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.
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.
Our expertise for UX design and research services includes supporting the following industries and market areas.
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Understanding your users and defining a clear path forward is the bedrock of successful product design.
We delve deep into user behaviors, needs and motivations through methodologies that include ethnographic studies, user interviews, surveys and developing detailed personas. This ensures your product is built on a solid foundation of validated user understanding.
Leverage our user experience consulting for your most complex initiatives. We provide strategic guidance to de-risk challenging technology implementations and large-scale digital transformations, ensuring your UX strategy is viable within your specific technical ecosystem.
Transforming insights into tangible, interactive designs is where your vision begins to take shape.
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.
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.
Ensuring your product meets user expectations and performs optimally is an ongoing process.
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 & LoyaltyIntuitive, enjoyable, and effective products create satisfied users who become loyal customers, repeat purchasers, and powerful brand advocates. |
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Increased Conversion Rates & ROIA 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 CostsInvesting 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. |
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Gain a Competitive AdvantageIn a crowded market, exceptional user experience builds the brand trust that sets your product apart and makes it the preferred choice. |
With deep expertise in product engineering and user experience, Cardinal Peak supports innovative UX transformations, including the projects below.
User experience (UX) design services are a comprehensive process focused on creating products that provide highly usable, meaningful, and relevant experiences for your audience. 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:
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 process generally follows four key phases, moving from high-level strategy to a build-ready product:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Key Business Goals:
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:
Our UX Consulting Encompasses a Holistic View:
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:
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.
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.