• Comprehensive User Experience Design, User Interface & Research Services

    For IoT/AV Products - Mobile/Web Applications - Digital Transformation

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At Cardinal Peak, our user experience design services are built on a powerful foundation of deep engineering expertise. Our 140+ person team provides end-to-end product development for both digital and electronic products, creating a seamless synergy between design and engineering.

This integrated approach allows us to create solutions that are intuitive, efficient to implement, and built on data architectures ready for advanced AI analysis.

Engineering-Informed UX: The Cardinal Peak Advantage

Great UX design doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it must be grounded in engineering reality. We balance the “art-of-the-possible” with implementation costs, ensuring our designs are practical and cost-effective—whether you build with our team or yours. This is how we deliver results that standalone design agencies can’t match.

From our talented, Vietnam-based division, we offer a full spectrum of services, from UX consulting and design to providing a seamless handoff for development. The following services represent the breadth of our capabilities.

UX Design Markets & Expertise

Our expertise for UX design and research services includes supporting the following industries and market areas.

UX Design Services Markets Services and Solutions

 

UX Research & Strategy: Understanding Your Users, Product & Business

Understanding your users and defining a clear path forward is the bedrock of successful product design.

UX Design & Prototyping: Bringing Vision to Life

Transforming insights into tangible, interactive designs is where your vision begins to take shape.

UX Design / UX Development Services

UX Design for Seamless Development

Our designers work in lockstep with engineers to transform concepts into build-ready designs. We map efficient user flows and provide a meticulous hand-off package—including documentation and prototypes—to ensure technical feasibility and empower your development team.

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High-Fidelity Interactive Prototypes

We transform design concepts into high-fidelity interactive prototypes that look and feel like a real product. These functional models are crucial for conducting early usability testing, allowing us to validate user flows and refine the experience based on real user feedback before significant development investment.

Why Invest in Expert UX Design? Driving Your Business Success

Investing in professional user experience design services is not merely an aesthetic choice; it’s a fundamental business strategy that yields significant, measurable returns. Consider the tangible business outcomes driven by expert UX design.

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Enhanced User Satisfaction & Loyalty

Intuitive, enjoyable, and effective products create satisfied users who become loyal customers, repeat purchasers, and powerful brand advocates.

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Increased Conversion Rates & ROI

A seamless and persuasive user experience guides users towards desired actions, whether it’s completing a purchase, signing up for a service, or engaging with key content.

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Reduced Development Waste & Support Costs

Investing in user research and testing prevents costly waste by ensuring development efforts are focused on the right product, which in turn reduces long-term customer support costs and increases customer lifetime value.

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Gain a Competitive Advantage

In a crowded market, exceptional user experience builds the brand trust that sets your product apart and makes it the preferred choice. It requires a deliberate, layered approach to create a truly market-specific experience.

Elevate Your Customer Experience

Connect with our UX/UI experts to explore how we can elevate your customer’s experience across your products. Get budget and schedule estimates quickly from our experts.

User Experience and Research Services Case Studies

With deep expertise in product engineering and user experience, Cardinal Peak supports innovative UX transformations, including the projects below.

UX Design for a Smart Energy Management App
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Mobile App Development

UX Design for a Smart Energy Management App

We delivered intuitive user experience design services for a smart energy app, simplifying complex data through expert UI and user research. Our integrated approach created a seamless, transparent experience, empowering the client’s customers to manage energy contracts effortlessly and make informed financial decisions.
Localized Mobile App UX Design for a Fitness and Nutrition App
Case Study
Mobile App Development

Localized Mobile App UX Design for a Fitness and Nutrition App

Explore how our localized mobile app UX design created a culturally immersive fitness and nutrition tracker. We leveraged extensive user research to build an app that felt truly native to Thai consumers, driving engagement and motivation.
Achieving Digital Experience Transformation in Online Retail Banking
Case Study
Mobile App Development

