UI/UX design agency in Manchester

5.0 Ratings

Loved by
200+ Founders

UI/UX design services for Manchester and Salford teams in media, retail and public services. One senior team takes the work from user experience to screens to working code.

Trusted by 200+ of the world’s top brands

drivephase
Rangs Group
Gizmott
ScalePoynt.io
orkap
Fedica
ZAIC Education
Metabolix
NovoNimbus
pixarlabs

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.

What we do for Manchester 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

Design services that scale

From a first audit to 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 Manchester

What a product built in Manchester has to get right.

Personal data in the UK is governed by UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, and complaints go to the ICO in Wilmslow, Cheshire. Consent, cookie choices and data requests are designed to hold up if anyone asks.

MediaCity in Salford has studios for broadcasters, production companies and creative agencies. The apps, players and sites around that work have to load fast and read well on a phone, a laptop or a TV.

Public sector websites and apps must meet WCAG 2.2 AA under the 2018 accessibility regulations and publish an accessibility statement. We design and test to that standard from the first screen.

Since April 2025, UK consumer law bans drip pricing, where mandatory fees are added as a shopper moves through checkout. Product pages and baskets are designed to show the full price early.

What we design

Products we design for Manchester teams

Industries

Sectors Manchester builds in

  • 01

    Media and broadcast

    Shows, streams and stories have to load fast on whatever screen the audience picks up.

    • Pages that load fast and read well
    • Navigation that earns the next story
    • Subscriptions without dark patterns
  • 02

    Online retail

    Online shops are won on the phone, in the minutes between browsing and paying.

    • Product pages that answer questions early
    • Checkout with fewer steps
    • Layouts designed for the phone first
  • 03

    Public services

    Public services have no choice of audience, so every resident has to be able to use them.

    • Plain language for every reader
    • Accessible on any device
    • Forms that check as you go, not at the end
  • 04

    Fintech

    Money apps earn a place on the home screen by being clear about every number.

    • Onboarding and identity checks that keep people moving
    • Disclosures that are clear, not buried
    • Balances and risk made readable
  • 05

    Creative and digital studios

    Creative studios are hired on the strength of what their own site shows.

    • Work shown large and fast
    • A portfolio that is easy to update
    • Enquiries with the brief built in
  • 06

    Consumer apps

    A consumer app gets one first session to show why it deserves a second.

    • A first session that shows the value
    • Habits built on small, clear wins
    • Notifications people keep switched on

Side by side

How we compare with 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

UK GDPR, public sector accessibility and full up-front prices designed in from the first screen.

A typical agency

An accessibility statement and a price check left until launch week.

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.

Why Usarion

Why Manchester teams choose us

  1. Ahead before you start

    Dhaka is 5 to 6 hours ahead of Manchester, so our day is well under way by the time yours begins.

  2. Your morning, shared

    Our working day runs through your morning, so questions raised early get answers the same day.

  3. Inside your tools

    Your Slack, your Figma, your repository. We join the way your team already works.

  4. One team, start to finish

    The people on your first call are the people who design and build it. Nothing is handed on.

  5. Design and code together

    We design the screens and ship the code behind them, so nothing is lost between the two.

  6. 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

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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”

“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

ScalePoynt
Steve Henry, ScalePoynt

“Speed was amazing!They were super fast toimplement & iterate on the designs”

-Samir Al-Battran, Fedica

Fedica
Samir Al-Battran, Fedica
Upwork100%Job success
Fiverr4.9
orkapScalePoynt.ioBetrFedicaorkapScalePoynt.ioBetrFedica

“An intense and proactive cooperation with a very good end result”

-Justin, Betr

Justin, Betr

Read the full reviews on Clutch, Google, Upwork and Fiverr. Then book thirty minutes and judge for yourself.

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FAQs

Questions from Manchester teams

Yes, from our team in Dhaka, five hours ahead of Manchester in summer and six in winter. The design moves before your day starts, and your morning overlaps our afternoon.

Yes: players, show pages and apps that load fast, read well and lead people to the next thing to watch.

Yes. We design and test to WCAG 2.2 AA, the standard public sector websites and apps are expected to meet. Your team publishes the accessibility statement and decides any exemptions.

Yes. Mandatory fees are shown with the first price, not added at the last step. Your legal adviser confirms what the rules mean for you.

Yes: product pages that answer questions early, delivery costs shown up front and checkout with fewer steps, designed for the phone first.

Yes. We join your Slack, your Figma and your repository, and work the way your team already does.

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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