Nikka Estefani
Category: Design Talks
UX plays an important role in your website or app. A good UX not only makes your interface attractive, but it can also help in boosting your sales, making the workflow more seamless and convenient, and help keep users using your product.
On the other hand, a bad UX can ruin your business or project – if they can’t even use your interface properly, why should they buy from you or use your app?
However, UX is apparently not something you can just do. It is a discipline that requires specialized skills, creativity and careful planning. This is why working with UX agencies is valuable for your business – they know the ins and outs on how to make your interface’s UX and design more convenient and beautiful for your customers or users.
As 2021 approaches, we are expecting new and more trends to arise in our digital world. This makes UX more and more relevant for your business.
If you are looking for a UX agency to work with – and you should – then, here are our top picks of UX agencies for 2021.
10 Best UX Agencies You Need to Check Out In 2021
1) Raw Studio
Raw Studio is a UX/UI and branding agency based in Sydney, Australia. Their main focus in helping businesses build their brand and create products that help people who’ll use them.
They help numerous companies including Snappr, Loopit, Global Prime and Devery.
2) Fjord
Fjord is a design and innovation consultancy with a mission to build designs that positively impact our human experience – both in the digital world and the physical, “real” world.
Fjord had worked with various industries – from airlines (Finnair) to public transit (Metrolinx) and designing an app for NatWest customers (Bó). They also have different studios from different parts of the world including Asia, Australia, Middle East to Africa, Europe, North America and South America.
3) Ideo
Ideo is one of the top UX agencies in the world. One of their most notable works is designing the first Mac mouse. They also played a crucial role in Vivo, one of the popular Chinese smartphone manufacturer. Their work helped Vivo become one of China’s most-loved smartphone brand, especially by young customers.
Ideo’s offices can be found in USA, UK, Germany, Japan and China.
4) Eleken
Eleken started as an app development agency because they have passion for developing different kind of apps – website and mobile – as well as e-commerce website. However, as AI tech’s influence grow and grow more, and because they have skills in SaaS, Eleken turned their direction towards that field.
Today, Eleken focuses on SaaS web design services for web and marketing design, and UX/UI design services for product design.
Eleken’s studio is located in Kiev, Ukraine.
5) Method
Since 1999, Method brought out their creativity through the different projects they work for over the past 20 years. Within these two decades, Method we able to work with the likes of McDonalds, Costa Coffee, Hitachi, Manchester City Football Club, and some more.
Method was acquired by GlobalLogic, and they have studios in New York and London.
6) UX Studio
UX Studio is a Hungary-based that was founded in 2013. Over the 7 years since they first started, they work with different clients from across the world and participated in notable projects such as designing HBO GO and redesigning UN’s food distribution platform.
They also published a book, “Product Design: A comprehensive guide to designing digital products people will love”. This 199-page book is packed with real-world examples, illustrations and concepts that will help you learn or improve your knowledge and skills of UX.
7) Emerge Interactive
Emerge is a UX agency that was founded in 1998 and it was based in Portland, USA.
Like many in this list, Emerge worked with large brands such as Nike, Unilever, Icon Aircraft and Wacom. They also received many rewards over the years such as a Webby, an Effie and a Davey.
Emerge’s mission is simple: to think about the future and build the best products for their clients, and especially for the people that will use it.
8) Fantasy
Fantasy was founded in 1999, and it became known with their excellent work that they eventually began to work with big brands like UFC, Master Class, Netflix and The Weather Channel.
If you want to visit their office, you can find them in San Francisco, New York and, if you live in the UK, they have an office in London as well.
9) Praxent
Praxent is a UX agency that focuses on working in the fields of financial services industry. Their main services are custom software development, web app development, and product strategy and roadmapping. Their notable clients include TicketCity, The City of Houston, and Nrg.
Praxent is located in Austin, Texas.
10) Designit
Designit is a strategic design firm that works with some of the best and ambitious brands. They help these businesses create products, services, spaces and systems that will be loved by people who’ll use them.
Designit can be found in major cities around the world such as Sydney, Oslo, New York, Munich, Dubai and Tokyo.
