Dedicated Design Teams for Modern Product Development
R/GA Alternative
Searching for a more focused R/GA alternative? Parallel delivers dedicated design teams that specialize in product and UI design—without the agency overhead. While traditional creative agencies offer broad capabilities across brand, marketing, and innovation, startups need laser focus on user interface execution and product development. That's what Parallel provides.
Why Product Teams Choose Parallel as Their R/GA Alternative
Building great products requires undivided attention on user experience and interface design. Parallel provides dedicated teams that embed with your product organization, working exclusively on your UI/UX challenges and shipping polished interfaces that users love.
Unlike full-service agencies juggling brand campaigns, marketing initiatives, and innovation labs, our teams focus purely on product design execution. You get designers who live and breathe user interfaces, interaction patterns, and frontend implementation—not creatives splitting time between your app and a TV commercial.
Dedicated product designers focused exclusively on UI/UX, not brand or marketing work
Specialized teams built for software products, not multi-discipline agency structures
Direct collaboration with your product and engineering teams, no account managers or layers of approval
Transparent pricing with no agency markup—you pay for designer time, not overhead
Product-Focused Teams vs. Full-Service Agencies
The agency model serves many masters: brand strategy, marketing campaigns, innovation consulting, and sometimes product design. Parallel serves one: shipping exceptional user interfaces.
Pure product expertise
Our designers specialize in digital product work. They understand modern UI patterns, accessibility standards, responsive design, and component architecture. Every team member has shipped software products, not just creative campaigns.
Streamlined collaboration
Work directly with your design team—no account executives translating requirements, no creative directors adding review layers, no bureaucratic approval chains. Your Parallel team joins your product standups, syncs in Figma, and communicates in real-time like in-house designers.
Execution without distraction
When your designers are focused solely on your product, progress accelerates. No competing client priorities, no internal agency politics, no waiting for creative review boards. Just consistent, focused work on improving your user experience.
How Parallel Teams Drive UI Excellence
Parallel matches you with a dedicated design team calibrated to your product's needs. Each team includes product designers, UI specialists, and design engineers who have crafted interfaces for products used by millions.
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.
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.
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.
Built for Product Organizations
Modern product teams need design partners who understand software development cycles, not advertising campaign timelines. Parallel teams integrate naturally into product workflows.
We work in two-week sprints, prioritize based on product roadmaps, and make decisions using product metrics. Your Parallel team thinks like product designers because they are product designers—not agency creatives adapting to software work.
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.
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.
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.
Transparent, Focused
Engagement Model
Agency relationships often come with complexity: retainer structures, scope creep, account management overhead, and opaque pricing. Parallel offers clarity.
Our experienced product designers give your product exclusive, full-time focus.
Start small for focused improvements; scale for major redesigns without renegotiating contracts.
Pay for designer time, not agency overhead or account management markups.
Success is measured by shipped improvements and user impact, not billable hours.
“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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