Best UX Design Agencies in Barcelona (2026)

Introduction

Barcelona has one of Europe’s busiest product and experience design scenes, and the 10 UX design agencies below cover most of what a client might need, from research and service design to app interfaces and design systems. They were chosen for current work, the depth of their client lists and evidence of an active Barcelona studio in 2026.

The city’s mix is unusual. Long-standing local consultancies such as Runroom and Interactius sit alongside the Barcelona hubs of global groups, and many work for the retail, banking and pharma companies headquartered in Catalonia: Inditex brands, Mango, CaixaBank, Desigual, Almirall. Consolidation continued over the past year. NTT DATA bought the creative agency Bungalow25 in October 2025 and folded it into Tangity, its design network, which now works from Madrid and Barcelona. VML The Cocktail, which has a Barcelona team, won Spain’s first Cannes Innovation Lion in 2025 for “PainVisible”.

Every firm here has a verified Barcelona office or studio. The list runs in no fixed order of merit, since the right partner depends on whether you need research, a new product or help scaling an existing one.

The best UX design agencies in Barcelona

1. Runroom

Independent · Gràcia · runroom.com

Runroom is a digital business consultancy founded in Barcelona in 2003, with offices on Carrer de Santa Eulàlia in Gràcia. Its work is organised into customer experience, digital product, AI adoption and growth marketing, and it runs a busy programme of community events, including Product Open Space and CX Open Space in 2026 and a Lean Product Discovery Academy.

Clients include CaixaBank, Bayer, Boehringer, Decathlon, Nespresso, Telefónica and the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona. Recent case studies include a design system for Bayer and a Figma-to-Penpot plugin. The firm holds ENS and ISO 27001 certification, which matters for public sector and regulated clients.

2. Interactius

Independent · Eixample · interactius.com

Interactius is a strategic design and UX consultancy on Pau Claris in the Eixample, working since at least 2012. It splits its practice into strategic thinking, experience design (product and service design, validation and user recruitment) and cultural transformation, and it has built its own research tools, including an insight panel and synthetic user testing.

Its case studies read like a list of Catalan and Spanish household names: a digital banking redesign for imagin, a web and app redesign with a unified design system for Massimo Dutti, AI adoption work for Novartis and household recycling research for Ecoembes. Other clients include Mango, Bershka, Desigual, Banc Sabadell and Hospital de Sant Pau.

3. Nacar

Independent · Poblenou · nacardesign.com

Nacar is a strategic design agency founded in 2006 by industrial designers Jaume Jané and Bern Donadeu. Its headquarters are in Palo Alto, a converted factory in Poblenou, with a second office in Bilbao. The team of more than 90 covers industrial, digital and service design, and the studio has won over 50 international awards, including iF, Red Dot and German Design Awards.

Digital work includes UX and UI for Nora, a project with Vall d’Hebron Hospital, alongside long-running product work for HP, Roca and BH. It suits clients whose product spans hardware and software, since the same studio can design the device and the app that runs it.

4. Cognizant Netcentric

Owned by Cognizant · Poblenou · netcentric.biz

Netcentric is an Adobe-focused digital experience consultancy, now trading as Cognizant Netcentric, with a Barcelona hub on Camí Antic de València in Poblenou. Its experience design team offers experience strategy, service design and product design, usually alongside large Adobe Experience Manager builds.

Recent work it highlights includes the global launch of the motorcycle brand Bimota and Lufthansa Group’s Digital Hangar project. It is a practical choice for enterprises that need UX, content platforms and engineering from one supplier.

5. VML The Cocktail

Owned by WPP (VML) · Barcelona · the-cocktail.com

The Cocktail began as a Spanish digital consultancy and now trades as VML The Cocktail, with teams in Barcelona, Madrid, Oviedo and London. It describes itself as a team led by product designers and strategic designers who design, build and operate digital platforms and growth systems.

Recent case studies include Wallapop, HSBC’s business banking and Banco Azteca’s digital inclusion work. At Cannes Lions 2025 it won Spain’s first Innovation Lion with “PainVisible”.

6. Multiplica

Digital consultancy · Eixample · multiplica.com

Multiplica is a digital consultancy with 25 years of history, around 625 consultants and nine offices across Spain, Latin America and Miami. The Barcelona office is on Passeig de Sant Joan. Its experience practice covers customer insights, product strategy, UX and what it calls agentic experience, alongside conversion rate optimisation and product development.

Clients shown include Vueling, Volotea, Grifols, Iberostar and Leroy Merlin, plus large banks and insurers in Latin America. A recent case study covers an agentic experience project for GB Foods (Gallina Blanca). It is strongest on transactional products where conversion is measured closely.

7. Tangity (NTT DATA)

Owned by NTT DATA · Barcelona · tangity.design

Tangity is NTT DATA’s international network of strategy, creativity and design studios, and lists Barcelona first among its studios. It launched in Spain in March 2024 with hubs in Madrid and Barcelona, and its featured work includes an end-to-end mobility project for Renfe. In October 2025 NTT DATA acquired the creative agency Bungalow25 to join it, giving the combined teams more than 1,000 people across the two cities.

