Product design is the work inside the product: the flows, screens and decisions a user meets after signing up. Each studio in this ranking has designed software that shipped and stayed in use, from consumer apps to enterprise platforms.
Some are known for speed and senior teams that work alongside your engineers. Others bring large research programs suited to products with many user types and complicated rules.
Product and interface design studio in Victoria, Canada, known for designing early versions of Slack, Coinbase and Uber.
UI/UX design and branding agency in San Francisco, working on digital products, websites and design systems for SaaS, fintech and enterprise companies.
Global product design and innovation consultancy headquartered in San Francisco.
Digital product studio in Brooklyn designing apps, ecommerce and websites for consumer brands and large companies.
Global design and innovation company known for human-centered design.
Product and experience design studio in New York, designing digital products, AI interfaces and brand systems for large companies.
Product design and development studio in London building apps, platforms and design systems.
Digital agency in New York combining strategy, design and engineering for large brands.
Product and brand design company, formerly Handsome, designing and launching digital products for large consumer and technology brands.
Product design agency working on AI, fintech and SaaS products.
AI-native design studio for startups, building brands, digital products and websites, with creative leadership in San Francisco and a distributed team.
Design and development agency for digital products in fintech, web3 and SaaS.
Brand and product studio in New York working with startups and growing companies.
It turns a product idea or an existing product into tested flows and interfaces: research, information architecture, prototyping, UI design and often a design system for your engineers.
An agency gives you a senior team immediately, which suits a launch, a redesign or a hard problem. An in-house team is better for continuous improvement once the product direction is settled. Many companies use an agency first, then hire.
The best ones share files, components and documentation in the tools your engineers already use, and stay involved during the build. Ask to see a handoff from a past project.
Agree on two or three metrics before design starts, such as activation, task completion or support tickets, and measure them before and after launch.
