We have evaluated over 1,700 service providers to curate a list of the top 10 design companies, assessing their competence by technical skills, specialized services, history of successful projects, client feedback, pricing range, and industry accolades. You will also learn more about our selection process and how we pinpoint the creative visionaries of the design industry.
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The Number 1 Design Agency as Selected by DesignRush Is...
1. DD.NYC
- Best for: Overall
- Average hourly rate: $150
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Founded: 2015
- Size: 50 - 99
- Location: New York, NY
- Notable clients: Symphony Sleep, Forbes, Scholastic, Lowe's, Walmart
DD.NYC is a creative design agency offering bespoke solutions to clients from various industries, including web design, innovative branding, product packaging, and user interface (UI)/user experience (UX). The agency has completed over 250 digital design projects over nine years in the industry, garnering multiple accolades for its accomplishments.
Symphony Sleep, a manufacturer of premium mattresses and adjustable beds, sought DD.NYC's expertise to create a design that emphasizes the innovative, comfort, and durability features of its sleeping line. DD.NYC provided packaging design for over 100 SKUs, graphic design, app design, and web design, geared toward modernizing the client's image through a contemporary aesthetic that evokes relaxation and tranquility. The design firm improved the website's UX and navigation by implementing intuitive menus and clear call-to-actions (CTAs), complemented with high-quality visuals.
Through DD.NYC's efforts, Symphony Sleep has improved its brand recognition and customer satisfaction, achieving an impressive 85% brand awareness metric alongside an average net promoter score (NPS) of 9.9.
2. Superside
- Best for: Creative-as-a-Service (CaaS)
- Average hourly rate: $67
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2015
- Size: 500 - 999Â
- Location: Wilmington, DE
- Notable clients: Opa, Shopify, Puma, Cisco, Toyota
Superside is a design firm offering top-tier creative subscription services, intended to streamline design processes, accelerate progress, and enhance creative performance. Operating with a team of creative strategists and designers, it provides contemporary creative visuals and design outputs, promptly delivered within 12 to 48 hours. Its service portfolio extends to email, web, presentation, packaging and merch design, eBooks, digital reports, as well as print, motion, and illustration design.
Opa, an app for food gifts, approached Superside to reinvent its visual identity, to better resonate with a broader audience. In response, the agency enriched Opa's brand with a vibrant aesthetic, highlighting celebrations as a central motif. Drawing inspiration from the simple pleasures of daily life, the team crafted a visual identity defined by bright colors, playful shapes, and a bold typeface.
The collaboration resulted in a successful brand transformation, featuring an appealing identity, stimulated user participation, and boosted app downloads, setting Opa for sustained growth and success in the competitive food gifting market.
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3. Cozy
- Best for:Â UX design
- Average hourly rate: $180
- Minimum budget: $25,000 - $50,000
- Founded: 2011
- Size: Under 49
- Location: San Diego, CA
- Notable clients: Glovebox, Interlanced, LightStream, Milgard, iQuoteXpress
Cozy is a specialized design firm whose core creative services are centered around UI/UX design, branding, responsive web design, content strategy, illustrations, infographics, photography, social media assets, business cards, brochures, and other print collaterals. Having successfully concluded over 450 projects for 175 clients, the agency provides its services either on a retainer basis or as fixed-scope projects.
Cozy took on a project for Glovebox, a B2B insurance company, that was experiencing challenges with their mobile and web apps that due to an unappealing UX design witnessed low conversion rates, dissatisfied users, and a surge in support calls. The agency conducted extensive user research to understand the needs and expectations of Glovebox customers, consecutively creating an intuitive and sophisticated UI design. The solution was aligned with the latest UX standards, poised to clarify navigation, enhance usability, and streamline the user experience.
Cozy's efforts yielded substantial results — over 100,000 Glovebox users experienced improved app performance, leading to reduced tech support calls and increased user satisfaction.
4. Design In DC
- Best for: End-to-end web design
- Average hourly rate: $190
- Minimum budget: $10,000 - $25,000
- Founded: 2016
- Size: 50 - 99
- Location: Washington, DC
- Notable clients: 2030 Water Resources Group, Examit, Lateenz, Summit Ridge Energy, JFL Consulting
Design In DC is an end-to-end design firm adopting a 360° approach to its projects, aiming to deliver captivating digital experiences using human-centered designs. With over 300 projects completed since its inception, the firm specializes in UI/UX, logo, graphic, and product design, interactive design prototyping, and design audits.
