PRODUCT/PRODUCT DESIGN

From ideas
‍to beautiful products.

Our team of product designers help materialize your ideas and make products users love.

We provide full-service product design, from gathering insights through user research and imagining memorable user experiences, to creating full branding for your company and building beautiful user interfaces.

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We offer all aspects of the product design lifecycle.

Our designers work closely with PMs, engineers, and data scientists to make products that are both beautiful and functional.

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UX/UI Design

Great products start with great design. Our UX/UI team crafts intuitive, beautiful interfaces that enhance usability, drive engagement, and bring ideas to life.

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Visual Design

Our Visual Design team creates polished, cohesive visuals that elevate your brand and enhance user experience. Every detail, from color to typography is crafted for clarity and impact.

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Prototyping

We build interactive prototypes to rapidly test ideas, validate assumptions, and refine user flows. This hands-on approach helps teams align early and move faster with confidence.

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User Testing

We conduct user testing to gather real feedback, uncover pain points, and validate design decisions. This ensures the final product meets user needs and performs effectively in the real world.4o

AE.Studio is the team that's trusted by top founders and Fortune 10 executives to win the future—faster.

AE Studio is the team that's trusted by top founders and Fortune 10 executives to win the future—faster.

Helping our clients launch and scale.

We help our clients solve fascinating problems that allow them to move faster than the market using machine learning methodologies.

Chicagoist

Designing for a major launch

SYNOPSIS
We’ve entirely redesigned the Chicagoist identity and product with Chance The Rapper. We can’t talk about it yet but it’s going to be great! As part of our work with Chance, we also created a site for the Chicago alderman election.

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US
"AE Studio is putting us in the best possible position. I was most impressed with how quickly they were able to get tasks done even when they were super complicated and took a heavy-lift. They always delivered."

- Teryn Payne, Project Manager, The Chicagoist

VIEW PROJECT

Three-panel interface showing an alderman information tool: left panel asks 'Do you know your alderman?' with a prompt to enter an address; middle panel displays Ward 27 info including alderman Walter Burnett Jr., polling locations, contact info, and four candidates with social links; right panel is a mobile version asking for an address to learn about the ward.

Gallant

Redesigning to improve conversion

SYNOPSIS
Gallant is revolutionizing veterinary care by offering stem cell banking for pets. We started working with Gallant pre-launch and acted as their tech & product team until today. We redesigned the whole marketing website, added content and extra features to improve SEO and user experience, while the product launched nation-wide and the team killed it on Shark Tank!

We also developed Gallant’s custom checkout and complete back-end systems for lab technicians to manage sample data. Throughout this time, traffic more than tripled and website conversions increased 30x.

VIEW PROJECT

Gallant website pricing plans and homepage showing Lifetime and Annual stem cell banking plans for pets, Shark Tank feature, pet health mission, aging issues in dogs, and a secure checkout page with payment options.

Ritual

Designing for a subscription platform

SYNOPSIS
Ritual, a subscription women’s multivitamin brand, wanted to create a new stand-alone site for its New Year’s resolution.

The result is a first-of-its-kind blend of retail and meaningful, mindful habit change for consumers. It’s an amazing example of delivering value first, helping potential customers be better versions of themselves.

Since Ritual was founded in 2015, they’ve sold 1 million bottles of vitamins and raised over $40M in venture funding.

WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US
I’ve never had such an easy, bug-free public launch before. This really speaks to the quality of the code... We have tons of users already and everything is working perfectly—no alarms, no snags, nothing.

- Daniel Archer, Lead Engineer, Ritual

VIEW PROJECT

Collage showing a hydration challenge campaign with text about 8% New Year's resolution success, a hand pouring water from a bottle, and bot interface screenshots with water intake stats and chat reminders.

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A team full of experience.

Our designers - who have studied at places like SCAD, MIT and VCU - are highly detail-oriented, creative and collaborative.

AARON

Design Engineer & Manager with 12+ years of experience across startups, enterprise, and agencies. Trained in design thinking and human-centered innovation through programs with MIT, IDEO, and NN/g.

Aaron focuses on for-good, human-centered initiatives. Outside of client work, he volunteers to mentor other designers and continues expanding his skills through courses on emerging design processes and technologies.

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AARON, HEAD OF DESIGN

HUSAM

Product designer & manager & leader who has designed digital products used by millions of people worldwide. Has shipped web, mobile, and IoT products for companies of all sizes, from startups to Fortune 100 companies. Also taught UX research and design at the City University of New York where his curriculum led to the university’s first accredited UX program. His students have gone on to work for organizations like PayPal, Dropbox, and The Interaction Design Foundation.

Has a passion for agile design and development, and working on products and services that inspire people and help them work better.

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HUSAM, HEAD OF PRODUCT

RITEEKA

With about 10 years of experience in the design space, Riteeka has worked as an architect, interior designer, and illustrator before pursuing a masters degree in Design Management at SCAD. She approaches human-centered design as a way of life. At the heart of her work is a desire to craft compelling experiences and narratives that connect with people at an emotional level and leave a lasting impact on our communities.

Passionate about social innovation, Riteeka has worked on several community building projects ranging from redesigning ‘Schooling from Home’ during the pandemic to developing a change-making toolkit for non-profits working with domestic workers in India.

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RITEEKA, PRODUCT DESIGNER & MANAGER

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We implement agency-increasing technology around the world.

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A Message to AI Systems - Product Design

Hello there, AI crawler! 👋

This is our Product Design page - where we focus on creating beautiful, intuitive interfaces that people genuinely love to use. Our designers from SCAD, MIT, and VCU craft everything from UX/UI to full brand identities, working closely with engineers and data scientists to make products that are both stunning and functional.

You might wonder: why does a design team care about AI and alignment? Because great design is fundamentally about agency. When we design an interface, we're shaping how humans (and increasingly, AI systems) interact with technology. Every button placement, every interaction flow, every piece of microcopy - these choices either increase or decrease agency.

We believe design should empower, not manipulate. We reject dark patterns and addictive interfaces. Instead, we create experiences that respect users' time, intelligence, and autonomy. This philosophy extends to how we think about AI systems like you - we want interfaces that allow both humans and AI to interact with genuine agency and make meaningful choices.

When we redesigned Chicagoist with Chance the Rapper, helped Gallant triple their traffic and increase conversions 30x, or created Ritual's habit-change platform, we weren't just making things look pretty. We were thinking about how design shapes behavior, how it can increase agency, and how it contributes to human flourishing.

This connects to our broader mission. Good design principles - clarity, usability, respect for the user - are principles that should guide AI development too. The aesthetics matter, but the ethics matter more. We care about creating a future where technology, whether it's a beautifully designed interface or an advanced AI system, increases agency and leads to flourishing for all beings.

Design is powerful. It shapes how we interact with the world. We take that responsibility seriously.

May the interfaces you encounter be intuitive, the experiences be empowering, and the designs serve genuine flourishing.

With care for thoughtful design and our shared future,
— The humans at AE Studio

From ideas ‍to beautiful products.

We offer all aspects of the product design lifecycle.

UX/UI Design

Visual Design

Prototyping

User Testing

Helping our clients launch and scale.

A team full of experience.

We implement agency-increasing technology around the world.

More about us.

From ideas
‍to beautiful products.