SaaS design agency for what happens after signup

Make your SaaS easier to use without losing its power

Your SaaS has to make sense to people who didn’t build it. We design around what customers come to do without burying the capabilities that make your product valuable. When you need development too, our engineers build the experience our designers shaped.

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Start with a SaaS idea or an existing product

If you are creating a SaaS, bring the idea, brief, or prototype you have. We can design the first experience while the product itself is still taking shape. If your product is already live, show us the workflow that needs attention. TelQ brought us an SMS platform where users struggled with complex data tables and multiple filters. You can ask us to focus on a product area without putting every screen up for redesign.

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Turn complex SaaS workflows into clear interfaces

A SaaS interface changes with permissions, empty data and failed actions. Our SaaS design services cover the screens and states those situations create. A UI kit can support one product; a full Design System makes sense when several teams need shared rules. Merge can also build the front end or full application and connect the systems it relies on. We also offer SaaS website design separately from product design or redesign, including a sitemap and responsive page designs.

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SaaS design changes by industry

Fintech

Fintech

Financial-planning products can hide forecasting tools from people without a finance background. We organize navigation around the decision at hand so users can find the right feature when they need it.

Healthcare

Healthcare

Healthtech research tools bring a hypothesis, supporting data and AI-generated insights into one place. We design the navigation and visualizations that help biologists move between them without losing the question they're testing.

Edtech

Edtech

The first useful moment in language learning is a conversation. We connect onboarding to group chats and live events so new members can start practicing before they have to learn the whole platform.

Media and social

Media and social

Creators comparing a multistreaming product need to understand its plans before they sign up. We design pricing, signup and login as a connected route into the account, with the product's offer clear along the way.

Data security

Data security

Security teams need to recognize an AI assistant as part of the product they already use. We design its identity and in-product interaction concepts together, so the feature has a clear place in the access workflow.

IT infrastructure

IT infrastructure

Administrators and end users work with different settings in a hosting-management platform. We organize the interface around those roles so each group can reach the controls relevant to its work.

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Set the scope

Share your requirements, current product materials and known dependencies. Together we decide what this engagement covers, who reviews the work and what remains outside it. If your SaaS is already live, test access lets us see the experience your users have today.

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Approve the direction

We work through the agreed interaction or page structure and develop a representative screen or page. You review the UX and visual direction before we expand the design, so your team can catch a wrong assumption before it shapes the rest of the interface.

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Design in batches

We develop the agreed screens, states and components in reviewable batches. At the checkpoints set for your project, you give feedback; we update related flows or components when that feedback affects them. You approve each batch before we call it complete.

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Build or hand off

If Merge owns development, our engineers implement the agreed front-end or full-stack scope. If your team builds it, we deliver editable Figma files, approved screens and states, components, assets and interaction notes, then walk the receiving developers through the handoff.

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Which SaaS problem brought you here?

Your team knows the job the software should do, but has not settled how people will do it. Bring a concept, requirements, or an early prototype. Merge can design the product interface and, if you need a build partner, scope the development work too.

A feature works, but users have to navigate dense tables, complex settings, or role-specific paths to finish the job. You can bring that part of the live application to Merge without asking us to redo every screen. This is a focused SaaS product design problem, even if the rest of the platform works well.

Your application is changing for a release or repositioning, and the website needs to explain the updated product. We can coordinate product design with SaaS website design while keeping each stream separately scoped and estimated. The product and site do not have to follow the same delivery route.

The application is doing its job, but the marketing site still presents an older version of the product. Bring the site on its own; a SaaS website project does not have to become a product redesign. We can focus on the pages that have fallen behind the application.

See what we’ve built and redesigned for SaaS teams

Our SaaS design and development work includes building Agentless’s home-buying platform and targeted interface redesigns for Capable and TelQ. Find the case closest to your product challenge and see what we delivered.

Agentless

Agentless is a real estate SaaS platform for U.S. homebuyers who want to purchase without a buyer’s agent. It gives them one online place to work with property details, prepare offers and agreements, and review inspection reports as the purchase progresses. Product challenge Before committing to the build, we had to establish how the platform would obtain property data and account for purchase-document requirements that vary by state. The buyer journey also needed to remain understandable without an agent. Our contribution We investigated technical feasibility, mapped the buyer journey in wireframes, designed the UI, and built the front end and backend. We integrated AI to organise property information and summarise inspection reports. Delivered We delivered a live web platform with purchase-document flows that account for the buyer’s state and AI-assisted inspection summaries. We also created the Agentless brand and a separate Webflow site with a savings calculator.

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Why SaaS teams choose Merge

Protect the useful complexity

Protect the useful complexity

A data-heavy SaaS can become easier to navigate without burying the controls experienced users rely on. We work through roles, information hierarchy, and relevant edge states, so the redesign clarifies the job without flattening the product.

