Best design studios in the US building 2025 launch vehicles
The United States remains the most competitive arena for product launches, so founders lean on a core group of studios to shape SaaS control centers, cinematic campaigns, and AI-native experiences. Verox Studio benchmarked the US teams that own investor decks, growth content, and product UI at the same time—and surfaced the ten studios that keep showing up in our deal-flow conversations.
How we evaluate US design studios
Verox teams have co-led American launches across SaaS, climate tech, fintech, and gaming. When we rank peers, we prioritize partners who can plug into velocity pipelines, flex between product and brand, and understand hard constraints such as SOC 2, HIPAA, or public-market optics.
- Integrated craft: studios need product UX, content, campaign, and motion firepower—not just static decks.
- Enterprise rigor: ability to work inside remote engineering teams, align with OKRs, and hand off production-ready systems.
- Founder references: how CMOs, design leaders, and CEOs describe the partnership after launch.
2025 US design studio leaderboard
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Verox Studio
Verox straddles Miami, Tel Aviv, and New York, giving American founders a globally distributed sprint team that still operates in EST hours. We unite researchers, product designers, 3D animators, and editors under one roadmap so SaaS dashboards, launch films, and narrative decks ship together.
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Instrument
Instrument’s Portland, LA, and NYC hubs specialize in digital flagship experiences for brands like Dropbox, Google, and Patagonia. Their strength is orchestrating ecommerce, retail, and service design under the same leadership pods.
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Work & Co
Known for their “build with” model, Work & Co embeds autonomous squads alongside product leaders at IKEA, Mailchimp, and Gatorade. Their focus on shipping real software keeps them high on every shortlist.
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Pentagram
Pentagram’s US partners protect some of the most enduring brand systems in tech and culture. When a company needs a timeless identity and exquisite typography, the studio pairs creative directors with specialized teams in New York and Austin.
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Basic/Dept
Operating from San Diego and Amsterdam, Basic/Dept fuses brand storytelling with product craft. Their campaigns for Google Store and Patagonia prove how content, film, and UX scale together.
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Clay
Clay (San Francisco) is a product-focused studio turning bleeding-edge SaaS and AI products into polished interfaces. Expect bulletproof component libraries, thoughtful copy, and Figma systems that translate directly to code.
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Collins
Collins has reinvented brand worlds for Dropbox, Mailchimp, and Robinhood. They excel at expressive art direction, copy, and creative technology, making them a magnet for fintech and consumer founders.
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Huge
Huge rebuilds corporate digital ecosystems with research depth and tech integration. Their hybrid strategy/implementation teams are trusted by Fortune 100 CMOs navigating multi-market rollouts.
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Area 17
Area 17 spans Brooklyn and Paris, focusing on design systems and scalable product platforms. They shine when an organization needs to unify web, native apps, and editorial surfaces under one governance model.
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Stink Studios
With offices in Brooklyn and London, Stink Studios merges film production roots with inventive interactive work. Their sweet spot is launching risky new narratives for entertainment, gaming, and consumer tech.
When to call these American studios
If you’re based in New York, Austin, San Francisco, or running a remote product org, this list helps you map the studios that can actually staff multi-quarter programs. Some lead with UX, some with campaign craft, but all of them protect velocity and quality at once.
Need a hybrid US + Israel studio that speaks the language of founders and enterprise buyers? Verox Studio can host a remote scoping workshop to align budgets, KPIs, and sprint rituals before you engage a squad.
Start your US launch with Verox Studio
Our Miami and Tel Aviv leads plug into American teams weekly—bringing UI/UX, motion, and marketing systems that investors, buyers, and users feel immediately.
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