Best UX Design Agencies in Dublin (2026)

Introduction

Dublin has 12 UX design firms worth a close look in 2026, ranging from small research consultancies to digital agencies with their own engineering teams. They were chosen for the depth of their UX practice, named client work and evidence of activity this year.

Demand comes from three directions: the city’s financial services and insurance firms, public bodies with heavy service and accessibility needs, and software companies building products from Ireland. The market has also been moving. Each&Other announced a €500,000 investment in its team in 2025 as it expanded into the UK, and Granite took a $10 million investment from BGF in 2026 before buying the branding and design agency Right Hat. Kooba won Best Website at the 2026 Digital Media Awards for its work with the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.

Every firm here has an active office in Greater Dublin in 2026. The list runs in no fixed order of merit, since the right choice depends on whether you need research, design, a build partner or all three.

The best UX design agencies in Dublin

1. Each&Other

Independent · Pearse Street · eachandother.com

Each&Other is a product and UX design consultancy founded in 2014 and based at Huckletree on Pearse Street, with a second office in Soho, London. Its 2025 UK expansion added Ben Logan, founder of the London research agency Spotless, and was planned to take the team from 25 to 35 people by the end of 2026.

Its case studies are complex service work: a platform for race organisation across the UK and Ireland for Racing Digital, a generative AI clinical co-pilot for T-Pro, and a home-buying portal for Glenveagh. Vodafone, Musgrave and Glanbia also appear in its work. It offers fractional UX as well as project teams, which suits companies with an in-house team that needs senior support.

2. Friday

Founded 2014 · Merrion Square · friday.ie

Friday combines a UX practice with digital marketing from its office on Merrion Square South. Its UX services cover research, UX and UI design, user testing, audits and design systems, and it describes itself as multi-award-winning.

Recent case studies include a multi-brand design system for Grifols, the HaloCare companion app, a condensed regulatory report for the Data Protection Commission and an online shop for Follain. Friday also reports commercial results alongside the design work, such as a 70% engagement lift for the fintech Fire. That makes it a reasonable fit when UX and acquisition sit in the same budget.

3. Arekibo

Founder-led · Lower Pembroke Street · arekibo.com

Arekibo is an enterprise digital agency founded in Dublin in 2002 and still led by a co-founder as CEO. Its experience design team covers UX and UI design, information architecture, prototyping, user testing, accessibility and design systems. It holds ISO 27001 certification.

The client list is strong on large Irish organisations: Electric Ireland (a 14-year relationship), Dublin Airport operator daa, RCSI, the HPRA, Mater Private and Tourism Ireland. Much of the work runs on enterprise content platforms such as Sitecore and Sitefinity, so it is better suited to large sites than to early-stage products.

4. Kooba

Digital agency, with Ko and AccessPoint · Pleasants Place · kooba.ie

Kooba is a web design, development and online marketing agency, with a branding studio (Ko) and a specialist accessibility consultancy (AccessPoint) alongside it. It was named Large Agency of the Year at the 2025 Spider Awards, and it won Best in Universal Design at the 2026 Spiders for the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission site.

Other clients include South East Technological University, Bon Secours, the National Disability Authority, Screen Ireland and Payslip. It launched a new website for the Irish Film Institute in 2026. Kooba also has offices in London and Berlin, and its strength is public-facing websites rather than application design.

5. Granite

BGF-backed · Temple Bar · granite.ie

Granite is a digital agency of more than 200 people, with its Dublin office on Temple Lane South and others in Belfast, Cork, Galway, Chicago, New York and Dubai. It took a $10 million investment from BGF in 2026 and has been buying agencies, including Creative Media, Right Hat and the digital design firm WONDR. It won four Spider Awards in 2026.

Its services include UX-led website strategy and design, client portals and applications, and inclusive design. Case studies cover Dalata Hotel Group, Workvivo by Zoom, PM Group and American University. Given the pace of acquisitions, it is worth asking which team would run your project and where they sit.

6. DEPT

Partner-owned, backed by The Carlyle Group · The Liberties · dept.global

DEPT is an international digital agency with more than 4,000 people and over 30 offices, including one at Thomas Burgh House in the Liberties. It grew from TamTam, a Dutch agency founded in 1996, and took the DEPT name through a 2016 merger. Carlyle has backed it since January 2020, and around 200 partners hold ownership stakes.

Its service lines span customer experience, commerce, tech and data, and AI transformation, and the Webby Awards named it Agency Network of the Year in 2022 and 2023. It suits organisations that want a Dublin relationship with multi-market delivery behind it. Global work is a poor guide to the local team, so ask to see projects run from Dublin.

7. Square1

Founder-led · Tara Street · square1.io

Square1 is a design and development agency founded in Ireland in 2013 by Diego Solorzano and Ciaran Maher, who remain its CEO and Chief AI/Product Officer. It has more than 50 people, a Dublin office in the Tara Building and further offices in the UK and France. Its services include UX, UI and brand design alongside build work.

Projects include DoneDeal One, which powers branded dealer websites across Ireland, connected-account management for Hyundai France and an AI-powered registration platform for Evento. Square1 describes itself as the first Stripe-Certified Agency Partner, which makes it a natural option for payments-heavy products.

8. Marino Software

Operating for 20 years · Glasnevin · marinosoftware.com

Marino Software is a Glasnevin-based software company with an experience design practice and a Design and Innovation Director, Garrett Sheridan, on its leadership team. It holds ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certification and focuses heavily on public-sector and transport clients.

Its work includes the rewritten RTÉ News app, ReVoice (which helps people with Motor Neurone Disease speak in a synthesised version of their own voice, and was used by Charlie Bird) and an AI document assistant for GOAL. Its client list also includes Irish Rail, Bus Éireann, PTSB and Laya Healthcare. It suits projects where design and engineering are bought together.

