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UI/UX design agency in Chicago
5.0 Ratings
Loved by
200+ Founders
UI/UX design services for Chicago companies in freight, insurance, food and health. One senior team designs the user experience and the screens, then ships the code.
Trusted by 200+ of the world’s top brands
200+
Projects delivered
Brand, product and web work shipped across SaaS, AI, fintech, healthcare and ecommerce.
90%
Got funded
Nine in ten founders we built for went on to raise, with the product, deck or site we made together.
200%
Conversion increment
The rise in conversion on products and sites we have redesigned and taken back to market.
Selected work
Work for teams like yours
A few recent projects. Open any of them for the full story, from the first brief to what shipped.
The rest of the work, across SaaS, mobile, ecommerce and brand.
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How we compare with a typical agency
What you get
Usarion
A typical agency
Team
Usarion
Senior designers and developers on your project, start to finish.
A typical agency
A senior team at the pitch, a junior one on the work.
Local fit
Usarion
Biometric consent, city-grade accessibility and freight-ready screens designed in from the first screen.
A typical agency
Consent and accessibility patched in when a customer's review asks for them.
AI
Usarion
AI speeds up the routine work. People make every decision.
A typical agency
Either no AI, or AI output passed on unchecked.
Ownership
Usarion
Figma files, code and design system handed over, yours to keep.
A typical agency
Files and know-how that stay with the agency.
After launch
Usarion
The same team stays on for new features and fixes.
A typical agency
A new team, or a new contract, for every change.
What we do for Chicago teams
Seven services, one senior team
Everything between an idea and a product people trust. Designed, built, launched and branded.
MVP Development
The first working version of your product: scoped, designed, built and launched in six to ten weeks. Small enough to ship fast, solid enough to build the next version on.
MVP DevelopmentMVP for StartupsCustom MVP DevelopmentMVP ConsultingPrototypingLaunch & Handover
UI/UX Design Services
Design capacity for products that already exist. Flows, screens, states and design systems, including the unglamorous screens that decide whether anyone stays past week one.
UI DesignUX Design & UsabilityUI/UX Design & DevelopmentDesign SystemsUser FlowsPrototyping
Mobile App Design
iOS and Android apps designed from first flows through to store launch, with eight shipped mobile products behind the page.
Mobile UI/UX DesigniOS App DesignAndroid App DesignMVP App DevelopmentMobile Design SystemsPrototyping & Motion
Brand Identity Design
Identity, guidelines and the pitch deck that raises the round. Built so a seed-stage company reads as one that will still be here in three years.
Brand Identity DesignLogo DesignBrand GuidelinesStartup BrandingBrand RefreshPitch Decks
SaaS Website Design
A SaaS site has one job: make a stranger understand the product in eight seconds and book a call in thirty. Built in Webflow or Framer so your team can edit it.
SaaS Website DesignLanding Page DesignWebsite RedesignConversion UXWebflow BuildFramer Build
Not sure which of these you need? Most founders start with one and discover they wanted two.
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Discover more servicesDesign services that scale
From a first audit to a product that grows
Design services that scale
From a first auditto a product that grows
01
UX audit
A review of the screens costing you the most: where sign-ups stall, where support tickets start, and what to fix first. Often the right first step before a redesign.
02
User research
Interviews and usability tests with the people who use the product, booked in UK hours, so decisions rest on evidence rather than the loudest opinion in the room.
03
UI/UX strategy
Which problems to solve first, which screens they touch and what success looks like, agreed in writing before design starts.
04
Wireframes and prototypes
Clickable flows you can put in front of users and investors in days, so the expensive decisions are tested before they are built.
05
Scaling support
A design system, documented components and a team that stays on after launch, so every new feature looks like it belongs.
Building for Chicago
What a product for Chicago has to get right.
Illinois's Biometric Information Privacy Act covers fingerprints, voiceprints and scans of hand or face geometry. A company must first tell people in writing what is collected, why and for how long, and receive a written release. Time clocks, door access and fingerprint sign-in are designed with that notice and release before anything is captured.
World Business Chicago, the city's economic development agency, calls Chicago the nation's transportation and logistics hub, with rail, warehousing and digital freight tech among its growing parts. Dispatch tools stay open all shift, so the late load is the first thing on screen.
The City of Chicago says it aims to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA by 26 April 2027, a standard the US Department of Justice requires, and its statement covers digital content a vendor makes on the City's behalf. Every screen we make is designed and tested to WCAG 2.2 AA, which also meets the 2.1 level.
1871 runs innovation labs for fintech, insurtech, food tech, health tech and supply chain, and mHUB is a center for hardtech, the physical technologies. A demo for an insurer or a plant manager has to speak that trade at once.