Achieving Digital Experience Transformation in Online Retail Banking

We helped a client to achieve a comprehensive digital experience transformation for their online retail banking platform. This case study details our engineering-informed user-centered design approach, including strategic UX design workshops and iterative testing, resulting in a modern, personalized, and highly functional UX.
We delivered intuitive user experience design services for a smart energy app, simplifying complex data through expert UI and user research. Our integrated approach created a seamless, transparent experience, empowering the client’s customers to manage energy contracts effortlessly and make informed financial decisions.
Explore how our localized mobile app UX design created a culturally immersive fitness and nutrition tracker. We leveraged extensive user research to build an app that felt truly native to Thai consumers, driving engagement and motivation.
We helped a client to achieve a comprehensive digital experience transformation for their online retail banking platform. This case study details our engineering-informed user-centered design approach, including strategic UX design workshops and iterative testing, resulting in a modern, personalized, and highly functional UX.

User Experience and Research Services FAQs

What are user experience (UX) design services and why are they important for my product?

User experience (UX) design services are a comprehensive process focused on creating products that provide highly usable, meaningful, and relevant experiences for your audience. This journey is guided by our strategic framework for creating meaningful experiences. It involves in-depth research to understand user needs and motivations, which then informs the design of every interaction and interface to be as intuitive and efficient as possible.

For your product, investing in expert UX design is crucial because it directly impacts business success and market performance. A strong user experience delivers tangible returns, including:

  • Higher User Adoption & Retention: An intuitive product is easier to learn and more enjoyable to use, which keeps users engaged and loyal to your brand.
  • Increased Conversion Rates: A seamless experience effectively guides users toward key actions, whether it’s a purchase, a sign-up, or another critical business goal.
  • Reduced Development & Support Costs: By validating designs with users upfront, you avoid costly development of the wrong features. An intuitive product also naturally leads to fewer user errors and a lower need for customer support.
  • Stronger Competitive Differentiation: In a crowded marketplace, a superior user experience can be the key reason customers choose your product over a competitor’s.

How does Cardinal Peak approach UX development services, and what methodologies do you use?

Our UX design process is collaborative, user-centered, and deeply integrated with our engineering expertise. We adapt our approach to your project’s specific needs, often working within an Agile framework to ensure flexibility.

Our end-to-end product process generally follows four key phases, moving from high-level strategy to a build-ready product. We adapt our approach to your project’s specific needs, often working within an Agile framework to ensure flexibility.

1. Discovery & Research
We begin by immersing ourselves in your business objectives, technical constraints, and user needs to establish a solid strategic foundation. Activities in this phase include:

  • Stakeholder workshops and user interviews
  • Competitive market analysis
  • Creation of user personas and journey maps

2. Design & Prototyping
Using insights from our research, our team translates strategy into tangible designs. We build from low-fidelity concepts to interactive models that allow you to see and feel the product. Key activities include:

  • Information architecture and user flow design
  • Wireframing and high-fidelity user interface (UI) design
  • Creation of interactive prototypes

3. Validation & Iteration
We rigorously test our design assumptions with real users to identify issues and opportunities for refinement before major development investment. This phase involves:

  • Moderated and unmoderated usability testing
  • Heuristic evaluation against usability best practices
  • A/B testing to validate critical design choices

4. Development Handoff
Our process is built to ensure a seamless transition from design to development. We empower engineering teams with clear, comprehensive materials, including:

  • Detailed design systems and component libraries
  • Thorough documentation and specifications for every interaction
  • Continuous collaboration between our designers and your developers

What types of projects benefit most from UX consulting services?

Our UX consulting services provide strategic value for a wide range of initiatives, from validating a new product idea to overhauling an existing platform. Consulting is particularly impactful for projects that fit the following profiles.

Common Project Types:

  • New Product Development: Establishing a strong, user-centric foundation from the very beginning.
  • Complete Redesigns: Modernizing legacy applications to meet current user expectations and business goals.
  • Complex Feature Integration: Seamlessly adding significant new functionality into an existing product.
  • Multi-Platform Expansion: Ensuring a consistent and intuitive experience across web, mobile, and embedded systems. This is a core part of our framework for scalable UX.

Key Business Goals:

  • Improving critical metrics like user engagement, adoption, and conversion rates.
  • Reducing friction or drop-off in important user journeys (e.g., onboarding or checkout).
  • Diagnosing and addressing the root causes of negative user feedback.
  • Aligning a product roadmap with validated user needs instead of assumptions.

