Guidea

Guidea as a studio

Guidea is as narrow as this pool gets: UX/UI design at 100 percent of services and healthcare at 100 percent of industries. Its tagline claims experiences that have touched 1 billion lives. Founded 2005 with 10 to 49 people in Austin and San Jose, it charges $150 - $199 / hr with a $50,000+ minimum and works mostly for enterprise clients. Two of the four cited reviews are staff augmentation, placing designers inside client teams. The others cover app design from user interviews and a design system expansion. Rating 5.0 across 43 Clutch reviews.

Who it fits

Hire Guidea when you are a health system, pharma or medtech company that needs senior UX people who already understand clinical and regulatory constraints, either as a project team or embedded. It is not a studio for visual identity, and the $50,000+ floor rules out most early-stage briefs.

Strengths

• Total sector focus: healthcare at 100 percent of the industry mix, with enterprise at 60 percent of clients.
• Two decades of operation since 2005 with a 5.0 across 43 Clutch reviews.
• Flexible engagement model, from full projects to embedded designers, as reviews show.

Watch-outs

• No branding, graphic or web design line; this is UX practice only.
• Half the cited reviews are staff augmentation, which is capacity rather than authored studio work.

Evidence

• Service mix: UX/UI design 100 percent; industries: healthcare and medtech 100 percent.
• A Clutch reviewer says the team was "responsible for expanding the client's mobile design system with UX patterns and modernizing the UX of enterprise software".
• Offices in Austin and San Jose; team of 10 to 49; rates $150 - $199 / hr; minimum project $50,000+.