this one is made of a smaller but highly creative team. Wandr specializes in UI and UI design, app design, and web development. They’ve also branched out to offer other equally valuable services like brand strategy and development, software engineering, UX audits, and startup boot camps. For a small team, they’ve served industry titans. From Samsung and Geico to the U.S. Airforce, Adobe, Kaplan University, and Dollar Shave Club. Much of Wandr’s success can be attributed to its feel. They consider themselves an extension of your team. And in times where getting stuff done and expertise are non-negotiable, that’s a value proposition anyone will appreciate.
User Experience Services:
- Design systems
- User experience audit
- UI/UX design
- Design thinking workshop
- Information architecture
34. AGENTE
Location: Aurora, Colorado
Notable Clients: Toyota, Workfusion, Cisco, Ikea
Min. Project Size: Contact them for pricing.
Agente is a U.S. agency with global reach. Clients are as far spread as Europe and Scandinavia. Founded in 2009, it’s aligned as a B2B agency and offers clients full-stack development with experience in UX and UI for web and mobile apps. This makes them sound like less of a desired partner, but don’t be fooled. They’ve helped many B2B brands and won awards in the process. More recently, they walked away with the Top Mobile App Design Company Award for 2020 from Mobile App Daily.
Agente’s niches include eLearning, eCommerce, travel, healthcare, and proptech. An app for the San Francisco Stock Exchange, an LMS solution for marketing courses, and a weight loss app are some of the many projects they’ve delivered. Like all smart agencies, they understand the importance of developing close and easy relationships with clients, something crucial while in the throws of building something new and exciting.
User Experience Services:
- Web development
- Mobile development
- UX/UI design
- Design sprints
35. Remotion
Location: San Francisco | Los Angeles | New York
Notable Clients: June, Wyre, Filecoin, Kyber Network, Truebill, Cellebrite, Adobe, Stripe, Netflix
Min. Project Size: Get in touch to learn more.
Remotion has been around since 2009. The firm’s expertise includes app development, branding, design systems, UI and UX design, and web design. Clients include web security firm Avast, Salesforce, Oracle, Adobe, Netflix, and many, many more. Remotion’s process is solid. It starts with discovery, dives into UI and UX audits, explores wireframes and layout, integrates motion and iconography, and ends with the development of a consistent library of UI elements.
They’re also a small team and intentionally so. This tight-knit approach to business helps direct the course of this powerhouse agency. In their run thus far, they’ve empowered startups, helping them win over $750M in funding.
User Experience Services:
- User experience design
- User experience audit
- User interface structure
- Visual interface & interactions
36. Futuro Team
Location: Berlin
Notable Clients: McMakler, Grover, Post Bid Ship, Northfork
Min. Project Size: Reach out for accurate pricing.
Futuro is a UI and user experience agency. Unlike most on our list, they cater to early-stage and growing startups and offer serverless migration only. Their solutions set includes UX research, UI and UX design, rapid prototyping, MVP prototyping, web app development, mobile cross-platform development, and support for all creations.
As startup product design specialists, they’ve been involved in a wide array of projects for various industries. In the sports world, Futuro created LiveInsight, a real-time video platform that helps coaches analyze matches in hours, saving days of work. For those with green fingers, Futuro designed Ava Smart Garden, an app that helps you grow nutrition-dense fruits and vegetables at home.
User Experience Services:
- Product strategy
- Product design
- Product development
- User experience design
- UX audit
37. Brave UX
Location: Washington, DC
Notable Clients: Sonar, Royal Caribbean, FourthWall, LifeCents, Rokt, Stretch, Marriott
Min. Project Size: Get in touch for details.
Brave UX is a UX company that designs complex app interfaces. According to their website, they bravely tackle intricate challenges with “empathy and intuition”. Their mission is pretty ambitious – to make the world easier, better, and more beautiful.
For example, for Marriott, they designed a brand-new mobile drink pass. The app enabled guests to unlock free happy hour drinks with the touch of a button. Free happy hour drinks that you can get via your phone = one happy client and many happier guests.
User Experience Services:
- User experience design
- Responsive design
- Web app development
38. WowMakers
Location: Kerala, India
Notable Clients: Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, Citibank, Tencent, Vodafone
Min. Project Size: Schedule a call for pricing.
Founded in 2011, WowMakers is a boutique UX design agency that works with ambitious businesses. Needless to say, their client lists include a number of big brands including the likes of Microsoft, Mercedes-Benz, and Vodafone.