2030 Water Resources Group (WRG), a multi-donor trust fund hosted by the World Bank Group, pursued Design In DC’s services due to an underperforming outdated website. The client envisioned the site to function as an engaging digital hub that stimulates participation in the global water security movement. Design In DC responded by developing an interactive projects map, allowing users to explore ongoing projects worldwide and familiarize themselves with specific water security concerns. It also built a resources page to organize the organization’s extensive document collection with cross-site search functionality for easy access.
Design In DC’s implementations for WRG introduced a more intuitive UX, with the website effectively serving as a hub for raising awareness and facilitating collective action on water security issues among relevant industry stakeholders.
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5. Use All Five
- Best for:Â UI design
- Average hourly rate: Inquire
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Founded: 2006
- Size: Under 49
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Notable clients: Never Before Heard Sounds, Google, Guggenheim, Headspace, UCLA
With almost two decades of industry experience, Use All Five operates as a design firm with a core team of 25 members, including designers, developers, and strategists on a mission to shape meaningful digital experiences. The agency combines contemporary designs and technology to deliver captivating website and app designs, digital strategies, innovative sprints, and prototyping, striving to deliver products and experiences that stimulate the imagination and resonate with the audience.
Never Before Heard Sounds (NBHS), an artificial intelligence (AI) production studio, turned to Use All Five’s expertise, seeking an intuitive UI to revolutionize sound creation for contemporary artists. Breaking away from the traditional, software-laden approach to existing digital audio workstations (DAWs), the client sought to overcome these limitations and build a browser-accessible platform capable of fully capturing the technology’s potential.
With mobility and functionality in mind, Use All Five crafted intuitive icons, tools, and a cohesive color palette that simplified NBHS's advanced features. Turning complex interface elements into simpler visuals and implementing context based UX enabled seamless platform navigation, allowing users to focus on their creations. The solution was also empowered with functionality to extract and isolate individual instrument sounds and conduct various sound manipulations.
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6. Fireart Studio
- Best for: Digital product design
- Average hourly rate: $60
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Founded: 2013
- Size: 50 - 99
- Location: New York, NY
- Notable clients: Sprightful, Bolt, IBM, Rolls Royce, Google
Fireart Studio is a boutique design agency with a team of over 50 designers, specializing in product design refreshment and full-cycle product development. Its portfolio of design services covers branding, motion design, and design outstaffing.
Sprightful, a solar energy company, hired Fireart Studio to design and develop a mobile app that would educate users about the advantages of solar systems, emphasizing the scale of potential energy savings and spending. The project commenced with a workshop, followed by extensive research to identify the core challenges and determine the scope of the minimum viable product (MVP). In addition, Fireart Studio developed the information architecture (IA), user flows, and wireframes for key user testing.
The end product featured an app showcasing users' savings and projections of their environmental impact, granting them data insights on the go. The app was further enhanced by a user-friendly interface that facilitates a better understanding of solar technology’s benefits, introducing a savings calculator and tools for comparing current and past consumption scales, ultimately prompting more users to transition to green energy.
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7. Ramotion
- Best for: Visual transformation
- Average hourly rate: $150
- Minimum budget: Inquire
- Founded: 2011
- Size: 50 - 99
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Notable clients: Mozilla Firefox, Adobe, Netflix, Salesforce, NBC Universal
Ramotion is a design agency comprising a team of over 70 multidisciplinary brand experts whose specialty spans brand strategy, brand identity, UI/UX design, mobile and web development, and design systems. Its design services have helped startup clients collectively raise over $750 million in funding and over $3.5 billion in successful exits.
Ramotion collaborated with Mozilla Firefox to create a master brand for its products, unifying the Firefox browser with various existing and new products and essentially, extending the sense of trust across the entire brand portfolio. The approach involved developing a visual identity that tackles challenges like loyal user retention, user base expansion, launch cost reduction, and team motivation. Across the Initial stages, Ramotion encountered difficulties in scaling the brand structure, effectively addressing them by employing the design funnel method.
Community feedback further contributed directions for the brand transformation, setting the visual foundation with atomic components for future product launches. Ultimately, the partnership resulted in a visual design system that empowered the Firefox team to refine the brand while preserving its core principles.
