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A UX Design Agency Obsessed With What Users Do Next.

Plenty of design gets admired and then abandoned. Not ours. We design user experiences and interfaces that earn attention and turn it into action, measured in engagement and return visits rather than applause and vanity metrics.
  • UX strategy, information architecture and UI design from one senior-led team
  • Every decision pressure-tested against a single question… Does this serve the user?
  • Results you can count on with the data to back it all up
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Great UX Is Invisible. That's the Hard Part.

As a UX design agency, we start with the decisions your users are actually trying to make, then design the structure, journeys and interfaces around them. It sounds obvious. It's remarkably rare. Too many teams design around the brief in their head, instead of the decisions in the user's.
Most of the industry splits into camps. The user experience agencies that research everything and ship nothing memorable, or the studios that ship something gorgeous nobody can navigate. As a UI UX design agency with the whole team under one roof, we have both. Interfaces with genuine character on an architecture that always points to the next step.
In luxury hospitality, in ecommerce, in services where the stakes are personal, the pattern holds. When the experience respects the user, the numbers follow.

Why Partner With Us For UX & UI Design.

Lots of agencies talk about user-centred design. But few actually have the expertise to design and develop these experiences that meet the demands of a modern user. Here's what it looks like when it's real.
  • Evidence over opinion - Design decisions are tested against user behaviour before launch and measured against the data after it.
  • Creative without the trade-off - Distinctive and usable are treated as one brief. Beautiful interfaces that work are the whole point.
  • Architecture first - We structure sites and apps around the real choices users face, so people find what they came for without thinking about it.
  • Designed next to the build - Our UX and UI work is shaped alongside the developers who ship it, so what gets designed is what your users actually get.
Curious what your users are really doing? So are we. Let's find out together, then design something better for them.
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What Our UX & UI Design Covers.

As a UX & UI agency, our work spans four core disciplines, applied together or wherever your project needs help the most. If you need support with a different UX or UI area, please speak to our team.

UX Strategy & Design

Research, structure and the thinking that organises your site or app around how people actually make decisions.

UI Design

Interface design with personality and precision. Typography, colour, components and layouts that are unmistakably yours.

User Journeys & Conversion

Considered paths from arrival to action that strip out friction, with no dark patterns to trick anyone over the line.

Interaction & Motion Design

Scroll-reveal, animated detail and micro-interactions, used where they sharpen the experience and left out where they'd just show off.

From Assumptions To Evidence

We learn how your users think, choose and behave, and what your business needs from them.
Every later decision traces back to this.

Our UX & UI Projects

Summer Dreams Wines

An exclusive winery on California's Sonoma Coast.

Video, web design and ecommerce build, SEO, UI and UX.
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Moor Hall

The UK's newest Three Michelin Star restaurant, Chef Patron Mark Birchall's imagination made real: a vision of what food, providence and respect for nature should be, built from extraordinary effort, deep knowledge, and a refusal to accept the ordinary.

Web design and development. Illustration and animation. SEO campaign. Storytelling and brand narrative.
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The Fat Duck

Heston Blumenthal’s iconic triple Michelin Star restaurant.

Additional illustration, web design and development. Anthology menu design and storytelling.
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Screencraft

Screencraft Display is a name well known to those in the know. Based in Hull, they are makers in the truest sense —
blending high-end industrial production with design thinking, to create point-of-sale experiences that elevate the everyday.
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The Kirkmichael Arms

In the heart of Scotland - The playground of Robert The Bruce. A land of Lions, Legacy and Heritage. Of poets and Kings.

Illustration, web design and development, photography, SEO campaign. Storytelling and brand narrative.
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UX & UI in Action - Moor Hall

Moor Hall is one of England's most celebrated dining destinations. A three-Michelin-star restaurant, a collection of beautiful guest rooms and The Barn, its Michelin-starred sister restaurant, all sharing one estate in Lancashire. The UX problem was a hard one: three different experiences, one estate, and no single front door to welcome a visitor and send them the right way.
We rebuilt the experience around the real decisions guests make: is this a dinner, a stay or a more casual visit? A unified landing experience now acts as a single, immersive entry point, with each of the three arms keeping its own character inside one coherent visual language. Booking flows are short and unambiguous, menus are discoverable without hunting, and the interaction design was re-engineered for mobile so the experience holds up where most guests first meet the brand. It's the same discipline we brought to the UI and UX of Summer Dreams Wines on California's Sonoma Coast.
What we delivered:
  • UX and UI strategy and information architecture across three business arms
  • A unified landing experience acting as a single gateway to the estate
  • Short, unambiguous booking flows connected to live reservation systems
  • Mobile interaction design re-engineered for performance and accessibility
The results:
  • +22.7% - engagement time year on year, sustained rather than a launch spike
  • +22.2% - returning users in the month following launch
  • +40.7% - homepage engagement time, the most direct measure of the new landing experience
  • +11.3% - engaged sessions in the month following launch
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Explore More of Our Development Work.

