UX studio

In short

UX studio was established in Budapest in 2013 and now pitches itself squarely at B2B SaaS teams, with a global staff covering more than eight hours of time zones. It sells research, UX/UI design, consultancy and front-end development, usually as designers embedded in the client's Slack, Linear and Figma, and offers a free five-day trial that ends with two or three finished screens. It is #10 on our UX research ranking.

For Duck Creek, which sells software to property and casualty insurers, it turned a code-heavy machine-learning risk modeling tool into a low-code one, including a file system modeled on Google Drive and a ten-week phase on the model-building canvas. Nanoleq's Oxa breathing wearable got a rebuilt app that went on to win a Red Dot award. For Lupl, a legal matter management app, it ran ongoing research, recruiting lawyers directly and logging every study in a Dovetail repository.

SaaS companies with complex products, a thin in-house design team and a steady backlog of research and redesign work get the most from the embedded model; Brenntag's product design manager credits it with better adoption and task completion. Organisations that need large quantitative studies, panels across many countries or a statistically weighted benchmark should use a research-only firm built for that volume.