Product Design Company in Seattle

Engagements here fall into three bands by scope: a scoped Seattle product design engagement, a full B2B SaaS console redesign at Smartsheet or Outreach complexity, or enterprise AWS Marketplace ISV consoles with Cloudscape compatibility. Scope drivers include research, IA, visual system, Figma library, accessibility audit, and engineering handoff. Seattle rates sit just below San Francisco and at parity with New York because of the Microsoft and Amazon talent premium. Fixed-fee, not T and M.

Yes. We design tokens-first against Fluent UI 2 (web), Fluent UI React, Fluent UI Blazor, and Fluent for Windows native, exported through Style Dictionary in a shape compatible with Microsoft\'s open Fluent token JSON. We extend Fluent for client-specific brand layers without breaking the parent token contract so internal Microsoft tooling and external ISVs on Microsoft AppSource can adopt the system without governance friction. We have patterned this against the public Fluent 2 documentation and the Microsoft Accessibility Insights workflow. Engineering handoff includes Storybook and the Fluent React component map.

Yes. Cloudscape Design System (the open-sourced engine behind AWS Console) is the default for AWS Marketplace ISVs and any product that wants to feel native inside a customer\'s AWS workflow. We design tokens-first against Cloudscape, extend it for client brand without breaking the parent contract, and ship Figma libraries that map directly to Cloudscape\'s React component library. For ISVs targeting AWS Marketplace listing we also align with AWS Well-Architected design guidance and AWS Foundational Technical Review patterns so the listing process clears without UI rework.

The Washington My Health My Data Act (MHMDA), enforced from March 31, 2024, governs the collection, sharing, and sale of "consumer health data" of Washington residents, defined broadly to include biometric data, precise location near a health facility, inference data revealing health status, and reproductive or gender-affirming care data. Design implications include explicit, separate consent surfaces for collection and sharing, a public-facing consumer health data privacy policy, a clear and easy-to-find right-to-delete and right-to-withdraw consent flow, and a geofencing prohibition near healthcare facilities. We design these surfaces explicitly, document them in an MHMDA design appendix, and validate against the Washington AGO\'s enforcement guidance. Fines run up to $7,500 per violation under the Consumer Protection Act.

When a project requires genuine research (novel input modalities, mixed reality interfaces, accessibility innovation for low-vision or motor-impaired users, computational design), we scope collaborations with University of Washington Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) faculty or the UW Allen School HCI Lab rather than overselling in-house capability. Our core team handles applied product design, design systems, accessibility, and engineering handoff, which is where most Seattle design programs actually stall. For standard work (B2B SaaS, healthcare portals, retail apps) no academic partner is needed. We will tell you up front which bucket your problem fits into.

Yes, within scope. We design crew tooling, ground systems, manufacturing execution, and logistics UIs for aerospace-adjacent Seattle clients. ITAR-controlled work routes through our US delivery entity with US person staffing only, documented in writing before engagement. For DO-178C and ARP 4754A regulated cockpit software, we partner with specialist human factors firms (we are not a DO-178C certified design lab ourselves), and we say so plainly during scoping. Non-flight-critical maintenance, MRO, and crew scheduling UIs we ship end-to-end with usability engineering documentation suitable for FAA AC 25-11B and the operator\'s internal human factors review.

A Fluent-compatible enterprise SaaS design system (foundations, tokens, 30 to 60 core components, two product surfaces) takes twelve to eighteen weeks from kickoff to v1. A Cloudscape-compatible AWS Marketplace ISV console with foundational technical review readiness takes ten to sixteen weeks. A custom Seattle B2B SaaS system at Outreach or Highspot complexity takes fourteen to twenty weeks. Microsoft and Amazon enterprise programs with multi-product governance (design tokens, Storybook, contribution workflow, internal training) take six to nine months. We have shipped to these cadences for SLU, Bellevue, and Redmond clients.

Washington has no state individual or corporate income tax. Instead it imposes the Business and Occupation (B and O) tax on gross receipts, which for services lands at 1.5% to 1.75% depending on classification, plus a 0.484% Workforce Education Investment surcharge for advanced computing businesses with worldwide gross above $25B (effectively Microsoft and Amazon). Seattle adds a payroll expense tax (JumpStart) on high-earner compensation paid by large employers. Services are generally not subject to Washington sales tax (6.5% state plus local), so design fees ship without sales tax. For Seattle-headquartered clients this nets cleaner than California-based design firms. USD invoicing, ACH and wire.