Best UX Design Agencies in Atlanta (2026)

Introduction

These 10 Atlanta UX design agencies cover product design, user research and digital experience work, and each has an active presence in the Atlanta area in 2026. They range from a research firm working since 2002 with its own usability labs to product teams that design and build software under one roof.

Much of the demand comes from the large companies based here. Firms on this list count Coca-Cola, The Home Depot, Chick-fil-A, Mailchimp and NAPA among their clients, and several of them focus on healthcare products. The market has also been consolidating. In May 2026 Black Airplane acquired Tyrannosaurus Tech, joining two Atlanta product teams, and several studios now list AI product design and development among their core services.

Every firm here has an active office or team in the Atlanta area in 2026, including Sandy Springs and Alpharetta to the north. The list runs in no fixed order of merit, since the right choice depends on whether you need research, design, a full build or all three.

The best UX design agencies in Atlanta

1. Everyday Industries

Independent studio · Atlanta · everydayindustries.com

Everyday Industries is a digital product design studio founded in Atlanta in 2012 by Allison Sall, head of product design, and Thomas DiNatale, principal product designer. Its services are UX and product design, AI product design, product evaluations and fractional design leadership, mostly for early and growth-stage companies.

The work leans towards consumer and retail brands. Clients include ButcherBox, Blue Apron, 1stDibs, Goop, eBay, Zola and SharkNinja, and recent projects include the Nara Baby pregnancy tracker app, Primer's K-8 learning platform, Alloy Health's menopause care website and the remote control interface for Shark Beauty's LED face mask. Fractional design leadership suits companies that need senior product design direction before they hire a head of design.

2. User Insight

Research specialist, founded 2002 · Sandy Springs · userinsight.com

User Insight is a UX research and design firm that signed its first client in 2002, working with Bank of America and CheckFree on online bill pay. It was named to the Inc. 5000 in 2008 and 2009, built its third user experience lab in Atlanta in 2020, and keeps a database of more than 20,000 research participants in the Southeast.

Services cover qualitative research (interviews, usability testing, heuristic reviews and accessibility audits), quantitative work such as A/B testing, prototyping and design, and participant recruiting. Clients listed on its site include Amazon, Netflix, Verizon, AT&T and Uber, and its history includes the CDC, InterContinental Hotels Group and BitPay. It suits teams that want moderated, in-person sessions in a lab rather than remote testing alone.

3. Black Airplane

Founded 2017 · Atlanta · blackairplane.com

Black Airplane is a product strategy, design and engineering firm led by managing partners David Leggett and Michael Caldwell. It works with a full-time, US-based team and no contractors, covering product UI and UX design, web and mobile development, application modernisation and AI development. On 18 May 2026 it acquired Tyrannosaurus Tech, another Atlanta product team, whose co-founders Richard Simms and Carlos Gonzalez joined the combined business.

Clients named on its site include Chick-fil-A, The Home Depot, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and The Weather Channel. Case studies include a redesign of the Lead Small ministry curriculum app, the Cady design system and a subscription stock content platform for Renewed Vision. Since the merger is recent, ask which team members will lead design on your project.

4. Stable Kernel

Atlanta · stablekernel.com

Stable Kernel is an Atlanta software and digital transformation firm led by co-founder and CEO Jason Russell. Its four service lines are enterprise digital transformation, market research and strategy, product design and development, and data and AI. In 2026 it was named to the Inc. 5000 and certified as a Great Place to Work.

Case studies include custom digital products for Rheem and a guest experience project for the Fox Theatre aimed at "a stress-free night out", alongside work for a large quick-service restaurant chain. The combination of market research and UI and UX design in one firm suits clients who want customer insight to feed straight into the build.

5. Digital Scientists

Founded 2007 · Alpharetta · digitalscientists.com

Digital Scientists was founded in 2007 by Bob Klein and works from Alpharetta, north of Atlanta. It builds custom software and AI products through a four-stage process (discover, experiment, engineer, optimise), and its experience design team is led by Kelley Rose, Director of Experience. The firm says it has shipped more than 200 products.

Healthcare is the main focus. Digital Scientists built NeverAlone in 2021, a virtual care platform that connects seniors and post-acute residents with care partners by video, which handled more than 100,000 calls in 2024 across 130 facilities in seven states. Other clients include McKesson, Mailchimp, NAPA, Office Depot and HD Supply.

6. Nebo

Founded 2004 · West End · neboagency.com

Nebo describes itself as a human-centred agency and has offered UX design since 2004, from an office on Murphy Avenue SW. Its UX practice covers wireframes, personas and experience maps, experience architecture, usability research, A/B testing and UX optimisation, alongside branding, content and paid media. The team publishes regularly on UX and CX, including an August 2026 piece on radical UX and CX thinking.

UX projects include the Mailchimp Rainbow Room, a landing page redesign for Brookdale Senior Living, ecommerce UX for Rooms To Go and a website for LexisNexis Risk Solutions built around five go-to-market approaches. Other clients include FHLBank Atlanta, MARTA and SalesLoft. It suits clients who want UX work tied to marketing and site performance.

7. Dragon Army

Atlanta · dragonarmy.com

Dragon Army grew out of a game studio and still applies game mechanics and behavioural psychology to product design, under the name Applied Game Theory. Founder and executive board chair Jeff Hilimire leads it with CEO Jenn Leahy and president Cortney Rosen. Its services cover brand, UX and design (including user research and prototyping), content and technology.

For Great Clips, it redesigned and rebuilt GreatClips.com on a headless dotCMS platform, with more than 50 site pages, 100 product pages and six integrations, aimed at increasing online check-ins. It also built a browser game for HBO Max's animated series Close Enough at the streamer's launch in 2020. Other clients include TK Elevator, the Atlanta History Center, NFHS Network and The Home Depot.

