What is included in UI/UX design services?

Enough to hand your engineers a build-ready spec and nothing you do not need. Every engagement is scoped from the state your product is in: a working app with a confusing checkout gets flow work and testing, a product with no interface yet gets the whole arc from research to handoff. We tell you which parts to skip before you pay for them, and the scope is written down before the first sprint.

How much do UI/UX design services cost?

Design-only work typically runs $8K to $25K for a focused redesign of two or three flows, and $30K to $120K for a full product with research, testing, and a design system. Agency hourly rates commonly sit between $60 and $200. A free discovery call gets you a scoped estimate, with no obligation attached.

How long does a UI/UX design project take?

A focused redesign of a few flows typically takes 3 to 5 weeks. A full product design with research, testing, and a design system usually runs 3 to 5 months. We work in two-week design sprints, so you have something clickable in your hands from the second week onward.

What is the difference between UI and UX design?

UX design decides how the product works: the structure, the flows, and the order things happen in. UI design decides how it looks and responds: type, color, spacing, components, and states. You need both. A polished interface sitting on top of a confusing flow still loses the user at step three.

What deliverables do I get at the end of a design project?

You get editable Figma source files, an interactive prototype, screens for every state, a design system with named tokens and documented components, exported assets, research findings with the session recordings behind them, and handoff documentation covering spacing, behavior, and accessibility notes.

Do I need a design system?

You need one as soon as more than one person is drawing or building your UI. Below that it is overhead you will not recover. The signal to watch for is an engineer rebuilding a button that already exists, or two screens shipping with different spacing in the same release.

Do you build what you design, or design only?

Either one. Some clients take the files to their own engineers, which we support with annotated specs and a Storybook-ready system. Others keep one team through the build, since Softaims has 500+ engineers across web and mobile. Design-only engagements are scoped and priced on their own terms.

How do you make sure designs meet accessibility standards?

We design against WCAG 2.2 AA from the first screen rather than auditing at the end. Contrast is checked on every token pair, focus states are drawn for every interactive component, target sizes clear the minimum, and keyboard order is annotated in the handoff file so engineers never have to infer it.

Can you improve an existing product without a full redesign?

Yes, and it is usually the better first move. A UX audit finds the handful of screens costing you the most, and we rebuild only those, most often the ones standing between a visitor and a completed signup. You see whether conversion moves before committing to a wider rebuild.

Who owns the design files and the research?

You do, 100%. Editable source files, the design system, exported assets, and every research recording transfer to you, assigned in the contract. We sign an NDA before we look at anything sensitive.

UI/UX Design Services in USA

UI/UX Design Services

Interfaces people understand without a tutorial. We research, prototype, and design web, mobile, and SaaS products for US companies.

Design here does not stop at a good-looking screen. You get research your team can act on, prototypes that have already been through a test session, and Figma files annotated closely enough that engineers build them without a round of clarifying questions.

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What Do UI/UX Design Services Cover?

UI/UX design services turn a product idea into screens people can use without being taught. Softaims covers the full arc: user research, information architecture, wireframes, clickable prototypes, visual design, a component-level design system, usability testing, accessibility to WCAG, and annotated handoff files your engineers build from without guessing.

