Last updated September 2, 2026

Industry hub · 50 of 120 studios · Facts retrieved August 24, 2026

Top Design Studios for Software & IT

The top design studios for Software & IT are led by Bricx Labs, followed by Instrument and Ramotion. 50 of the 120 studios in this directory qualify for this list.

50 of the 120 top design studios in this directory work in Software & IT. Nine of them put Software & IT at 30% or more, and Glow Design Agency leads with 55%. On price, 17 publish a $10,000 minimum, 11 start at $25,000, six start at $5,000, and three leave the floor undisclosed. Team sizes skew boutique: 29 list 10 to 49 people on Clutch, 14 list 50 to 249, and the remaining seven sit in other bands.

27 are headquartered in the United States, four in Ukraine, and four in the United Kingdom; five do not list an HQ on Clutch. 43 of the 50 carry a Clutch rating; the median is 4.9 across 1,836 reviews, and the other seven have no reviews, so their figures are self-reported only. For a buyer hiring on craft the useful cross-check is the balance of identity and interface work: 12 of the 50 put branding or graphic design at 20% or more of the mix, 35 lead with UX/UI or product design, and 31 are boutique at fewer than 50 people.

Studios: 50
Most common minimum: $10,00017 of 50
Median Clutch rating: 4.943 rated
Top country: United States27 of 50

Top Design Studios for Software & IT, Ranked

Studios working in Software & IT. Our editorial top 7 lead, then the rest in order of Software & IT share and review count.