8. Edgar Allan

West Midtown · edgarallan.com

Edgar Allan is a brand and web agency headquartered in Atlanta, with further offices in Argentina, Serbia and South Africa. It works from brand strategy and research through digital design, UX, content and Webflow development, and it publishes regularly on conversion rate optimisation for sites after launch. Its core leadership has worked together for around 15 years on average.

Clients include venture firms and their portfolio companies, such as Accel, Sequoia, General Catalyst and Spark Capital, plus Ghost and Kate's Club. The studio writes often about its process, including an October 2026 piece arguing that the team in the pitch should be the team that builds the site.

9. Sagepath Reply

Part of Reply · Buckhead · sagepath-reply.com

Sagepath Reply is an experience design and digital consulting firm at One Alliance Center on Lenox Road, part of the Italian consultancy group Reply. Its work spans digital strategy, experience design, digital experience platforms and AI, with partnerships across Optimizely, Kentico, Salesforce, HubSpot and Sitecore. Forrester named it a "Change Agent" agency in its 2026 CMO Vision Report.

Clients include Coca-Cola, Sazerac, SouthState Bank, Develon, Oppenheimer, Krispy Kreme and NAPA. As an Optimizely Platinum Partner, it suits organisations whose UX work sits on a large content or commerce platform.

10. Visual Soldiers

Independent · West Midtown · visualsoldiers.com

Visual Soldiers is an Atlanta studio that has worked since 2015 across branding, web design and development, app design and packaging. It says it has launched more than 200 brand and digital systems, and projects average about 12 weeks from start to full delivery.

Recent product work includes the brand and digital platform for RxHarmony and a redesign of Modyfi Health's patient and provider platform, plus a website overhaul for The Works on the Westside. Other clients include Tao Group Hospitality, Gold's Gym and Fit Radio. Clients can buy a design subscription for ongoing tasks or a full-scope project.

What to look for in an Atlanta UX design agency

Decide first how much research you need. Some firms here are research specialists with their own labs and participant panels, while others fold research into a design and build engagement. If your product serves a specific group, such as clinicians, older adults or field staff, ask how the agency will recruit them and whether sessions happen in person or remotely.

Check where design stops and engineering starts. Studios such as Everyday Industries focus on product design and hand over to your developers, while Black Airplane, Stable Kernel and Digital Scientists design and build. Both models work. A design-only studio should show how it documents components and design systems for handover, and a build shop should show designers who stay involved through development.

Look for experience in your sector and ask who will do the work. Healthcare, financial services and consumer retail each bring their own regulations and buying patterns, and Atlanta firms have built clear specialisms in them. Recent acquisitions and distributed teams mean the people in the pitch may sit in another office, so it is fair to ask for named leads.

Finally, agree how research and design files will be kept. A UX project produces interview recordings, notes, prototypes, design files and test results, and much of that value is lost if it sits in scattered folders after launch. Settle where findings live, how stakeholders give feedback on designs, and that you will own the source files and research data at the end.

How Fabric helps UX design agency teams

Fabric gives a UX team one workspace for its research, design files and client feedback, with AI search across all of it. The setup for UI and UX agencies suits studios running several products at once, with one space per client holding the brief, research, prototypes and call notes.

Research produces a lot of recordings. Fabric's audio and video transcription turns uploaded interview and usability session recordings into searchable text, with clickable timestamps that jump to the moment a participant said something. Search works by meaning across those transcripts, documents, PDFs and images, and connected apps such as Google Drive and Notion. On Team plans, self-writing docs can maintain a user research repository with interview summaries, findings and recurring themes.

Early concept work can be gathered on a canvas that embeds live Figma files next to screenshots, sticky notes and research quotes. Clients can leave threaded comments on any file through a shared link without creating an account, and annotations let reviewers highlight and comment on PDF specs and reports. Drawing and comments on images and video are listed as coming soon.

For delivery, a research readout or design spec can be published as a web page with password protection, and link analytics shows when each named stakeholder opened it and how long they spent.

Password protection and link analytics are included on Pro and Team plans, and self-writing docs on Team plans. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best UX design agency in Atlanta?

There is no single answer, as it depends on the project. For lab-based user research, User Insight has worked since 2002 and built its third lab in Atlanta in 2020. For consumer product design, Everyday Industries works with brands such as Zola and SharkNinja. For design and build together, Black Airplane, Stable Kernel and Digital Scientists all take products from strategy to launch.

Which Atlanta agencies specialise in user research?

User Insight is the most research-focused firm on this list, with its own labs and a participant database of more than 20,000 people in the Southeast. Nebo offers usability research and A/B testing within its UX practice, and Stable Kernel runs a market research and strategy service alongside product design.

What happened to Tyrannosaurus Tech?

Black Airplane acquired the Tyrannosaurus Tech brand on 18 May 2026, combining two Atlanta product teams. Tyrannosaurus Tech co-founders Richard Simms and Carlos Gonzalez joined the combined business, and the Tyrannosaurus Tech website now points to Black Airplane.

What is the difference between a UX agency and a design agency?

UX agencies focus on how digital products work: research, information architecture, interaction design and testing. Design agencies tend to cover identity, print, packaging and environments as well as digital work. If you need a wider visual design partner, see our list of design agencies in Atlanta.

How long does a UX project take with an Atlanta agency?

It varies with scope. Visual Soldiers says its full-scope projects average about 12 weeks, and Dragon Army built its HBO Max game in about two months. Research-only studies can run in a few weeks, while products that agencies design and build often run for many months or move to an ongoing retainer.

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