Mobile and Web App Design for Fast-Moving Teams
ustwo Alternative
Looking for a focused alternative to ustwo? Parallel gives you a dedicated product design team that works side by side with founders and engineering to build, refine, and scale applications without extra studio layers.
Why Teams Pick Parallel as Their ustwo Alternative
ustwo delivers creative studio work across many disciplines. Their model fits brand initiatives and polished experiences. Founders building real products often need tighter collaboration, quicker iteration, and designers who work inside their product stack.
Parallel gives you hands-on product designers who stay close to user behavior, interaction patterns, and engineering constraints.
Designers focused on web and mobile products
Tight collaboration with founders and engineering
Fast iteration based on real usage
Clear pricing without studio extras
Product Design vs. Creative Studio Models
ustwo has a strong creative heritage and broader capabilities across brand and interactive work. Parallel is built for product design, interface logic, and continuous improvement.
Pure product expertise
You talk to the people doing the work, not through extra roles.
Depth in product UX
We focus on flows, onboarding, dashboards, mobile patterns, and the states that make an app usable in real life.
Faster cycles
Since there are no extra layers, we move quickly through design decisions and testing.
How Parallel Helps You Launch and Scale
Parallel gives you a compact, senior team used to working with startups and growing products.
We look through your existing product, user signals, and current UX. Within days, we’re working on real screens.
Your designers work in your Figma space, run prototypes, and test ideas in short loops that match your release pace.
Design engineers help turn designs into working frontend pieces in React, Vue, or your current setup.
Built for Founders Moving Fast
Startups and tech teams need clarity, momentum, and quick adjustments. Parallel is shaped around that pace.
We follow your roadmap, release plans, and user needs.
We maintain components that speed up future features and keep things consistent across platforms.
We test flows, watch friction points, and make decisions based on actual usage.
Parallel designers understand responsive behavior and frontend constraints, so designs land smoothly in development.
Simple Engagement
Without Studio
Overhead
ustwo often includes creative leadership, producers, and wider studio support. Parallel stays lean.
Your team focuses only on your product throughout the engagement.
Start small, expand when launches approach, dial back when things calm down.
You pay for the product designers doing the work. No added studio structure.
Progress shows up in shipping, usage, and user improvement.
“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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