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Design Partnership

Your product works. Nobody wants to use it.

80% of software features are rarely or never used. Confusing interfaces drive workarounds, support tickets, and churn. We're a UX/UI design agency that fixes that with research-driven product design, shipped as production code.

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What you get

User research and testing

Interviews, task analysis, and usability tests with your actual users. Not assumptions in a conference room. We find out what's broken before we design anything.

UX strategy and information architecture

Navigation, workflows, and screen structures based on how people actually think. Just 12% of features drive 80% of usage. Good IA puts the right things where people look.

Visual design system

Typography, color, spacing, and interaction patterns documented in one place. McKinsey found companies with mature design systems save 20-30% on design and dev costs every year.

Interactive prototypes

Clickable prototypes your team and users test before a single line of production code. Cheaper to fix a flow in Figma than in React.

Production component library

Design tokens, coded components, and developer docs. Not a pretty PDF your engineers have to reverse-engineer. Actual building blocks they ship from.

BFSG and WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility

94.8% of home pages fail basic accessibility checks. We build WCAG 2.1 AA and EN 301 549 into every component. Since June 2025, the BFSG makes this the law, with fines up to 100,000 EUR.

How it works

1

Research and define

We talk to your users, audit your current product, and map the gaps between what exists and what people need. You get a prioritized list of UX problems with evidence, not opinions.

2

Design and validate

Wireframes, then visual design, then interactive prototypes. Each round includes user testing. We throw out what doesn't work before it costs you dev time.

3

Build and hand off

Design tokens, component specs, and coded UI elements your developers pick up and ship. We stay through the first sprint of implementation to make sure nothing gets lost in translation.

What to expect

Timeline

3-6 weeks design

Research through validated prototypes. Development runs in parallel after week two.

Investment

From EUR 10,000

for the design phase. Forrester puts the return on UX investment at up to 100 to 1. Development priced separately.

Your involvement

3-5 hrs/week

Design reviews, user test sessions, and quick decisions on priorities. We handle the rest.

Tools

Design to code. No handoff gap.

From research in Figma to design tokens and documented components your developers ship in React or Vue on day one.

Figma
Storybook

Common questions

What does a UX/UI design agency actually do?

A UX/UI design agency researches your users, designs the interface, and hands it to your developers. We go one step further and deliver the coded components too. Research, information architecture, visual design, prototypes, and a production-ready component library. One team from the first user interview to developer handoff.

Do you just hand off Figma files, or production code?

Both. You get Figma files, design tokens, and production-ready components. Our design-system handoffs include coded building blocks, not a PDF your engineers have to reverse-engineer. We stay through the first sprint of implementation so nothing gets lost.

What's a design system, and does my team need one?

A design system is your documented set of components, tokens, and patterns: buttons, forms, spacing, color, typography, all in one source of truth. If two developers build the same button two different ways, you need one. Mature design systems cut design and dev costs 20-30%, according to McKinsey.

Does the BFSG or European Accessibility Act apply to my product?

If consumers use your software, yes. The European Accessibility Act, enforced in Germany as the BFSG since 28 June 2025, requires WCAG 2.1 AA and EN 301 549 compliance, with fines up to 100,000 EUR. Pure B2B tools are exempt. The moment consumers can use it, the rules apply. We build accessibility in from the first wireframe, not as a retrofit at the end.

How much does a design partnership cost?

The design phase starts at 10,000 EUR: research through validated, coded components. Most engagements run 3 to 6 weeks. Development is priced separately. Forrester puts the return on UX investment at up to 100 to 1, so the design phase usually pays for itself in reduced rework alone.

What design tools do you use?

Figma for everything from wireframes to high-fidelity prototypes. Storybook for documenting the component library your developers receive. Design tokens so your brand stays consistent across web and native. We don't use tools that lock you into our workflow. Figma files are yours. Storybook runs in your repo.

Can you improve an existing product, or only build new ones?

Both. Most of our work starts with a product that already ships but frustrates its users. We run a UX audit, find the screens costing you the most, and fix them in priority order. Send us your weakest screen and we'll tell you what's wrong before you commit to anything.

Stop guessing what your users want

Send us your product's weakest screen. We'll tell you what's wrong and how we'd fix it. Free, honest, no pitch deck.

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