Bricx Labs
01 of 7 in the editorial ranking
San Francisco, United States
A San Francisco studio with one point of view across product, brand, motion and web
Clutch
5.0 (31)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
10 to 49
Web DesignUX/UI Design
Instrument
04 of 7 in the editorial ranking
Portland, United States
Instrument: Portland's large digital studio with $250K minimums and no startup clients
Clutch
No rating
Minimum
$250,000+
Team
250 to 999
UX/UI DesignDigital Strategy
Ramotion
06 of 7 in the editorial ranking
San Francisco, United States
A San Francisco studio where identity is 30 percent of the work and illustration is real
Clutch
4.9 (29)
Minimum
$50,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignBranding
Glow Design Agency
Dover, United States
A small product design team for SaaS and fintech that also makes animations
Clutch
5.0 (38)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignWeb Design
Ueno
HQ not listed on Clutch
Full-service digital agency with a strong interface eye and only a handful of reviews
Clutch
4.8 (3)
Minimum
Undisclosed
Team
50 to 249
UX/UI DesignWeb Design
Outcrowd
Oakland Park, United States
A small Florida and Kyiv studio where branding and graphic design carry real weight
Clutch
4.9 (78)
Minimum
$5,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignBranding
Baunfire
San Jose, United States
A Silicon Valley corporate-website studio since 2001, priced at $75,000+ and proud of it
Clutch
4.9 (32)
Minimum
$75,000+
Team
10 to 49
Web DesignWeb Development
Octet Design Studio
Mumbai, India
An Indian UX studio built to simplify complex software, from $5,000+ and $25 - $49 an hour
Clutch
4.9 (28)
Minimum
$5,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI Design
Clearleft
Brighton, United Kingdom
Clearleft: Brighton UX and web design boutique at $300-plus an hour, 80 percent enterprise
Clutch
No rating
Minimum
Undisclosed
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignWeb Design
ROSSUL
Toronto, Canada
A Toronto studio for enterprise and mission-critical software, evidence-heavy since 2003
Clutch
4.9 (20)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
10 to 49
Product DesignUX/UI Design
CodeTheorem
Ahmedabad, India
Ahmedabad UI/UX and Webflow team for startups: young, cheap to enter, half design
Clutch
5.0 (9)
Minimum
$1,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignWeb Development
RGA
New York, United States
R/GA: global network scale since 1977, branding-led on paper, no Clutch reviews on record
Clutch
No rating
Minimum
$5,000+
Team
1,000 to 9,999
BrandingWeb Design
DEPT®
Boston, United States
A global network of 1,000 to 9,999 people; its design reviews come from an acquired firm
Clutch
4.8 (34)
Minimum
$100,000+
Team
1,000 to 9,999
Digital StrategyMobile App Development
UXReactor
Pleasanton, United States
Pure UX/UI research-and-design consultancy in Pleasanton; process over visual signature
Clutch
4.8 (8)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI Design
Zensite
HQ not listed on Clutch
Subscription design and Webflow shop in Singapore; speed and volume, not authorship
Clutch
4.8 (6)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignLow-Code Development
Merge Rocks
HQ not listed on Clutch
A remote UX and Webflow team that runs brand workshops but sells interfaces first
Clutch
4.9 (67)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignWeb Design
Excited
L'viv, Ukraine
A Lviv product design studio with illustration and Webflow work hiding behind a UX label
Clutch
5.0 (55)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignWeb Design
Lazarev.
San Francisco, United States
Motion-literate product studio with a strong visual signature and a perfect Clutch record
Clutch
5.0 (19)
Minimum
$100,000+
Team
50 to 249
UX/UI DesignBranding
Dworkz
San Francisco, United States
San Francisco B2B SaaS veteran where design is the front end of an engineering shop
Clutch
4.9 (8)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignCustom Software Development
Unfold
North Port, United States
Florida boutique that is all design: identity, web and app UI from one small team
Clutch
5.0 (5)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignWeb Design
DesignMap
San Francisco, United States
DesignMap: enterprise software product design only, senior rates, and a teaching streak
Clutch
No rating
Minimum
$100,000+
Team
50 to 249
Product DesignUX/UI Design
Laundry Service
Los Angeles, United States
LA content and media agency with big consumer brands; not a design studio, no reviews
Clutch
No rating
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
250 to 999
BrandingDigital Strategy
Eleken
Kyiv, Ukraine
Pure product UX from Kyiv at low rates; no branding, no graphics, all interface
Clutch
4.9 (127)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
50 to 249
UX/UI Design
Perpetual
New York, United States
A New York product and engineering firm where design is 40 percent of the bill
Clutch
4.9 (97)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
50 to 249
UX/UI DesignWeb Development
Slide UX
HQ not listed on Clutch
A two to nine person UX consultancy with a real specialism: aging, care and brain change
Clutch
4.9 (72)
Minimum
$5,000+
Team
2 to 9
UX/UI DesignProduct Design
Embacy
Barcelona, Spain
A Barcelona and Paris studio that treats tech websites as brand work, and reviews agree
Clutch
5.0 (66)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
10 to 49
Web DesignBranding
UX studio
Budapest, Hungary
A Budapest product UX practice of 50 to 249 people, enterprise-leaning, UI kits on record
Clutch
5.0 (41)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
50 to 249
UX/UI DesignCustom Software Development
ProCreator Design
Navi Mumbai, India
A Navi Mumbai UX agency of 50 to 249 for fintech and enterprise, rated 4.7 on Clutch
Clutch
4.7 (38)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
50 to 249
UX/UI DesignLow-Code Development
Ester Digital
HQ not listed on Clutch
A small remote generalist: nine service lines, packaging and a web store in the reviews
Clutch
5.0 (32)
Minimum
$5,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignBranding
EMERGE
Portland, United States
A Portland UX practice since 1998 for enterprise software, SDK kits and marketplaces
Clutch
4.8 (25)
Minimum
$50,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignProduct Design
Bluetext
Washington, United States
Washington DC brand and web boutique that hands government contractors a full identity kit
Clutch
4.9 (10)
Minimum
$100,000+
Team
10 to 49
BrandingUX/UI Design
League Design Agency
New York, United States
A high-volume web design house with a branding sideline, not a signature studio
Clutch
5.0 (140)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
50 to 249
Web DesignUX/UI Design
Halo Lab
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Half design, half engineering: a broad Dubai-fronted agency with a brand practice inside
Clutch
4.9 (99)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
50 to 249
Web DesignAI Development
Momentum Design Lab
Palo Alto, United States
A Palo Alto UX consultancy since 2002, built for enterprise product work, not brand
Clutch
4.8 (96)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignProduct Design
Qubstudio
L'viv, Ukraine
A Lviv product design studio with a fintech spine and a taste for audits
Clutch
4.9 (92)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
50 to 249
UX/UI Design
Duck.Design
London, United Kingdom
A London and New York design production house: graphics, product, motion, from $1,000+
Clutch
4.9 (60)
Minimum
$1,000+
Team
50 to 249
Graphic DesignProduct Design
Neuron
San Francisco, United States
A San Francisco UX boutique that audits first and reskins with a design system
Clutch
5.0 (52)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI Design
Digital Silk
New York, United States
A New York conversion-and-SEO web agency; sixteen industries, half the work is design
Clutch
4.9 (51)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
50 to 249
Web DesignE-Commerce Development
Dreamten
Raleigh, United States
A Raleigh studio listed as pure UX whose reviews are full of logos, wordmarks and identity
Clutch
5.0 (49)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI Design
tubik
Dnipro, Ukraine
A Dnipro studio with design systems, white-label kits and a logo or two in the reviews
Clutch
4.9 (37)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignWeb Design
Humbleteam
Prague, Czech Republic
A Prague studio where branding is 30 percent of the work and startups are half the clients
Clutch
4.9 (35)
Minimum
$5,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignBranding
WANDR
Los Angeles, United States
A Los Angeles studio that mixes UX, branding, MVP builds and ad campaigns for enterprise
Clutch
5.0 (34)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignBranding
Brave UX
Washington, United States
A Washington DC studio for complex application interfaces at $200 - $300 an hour
Clutch
5.0 (29)
Minimum
$50,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignLow-Code Development
Fuzzy Math
Highland Park, United States
A Chicago-area UX consultancy since 2009 where strategy carries as much weight as screens
Clutch
4.9 (27)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
10 to 49
Digital StrategyUX/UI Design
Isadora Agency
Manhattan Beach, United States
California boutique that pairs brand overhauls with illustrated, animated websites
Clutch
4.8 (19)
Minimum
$75,000+
Team
10 to 49
Web DevelopmentProduct Design
Fuselab Creative
Tysons, United States
Data-visualisation and dashboard specialists with senior hands on every project
Clutch
5.0 (15)
Minimum
$25,000+
Team
10 to 49
UX/UI DesignCustom Software Development
Full Clarity
Farnham, United Kingdom
Tiny UK product and service design consultancy with a research spine and big-name credits
Clutch
5.0 (13)
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
2 to 9
UX/UI DesignCustom Software Development
Digia
Toronto, Canada
Toronto and Kyiv software house at bargain rates where design is a line item
Clutch
4.9 (10)
Minimum
$1,000+
Team
50 to 249
Web DevelopmentCustom Software Development
Critical Mass
Calgary, Canada
Critical Mass: Calgary-born global agency, half design on paper, no reviews or pricing
Clutch
No rating
Minimum
Undisclosed
Team
1,000 to 9,999
UX/UI DesignWeb Design
Hugo & Cat
London, United Kingdom
Hugo & Cat: London agency splitting brand, strategy, mobile and build, consumer-led
Clutch
No rating
Minimum
$10,000+
Team
50 to 249
BrandingDigital Strategy