What we design
Products we design for Chicago teams
Industries
Sectors Chicago builds in
01 Freight and last-mile logistics
A dispatcher watches many loads at once, so the late one has to show first.
- Status at a glance, across every shipment
- Dense tables that stay readable
- Keyboard-fast for people who use it all day
02 Insurance and fintech
Insurance asks for detail at a stressful moment, so each form must feel short.
- Onboarding and identity checks that keep people moving
- Disclosures that are clear, not buried
- Balances and risk made readable
03 Food and manufacturing
A supervisor reads a screen between tasks, so a stopped line shows from across the room.
- Interfaces that hold up on the factory floor
- Alarms and states nobody can miss
- Data from many machines in one view
04 Life sciences and health
Lab and clinic tools serve specialists who notice every extra step.
- Flows tested with real users, not assumed
- Accessible type, contrast and controls
- Sensitive data handled with care in the design
05 Public services and civic tech
City and transit tools reach every kind of resident, so each screen has to work for all.
- Plain language for every reader
- Accessible on any device
- Forms that check as you go, not at the end
06 Climate and energy tech
Energy dashboards hold years of readings, so the page must say what changed.
- Complex data turned into clear choices
- Charts people can read at a glance
- Reports that stand up to scrutiny
Why Usarion
Why Chicago teams choose us
Decided at night, done by morning
Dhaka is 12 hours ahead of Chicago in winter and 11 in summer. What you decide in the evening is worked on overnight, and you read the result with your first coffee.
Two dates move the gap
Chicago's clocks go forward on the second Sunday of March and back on the first Sunday of November. Dhaka's do not move, so the gap shifts by one hour on those two dates.
Inside your tools
Your Slack, your Figma, your repository. We join the way your team already works.
One team, start to finish
The people on your first call are the people who design and build it. Nothing is handed on.
Design and code together
We design the screens and ship the code behind them, so nothing is lost between the two.
Proven across 200+ projects
Brand, product and web work shipped across SaaS, AI, fintech, healthcare and ecommerce.
How we work
Four steps, from brief to hand-off
- Step 01
Discover
Understand before drawing.
- We read your deck, analytics and support tickets
- One working session on what a good outcome looks like
- Two to three days, not two to three weeks
- Step 02
Plan
Agree the scope in writing.
- Screens listed and sequence set
- Price fixed before work starts
- A plan you can hold us to
- Step 03
Design
Design where you can see it.
- Work lands in Figma as it happens
- You comment, we iterate the same week
- Nothing unveiled at the end
- Step 04
Hand off
Built to be picked up.
- Named layers and real components
- Documented tokens and a walkthrough
- Development by the same team, if you want it
Client Reviews
Rated by the people who hired us
Clutch5.0
Google5.0“I personally appreciated that they always kept design ahead of dev”
“I personally appreciated that theyalways kept design ahead of dev”
“Usarion team took us from a raw, vague concept to a solid, working launch within a few weeks, completed with a real vision of what we’re building, and roadmap of what we want to build next. I personally appreciated that they always kept design ahead of dev.”
-Steve Henry, ScalePoynt
“Speed was amazing!They were super fast toimplement & iterate on the designs”
-Samir Al-Battran, Fedica
Upwork100%Job success
Fiverr4.9
“An intense and proactive cooperation with a very good end result”
-Justin, Betr
Read the full reviews on Clutch, Google, Upwork and Fiverr. Then book thirty minutes and judge for yourself.
Book a 30 min callFAQs
Questions from Chicago teams
Questions fromChicago teams
User experience, interface design, mobile app design and the build, from one senior team in Dhaka, 12 hours ahead of Chicago in winter and 11 in summer.
Yes. The notice, the purpose and length of use, and the written release are screens people pass through before anything is captured. Your legal adviser signs off the wording.
Yes: loads and exceptions in one view, tables that stay readable on a long shift, and simple controls for drivers on the road.
Yes. Screens are designed and tested to WCAG 2.2 AA, which also covers the 2.1 AA level the City aims for. Your team confirms the contract's accessibility terms.
Yes: quote and claim forms that feel short, clear disclosures and status screens people can follow. Your compliance team owns the rules.
Yes: line screens that show a stoppage at once, lab tools built around the specialist's routine, and reports a plant manager reads in a minute.
With a 30-minute call, then a written scope and a fixed price. Once the scope is signed, work starts within days, not weeks.
Each project is quoted once, from a written scope, and the price does not move unless the scope does.
Yes. We keep what works, audit what does not, and move the product forward in stages so your users are never left behind.
Yes. Front end and integrations, by the team that designed it. If you have developers we hand over instead, with a system they can build from.
Yes, and it is often the cheapest way to start. A short audit tells you which three screens are costing you the most, and whether you need a redesign or just a fix.
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