Dedicated Product Design Teams for Complex SaaS
Clay Alternative
If you're looking for a Clay alternative that’s built for SaaS rather than polished marketing websites, Parallel gives you dedicated product designers who focus on user logic, structure, and shipping real products. Clay produces beautiful brand experiences. Parallel builds digital products that handle messy edge cases, data-heavy interfaces, and fast releases.
Why SaaS Teams Pick Parallel as Their Clay Alternative
SaaS products aren’t shaped by surface visuals alone. They need strong logic, thoughtful flows, and clarity in places where users make decisions. Parallel gives you a design team that works inside your product process and supports your engineering rhythm instead of slowing it down.
Clay focuses on brand-driven work and high-polish visual design. Parallel focuses on product behavior, UX clarity, interaction patterns, and production-ready components.
Designers who work on software every day, not marketing sites or portfolio pieces
Teams structured for B2B and SaaS complexity, not brand campaigns
Direct daily contact with the people building your product
Clear pricing tied to actual designer output, not studio overhead
Product-Focused Teams vs. Brand-Driven Studio
Clay is known for beautiful, polished visual systems. Their work shines when the focus is branding, marketing presence, or storytelling. But SaaS is a different world. It needs structure, data clarity, logic handling, and steady iteration. Parallel is built around that reality.
Depth in SaaS design
Our team knows how to design dashboards, admin tools, onboarding paths, permission systems, data tables, and long-tail states. We care about clarity and flow before visual decoration.
Fast, direct collaboration
You work with the actual designers building your product. No routing feedback through layers. Your team joins your standups, uses your tools, and stays in sync with your engineers.
Focus without distractions
Your Parallel team is dedicated to your product. No juggling pitches, marketing redesigns, or brand films. You get consistent momentum and fewer surprises.
How Parallel Teams Drive Stronger UX for SaaS Products
Parallel gives you a design team calibrated to B2B and product-heavy environments. Each team includes product designers, UX specialists, and design engineers with real shipping history.
We review your product, user behavior, support logs, and analytics to spot the biggest friction points. Within days, your team starts proposing clear, actionable improvements.
Your team designs flows, prototypes interactions, tests variations, and works inside your Figma workspace. Feedback loops stay short. Decisions stay grounded in user needs and product goals.
Design engineers help convert designs into functional components. They work with your engineering team in React, Vue, or your existing stack to get the details right.
Built for SaaS Teams That Ship Frequently
SaaS roadmaps shift fast. Releases stack. PMs juggle priorities. Design has to keep up. Parallel teams are structured for this pace.
We work in two-week sprints, tie priorities to your roadmap, and back decisions with your product metrics. The approach matches how modern SaaS teams build.
Whether you already have a system or need one built, our team creates reusable components and patterns that stay consistent across features and versions.
We run usability checks, interview users, review friction points, and bring clear evidence to each design call. The focus stays on solving actual problems, not adding visual noise.
Parallel designers understand states, breakpoints, performance constraints, and engineering realities. That means fewer cycles lost to rewriting unrealistic designs.
Straightforward Engagement
Without Studio Overhead
Clay’s model is built around high-touch creative direction and brand-driven projects. Parallel’s model is built for ongoing product work.
Your designers work only on your product during the engagement.
Start small, then expand as your roadmap grows without heavy contract changes.
You pay for actual design work, not account managers or presentation decks.
We care about what ships—user behavior, adoption, and product progress.
“Parallel's design sprints allowed us to involve and engage all stakeholders in the project - even those with no product or design background, which was a big plus for us”
“Parallel made it a point to understand the product and the impact they have or should have. They worked patiently with our in-house teams of Product, Design and Engineering, without the slightest hint of friction.”
“Parallel was excellent in helping us bring our vision to life. The quick iterations done in parallel with user testing let us try a lot of things in order to get to our beta. We're so grateful for their team.”
“Finding designers who have the talent and drive to match a founder’s vision is rare, consider this a PSA! If you’re building B2B SaaS, you want them on your shortlist.”
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