Frequently Asked Questions

How much do design studios for Software & IT charge?

Published hourly rates on this page run from $25 to $49 per hour to $300 or more per hour, with the most common bands being 12 at $150 to $199 per hour, 12 at $50 to $99 per hour, and 10 at $100 to $149 per hour. Four do not publish a rate. Rates are what each studio self-reports on its Clutch profile, retrieved August 24, 2026, so confirm them on a call.

What is the typical minimum project size for design studios for Software & IT?

The most common published floor is $10,000, which 17 of the 50 studios list. The range runs from $1,000 to $250,000. 26 fit a budget under $25,000, and three do not disclose a minimum at all.

How big are the design studios for Software & IT on this page?

By Clutch headcount band, 29 at 10 to 49, 14 at 50 to 249, and three at 1,000 to 9,999. Five are 250 people or more, which usually means a broader service catalogue and an account layer between you and the designers whose taste drew you in.

Where are design studios for Software & IT based?

Of the 50, 27 in the United States, four in Ukraine, four in the United Kingdom, and three in Canada. Five do not list an HQ. Most studios work remotely regardless of address, so weigh time-zone overlap and studio culture more than the city.

How should you shortlist a design studio from this list?

Start with the nine studios that carry both sides of the craft, at least 20% branding or graphic design and at least 20% UX/UI or product design: Ramotion, League Design Agency, Outcrowd, and Duck.Design among others. Then check each minimum against your budget, and read the review excerpts for named identity systems, typography and interface detail rather than generic praise for communication. Bricx Labs, Instrument, and Ramotion are also scored in our editorial ranking, which weights design taste at 40%.

Other industries

Facts per each studio’s Clutch profile, retrieved August 24, 2026. Shares are what each studio self-reports; ratings and review counts are Clutch’s. Editorial ranks come from our methodology. Editorially independent. No studio paid to be included or ranked.