Slice Solutions, Inc.Local food delivery / restaurant loyalty platform
Slice: 85 Percent Faster App Launch and 25 Percent Order Lift with Cold-Start Optimization
Challenge
Slice - Order Local Pizza faced 6.4-second cold app launches, UI stalls on menu load, and sub-benchmark conversion rates, driving high drop-off and $120k annual support costs.
Solution
Softaims architected a cold-start launch and main-thread decoupling solution for Slice, leveraging pre-compiled modules, Rust-powered bridges, and skeleton UI shells to deliver a seamless, sub-second user experience. The phased 16-week delivery achieved a dramatic speedup, cost savings, and improved user retention.
Result
Cold start latency reduced from 6.4s to 950ms (85% improvement)
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SeatGeek, Inc.Live events ticketing and marketplace
SeatGeek: Adaptive Streaming and 98 Percent Faster Event Video for Mobile Ticketing
Challenge
SeatGeek’s mobile ticketing platform faced critical engagement loss from 18-second video buffering, UI freezes in 37% of live preview sessions, and cart abandonment due to slow 'view-from-seat' asset loads.
Solution
Softaims architected and delivered an adaptive bitrate streaming and low-latency media engine for SeatGeek’s mobile app, leveraging React Native, asynchronous decoding, and predictive caching. In just 16 weeks, the new solution cut video startup time to sub-500ms, lifted concurrent stream capacity 8-fold, and achieved a 16-point boost in purchase conversion.
Result
Initial video play latency reduced from 18 seconds to 400 milliseconds, a 98% improvement.
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Owner.comRestaurant Technology
Owner.com: Instant Branded Checkout and 92 Percent Faster Mobile Ordering
Challenge
Owner.com’s legacy mobile ordering experience imposed a 10-second checkout lag and generic UI, driving a 20 percent cart abandonment rate and costing independent restaurants close to $1.5M in lost orders each year.
Solution
Softaims delivered a React Native branded checkout flow, integrated Apple Pay/Google Pay for instant wallet ordering, implemented AWS serverless backend for 5x capacity, and embedded privacy-first controls aligned with California CPPA/CCPA compliance. The 16-week agile rollout ensured zero downtime, rapid A/B validation, and seamless handover to Owner.com operations.
Result
Checkout latency reduced from 10 seconds to 800ms (-92 percent).
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JOB TODAYHiring Platform
JOB TODAY: 12x Faster Candidate-Matching Engine and Zero-Downtime Mobile Modernization
Challenge
JOB TODAY, a leading mobile hiring platform with 8 million active users, faced mounting candidate-matching latency, UI lag, and support costs due to technical debt in its legacy mobile stack.
Solution
Softaims’ New York engineering team delivered a zero-downtime modernization of JOB TODAY’s iOS and Android apps, implementing a high-performance candidate-matching engine, live chat, and compliance-first data workflows. The result: 12x faster match recommendations, 99.98% crash-free sessions, and full alignment with NY SHIELD Act, NYCDPA, and Local Law 144.
Result
Candidate-matching latency reduced from 7.2s to 600ms (12x improvement)
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Hearst TelevisionLocal Journalism / News Media
KETV NewsWatch 7: Real-Time Geolocation & Sub-Second Alert Dispatch for Omaha
Challenge
KETV NewsWatch 7 - Omaha, a leading regional news platform, faced delayed breaking news alert delivery (25 seconds+) and significant battery drain due to inefficient geolocation polling and notification handling.
Solution
Softaims engineered a real-time geolocation and event-driven dispatch architecture for KETV NewsWatch 7, leveraging adaptive location sampling, WebSocket-based notifications, and edge-aware infrastructure partitioning. The 16-week delivery reduced alert latency to 600ms, cut battery use by 85%, and boosted DAU by 12%-all while ensuring zero downtime and full compliance with Nebraska’s Data Privacy Act.
Result
Alert Dispatch Latency: ~25s → ~600ms (-97.6% improvement)
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The Crawfish App, LLCFood & Drink Local Marketplace
The Crawfish App: Slashing Cold-Start Time by 85 Percent for Louisiana’s Leading Food Marketplace
Challenge
The Crawfish App, used by over 500,000 crawfish consumers statewide, faced unacceptable cold-launch delays of up to 6.5 seconds on low-end devices during seasonal surges.
Solution
Softaims delivered a Launch-Engine with Hermes bytecode pre-compilation, async worker-thread JSON parsing, a virtualized UI cache, and optimized FlatList rendering. This cut cold-start times by 85 percent, eliminated main-thread stalls, and delivered seamless price list loading for Louisiana’s largest crawfish marketplace app.
Result
Cold-start latency reduced from 6.5 seconds to 950 ms (-85 percent)
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