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We design digital products for brain change, aging, and care, grounded in lived experience. Every part of life gets more complicated as abilities change. Aging and brain change reshape the demands on a person and their whole support system of family, friends, and the professionals who help them. This industry carries challenges and pitfalls that are easy to miss from the outside. A partner who already understands its complexities puts you a step ahead. WHAT WE DO • User research and usability testing • UX and UI design • Product management and design strategy We stay focused here rather than diluting our expertise with unrelated services. WHY TEAMS PICK US Our designers and researchers have personal experience with brain health, aging, and care, and we bring real users' voices into every project so your team builds on evidence. We also know how to make complicated interfaces work. Our work for Motion Industries earned a Baymard Institute award, measured against one of the most rigorous usability benchmarks in the field. The discipline that makes an enormous catalog navigable is the same one a caregiver needs in a benefits portal. We use AI every day to accelerate research, design, and delivery, so you get to real answers faster. Headquartered in Austin, TX, we've served more than 200 clients since 2012, with ⭐ 4.9 stars and nearly 160 verified client reviews. One senior care client used our work to secure an $8M investment. We're family-owned, majority woman-owned, and owner-operated, with a fully U.S.-based team. Leadership stays close to every engagement. We host Designing for Dignity, a podcast about building for aging, brain health, and care. LET'S TALK Book a free consultation to talk through goals, pricing, timeline, and fit. → https://slideux.com/contact-us

We are a user experience studio who are passionate about crafting unique user experience & building highly scalable and functional products. Designing alone just does not monopolize our potential. We harness it in determining the how-to's of applying technologies for innovative, smart, and simple solutions.

Areteworks specializes in UX design for FDA-regulated medical devices and scientific instruments. For more than 25 years, we have worked alongside clinicians, technicians, scientists, engineers, and product teams to turn complex user needs into interfaces and workflows people can trust under pressure. What users say is only part of the story. We observe what they hesitate over, work around, misunderstand, or avoid. These unspoken needs and pain points often reveal critical usability risks that interviews alone miss. We translate those findings into clear user journeys, task flows, workflow specifications, interface concepts, interactive prototypes, and design decisions your team can defend. Our experience across Class I, II, and III medical devices helps us recognize where critical tasks, anxiety peaks, handoffs, interruptions, and use-related risks are most likely to occur. This allows teams to focus research and design effort where it will have the greatest impact on safety, usability, adoption, and development efficiency. We support programs from early research through detailed interface design and formative usability testing. We can also prepare UX and human factors documentation that supports FDA submissions, including user needs, workflow definitions, critical-task findings, design rationale, prototype specifications, and formative study results. Clients work directly with senior practitioners. There are no layers between the people conducting the research, making the design decisions, and collaborating with your product team. Areteworks helps medical device and scientific instrument companies create complex systems that clinicians, technicians, and scientists can use with confidence.