10 Best UX Agencies in Los Angeles (2026)

Best UX agencies in Los Angeles

Los Angeles has more design talent than almost anywhere and most of it is pointed at entertainment, commerce and consumer brands rather than software. That shapes the local market: the visual craft is exceptional and the product depth is uneven, so the risk in an LA shortlist is hiring an agency that will make your product beautiful without changing how it works.

Ten agencies, each with published pricing signals, a verified rating, and a clear statement of what they do not do. Every agency here carries a verified Clutch profile, and the ratings below are taken from it. Each entry says what an agency is worth hiring for and where it is the wrong choice for UX work in Los Angeles.

How the ten agencies compare

Agency	Best for	Starting price	Clutch rating	Not a fit for
Bricx	B2B and AI SaaS product depth	$25,000+	5.0/5, 27 reviews	Entertainment, consumer campaigns
Goji Labs	Engineering depth over campaign craft	$25,000+	5.0/5, 87 reviews	Design-led strategy engagements
WANDR	Product work, not entertainment craft	$25,000+	5.0/5, 34 reviews	B2B SaaS domain evidence
Wve Labs	Nearby capacity at a lower rate	$10,000+	5.0/5, 31 reviews	B2B product depth
Naked Development	Buyers who verify through references	$25,000+	4.6/5, 83 reviews	Anyone needing a documented profile
Urban Insight	Los Angeles cultural institutions	$50,000+	5.0/5, 37 reviews	Software product design
Sidebench	Local health and public-sector products	$50,000+	4.9/5, 48 reviews	Standalone design engagements
500 Designs	Brand and website craft nearby	$25,000+	5.0/5, 43 reviews	Changing how the product works
Majestyk	Frontend rebuilds with real engineering	$50,000+	4.9/5, 31 reviews	Local presence, Pacific-hours reviews
Big Human	Brand and product split evenly	Undisclosed	4.9/5, 12 reviews	Predictable pricing, local hours

Best UX agency for Los Angeles B2B SaaS companies: Bricx

Bricx is the best UX agency for Los Angeles B2B and AI SaaS companies that need product depth rather than campaign craft. Bricx has completed 50+ SaaS design projects across 30+ industries, with clients including Writesonic (YC S21), Collectwise (YC F24), Gigacatalyst (YC X26), Sybill, Camb.ai, LTV.ai, Instadapp, Hobbes and AT Kearney. The agency holds 27 verified reviews on Clutch at an average of 5.0/5.

Bricx works exclusively with B2B and AI SaaS companies, from seed stage through Series C, covering branding, website design, product UX/UI and end-to-end development. Engagements start at $25,000. Bricx works on the product rather than the campaign, on Pacific hours, with founders on the calls and a first deliverable inside the opening week.

We were impressed with the quality in comparison to how much we paid.

Starting price

$25,000+

Engagement model

Fixed-scope projects and monthly retainers

Timeline

First delivery within the first week; full scope varies by project

Clutch

5.0/5, 27 reviews

Hourly rate

$50 - $99

Best for

Los Angeles B2B and AI SaaS companies needing product design.

Not a fit for

entertainment and consumer campaign work, or budgets under $25,000.

Goji Labs

Goji Labs is an actual Los Angeles agency, and its best-known local work is reimagining KCRW's mobile app, a legacy LA radio station reaching a new generation. More usefully for this page, it is the LA option with the least brand work on its card: 50% mobile app development and 40% custom software, with no branding line at all.

That balance cuts the other way too. UX/UI is only 10% of its output, so a company hiring specifically for design thinking is buying the smallest part of an engineering business. No industry on its card exceeds 10%, so it arrives as a capable generalist rather than a specialist in your category.

Starting price

$25,000+

Engagement model

Design and development, project-based

Clutch

5.0/5, 87 reviews

Hourly rate

$100 - $149

Team size

50 - 249 people

Best for

Los Angeles companies that need the product engineered, not just styled.

Not a fit for

design-led product strategy alone, or budgets under $25,000.

WANDR

WANDR is in Los Angeles and is the local agency whose card leans hardest away from campaign work: 40% UX/UI and 20% AI consulting against 20% branding, with government at 30% its largest industry. Government software is about as far from LA's entertainment gravity as an agency in this city can get, and it is where product depth actually gets tested.

Gaming, non-profit and eCommerce fill 20% each of the rest, so B2B and AI software are not on its documented record. At 10 to 49 people charging $150 to $199 an hour, with 60% of its clients enterprises over a billion dollars, a smaller LA product team will not be its priority account.

Starting price

$25,000+

Engagement model

Strategy and design, project-based

Clutch

5.0/5, 34 reviews

Hourly rate

$150 - $199

Team size

10 - 49 people

Best for

Los Angeles teams that want unglamorous workflow depth from a local studio.

Not a fit for

companies needing proven B2B SaaS work, or budgets under $25,000.

