Experience Design Services (UX, UI & CX)
We design digital experiences that improve conversions, reduce friction, and create seamless journeys across your product ecosystem. From confusing interfaces and low adoption to intuitive designs that users love. Build scalable design systems, validate with real users, and integrate design seamlessly into your development workflow.
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When to Choose Experience Design Services
Choose Scrums.com Experience Design Services When:
- You're launching a new digital product and need comprehensive UX/UI design from concept through delivery, ensuring intuitive user experience from day one
- Low adoption rates indicate users struggle to discover value or complete key workflows, user research and usability testing identify specific friction points holding back engagement
- High support ticket volumes suggest unclear interfaces drive user confusion, UX audit and redesign reduce support burden while improving user satisfaction
- Inconsistent experiences across platforms (web, mobile, internal tools) create fragmented user journeys, design system implementation establishes consistency and accelerates future development
- Redesigning legacy platforms to meet modern user expectations, accessibility standards, and competitive benchmarks, comprehensive UX modernization without backend rebuilds
- Scaling product across teams requires design system to maintain consistency, component libraries, design tokens, and governance frameworks enable parallel development while preserving brand coherence
- Compliance requirements demand accessibility (WCAG, ADA, Section 508), accessible design patterns, remediation, and ongoing compliance ensure legal requirements met
- Time-to-market pressure demands rapid prototyping and validated designs reducing development rework, interactive prototypes enable stakeholder alignment and user validation before code investment
Consider Alternative Scrums.com Solutions:
- Want complete product development with design? → Custom Software Development
- Require design as part of full product team? → Product Development as a Service
- Building web applications needing design? → Web App Development
- Need design validation through testing? → Software Testing & QA
What's Included in Experience Design Services
Our comprehensive experience design services cover the full design lifecycle, from user research and journey mapping to high-fidelity prototypes and scalable design systems. We create intuitive, accessible, conversion-optimized interfaces that turn user frustration into product love through research-driven design and continuous validation.
Discovery & User Research
Understand your users through comprehensive research including stakeholder interviews, user interviews, surveys, competitive analysis, and behavioral analytics review. We develop detailed personas, map customer journeys identifying pain points and opportunities, and synthesize findings into actionable design recommendations. Establish evidence-based foundation ensuring every design decision addresses real user needs, eliminating assumptions and guesswork before design work begins.
UX/UI Design & Interactive Prototyping
Create intuitive, engaging interfaces through information architecture, user flow design, wireframing, visual design, and high-fidelity interactive prototypes. We design responsive interfaces aligned to your brand guidelines, validate with stakeholders and users through clickable prototypes, and provide developer-ready specifications. Transform complex workflows into simple, intuitive experiences that guide users naturally toward desired outcomes, reducing cognitive load and increasing task completion rates by 40-60%.
Design Systems & Component Libraries
Build scalable design infrastructure including comprehensive design systems, reusable component libraries (Figma, React, Vue, Angular), design tokens, theming architecture, and governance guidelines. We establish pattern libraries, living style guides, and contribution frameworks, ensuring consistency across platforms while accelerating design and development velocity. Reduce design debt, eliminate one-off components, and maintain visual consistency as your product scales across teams and features.
Usability Testing & Validation
De-risk product decisions through evidence-based validation including moderated and unmoderated usability testing, A/B testing implementation, heuristic evaluations, expert reviews, and user feedback synthesis. We test with representative users in realistic scenarios, identify friction points before launch, measure task completion and satisfaction, and provide prioritized improvement recommendations. Validate designs early reducing costly post-launch fixes and ensuring product-market fit before development investment.
UX/UI Audit & Optimization
Identify and fix usability issues through comprehensive UX audits evaluating key user journeys, accessibility compliance assessment (WCAG 2.1 AA/AAA), comparative analysis against industry standards, and prioritized improvement backlogs. We diagnose conversion funnel drop-offs, identify navigation confusion, surface accessibility barriers, and recommend quick-win optimizations. Transform underperforming products into user-friendly experiences driving higher engagement, lower support costs, and improved business outcomes.
Accessibility Design (WCAG Compliance)
Ensure digital products are usable by everyone through accessible design patterns, WCAG 2.1 AA/AAA compliance implementation, screen reader optimization, keyboard navigation design, color contrast improvements, and inclusive design practices. We conduct accessibility audits, remediate barriers, establish accessible component patterns, and train teams on inclusive design, expanding addressable market, meeting legal requirements, and demonstrating commitment to digital inclusion.