8. Fivecube
- Best for: Web app redesign
- Average hourly rate: $40
- Minimum budget: $10,000 - $25,000
- Founded: 2016
- Size: Under 49
- Location: Lviv, Ukraine
- Notable clients: Intrac, Honch, Rewards.de, Lyber, Movein
Fivecube is a digital design firm proficient in custom solutions, offering bespoke services including SaaS, web and mobile apps, Web3, landing page, corporate, and 3D and motion design. Their design creations transition seamlessly from web to mobile, ensuring not only aesthetic appeal but also captivating user engagement, thereby providing a competitive advantage.
Intrac, an employee management platform, enlisted Fivecube’s services to simplify complex UI and engage users more effectively throughout their decision-making processes. The client envisioned the product to cater to different company scales and sectors, all while prioritizing ease of use.
Fivecube redesigned the web application with side pages, factoring in the complexity of the existing project and potential growth expansion. Despite the vertical scrolling across some side pages, the design seamlessly displayed content by harnessing the viewport’s full height. Furthermore, the agency condensed Intrac's numerous features into a cohesive and responsive design, creating a versatile tool accessible on any device, with meticulous testing for efficient user interactions.
9. Embacy
- Best for: Brand identity
- Average hourly rate: $75
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2019
- Size: 50 - 99
- Location: Yerevan, Armenia
- Notable clients: SEEN, Ledger, Malaa, WeMeta, Vauban
Embacy is a design agency that excels in capturing clients’ unique marketing and scaling ambitions into cohesive design solutions. Its team of creatives specializes in concept, logo, web, and UI/UX design, 3D, flat and line, collage, animated illustrations, motion graphics and identity, and interactive design. The firm has completed over 150 projects for digital firms globally, boasting 42 awards from Awwwards and Behance.
As part of its collaboration with SEEN, a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) company, Embacy crafted a visual identity that effectively communicated the client’s personalized messaging capabilities conceptualizing the brand idea as "Smart Way to Use Your Data". The agency also developed a web design showcasing the benefits of SEEN's technology in maintaining customer loyalty and connecting businesses with their end-users.
Embacy's approach elevated SEEN's market presence and enhanced its brand visibility, ultimately amplifying audience engagement and business outcomes.
10. Gapsy Studio
- Best for: Mobile and web design
- Average hourly rate: $25
- Minimum budget: $1,000 - $10,000
- Founded: 2017
- Size: Under 49
- Location: Dnipro, Ukraine
- Notable clients: My Lagro, Blake Bell, Daniel Moss, Barbara Fogg, Pickle
Gapsy Studio is a design agency offering project deliveries with flexible schedules and affordable pricing ranges, tailored to businesses of various scales. Its services include web and mobile design, branding, motion, UI/UX and illustration design, UX audit, and 3D modeling.
My Lagro, a platform connecting farmers with product buyers, approached Gapsy Studio to design a secure, seamless, and user-friendly interface for efficient transactions. In response to the inquiry, Gapsy Studio created an elegant and intuitive UI with over 50 screens, incorporating customizable filters and a transaction notification system to enhance user flexibility. The solution was further enhanced with advanced security functionalities, including two-factor authentication and secure payment options.
Within three months of Gapsy Studio’s implementation, the client attracted more than 45,000 unique visitors, accommodating the diverse needs of both farmers and buyers.
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How We Picked the Best Design Firms
To identify the top design agencies, we conducted a rigorous assessment of their skills, creative approach, and client testimonials, industry reputation, case studies and areas of expertise when tailoring their design solutions. Our meticulous evaluation process enables us to pinpoint design firms best equipped to meet clients' specific challenges.
Here are the criteria we use to rank the top design firms:
- Verified client reviews: Insights into client feedback and the agency's ability to meet and exceed client expectations
- Portfolio evaluation: Assessment of quality and diversity of design projects to ensure alignment with contemporary creative standards
- Industry recognition: Awards and press mentions as indicators of the agency's lucrative presence across the design ecosystem
- Team expertise: Expertise, background, and in dustry experience of the agency's team members
- Design specializations: Proficiency in various design disciplines, including graphic design, branding, web design, UI/UX design, packaging design, visual design, and more
For more detailed information on our research and ranking methodology, visit the DesignRush Agency Ranking Methodology page.
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