Bungalow25 brought clients including Wallapop, Lowi, Netflix and Sony Pictures, and awards from El Sol, c de c and the Premios Eficacia. Tangity suits large organisations that want service design and experience work connected to NTT DATA’s technology delivery.

8. Dtail Studio

Independent · Barcelona · dtailstudio.com

Dtail Studio is a brand and product design studio founded in Barcelona in 2012, with a second office in California. It works mainly with funded startups in health tech, energy, SaaS and AI, covering product strategy, app and web UI, design systems and pitch decks.

Featured work includes Elli Cares, a dementia care app nominated for the 2026 SilverEco and Ageing Well International Awards, Cubee’s home energy devices and Cinelytic, an AI platform for film studios the team has designed since 2018.

9. Atico3

Independent · Sant Gervasi · atico3.com

Atico3 is a small UX and product design studio on Travessera de Gràcia, working since 2013. It offers heuristic analysis, UX design, high-fidelity product interfaces, iOS and Android app design and front-end development, and sells much of its work on a fixed monthly subscription with no minimum term.

Clients include Visa, AXA, Volotea, Qustodio, vLex and NPAW, with case studies for American Express and Qustodio Kids. The subscription model suits product teams that need steady design capacity without hiring.

10. Embacy

Independent · Barcelona · embacy.io

Embacy is a branding and UI and UX agency founded in 2018 that lists Barcelona first among its locations, alongside Paris and Yerevan. It hosts its “Let’s Define” talks on design and business impact in Barcelona, the sixth of which ran in March 2026, and it has been a Webflow Professional Partner since 2020.

The client list leans towards tech companies: Finom, Kommo, inDrive, Kinescope and the Swiss fintech theScreener, for which it built a brand ecosystem, website and design system in 2026. It is a good fit for startups that want brand, product UI and marketing site from one team.

What to look for in a Barcelona UX design agency

Decide first what kind of help you need. Barcelona’s consultancies, such as Runroom and Interactius, lead with research and strategy and are strongest when the question is what to build. Product studios such as Atico3 and Dtail are faster at turning a defined problem into screens and design systems. Global hubs like Netcentric and Tangity pair design with large engineering teams.

Ask to see research, not only interfaces. A good UX partner should show how it recruited participants, what it learned and how that changed the design. Several Barcelona firms run their own user panels or recruitment services, which shortens the time from brief to first insights.

Check the language and market fit. Many studios here work in English for international startups as well as in Spanish and Catalan for local clients. If your users are in Spain or Latin America, a team that tests in those markets will catch problems an English-only process can miss.

Look at how design work is handed over and reviewed. Prototypes, research recordings, Figma files and design system documentation pile up quickly. Agencies with a clear place for files, a simple way for stakeholders to comment and a record of which feedback has been addressed tend to keep projects on schedule.

How Fabric helps UX design agency teams

Fabric gives a UX team one workspace for research, design files and client feedback, with AI search across all of it. The setup for UI and UX agencies suits studios running several client products at once, with each client’s research, flows and decks kept in its own space.

User interviews and usability sessions are where most insight sits, and they are hard to find again. Fabric transcribes uploaded audio and video and makes it searchable, with clickable timestamps. Search works by meaning across documents, images, PDFs and those transcripts, so a researcher can find every session where users struggled with onboarding and jump straight to the moment. Large files live in the cloud drive and stream on demand. For early concepts and journey maps, the canvas is an infinite whiteboard that can embed Figma files.

For review rounds, the team shares a file or folder with the client as a commenter. Through that shared link, with no account needed, stakeholders can leave timestamped comments on session recordings and draw on screenshots or mock-ups, and the team marks each comment completed as it is resolved. Final deliverables such as research reports can be published as a web page (view-only) and protected with a password.

On Team plans, Fabric can maintain a page for each client from meetings, Slack and the workspace, recording decisions, deliverables and open items. A designer joining mid-project can see why the navigation changed in March without asking around.

Password protection is included on Pro and Team plans, and client pages on Team plans. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best UX design agency in Barcelona?

It depends on the project. For research-led work with large Spanish brands, Interactius and Runroom have the longest client lists. Nacar suits products that combine hardware and software, and Atico3 or Dtail Studio suit startups that need product design capacity quickly.

What happened to Bungalow25?

NTT DATA acquired Bungalow25 in October 2025 and folded it into Tangity, its design and experience network. The combined teams work from Madrid and Barcelona.

How much does a UX design agency in Barcelona cost?

Most consultancies quote per project or per team-month, depending on scope and seniority. Some smaller studios, such as Atico3, offer a fixed monthly subscription for ongoing design work, which makes budgeting simpler for product teams.

Do Barcelona UX agencies work in English?

Yes. Many of the studios on this list work with international startups and global brands in English, and also run research in Spanish and Catalan for local clients.

Is a UX agency different from a design agency?

UX agencies focus on research, digital products and services, while multidisciplinary design studios cover a wider range including print, packaging and spatial work. For the latter, see the best design agencies in Barcelona.

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