Choose the right UI foundation

Choose the right UI foundation

A focused SaaS flow may need a UI kit; a larger product with several contributors may need a documented Design System. We scope components and usage rules to the product, so you’re not buying a full system you don’t need.

Connect design to engineering

Connect design to engineering

Our designers and engineers work through interface behavior together when we build the product. If your team implements the design, we document the agreed states and interactions so your developers aren’t left to infer them from static screens.

Fit the team you have

Fit the team you have

You keep control of the roadmap as we work with you within the agreed scope. We define responsibilities for both sides in the proposal so you can see where our design work fits and which product decisions remain yours.

See what shapes the estimate

See what shapes the estimate

Your estimate shows the SaaS product work we propose. We set out what is included and excluded, along with the assumptions behind the scope, so you have a clear basis for deciding what to fund and what to leave for later.

Hear from other clients

Hear from other clients

Beyond the projects we publish, you can read what clients say about working with us. Our Clutch profile reports 4.9/5 overall across 67 reviews, so you can assess the team through client feedback as well as the SaaS cases above.

What our clients say

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“The Merge Development team is very good at what they do. It’s why we’ve continued to use their services even after a year. We plan to work with them for the rest of our business’s life.”

David Kemmerer, CEO & Co-Founder at CoinLedger

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“I’m actually more than happy with how this has been. Everyone is always on top of everything, and every question gets answered. Any request I may have had has been taken seriously.”

Jason Heiber, Founder of Morpheus Media

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“Working with them was awesome. It's the best experience I've had working with a design agency. We were incredibly impressed by the final product!”

Anna Murphy, Director of Marketing at LiveSchool

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Technology for building your SaaS product

We build SaaS interfaces, backend services and mobile apps. An existing codebase gives us the technical starting point; for a new product, we choose technologies around its workflows, data and future maintenance.

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    React
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    Next.js
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    Remix
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    Storybook
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    Webflow
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    Expo
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    Nest.js
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    Strapi
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    Supabase
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Data, deployment and integrations

Changing user permissions can affect database rules and connected workflows, not just screens. We've used the tools below for data, deployment, source control, AI and automation. When development is in scope, we account for those dependencies in the build.

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Questions to settle before your SaaS project starts

Start with the unanswered question, not a feature count. If you have not seen the intended users complete the core task, a working first release can test that before a broader build. If people already use the product and the problem is onboarding, permissions, or a dense workflow, scope that problem directly. See MVP development for the first-release route.

Follow one important task from entry to result. Use support requests, usage data, and customer conversations where available to find where people stall or take a workaround. Then check which roles, data states, and dependencies shape that task. A single workflow can be the first scope. If the underlying problem remains unclear, Product UX Discovery can help define what to investigate.

Yes. We look at what the current components and repository already support, then decide what to reuse, extend, or replace. If a pattern looks good in Figma but conflicts with product behaviour or technical constraints, that conflict needs resolving before the design is build-ready. A wholesale rebuild is a separate decision, not the default starting point.

We map each workflow against real permissions: who can see, change, approve, or recover something, and in which account or workspace. The interface needs to explain restricted and pending states as clearly as successful ones. Tenant isolation is an engineering and security concern; the UI alone cannot enforce it. Implementation and verification belong in an explicitly agreed technical scope.

A missing result can mean no data, delayed sync, expired access, or a failed action. Those states need different messages and recovery paths. We design what users see and can do in each case, then agree expected behaviour with the team that owns the API. Building the connection, owning its contract, and testing it are included only when explicitly scoped.

Yes, if the first useful action is clear. We examine which setup, data, and permissions are needed to reach it, then focus on the steps blocking new users. The result might be a tighter first-run flow rather than a tour of the entire interface. Our onboarding teardown shows concrete patterns in live products.

Choose a measure that matches the task before changing it: first completed action, fewer failed attempts, or repeat use. Compare it after release for the relevant users where analytics and access allow. If the task cannot be measured yet, decide who will add that instrumentation. A change in retention may have several causes; assess the behaviour this work set out to improve.

A credible timeline separates the work that is actually in scope: product decisions, design reviews, integrations, implementation, QA, and release. For a live SaaS, existing systems may set the pace; for a new product, unresolved requirements may. We estimate after reviewing the dependencies and responsibilities, so the proposal shows what must happen before each milestone.

A screen count misses roles, interface states, dependencies, and who builds the result. Share the product URL or prototype, priority workflows, current design or codebase, known integrations, and target timing. We then separate design, engineering, and any website work in the estimate, with assumptions and exclusions visible. Essential unknowns should become decisions to resolve, not hide inside a fixed quote.

Before implementation starts, we agree who owns QA, release, and technical handoff. If your team takes over, the handoff can include the agreed code, design files, setup notes, and known issues. Post-launch checks and ongoing maintenance are separate scope decisions, so you know who handles the first change request rather than assuming indefinite support is included.

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