Bespoke Website Design

Custom websites built from scratch, never from a template.
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Web App Development

Booking engines, member areas and tools your business runs on.
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Ecommerce Web Design

Online shops designed around the way customers actually buy.
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Development

See the full breadth of our development work.
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Start Your UX Project.

Tell us where your users are getting lost, or where you suspect they might be. We'll show you how considered UX and UI design turns attention into action. Always in-house, senior-led, and yours from day one. Ready when you are.

Goals – target audience – competitors – timelines – inspiration

UX & UI FAQs.

What does a UX design agency do?

We research how your users behave, structure your site or application around their decisions, and design the interfaces they interact with. The aim is an experience that feels effortless to use and unmistakably yours.

What's the difference between UX and UI design?

UX is the architecture of the experience. Structure, journeys and logic. UI is the surface they're expressed through. Layout, type, colour and interaction. We design them together, because users never experience them apart.

How do you measure whether UX design has worked?

With behaviour. Engagement time, returning users, completed journeys and conversions, compared before and after launch. Our Moor Hall redesign lifted engagement time 22.7% year on year, and that’s just scratching the surface.

How much does UX design cost?

It depends on the depth of research and the size of the product. We price clearly against an agreed scope rather than open-ended day rates, so you know the investment before work begins.

Do you redesign existing websites and apps?

Yes. Much of our UX work starts with a product that's underperforming, where research shows exactly where users are dropping away and the redesign is built to fix it.

Do you handle the build as well as the design?

Yes. Our UX and UI work is developed in-house on the same modern stack we design for, so nothing is lost between the design file and the live product.

See the Work. Spot the Difference.

All in-house, all the time.

Every project is managed, planned and carefully crafted by an in-house team of creatives and developers, giving you direct contact with the people at the helm. We collaborate with clients, to bring visions to life.

The Kirkmichael Arms

In the heart of Scotland - The playground of Robert The Bruce. A land of Lions, Legacy and Heritage. Of poets and Kings.

Illustration, web design and development, photography, SEO campaign. Storytelling and brand narrative.
View Project

Moor Hall

The UK's newest Three Michelin Star restaurant, Chef Patron Mark Birchall's imagination made real: a vision of what food, providence and respect for nature should be, built from extraordinary effort, deep knowledge, and a refusal to accept the ordinary.

Web design and development. Illustration and animation. SEO campaign. Storytelling and brand narrative.
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Marwell Zoo

Hero illustration · Animation · Social campaign assets
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Chene Bleu

"From little acorns, mighty oaks grow" - The Chêne Bleu story, told their way

Web design and development. Animated brand film. Storytelling and brand narrative.
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BeU Swindon

BeU SWINDON — BUILDING TRUST AND CONNECTION AROUND YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH
Brand messaging and strategy, filmed hero video, photography, animated illustrations. Bespoke site design and development, SEO campaign, social media management
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Incognito Spirit Company

Launching drinks under the brand of a theatrical cocktail bar experience.

Creative direction, illustration, and packaging design.
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Fortunate Son

Legendary winemaker in California’s Napa Valley.

Illustration, web design and development – brought to life with animation and storytelling.
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Screencraft

Screencraft Display is a name well known to those in the know. Based in Hull, they are makers in the truest sense —
blending high-end industrial production with design thinking, to create point-of-sale experiences that elevate the everyday.
View Project

Summer Dreams Wines

An exclusive winery on California's Sonoma Coast.

Video, web design and ecommerce build, SEO, UI and UX.
View Project

The Fat Duck

Heston Blumenthal’s iconic triple Michelin Star restaurant.

Additional illustration, web design and development. Anthology menu design and storytelling.
View Project

Incognito Bars

Indulging the imagination of a beautifully unique bar experience.

All illustrations and menu designs, packaging design, animations, web design and build.
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Moosh Vodka

Moosh Bet on Us: How We Designed a Winning Vodka Brand

Creative Direction, Branding, Illustration, Packaging.
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Zouk Tea Bar Manchester

Manchester’s Icon of Indian and Pakistani cuisine.

Illustration, animation, web design and build, SEO, packaging design, photography, video and experiential marketing.
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Lokma Westfield

Traditional Turkish food with modern appeal.

Illustration, web design and build, copywriting, photography and video.
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