Top User Experience Design Startups in 2024

Pendo helps people adopt software more quickly and successfully. Pendo customers include the world’s leading software companies and digital enterprises, including Verizon, RE/MAX, LabCorp, OpenTable, Okta, Salesforce, and Zendesk. Founded in 2013 in the heart of Raleigh, North Carolina, Pendo is backed by Battery Ventures, Spark Capital, Meritech Capital and Sapphire Ventures. Through its ProductCraft and customer communities, sponsored events and podcast, Pendo aims to support the success of product and digital leaders everywhere. For more information, visit: pendo.io

MoodMe is an innovative B2B tech leader on a mission to revolutionize the way businesses engage and gain insights through AIaaS and enterprise agreements. By leveraging the power of Face AI technologies, we create experiences that are not just engaging but profoundly insightful, providing a window into the hearts and minds of the target audience. Our vision is to set the standard in empathetic engagement, where user-centric experiences boost customer satisfaction, foster loyalty, and drive outstanding performance across diverse industries. At our core, we are dedicated to uniting innovation and ethics to craft an AI landscape that is unbiased and empathetic, ultimately making a powerful positive impact on a global scale. And this is only the beginning!

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

We realize the unimagined for the world’s most ambitious organizations. Founded in 1999, our global reputation is based on our teams’ unique ability to think beyond the ordinary and launch ground-breaking products and services. We believe that our phenomenal team is the core reason for our success, our growth, and our thriving culture. You’ll work with the world’s most forward-thinking companies, including the likes of Netflix, Spotify, Asana, Tesla, The Academy of Motion Pictures, Dolby, Ancestry, Salesforce, and many others. You’ll work across diverse industries and varying form factors, including automotive, luxury, travel, operating systems, website ecosystems, voice recognition software, artificial intelligence, and so much more.

Sidebench is a modern tech consultancy that looks to partner with forward-thinking companies across various industries and verticals. We strive to build first-in-kind products that solve every day problems and enhance the user experience. Client List: Microsoft Corporation, Facebook, Instagram, Red Bull, Sony Pictures, Andreessen Horowitz, NBCUniversal, Imagine Entertainment, Legendary Entertainment, United Talent Agency, Oakley, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Accel Partners, Pressed Juicery, American Heart Association, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, UCSF Clinical Innovation Center, Cedars-Sinai, and many more.

RPS partners with startups and enterprise companies to strategize, build, launch, and invest in digital products. We work as a longterm extension of technical and non-technical product teams. RPS selectively invests in the early stage companies. Our methodology has helped drive value during multi-year partnerships with ClassPass, Block Six Analytics, and HealthReveal.

Through a combination of aligning strategy and action with an in-depth understanding of our clients’ audience, we analyze data and optimize accounts to increase awareness while generating demand — maximizing ROI. We provide Performance Marketing Management (Paid Search, Paid Social, SEO), Digital Product Strategy (UX/UI Design, Brand Identify), and Reporting + Analytics (Lifetime Value Modeling, Forecasting, Marketing + Sales Funnel Reporting). We work with medium to large clients in a range of verticals including eCommerce, B2C, Insurance, Financial Services, etc.

Datavant protects, connects, and delivers the world’s health data to power better decisions and advance human health. Datavant is a data logistics company for healthcare whose products and solutions enable organizations to move and connect data securely. Datavant has a network of networks consisting of thousands of organizations, more than 70,000 hospitals and clinics, 70% of the 100 largest health systems, and an ecosystem of 500+ real-world data partners. Founded in 2017, we’ve doubled our team size and revenue every year. Our merger with Ciox Health, the leader in clinical data exchange, has made us the nation’s largest health data ecosystem with a $3.5B valuation. We are a remote-first team of ~1500 employees distributed across the US, Canada, and Europe.

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.

Koda Health is a fast-growing digital health startup that leverages AI to help guide difficult conversations in healthcare, starting with end-of-life care planning. Our platform helps patients express and document their medical care preferences - ensuring patients receive the care they want and curbing the financial burden in the last years of life. Koda Health is a graduate of multiple prestigious startup development programs including TMC Biodesign, Techstars UnitedHealthcare Accelerator, and Lighthouse Labs. As a venture-backed company, Koda Health is committed to enhancing quality, cost, and access to care and to improving the experience for all our stakeholders to make health care work better for everyone.