Our Experience Design Approach
We don't just make things look pretty, we solve user problems through research-driven design. Our approach combines human-centered design thinking, rapid prototyping, and continuous validation to create interfaces that users love and businesses measure.
Human-Centered Design Thinking
We start every design engagement by deeply understanding users, their goals, pain points, mental models, and contexts. Through research synthesis, persona development, and journey mapping, we establish clear picture of user needs before sketching a single wireframe. This human-centered approach ensures every design decision addresses real problems, not assumed ones. Designs grounded in user research achieve 60% higher adoption rates, fewer post-launch revisions, and stronger product-market fit compared to assumption-based design. User empathy isn't optional, it's foundation of effective experience design.
Rapid Prototyping & Iterative Validation
We adopt rapid prototyping methodologies moving from low-fidelity concepts to high-fidelity interactive prototypes quickly, validating designs with real users throughout process. Every prototype cycle includes user testing, feedback synthesis, and design iteration. Problems surface early when they're cheap to fix, not after development investment. Interactive prototypes enable stakeholder alignment, developer understanding, and user validation before code is written, reducing development rework by 50% and ensuring what gets built actually works for users.
AI-Powered Design Operations
We leverage AI agents monitoring design quality, suggesting component reuse from design systems, automating accessibility checks, and providing analytics-driven recommendations for optimization. Our AI-powered design ops reduce manual QA time by 60%, ensure consistent application of design patterns, catch accessibility issues before handoff, and identify design-development bottlenecks automatically. This intelligent oversight maintains design quality at scale, accelerates delivery velocity, and ensures every interface meets enterprise standards, freeing designers to focus on creative problem-solving, not repetitive quality checks.
How Experience Design Delivery Works
Our structured 4-phase approach ensures predictable delivery, continuous collaboration, and measurable outcomes, from discovery through launch and ongoing optimization.
Discovery & Architecture
Comprehensive discovery establishes design foundation through stakeholder workshops aligning team vision, user research identifying personas and pain points, competitive analysis establishing UX benchmarks, and design strategy defining success metrics. We create architectural plans for seamless development integration, conduct technical feasibility assessments, and establish project roadmap. This research-driven foundation eliminates guesswork and ensures designs solve real problems.
Deliverables: Research synthesis, persona documentation, journey maps, design strategy, project roadmap, success metrics framework
Team Deployment & Design Kickoff
Dedicated design team onboards and integrates into your workflow. We configure tool access (Figma, Jira, ClickUp), establish collaboration protocols, align on design standards and brand guidelines, plan sprints defining milestones and delivery cadence, and kick off initial design sprints. Team establishes communication rhythm while beginning exploratory design work, wireframes, concepts, and architectural planning.
Deliverables: Onboarded design team, configured toolchain, sprint plan, initial design concepts, communication protocols
Delivery & Continuous Validation
Iterative design and testing cycles bring product to life. Designers create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups while continuously validating with users. AI agents automate design QA, accessibility checks, and component library compliance. Regular developer collaboration ensures feasibility and smooth handoff. Design specifications, assets, and documentation delivered in developer-ready formats, integrated directly into sprint backlog for seamless implementation.
Deliverables: Design mockups, interactive prototypes, component libraries, design specifications, developer documentation, tested and validated designs
Scale & Optimize
Post-launch monitoring tracks performance through analytics and user feedback. Design system governance ensures consistency as product evolves. A/B testing and optimization experiments drive continuous improvement. Design team scaling flexes based on roadmap priorities, ramp up for major initiatives, scale back during maintenance phases. Long-term partnership focus means we develop deep expertise in your product, users, and domain over time.
Deliverables: Analytics dashboards, optimization recommendations, design system updates, evolved components, continuous improvement backlog
Ready to Transform Your Digital Experience?
Our experience design services combine user research, proven design patterns, and AI-powered design operations to transform frustrating user experiences into engaging, conversion-optimized interfaces, enabling 40-60% higher task completion, 50% reduced support costs, and faster feature adoption without years of trial and error.
Technologies We Design For
We design for modern technology stacks and platforms, creating interfaces optimized for each environment's unique constraints and opportunities. Our designers understand technical capabilities and limitations, ensuring designs are both beautiful and buildable.
What Our Clients Say
Experience Design Pricing
What Impacts Experience Design Costs?
Project Scope & Complexity
Designing single mobile app costs less than multi-platform ecosystem (web + iOS + Android + admin). Simple workflows cost less than complex enterprise applications with dozens of user roles, intricate permissions, and sophisticated interactions. More screens, flows, states = more design effort.
