Service

Embedded UX design team

We work closely with funded-founders and established developers to improve the user experience (UX) of their apps, platforms, and products. Our deep expertise, coupled with an agency model that supports creatives doing their best work, ensures your engagement will be successful. We are often hired as the entire UX team for a startup with each UX designer keeping 4–6 developers busy. For teams that want to add to their existing UX team, please visit Augment your Current UI/UX Team

How it works

Dedicated UI/UX Designer

You will have a main point of contact, your UX designer, and access to the team at large. We will often help each other out with a component build, an animation, or a prototype. UI/UX Designers are limited to 3 clients at a time, ensuring we are focused and thinking about your SaaS product in depth. 

Critiques & UX-Centric Environment

In addition to the time spent on your project, our team meets formally weekly and informally several times a week to review, improve, brainstorm, and critique our work. This ensures you are getting the most brains for your buck! We live, eat, and breathe UX around here—and your project is important to us.

Project Management

Whether you opt to have us handle the project management of UX tasks through our work tracker or have us join your Linear or Jira (or other task management system).

Slack Connect

We create a shared slack connect channel to ensure that designers and developers have a direct line of communication.

UX statistic

An oil and gas client needed to complete a M&A valuation with untagged images and PDFs. It took 3 months and they were only able to complete 10% data coverage. With the UI we built for Zorroa/BoonAI, the same task took 1 month with 90% data coverage.

How we’ve done it

Osmos product screenshot

Osmos

UI/UX Design

Product screenshot, detail of MarketDial product.

MarketDial

UI/UX Design

Shoreline

UI/UX Design

Pine trees in dark misty forest.

“We’ve been truly impressed by how swiftly the team grasped highly intricate concepts and consistently delivered exceptional solutions. Our collaboration has successfully addressed challenging issues, and our customers have provided enthusiastic feedback on the improved productivity of Osmos’ intuitive user interface.

As a data product tailored for non-engineers, Osmos faces the unique challenge of handling intricate data complexities while maintaining a user-friendly spreadsheet-like experience. In our quest for a design team capable of unraveling complex concepts and embracing creative, unconventional solutions, we discovered the perfect fit with Anchor & Alpine. Our collaboration with Anchor & Alpine has been rewarding, and we anticipate expanding it further throughout our product and website.

— Naresh Venkat, CTO, Osmos

Service Engagement

We can craft an engagement with you that works for both of us.

We can craft an engagement with you that works for both of us. We recommend a 10 hour jump start engagement to get started. A Jump Start allows us to get in and roll up our sleeves and get working with you. We will decide what to do with that time together. Maybe we work on user flows or personas, maybe we polish up a feature, or straighten out a design system manager. We’ll do a task we can be successful at together to get a feel for the engagement. 

From there, we decide on 20, 30, or 40 hours per month of work and strategize on communication and progress checks. We normally use a Slack Connect so designers and developers can work together in real time. We also do a weekly sprint planning and checkin meeting.

What’s included in critiques, weekly meetings, Slack Connect, and internal project management?

  • Weekly formal internal critiques with a decorated UX expert. Each person presents their work and challenges to elicit feedback from our group of creatives. The best solutions come from diverse perspectives. 
  • A UX-centric work environment where we’re focusing on solving these unique problems every day. 
  • Cross-project learnings, what’s new, what’s being tested, and what’s working well shared with our portfolio of clients. 
  • Weekly meetings with you to review work and pick up the next sprint. We record these in Zoom and process them to work on feedback after the meetings. 
  • Slack Connect is included in our Embedded UX Team service offering. We think the best way for people to collaborate is to be able to talk and ask questions in real time. 
  • We use Jira internally and Jira Service Manager externally to track and report on project progress.

Our pricing

Jump Start

10 hours

$2,500

Get in quickly and start a project to get a feel for the engagement.

3 months

avg / month

20 – 30 hrs / month

$5,625

30 – 40 hrs / month

$7,875

40 – 50 hrs / month

$10,125

6 months

avg / month

20 – 30 hrs / month

$5,000

30 – 40 hrs / month

$7,000

40 – 50 hrs / month

$9,000

12 months

avg / month

20 – 30 hrs / month

$4,625

30- 40 hrs / month

$6,475

40 – 50 hrs / month

$8,325

3 months

avg total

20 – 30 hrs / month

$16,875

30 – 40 hrs / month

$23,625

40 – 50 hrs / month

$27,000

6 months

avg total

20 – 30 hrs / month

$30,00

30 – 40 hrs / month

$42,000

40 – 50 hrs / month

$77,700

12 months

avg total

20 – 30 hrs / month

$55,500

30 – 40 hrs / month

$66,600

40 – 50 hrs / month

$99,900

Additional standups and meetings will be charged at the project hourly rate.

Unlock the full potential of your UX today

Elevate your user experience to exceptional. Schedule a meeting with us and elevate your app’s UX to the next level.

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