Product Design for Startups That Need Speed
Frog Design Alternative
If you want the quality of Frog Design without the long strategy cycles, Parallel gives you a dedicated product design team that moves quickly and works inside your build process. No long workshops. No inflated teams. Just focused design that helps your startup ship.
Why Startups Choose Parallel as Their Frog Design Alternative
Frog Design is built for global organizations, long strategy programs, and multi-month discovery tracks. That structure slows things down when you’re trying to get features out the door or validate new ideas fast.
Parallel gives you senior designers who handle UX, interface design, and component-level detail right inside your sprint rhythm.
Designers focused on product screens, not long consulting phases
Hands-on work instead of lengthy presentations
Daily contact with the people designing your product
Clear monthly pricing without consulting overhead
Startup-Focused Product Design vs. Large Consulting Models
Frog excels at large transformation projects, innovation programs, and broad strategy work. Startups often need something tighter and far more practical. Parallel gives you a small, senior team that handles real product work from day one.
Direct access to your design team
You talk to the designers doing the work. There are no layers of research teams, strategists, or producers.
Strong UX and interface skill
Our team specializes in flows, dashboards, onboarding, account settings, admin tools, and other pieces that matter for real software.
Quick cycles
We keep meetings light and feedback tight, so you see updates every week—not after a long strategy phase.
How Parallel Teams Support Real Product Momentum
Parallel gives you a small group of senior designers and design engineers who focus on delivering usable product work rather than long documentation.
We review your product, your current UX, and user feedback. Within a few days, we outline clear opportunities and start designing.
Your team works inside your Figma workspace, prototypes interactions, tests ideas, and lines everything up with engineering.
Design engineers help convert designs into components in React, Vue, or your existing frontend setup.
Built for Startups That Need Results Fast
Startups grow through shipping, learning, and fixing weak spots quickly. Parallel is structured around that pace.
We match your sprint structure, roadmap, and release plans. Every design decision supports what you’re building right now.
We create and maintain scalable components and patterns so future work gets faster and stays consistent.
We run usability checks, talk with users, and bring clear insights to each iteration.
Your team audits your current UI, reviews analytics and user feedback, and identifies high-impact opportunities. Within days, they're proposing improvements grounded in usability principles and your product data.
Simple Engagement,
No Consulting
Overhead
Frog’s model includes strategy teams, research groups, and complex delivery structures. That model isn’t built for startup speed. Parallel keeps it simple.
Your designers work only on your product. No parallel client work.
Start small, expand as funding or roadmap pressure increases, and contract when needed.
You pay for the designers doing the work. No fees for extra consulting roles.
We measure success through shipped improvements and user impact.
“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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