Wve Labs

Wve Labs is in Costa Mesa, in Orange County rather than Los Angeles, roughly an hour down the coast and on the same working day. At 50 to 249 people charging $100 to $149 an hour it is the largest team on this page at the lowest rate, with a 5.0 rating across 31 Clutch reviews and AI development at 20% of its output.

Its documented work is a dating app, a fantasy soccer game and a sports community prototype, which is consumer entertainment software, precisely the pattern this page warns Los Angeles buyers about. UX/UI is 10% of its mix, so product thinking is not what the card evidences.

Starting price

$10,000+

Engagement model

Design and development, project-based

Clutch

5.0/5, 31 reviews

Hourly rate

$100 - $149

Team size

50 - 249 people

Best for

consumer app builds needing volume capacity close to Los Angeles.

Not a fit for

B2B or enterprise product design, or budgets under $25,000.

Naked Development

This page turns on telling visual craft apart from product depth, and Naked Development's card makes that impossible. There is no service split published at all, no industry breakdown, no founding year and no location, so a Los Angeles buyer cannot even confirm the agency is in the city, let alone what kind of work it does.

What is published is 83 Clutch reviews at 4.6, the lowest rating on this page, at $150 to $199 an hour with a $25,000 minimum. That is full Los Angeles pricing attached to the least verifiable profile here, which puts the entire assessment onto references and a first conversation.

Starting price

$25,000+

Engagement model

Design and development, project-based

Clutch

4.6/5, 83 reviews

Hourly rate

$150 - $199

Team size

10 - 49 people

Best for

buyers prepared to do their own diligence before committing.

Not a fit for

anyone who needs a documented local profile, or budgets under $25,000.

Urban Insight

Urban Insight is the Los Angeles market this page describes, made explicit. It has worked from the city since 2000, arts, entertainment and music are 30% of its client base, non-profit another 20%, and its published work is an art museum, a theatre association and a media production company. For a cultural institution in LA, that is an exact match.

For a software company it is not. Web development is 50% of its output and UX/UI 15%, and nothing on its card touches SaaS, B2B or AI. A product team hiring here would get careful content-heavy website work rather than any change to how the product behaves.

Starting price

$50,000+

Engagement model

Project-based

Clutch

5.0/5, 37 reviews

Hourly rate

$150 - $199

Team size

10 - 49 people

Best for

Los Angeles museums, non-profits and media organisations rebuilding a site.

Not a fit for

SaaS or AI product design, or budgets under $25,000.

Sidebench

Sidebench is a Los Angeles firm whose work is the opposite of what the city is known for. It is 60% medical, with Baby Steps LA, helping NICU families in this city, among its case studies, and it splits its output evenly at 20% each across AI development, CRM consulting, custom software and mobile. There is no branding line on its card anywhere.

That absence is also the limit. With no standalone design service listed, interface work sits inside a build, and its $50,000 minimum is the joint highest here. Consumer products and financial services at 20% each fill the rest, so a B2B SaaS team is outside its documented centre.

Starting price

$50,000+

Engagement model

Design and development, project-based

Clutch

4.9/5, 48 reviews

Hourly rate

$50 - $99

Team size

50 - 249 people

Best for

Los Angeles health, government and data-heavy product work.

Not a fit for

standalone design engagements without a build, or budgets under $25,000.

500 Designs

500 Designs is in Irvine, about forty miles south of Los Angeles and on the same working day, with 50 to 249 people at $100 to $149 an hour and a 5.0 rating across 43 Clutch reviews. Business services and medical are its largest industries at 25% each, and it holds AI consulting at 10% of its output.

Web design at 50%, branding at 20% and advertising at 10% mean four-fifths of what it does is the visual and campaign layer this page warns about, with no product design or UX line on the card at all. Its reviews are logos, identities and websites. Beautiful is available here, different is not evidenced.

Starting price

$25,000+

Engagement model

Project and retainer

Clutch

5.0/5, 43 reviews

Hourly rate

$100 - $149

Team size

50 - 249 people

Best for

Los Angeles companies that genuinely need brand and website work done well.

Not a fit for

work that changes how the product behaves, or budgets under $25,000.

Majestyk

Majestyk is in New York, three hours ahead, and brings the thing this page says the Los Angeles market is short of: engineering depth. Its reviews describe rebuilding a web platform's frontend from scratch in React around chat and check-in features, and building iOS and Android wrapper apps on top. Mobile app development is 60% of its output with UX/UI at 20%.

No industry on its card exceeds 10%, so there is no category concentration to draw on, and 31 Clutch reviews is a modest record. The timezone is the real cost: an Eastern time team loses most of a Los Angeles afternoon, and its $50,000 minimum is among the highest here.

Starting price

$50,000+

Engagement model

Design and development, project-based

Clutch

4.9/5, 31 reviews

Hourly rate

$150 - $199

Team size

10 - 49 people

Best for

Los Angeles teams that need a product rebuilt properly rather than restyled.

