Interfaces that feel obvious to users and hold up in development.
Good design doesn't announce itself. Users don't notice great UX; they just accomplish what they came to do, without friction or confusion. When design fails, people blame themselves. When it works, they call the product intuitive.
Olio Apps approaches design as a collaborative, problem-solving process. Whether we're working alongside your existing design team or leading design ourselves, we stay in the conversation from first wireframe to final pixel. We make sure what gets designed actually gets built.
Every design decision is grounded in who is using the product and what they're trying to accomplish. We create user personas, map flows around the jobs users need to do, and prototype early. This means we surface problems before they become expensive to fix.
We offer UI/UX design as part of most engagements: high-fidelity mockups, low-fidelity wireframes, and interactive prototypes. We work in Figma and document our design decisions so that everyone understands the reasoning behind the choices.
If you have a design team in place, we'll integrate with them. We're comfortable following an established design system or helping you build one from scratch.
One of the most common failure points in software projects is what gets lost between design and implementation. This looks like beautiful mockups that turn out to be technically impractical, or subtle interactions that disappear in translation. Because our designers work closely with our engineers from day one, there are no surprises when it's time to build.