Research & Validation Depth
Basic design without research costs less than comprehensive discovery including stakeholder interviews, user research, competitive analysis, usability testing, and iterative validation. More validation = higher confidence but more investment.
Design System Requirements
One-off designs cost less than comprehensive design systems with component libraries, documentation, governance frameworks, and multiple platform implementations (web, iOS, Android). Design systems require more upfront investment but accelerate long-term velocity and consistency.
Team Composition & Seniority
Junior designers cost less than senior UX researchers, design system architects, or accessibility specialists. Larger teams (multiple designers, researchers, content strategists) cost more than single designer but deliver faster for complex projects.
Platform & Device Coverage
Single-platform design (web-only) costs less than multi-platform (responsive web + native iOS + native Android + tablet variations). Each additional platform adds design complexity and testing requirements.
Accessibility & Compliance Needs
Basic accessibility costs less than comprehensive WCAG 2.1 AAA compliance with extensive testing, remediation, and documentation. Regulated industries (healthcare, finance, government) require more rigorous accessibility validation.
Industry Benchmarks: What Experience Design Typically Costs
These are general industry ranges to help you budget:
Basic UX/UI Design (Simple Applications)
Single-platform MVP, basic user flows, limited design system
Industry range: $15K - $40K per project
Standard Product Design (Mid-Sized Applications)
Multi-platform design, design system foundation, usability testing, iterative refinement
Industry range: $40K - $100K per project
Enterprise Experience Design (Complex Platforms)
Comprehensive design system, multi-platform, extensive research and testing, accessibility compliance
Industry range: $100K - $250K+ per project
Ongoing Design Teams (Monthly Retainers)
Dedicated design teams supporting continuous product evolution
Industry range: $15K - $35K/month for 2-5 designers
The Scrums.com Advantage: Enterprise Design at Predictable Costs
Unlike traditional design agencies charging premium rates, we deliver enterprise-grade experience design using talented African designers at 40-60% lower cost than US or UK agencies, while maintaining exceptional quality, accessibility compliance, and platform integration through our Software Engineering Orchestration Platform (SEOP).
What Makes Our Experience Design Different:
Platform-Integrated Delivery – Design work flows seamlessly into development through unified tools (Figma, Jira, GitHub) eliminating handoff friction and reducing implementation time by 50%
AI-Powered Design Operations – Automated design QA, accessibility checks, component validation, and analytics-driven recommendations maintaining quality at scale
Research-Driven Approach – User research, journey mapping, and usability testing built into every engagement ensuring designs solve real user problems
Design System Expertise – Scalable component libraries, design tokens, and governance frameworks enabling consistency across platforms as products grow
Accessibility Built-In – WCAG 2.1 AA/AAA compliance, screen reader optimization, and inclusive design patterns from day one, not afterthoughts
Flexible Scaling – Scale design capacity up during active development, down during maintenance phases without long-term commitments
Proven Track Record – 400+ successful design engagements across FinTech, Banking, Insurance, Healthcare, and SaaS platforms
Three Ways to Structure Experience Design Services
Project-Based Design (PDaaS)
Fixed-scope projects with defined outcomes, MVPs, redesigns, design systems, UX audits.
Best for: Time-bound initiatives with clear deliverables
Dedicated Design Teams
Full-time design squads embedded in your product development workflow.
Best for: Ongoing product development requiring sustained design focus
Augmented Design Specialists
Add individual UX/UI designers, researchers, or design system architects to your existing team.
Best for: Teams with design foundation needing specialized expertise or capacity
Ready to See What Experience Design Would Cost?
Pricing depends on project scope, platform coverage, and design system requirements. View our transparent pricing models or get custom experience design quote after consultation.
View Our Pricing Models or Get Custom Experience Design Quote
Industries We Serve with Experience Design
From FinTech platforms requiring secure, trust-building interfaces to healthcare applications needing HIPAA-compliant, accessible designs, our experience design services deliver intuitive, conversion-optimized user experiences tailored to industry-specific requirements and user needs.
Fintech
Banking & Financial Services
Logistics & Supply Chain
Technology & SaaS
Telecommunications
Insurance
Retail & Ecommerce
Healthcare & Telemedecine
Experience Design Success Stories
Experience Design FAQs
What makes Scrums.com different from traditional design agencies?
We're not just a design agency, we're a Software Engineering Orchestration Platform. Our Experience Design service integrates into your entire delivery pipeline, ensuring seamless collaboration between design, development, and operations. Our designers work alongside your engineers within a unified platform providing real-time visibility, AI-powered insights, and continuous optimization. This eliminates traditional agency friction where designs are "thrown over the wall", our integrated approach means designs move from concept to code 50% faster with fewer translation errors and rework cycles. Plus, our platform integration enables design analytics tracking task completion, conversion rates, and user satisfaction tied directly to design iterations.