9. Matrix Internet

Operating since 2000 · Dublin · matrixinternet.ie

Matrix Internet is a digital agency with about 50 people internationally and offices in Dublin and Brussels. Its web design practice includes UX workshops, user testing and behavioural insights, and it won Gold at the 2026 Digital Media Awards.

Case studies include AIB Future Sparks, the Health Research Board, Lisney and the Ladies Gaelic Football Association. The Brussels office and client names such as the European Commission and Frontex make it worth a look for EU institutional work.

10. Square Root Solutions

Smart Stats Limited · The Liberties · squareroot.ie

Square Root Solutions is a product development firm on Taylor’s Lane with services in UX strategy, research, audits, inclusive design and rapid prototyping, plus mobile, web and AI development. It reports ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certification and Business All-Star accreditation for five years running.

Its projects include a platform for Leinster GAA, the Jump Juice app, the Frekkel AI skincare app and the EduSmart Planner for CJ Fallon. The client list leans towards startups and small organisations, so it suits MVPs and first versions of a product.

11. Design Engine

Trading name of Xwerx Media Limited · The Liberties · designengine.ie

Design Engine is the trading name of Xwerx Media, the Dublin UX consultancy based at The Digital Hub on Thomas Street. It now positions its work around AI products, with services such as agent and interaction design, friction mapping, UX research and testing, and rapid AI prototyping.

Its client list is weighted to insurance and financial services: Aviva, RSA Insurance, Hannover Re, Fidelity Investments, Bloomberg, BNP Paribas and Fineos. It has also worked with the Irish Passport Office and Clubforce. The projects on its site are undated, so ask for recent examples.

12. design partners

Part of PA Consulting · Bray, Co. Wicklow · designpartners.com

design partners is a product design studio in Bray and part of PA Consulting. It is best known for physical products, with UX and UI design, service design and wearables work alongside. The studio says its team has won more than 100 awards in the past five years, and its named honours include the IDI Design Grand Prix Award in 2023.

Clients include Logitech (the MX Vertical), Beyerdynamic, Honeywell, HealthBeacon and Cricut. It is the option here for products where the interface has to work with hardware, including machine interfaces and connected devices.

What to look for in a Dublin UX design agency

Separate research-led consultancies from agencies that also build. Each&Other and Design Engine lead with research and product thinking, while Square1, Marino Software and Square Root Solutions pair design with engineering. Consultancies can suit teams with their own developers, and an agency that builds gives you one line of accountability from prototype to release.

Look for experience in your sector. Dublin has a large share of work in insurance, banking, pharma and public services, where journeys involve regulation, several user types and long approval chains. A firm that has mapped a similar process will spend less of your budget learning it, so ask to see the research behind a case study as well as the screens.

Ask how accessibility is handled. The European Accessibility Act has applied to many consumer digital services since June 2025, and several firms here, including Kooba, Arekibo and Granite, name accessibility as a service. They can test and advise on your product, but the final view on your legal obligations belongs with your own legal team.

Check how the research and design work will be shared. A UX project produces interview recordings, usability test footage, prototypes and rounds of comments from stakeholders. Agree early where those will live, who can comment on them, and how the team records what has been resolved.

How Fabric helps UX design 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 keeps each client’s briefs, recordings, prototypes and decisions together.

Research is usually the hardest material to find again. Fabric transcribes uploaded audio and video, including MP4 and MOV usability sessions, and makes the transcript searchable with clickable timestamps. Search then works by meaning across those transcripts, documents, images and PDFs, and results jump to the page or timestamp. A question such as “where did participants get stuck on the quote form” can lead straight to the moment in a session.

Review runs through shared links. Share a file or folder with a client as a commenter (no sign-up needed), and they can leave timestamped comments on session recordings, draw on a video frame or a screenshot, and highlight and comment on PDFs and text files. Any comment can be marked completed, so a round of design feedback works like a checklist. Published links are separate: publishing turns a file or folder into a view-only web page, which suits final research reports and takes no comments.

For synthesis and workshops, the canvas is an infinite whiteboard that can embed Figma files alongside notes and screenshots. On Team plans, self-writing docs maintain a page for each client from meetings, Slack and the workspace, covering decisions, deliverables and open items. Fabric uses AES-256 encryption and holds CASA Tier 2, and workspace data is not used to train AI models.

Self-writing docs are included on Team plans, from $125 a month. See plans for teams.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best UX design agency in Dublin?

There is no single answer, as it depends on the work. Each&Other and Design Engine are strong options for research-led product work, Arekibo and Kooba for large public-facing websites, and Square1 or Marino Software when design and engineering need to sit together.

How is a UX design agency different from a design agency?

A UX agency focuses on how a product or service works for the people using it, through research, journey mapping, prototyping and testing. A design agency usually works across identity, print, spatial and digital. If your brief is mostly visual, start with our list of design agencies in Dublin.

Which Dublin UX firms work with regulated industries?

Design Engine lists Aviva, RSA Insurance, Hannover Re and Fidelity Investments. Each&Other has shown Zurich, Stripe and BNP Paribas among its clients, and Marino Software’s list includes PTSB and Laya Healthcare. Marino Software and Arekibo also state ISO 27001 certification.

Can a Dublin agency help with accessibility?

Yes. Kooba runs a specialist accessibility consultancy, AccessPoint, and has won Spider Awards for universal design. Arekibo and Granite also list accessibility or inclusive design as services. Agencies can audit and improve a product, while decisions on legal compliance should go through your own legal team.

Do any Dublin firms design both hardware and software interfaces?

Yes, design partners in Bray works on physical products and on the interfaces that go with them, including wearables and machine interfaces. It is part of PA Consulting, and its clients include Logitech and Honeywell.

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