02.7Digital, Data & AI
UI/UX consulting
Product experience and interface strategy. Premium strategy work still commands fees.
The engagement
How we help
UI/UX consulting is product experience and interface strategy: the decisions about how a product should work and feel that shape whether people adopt it, stay with it, and pay for it. As execution tooling commoditizes, the premium sits in the strategy layer: what the experience should be, and why.
We work on the experience decisions that move the business: where the product creates friction, what the interface should prioritize, and how design choices connect to retention and revenue. The engagement produces a clear experience strategy and direction your product and design teams can build against: grounded in the user and the business, not in taste.
Our founder's work at AfterQuery involved evaluating more than 1,500 real financial question-and-answer interactions for where an AI model's reasoning actually broke down for the person reading it, real experience with how someone genuinely experiences a product, not just how it is designed to look.
- Practice
- Digital, Data & AI practice
- Typical buyer
- Product & design leaders
- Reach
- Worldwide

Deliverables
What you receive
Interface work delivers most when it starts from strategy (the user's real job and the business outcome), rather than from a visual refresh.
Where the product creates friction, confusion, or drop-off:
assessed against the user's real job, not a style guide.
- 02
A user and journey read
Who the product is really for and how they move through it, so design decisions rest on evidence rather than assumption.
- 03
An experience strategy
What the interface should prioritize and why, tied explicitly to adoption, retention, and revenue.
- 04
Direction and principles
The design principles and directional guidance that keep the team's execution coherent without dictating every pixel.
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A prioritized roadmap
The experience changes that matter most, sequenced by impact on the business, not by ease of shipping.
How we work
How the engagement runs
- 01
Audit
We assess the experience against the user's real job and find where it costs you adoption, retention, or revenue.
- 02
Strategize
We decide what the experience should prioritize and tie every choice to a business outcome, not to taste.
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Direct
We set the principles and roadmap your product and design teams build against, keeping execution coherent without owning every pixel.

Questions
Frequently asked questions
- Do you design the screens?
- We own the strategy and direction (what the experience should be and why), and can guide your design team's execution. The premium in this work is the thinking, not the pixels.
- How is this a strategy engagement?
- Because interface decisions drive adoption, retention, and revenue. We connect the experience to those outcomes rather than treating it as decoration, which is exactly where the durable value sits.
- How is a UI/UX engagement scoped?
- Around the decision, not a package. We agree what has to be answered, what evidence that takes, and how long it should run: then quote that. A first call is a scoping call, with no obligation and no packaged pitch, and the quote is free.
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Often scoped alongside
Is your product experience underperforming?
Tell us where the product creates friction or loses people. A first conversation is a scoping conversation: no obligation, no packaged pitch.
No obligation · a scoping conversation first