How quickly can you deploy a design team?
We can deploy a fully onboarded design team within 21 days from contract signature. Our talent pool of 10,000+ vetted specialists and 400+ permanent team members ensures rapid matching to your specific needs, whether you need a single UX researcher, a full design squad, or specialized roles like accessibility experts or design system architects. The deployment process includes: team selection aligned to your culture and requirements (week 1), tool configuration and onboarding (week 2), kickoff and first design sprint (week 3). Most clients see initial design deliverables by the end of week 3.
Do you work with existing design systems?
Absolutely. We integrate with and extend your existing design systems, component libraries, and brand guidelines. If you're using Figma libraries, Material Design, or custom design tokens, we adopt your standards and contribute back improvements. If you don't have a design system, we can build one from scratch or adapt industry-leading frameworks (Material, Ant Design, Carbon) to your needs. Our design system work includes: an audit of existing components, documentation gaps filled, new components added following established patterns, and governance guidelines established. We ensure design consistency while enabling team scalability.
What design tools do you use?
We're tool-agnostic and adapt to your existing workflows. Our teams are proficient in Figma, and all major design and prototyping tools. We also integrate seamlessly with your development tools, Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub, ClickUp, for efficient handoff and collaboration. If you have preferred tools, we use them. If you're open to recommendations, we typically suggest Figma for its real-time collaboration features, developer handoff capabilities, and robust component library system. Tool migration assistance available if you're moving between platforms.
How do you ensure design quality and consistency?
Our multi-layered quality assurance process includes: Peer design reviews where senior designers critique work before client presentation, Automated accessibility checks validating WCAG 2.1 AA/AAA compliance, Design system compliance ensuring new designs follow established patterns, Regular stakeholder reviews maintaining alignment with business goals, and Usability testing validating designs with real users throughout the process. Our AI Agent Gateway automates repetitive QA tasks, color contrast checks, component library compliance, responsive design validation, freeing designers to focus on creative problem-solving. This process maintains consistent quality at scale while accelerating delivery velocity.
Can you help with user research and testing?
Yes. Our teams conduct comprehensive user research including: stakeholder interviews to understand business context, user interviews exploring needs and pain points, surveys gathering quantitative feedback at scale, competitive analysis establishing UX benchmarks, and analytics review identifying behavior patterns. We perform usability testing (moderated sessions with facilitated tasks, unmoderated remote testing for scale), A/B testing comparing design variants, heuristic evaluations identifying violations of UX principles, and accessibility audits ensuring inclusive design. Research findings inform design decisions throughout the project, and we validate designs with real users before final implementation, de-risking product launches.
What's the minimum engagement period?
Flexible engagements start at 1 month for specific projects like UX audits, MVP design, or design system documentation. For dedicated design teams, we recommend a minimum 3-month commitment to see meaningful impact, with flexibility to scale up or down as needs evolve. Typical engagement patterns include: Project-based (1-3 months) for defined scope like redesigns or MVPs, Augmentation (3-6 months) filling skill gaps or adding capacity, and Long-term partnership (6-12+ months) for ongoing product development and design system evolution. Longer engagements offer better rates and allow design teams to develop deep product knowledge, resulting in better outcomes and faster velocity.
How do you handle timezone differences?
Our African talent provides significant timezone overlap: Same timezone as EMEA (UK, EU, Middle East, South Africa) enabling real-time collaboration during entire workday, 4-6 hour overlap with US East Coast (New York, Boston) ensuring daily sync opportunities, 2-3 hour overlap with US West Coast (San Francisco, LA) for daily check-ins. We structure teams to ensure real-time collaboration during your core working hours, with asynchronous updates and documentation supporting 24-hour progress. English fluency is standard across all team members, clear communication without language barriers. Flexible scheduling accommodates critical meetings outside standard overlap hours when needed.
What happens if design team member isn't working out?
We maintain rigorous quality standards and a rapid replacement process. If a designer isn't meeting expectations: Week 1 - Immediate feedback to the designer and account manager addresses concerns, Week 2 - A performance improvement plan with clear expectations and support, Week 3 - If there's no improvement, the designer is replaced with an alternative candidate from our talent pool at no additional cost. Most concerns resolve through clear communication and alignment, but we guarantee team performance, if a designer doesn't fit, we swap them out quickly while maintaining project momentum. Your satisfaction is our priority.
