Top Design Startups in 2024

Houzz is the leading platform for home remodeling and design, providing people with everything they need to improve their homes from start to finish – online or from a mobile device. From decorating a small room to building a custom home and everything in between, Houzz connects millions of homeowners, home design enthusiasts and home improvement professionals across the country and around the world. With the largest residential design database in the world and a vibrant community empowered by technology, Houzz is the easiest way for people to find inspiration, get advice, buy products and hire the professionals they need to help turn their ideas into reality. Headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, Houzz also has offices in Irvine, San Diego, Phoenix, Nashville, London, Berlin, Sydney, Moscow, Tokyo and Tel Aviv. To apply for jobs at Houzz please go to houzz.com/jobs.

Founded in 2009, contentsquare is a digital experience insights platform that helps businesses understand how and why users are interacting with their app, mobile and web sites. we compute billions of touch and mouse movements, and transform this knowledge into profitable actions that increase engagement, reduce operational costs and maximize conversion rates. using behavioral data, artificial intelligence and big data to provide automatic recommendations, contentsquare empowers every member of the digital team to easily measure the impact of their actions, and make fast and productive data-driven decisions to optimize the customer journey.

Sauce Labs is the company enterprises trust to deliver digital confidence. More than 3 billion tests have been run on the Sauce Labs Continuous Testing Cloud, the most comprehensive and trusted testing platform in the world. Sauce Labs delivers a 360-degree view of a customer’s application experience, helping businesses improve the quality of their user experience by ensuring that web and mobile applications look, function, and perform exactly as they should on every browser, OS, and device, every single time. Sauce Labs enables organizations to increase revenue and grow their digital business by creating new routes to market, protecting their brand from the risks of a poor user experience, and delivering better products to market, faster. For more info or to sign up for a free trial, visit saucelabs.com.

cove.tool is a building performance platform for intelligent design. We recently raised a $30 million Series B with the backing Coatue and Robert Downey Jr's Footprint Coalition! Come join a company that is making a difference in the fight to stop climate change. We've already helped the building industry avoid 5x more carbon than Tesla in the last year!

Mistplay is the first Loyalty Program for mobile gamers. Players use our platform to play games, connect with friends, and earn awesome rewards; such as Amazon gift cards and prepaid Visas. We make sure that everything we do has a positive impact on our users and our community. We leverage a wealth of in-game data and Machine Learning to recommend the best games to our users and encourage mobile game studios to really engage with players around the world through our Loyalty Program. With a growth of over 9 million users in under 3 years, Mistplay is one of the fastest growing companies in North America. Due to our growing popularity, we are also looking to grow our team - come be a part of our journey!

The IxDF is the global leader in online UX/UI design education. We hold the trust of industry giants like Adobe and IBM, who rely on our courses to train their teams. Prestigious universities, including MIT and the University of Cambridge, use our material into their curricula. Help us take online education to new heights and make a meaningful impact on humankind. We’re entering our third decade with over 170,000 graduates. We are a fully remote company, bringing together exceptional talent from across the globe. Read more about our values, company culture and open positions: interaction-design.org/about

Second Order Effects (SOE) is a California-based engineering firm specializing in custom electronics and end-to-end electronic system design. We develop cross-disciplined solutions and products to solve some of the world’s most challenging problems by optimizing solutions beyond the first order. SOE tackles a wide range of projects in the aerospace, automotive, industrial, and commercial sectors. We design and build flight control systems, wireless communication devices, power electronics, analog sensor interfaces, mixed-signal circuits, motor drivers, system controllers, video cameras, embedded computers, and optical and RF amplifiers, sensors, and antennas. Our designs have gone into rocket engines, satellites, self-driving cars, automated systems, and household/retail consumer electronics.

We are a top-tier and evolving Digital Transformation Agency that co‑innovates with the world's most ambitious brands to create transformative digital experiences. Bounteous exists at the intersection of the definition of consultancies, integrators, and agencies. We pride ourselves on our long-standing track record of ideating, innovating, implementing award-winning solutions, and driving best-in-class results for brands like Wilson, Coca-Cola, Panda Express, Mars, Shake Shack, Denis, and many others. We offer a variety of services including strategy, experience design, technology, analytics & insight, and marketing. Additionally, we partner with several leading technology companies including Google, Adobe, Acquia, Akeneo, Shopify Plus, and Magento. Our vision is to be the co-innovation partner to the world's highest-performing companies, and our mission is to help our clients compete and win digitally. With offices in the USA, Canada, Ukraine, and India, Bounteous is one of the fastest-growing agencies in Mexico.

A modern agency for evolutionary brands. Based roughly on—but also wandering recklessly from—the principles of Design Thinking, our framework facilitates collaboration and focuses on user outcomes. We believe in flexibility and efficiency and we work together in iterative sprints to turn ideas into solutions (and back again).

Did you know… only a third of product teams actually do *continuous* product research? A lack of time, tools, and resources often mean that valuable user insights are left in the dark. With Maze, you can shine a light on what your users really want and make more strategic product decisions. Maze is a product research platform dedicated to making life easier for modern product teams. With versatile features—from prototype testing, to video and screen recordings of usability sessions—Maze empowers over 60,000 brands, from Samsung to Braze, to learn about their audiences and act fast. With easy one-click integrations to some of the world’s leading design platforms, Maze makes it easier than ever to test designs, ideas, and prototypes. Import prototypes seamlessly to Figma, Adobe XD, InVision, Marvel, and Sketch to help round up feedback and move ideas in the right direction. As well as being accessible across multiple devices, mazes can be shared with users across the globe in just a matter of clicks. A simple URL is all that’s needed to gather user insights in a matter of hours. Once the results roll in, Maze does the work for you with automated analytics that display responses in visually digestible reports. As well as looking beautiful, a Maze Report can be shared easily with major stakeholders for further discussion and ideations. With the Comments feature, customizing your reports with summaries and follow-up actions has never been simpler. With flexible plans built to accompany your product research goals, Maze is designed to empower you—whether you’re a team of one or 100. And if you’re still not sure where to begin with your product research, Maze’s curated gallery of [Templates](maze.co/templates/product) will steer you in the right direction.