In addition to user experience, they also specialize in explainer videos and mobile and web engineering. Their team of digital strategists, engineers, content creators, and design thinkers have worked with hundreds of clients. For example, for India’s biggest private sector bank, HDFC Bank, they created a two-minute 2D explainer video that got nearly one million views.
Awards and Accolades: Top India B2B Services 2022 – Clutch, Top UX Agencies 2021 – Agency Spotter, Best UX Agencies 2020 – Clutch
User Experience Services:
- User research
- User experience design
- User interface design
- User experience audit
User Experience vs. UI Design: The Difference
Although closely related, user experience (UX) and user interface (UI) design are vastly different. User interface focuses on the visual elements and specific interaction points of a customer while using a product. Meanwhile, user experience is about the overall experience of the user when interacting with a product, service, or system.
User experience relies on user research and information architecture to improve a product or service’s usability and accessibility. It looks at the emotional and psychological responses of users to the overall product to gauge if the user experience is acceptable. User interface is actually a subset of user experience, in the sense that an effective UI takes UX factors into consideration.
In practice, UX and UI design are collaborative efforts, and their roles may overlap in smaller design teams. However, effective product design requires striking a balance between a visually attractive and a user-friendly interface and ensuring the overall user experience meets consumer needs and expectations.
Wrapping This Up
This concludes our list of the top 38 UX (User Experience) design agencies. If you’re a brand looking to better position yourself and need a keen eye for detail and beautiful design, this list is sure to provide access to some of the most progressive and successful UX agencies today.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does UX design mean?
User experience (UX) design is the process that design teams go through to make the user experience for a product useful for potential clients. We can probably all think of poorly designed products that give us an unpleasant user experience. UX design is the process of improving such designs, making them more user friendly. It is related to, yet different from, user interface (UI) design that focuses solely on designing the looks or style of a product. UX design covers much more.
What is a UX agency?
Like all agencies, UX agencies are specialist companies that do a task for their clients, rather than them having to do it in-house. In this case, the service UX agencies offer is designing the user experience for their clients' products. While larger companies can afford to employ full-time UX designers, many other companies prefer to outsource the work to a UX agency. UX agencies are excellent for when you lack sufficient UX experience or know-how in your team.
Does UX design require coding?
If you hire one of the UX agencies we have looked at in this article, you don't need to worry about coding. If you are looking at becoming a UX designer yourself, you do not necessarily have to concern yourself with coding either, however. This is true even if you work on websites and other IT projects. However, coding could give you a competitive advantage in those IT-related UX roles, as it may help you better demonstrate your UX design ideas.
What skills do UX designers need?
There are quite a few skills that will help a UX designer make themselves more employable, possibly even helping them gain a job in one of the prestigious UX agencies covered in this post. Some of the essential skills for a UX designer include:
- Research skills
- Wireframing and prototyping capabilities
- Core communications skills
- Writing
- Visual communication
- Collaboration
- Empathy
- Understanding of design interaction
- Understanding numbers, percentages, and ratios
- Coding – not essential, but could potentially add value
- Curiosity
What does a UX design agency do?
A user experience design agency specializes in creating and improving the user experience of digital products and services. This includes websites, mobile apps, software applications, and more. Their goal is to ensure these digital products are user-friendly, effective, and enjoyable for the target audience.
Some of their core services include:
- User research
- Information architecture
- Wireframing and prototyping
- User interface design
- Interaction design
- User journey mapping
- User testing and feedback
How much does it cost to design a user experience?
UX design agencies charge their fees depending on the project’s complexity, scope of work, and level of expertise required. Some engagements may cost as little as several hundred dollars, while some can go up to thousands of dollars.
To give you a rough idea, a UX design project for a simple website or app can cost a few thousand dollars, while a complex, enterprise-level project may cost tens of thousands of dollars. Always discuss your specific project requirements during the discovery call to get accurate cost estimates and avoid unwanted surprises.
What is the highest-paying UX design company?
Data from Glassdoor reveals that a UX designer in the US earns an average of $99,945 per year, with the pay ranging from $77,000–$130,000. However, some companies pay as much as $200,000 for a highly skilled and experienced UX designer.
As of writing, here are the highest-paying UX design companies in the US:
- Meta - $203,330
- Google - $193,611
- Amazon Web Services - $173,802
- Apple - $168,254
- Workday - $165,053
- Roblox - $164,476
- Indeed - $162,448
- VMware - $162,204
- Amazon - $160,838
- Cisco Systems - $159,607
