Product Design Company in Atlanta

Design budgets in Atlanta are governed by how many surfaces have to stay consistent after the work ships. Engagements run from a scoped Atlanta product design engagement over six to ten weeks for discovery plus a v1 design system and core flows, a full B2B SaaS console redesign in the Mailchimp or OneTrust complexity tier including research, IA, visual system, Figma library, accessibility audit, and engineering handoff, or an enterprise program at Delta, Cox, or Home Depot scale (multi-product systems, design ops, governance). Atlanta rates sit below New York and San Francisco but above Charlotte and Nashville because of the Mailchimp, Calendly, OneTrust talent premium. We give fixed-fee proposals, not open T and M.

Yes. Federally funded work in Atlanta (CDC, HHS contracts, Georgia state agencies) requires Section 508 conformance against WCAG 2.2 AA. Our process includes axe-core automated testing, manual VoiceOver, TalkBack, NVDA, and JAWS testing, keyboard-only walkthroughs, color contrast verification, and a Trusted Tester protocol for high-stakes flows. Deliverables include a VPAT 2.5 Rev 508 conformance report and a remediation log if any non-conformances remain. We have patterned this against CDC.gov design system rules and the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) so federal procurement reviewers accept the package on first submission.

Yes. We design tokens-first using Tokens Studio inside Figma, export through Style Dictionary into JSON, CSS variables, Tailwind config, or React Native StyleSheet, and wire components into Storybook so engineering at Cox Automotive, Delta-scale teams, or Mailchimp-style SaaS shops can consume the system without translation. We document component contracts (props, states, slots, a11y attributes), provide Figma Dev Mode walkthroughs, and pair-design with engineering during the first two sprints to make sure the system is buildable, not just beautiful. Output is compatible with Chakra, Material, Mantine, or custom systems.

Atlanta\'s metro is roughly 50% Black, 13% Latino, with significant Korean American and Vietnamese American communities in Gwinnett and DeKalb. Generic UserTesting panels often miss this distribution. We recruit through UserInterviews and Respondent.io with explicit quotas reflecting Atlanta demographics, partner with Goodie Nation and the Russell Center when products target Black founders or consumers, and use Georgia State University\'s research participant pool for academic-adjacent studies. Synthesis runs in Dovetail with demographic tagging so PMs can see which themes hold across segments. For CDC and Emory work we follow IRB protocols and obtain informed consent suitable for federally funded research.

Atlanta carries the largest concentration of Black-owned design firms in the United States, anchored by organizations like AIGA Atlanta\'s Diversity in Design programs, the Russell Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Goodie Nation, and the historically Black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center (Spelman, Morehouse, Clark Atlanta). We acknowledge this openly. Our research panels reflect it, we cite local Black design leadership (Mailchimp\'s former Cathy Edwards era, Greenlight\'s design team) when relevant, and we partner with HBCU career programs for junior pipeline. We are not a Black-owned firm ourselves, and we say so plainly when clients ask.

Yes. Enterprise Atlanta procurement (Delta, Cox Enterprises, Home Depot, UPS, NCR Voyix) expects a master services agreement, certificates of insurance (general liability, professional liability, cyber), a SOC 2 attestation or equivalent control summary, background-checked staff for any onsite work, and a documented design ops process. We have shipped to those gates. Deliverables align with internal design system governance (Home Depot\'s OneApp patterns, Delta\'s Fly Delta system, Cox\'s shared component library) when clients give us access, and we hand off through whatever PLM or Jira workflow the enterprise PMO mandates.

A focused B2B SaaS design system (foundations, tokens, 30 to 50 core components, two product surfaces) takes ten to sixteen weeks from kickoff to v1 release, assuming a single brand and a committed engineering partner. Week 1 to 3 is audit, tokens, and foundations. Week 4 to 10 is component design, Storybook wiring, and a11y validation. Week 11 to 14 is product surface application and dev handoff. Week 15 to 16 is governance documentation and contribution workflow. We have shipped to this cadence for Mailchimp-tier and Calendly-tier complexity. Larger multi-brand systems (Cox-scale, Delta-scale) take six to nine months.

Georgia charges a 5.39% flat individual income tax (2024 rate, dropping to 4.99% by 2029) and 5.75% corporate income tax, both below national medians, with no city or county income tax in Atlanta. Services are generally not subject to Georgia sales tax, so our design fees ship without sales tax unless we deliver tangible personal property (printed deliverables). For clients headquartered in Georgia, this typically nets a cleaner total cost than New York or California-based design firms. We invoice in USD, accept ACH and wire, and provide W-9 documentation for 1099 reporting. International clients route through our Canadian or Indian entities under the appropriate tax treaty.