Not a fit for

teams needing Pacific-hours collaboration, or budgets under $25,000.

Big Human

Big Human's record is brand-led: Playbill, Graduate Hotels, Rockefeller Center, a Nordic adventure brand launch. On a Los Angeles page that is a warning and an opportunity at once, because it also splits its output evenly at 20% each across branding, mobile app development, product design and UX/UI, so half of it is product-side. It works from New York.

Its card publishes no minimum, no hourly rate and no industry breakdown at all, so cost and sector fit are both unknowable in advance. 12 Clutch reviews is the thinnest record on this page, and being in New York removes most of a Los Angeles working afternoon.

Starting price

Undisclosed

Engagement model

Project-based, launch-focused

Clutch

4.9/5, 12 reviews

Hourly rate

Undisclosed

Team size

10 - 49 people

Best for

companies that need a brand and a product built by the same team.

Not a fit for

buyers needing published pricing and local hours, or budgets under $25,000.

How much does a UX agency in Los Angeles cost?

Product design, fixed price. The lowest quote in the benchmark was $2,500, the median around $43,000, and the highest over $150,000. Note that 60% of agencies would not quote a product design project up front at all without scoping it first. Those figures cover product design across the whole benchmark, so treat them as the range UX work in Los Angeles is quoted inside rather than a price for it.

Hourly. Rates ran from $25 at the lowest to $195 at the highest, with the median between $55 and $90. Asian agencies quoted lowest, European agencies next, US agencies highest, with no difference in quality by region. Los Angeles sits below the Bay Area and above most of the country, which puts local studios in the upper half of the range.

The benchmark split engagements 45% Time & Material, 35% fixed price, 20% retainer. Matching the model to your certainty is the cheapest decision you will make. For UX work in Los Angeles the model usually matters more than the headline figure, because it decides what happens when the scope moves.

• Fixed price where the spec is settled.
• Time & Material where the spec is a hypothesis.
• Retainer where the spec is a backlog.
• Which one fits UX work in Los Angeles comes down to whether the scope is settled before the work starts.

How do you evaluate a UX agency in Los Angeles?

Five things worth checking on a Los Angeles shortlist.

Separate product work from campaign work. The local market is strong on brand and entertainment craft, and those are different disciplines from product UX.

Ask what happens after launch. Campaign-shaped agencies think in launches. Products need somebody thinking in quarters.

Ask who is assigned by name. LA studios run lean and staff several accounts at once, so get the names and look at their individual work.

Check the rate against what it buys. Local rates sit in the upper half of the range, and that should be buying senior people rather than overhead.

Ask for a B2B reference. In a market weighted toward consumer work, a business software reference is the fastest way to filter a shortlist.

What are the red flags when hiring a design agency?

• A long discovery phase with no shippable output. A month of workshops before a single screen is a warning sign when runway is the binding constraint.
• Rigid contracts with no exit. A year-long lock-in is a poor match for a roadmap that changes quarterly. Look for a break clause or a shorter initial term.
• A portfolio without outcomes. Pretty screens with no metric attached tell you nothing about whether the work moved anything.
• No pushback on your brief. Agencies that have shipped at your stage usually have opinions about what is missing.
• No answer on post-launch. Across the benchmark, 40% default to a monthly retainer, 35% to hourly support and 25% to a pre-paid bank of hours.
• No comparable example of UX work in Los Angeles. An agency that cannot point to work of the same shape is learning on your budget.

Should you hire a UX agency or build in-house?

Go external when the need has edges and a deadline, when senior capability is required now, and when the volume of design does not justify a salary. You are buying pattern recognition from other people's mistakes. For UX work in Los Angeles specifically, the question worth settling first is how often the work recurs.

Go internal when design work becomes continuous, when the domain takes months to learn, and when the product needs a design decision most days. Recruiting realistically costs six months before it pays back. Where UX work in Los Angeles falls on that line is usually clear once you count how many times it will need doing again.

Los Angeles salaries sit below the Bay Area but the product design pool is thinner relative to the consumer and entertainment pool. That usually favours an agency for the first year and an in-house hire once the roadmap is steady.

FAQs

How much do UX agencies in Los Angeles charge?

Below Bay Area studios and above the global median of $55 to $90 per hour. US agencies averaged around $150 an hour across the benchmark. Bricx starts at $25,000.

Should a Los Angeles company hire locally?

Only if proximity buys something specific. For most software teams the seniority of the assigned designers and genuine product experience matter more than the address.

What is the Los Angeles design market strongest at?

Brand, entertainment and consumer craft. That is a real strength, and it is a different discipline from B2B product UX, which is the thing to check for.

Can a remote agency work with a Los Angeles team?

Routinely. Across the benchmark 60% of agencies are fully remote or remote-first, 30% hybrid and 10% primarily in-office.