How do your user experience consulting services differ from just hiring a UI designer?

This is a critical distinction. Think of it as the difference between the look of a house (UI) and its entire architectural blueprint (UX). While a UI designer is a vital and skilled role, our UX consulting provides a much broader, strategic framework.

A UI Designer Primarily Focuses On:

  • Visual Aesthetics: The color palette, typography, iconography, and overall look and feel of the interface.
  • Interactive Elements: The design of buttons, menus, and other components on a screen.
  • Brand Alignment: Ensuring the final product is visually appealing and consistent with your brand identity.

Our UX Consulting Encompasses a Holistic View:

  • Strategy & Research: We start by understanding your users’ needs and your business goals to define the core problem we need to solve.
  • Structure & Flow: We design the underlying information architecture, user journeys, and interaction models that determine how the product works.
  • Usability & Accessibility: We ensure the product is not just beautiful, but also efficient, effective, and usable by the widest possible audience.
  • Business Impact: We connect every design decision to strategic objectives, ensuring the final product drives tangible business results.

What is your process for integrating UX into an existing engineering project?

Integrating our UX services into our engineering projects is a core strength, leveraging the natural synergy between our design and engineering teams. Our goal is to introduce meaningful improvements without disrupting your development velocity.

Our process is collaborative, pragmatic, and typically includes these steps:

1. Audit & Discovery

We begin with a deep dive to understand the current state of your product, technology stack, and business goals. This includes a full UX audit, technical discovery sessions with your engineers, and user research to identify the most critical pain points.

2. Strategic Roadmapping & Prioritization

Based on our findings, we don’t propose a disruptive, all-at-once overhaul. Instead, we collaborate with you to create a phased roadmap for UX improvements. Each initiative is prioritized based on its potential impact versus the engineering effort required, ensuring we focus on changes that deliver the most value.

3. Collaborative Implementation

Our UX team works in close partnership with your developers throughout the implementation cycle. We provide everything needed for a smooth handoff and build process, including:

  • Clear design specifications and user flows
  • Interactive prototypes to demonstrate functionality
  • Component-based design systems that can be integrated efficiently

4. Ongoing Support

We remain engaged during development to answer questions, provide clarification, and help navigate any unforeseen challenges, ensuring the design intent is carried through to the final product.

User Experience and Research Services Related Articles

Do you want to learn more about UX design and research? The following blog posts offer insight into our team’s design processes, tackle common UX/UI challenges, and walk readers through important considerations.

5 Signs Your Digital Product Has a Foundational UX Problem (And How to Start Fixing It)
UX Design

5 Signs Your Digital Product Has a Foundational UX Problem (And How to Start Fixing It)

Is your product plagued by high churn, low conversion rates, or negative reviews? These aren't isolated issues; they are often symptoms of a deeper, foundational UX problem. This article will help you diagnose your product's health by outlining the five most common signs.
Calculating the ROI of User Experience Design Services
UX Design

Calculating the ROI of User Experience Design Services

As a product leader, you know great UX drives success, but securing budget without a clear ROI can be a challenge. This guide moves beyond intuition, providing a framework for tying your UX design services investment to the metrics that matter: conversion, retention, and efficiency.
How Integrated UX & Engineering Reduces Rework
Outsourced Engineering

How Integrated UX & Engineering Reduces Rework

The handoff between a UX design company and an engineering team is often the riskiest phase of a project, leading to costly rework. Learn how an engineering-integrated UX process eliminates these silos, ensuring your product is not only beautiful but technically feasible.
Is your product plagued by high churn, low conversion rates, or negative reviews? These aren't isolated issues; they are often symptoms of a deeper, foundational UX problem. This article will help you diagnose your product's health by outlining the five most common signs.
As a product leader, you know great UX drives success, but securing budget without a clear ROI can be a challenge. This guide moves beyond intuition, providing a framework for tying your UX design services investment to the metrics that matter: conversion, retention, and efficiency.
The handoff between a UX design company and an engineering team is often the riskiest phase of a project, leading to costly rework. Learn how an engineering-integrated UX process eliminates these silos, ensuring your product is not only beautiful but technically feasible.