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Top 6 UI/UX design agencies
in Los Angeles for 2026

UI/UX in Los Angeles doesn't look like UI/UX anywhere else, mostly because of who's hiring for it. A Silicon Beach startup building a fintech app and a studio designing an AR filter for a social platform are both technically buying "user experience design," but one needs compliance-aware flows and the other needs something that reads well in three seconds on a phone screen. The agencies below split roughly along that line: some run structured research and usability testing as their whole practice, others build interface work as one piece of a broader product or web engagement.

We ranked these six on demonstrated UX process and named client work rather than a portfolio's visual polish alone — polish is easy to fake in a case study; a research-backed design decision on a client's actual product is harder to.

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UI/UX Design Agencies in Los Angeles

1. WANDR

wandr.studio — Los Angeles, CA

WANDR treats UX research as the deliverable, not a preamble to it — the agency's work for the U.S. Space Force and IBM required the kind of structured usability testing that consumer-app studios rarely have to formalize. Founded in 2016 out of downtown LA, it's shipped 300+ projects and runs $150–199/hour with a $25K+ minimum, priced for a team that needs strategy and interface design handled by the same group rather than handed off between vendors.

Based
Downtown LA
Founded
2016
Rate
$150–199/hr
Minimum
$25K+

2. Cerebral Studio

cerebralstudio.design — Los Angeles, CA

Cerebral Studio names its clients' checkout and onboarding flows as the specific place bad UX costs money, which is a narrower and more testable claim than most agencies make about "improving user experience." The nine-year-old studio stays deliberately small — under 50 people — so a $1,000 engagement gets the same senior attention as a larger one, rather than routing smaller clients to junior staff. Best for a company with a specific, measurable UX problem (drop-off at a particular step) rather than one that wants a full brand-to-product overhaul.

Based
Los Angeles
Founded
2016
Rate
$150/hr
Minimum
$1K–10K

3. Goji Labs

gojilabs.com — Los Angeles, CA

Goji Labs pairs UX/UI design with the engineering to build what it designs, which matters for clients like UCLA who can't afford a handoff gap between the design file and the shipped product. Its 500+ products have reached more than 25 million users, a scale that comes up more often in regulated or public-sector engagements than consumer apps, where a usability decision has to survive legal review before it survives a stakeholder demo. Best for a team that wants one vendor accountable for both the interface and whether it actually works.

Based
Downtown LA
Founded
2014
Rate
$100–149/hr
Minimum
$25K+

4. AppMakers USA

appmakersla.com — Los Angeles, CA

AppMakers USA holds Clutch certification specifically in UX Strategy, a narrower credential than the general "UI/UX design" most shops list — evidence the research phase is a genuine practice area rather than a service tacked onto development. Founded in 2014 with a downtown LA office and a $10K–25K minimum, the firm structures projects so the same team that designs the interface also builds it, removing the handoff gap where a lot of usability intent gets lost translating from Figma to code.

Based
Downtown LA
Founded
2014
Rate
Not published
Minimum
$10K–25K

5. Clay

clay.global — San Francisco, CA

Clay's most technically demanding UI/UX problems come from categories with no established interaction model yet: a connected-wearables experience for Google's Project Jacquard, and a virtual creative-collaboration platform for Fiverr where the entire value proposition depends on how the interface handles real-time collaboration. Running remote-first out of San Francisco with no Los Angeles office, the studio designs for products that don't have a competitor's app to borrow patterns from — a fit for a team building something genuinely new, a less efficient choice for refining an established SaaS dashboard.

Based
San Francisco (remote-first)
Founded
Not published
Rate
Not published
Minimum
Not published

6. Noomo Agency

noomoagency.com — Los Angeles, CA

Noomo's product interfaces carry over the same interaction-heavy sensibility that runs through its site work — custom animation and 3D elements built into the UI itself, not layered on top of it after the fact. The team splits between Los Angeles and Europe, and its client base in fintech and web3 suggests founders willing to spend design budget on a product that has to signal technical sophistication before a user reads a single word of copy. Better suited to a flagship product than a utility app nobody's meant to linger in.

Based
LA (part of team in Europe)
Founded
2018
Rate
Not published
Minimum
Not published

Compare the 6 side by side

AgencyBasedFoundedApproachHourly rateMinimum projectNamed clients
WANDRDowntown LA2016Research-led$150–199/hr$25K+U.S. Space Force, IBM
Cerebral StudioLos Angeles2016Research-led$150/hr$1K–10KEarly-stage startups to $1B+ companies
Goji LabsDowntown LA2014Designs and builds$100–149/hr$25K+UCLA
AppMakers USADowntown LA2014Designs and builds—$10K–25KCVS Pharmacies, NFL, Los Angeles Apparel
ClaySan Francisco (remote-first)—New interaction models——Google (Project Jacquard), Fiverr
Noomo AgencyLA (part of team in Europe)2018New interaction models——Fintech and web3 clients

How the six split

Grouped by how each agency works.

Research-led

Structured usability testing in every engagement.

Designs and builds

Design and engineering in the same room.

New interaction models

AR, wearables, immersive 3D — no established playbook.

Published minimum project size

4 of 6 agencies publish a minimum. Dashed lines are open-ended (“+”); log scale.

$1K$5K$10K$25K$50KCerebral Studio: minimum project $1K–10KCerebral Studio$1K–10KAppMakers USA: minimum project $10K–25KAppMakers USA$10K–25KGoji Labs: minimum project $25K+Goji Labs$25K+WANDR: minimum project $25K+WANDR$25K+

What Actually Separates These Six

Research depth is the real dividing line, more than visual style. WANDR and Cerebral Studio both build structured usability testing into every engagement — the kind of work that shows up as better conversion numbers months later, not a prettier mockup on day one. Goji Labs and AppMakers USA design and build in the same room, which removes the handoff risk between a Figma file and shipped code but means less specialization in pure interface strategy. Clay and Noomo sit at the experimental end, designing for interaction patterns — AR, wearables, immersive 3D — that don't have an established playbook yet.

Match your stage to the agency's minimum before the portfolio. A $1K–10K UX audit from Cerebral Studio answers a narrower question than a $25K+ engagement with WANDR or Goji Labs, and paying for the latter when you need the former just slows down a decision you could've made in two weeks.

We built this list from public portfolios and named clients, and no agency paid for its position.

FAQ

What's the difference between a UI/UX agency and a product design agency?
In practice, little — most agencies on this list use both terms. The real distinction is whether the agency also builds what it designs (Goji Labs, AppMakers USA) or hands the design off to a separate engineering team (WANDR, Cerebral Studio, Clay).
How much does UI/UX design cost in Los Angeles?
A single UX audit or research pass can start around $1,000–10,000 at a boutique shop like Cerebral Studio. A full product design engagement runs $25,000 and up at agencies like WANDR or Goji Labs, and scales further for enterprise or regulated work.
Do I need a UX research process, or just a designer?
Depends on the stakes. A structured research process (WANDR, Cerebral Studio) matters most when a bad flow costs revenue or compliance risk. For an early-stage product still finding its shape, a smaller, faster-moving studio may serve better than a research-heavy engagement.
Should I hire locally in LA, or does a remote UI/UX team work?
Remote works fine for interface design specifically — Clay operates entirely out of San Francisco with no LA office and still designed connected-product experiences for Google and a real-time collaboration platform for Fiverr. What matters is whether the team has shipped in a comparable interaction model, not their zip code.