Health UX Studios

Best Healthcare UX Design Studios (2026)

  • 8 studios
  • Patient portals · telehealth · clinical tools
  • Medical devices · fitness & health apps

We built this list around one filter: does the studio have real, named healthcare clients, or does it have a “healthcare” tab on an otherwise general portfolio? Those are different things. A patient refilling a prescription at 78, a nurse charting at 2 a.m., and a physician reconciling medications are three different design problems, and all three sit on top of HIPAA, accessibility law, and — for anything touching a diagnosis or a dose — genuine clinical risk. The eight studios below cleared that bar.

Best for

Which healthcare UX studio fits your project?

Enterprise healthcare platforms

One design partner across a large product surface: EHRs, portals, claims, and life-sciences customer experience.

  • Koru UX Design logo

    Koru UX Design

    Maharashtra, India

    300+ shipped healthcare products across EHRs, telehealth, patient portals and claims management, with designers embedded in the client’s product team.

  • G&Co. logo

    G&Co.

    New York, NY

    Fortune 500 trust in life sciences, including Thermo Fisher Scientific, alongside consumer digital-health work with Hims & Hers.

  • Fuselab Creative logo

    Fuselab Creative

    McLean, VA

    For enterprises where compliance vetting matters as much as the interface itself.

Profiles
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Koru UX Design

Enterprise healthcare UX, done at genuine scale

Maharashtra, India · Est. 2011 · 45+ designers

Websitekoruux.com

The track record
  • Founder Bansi Mehta has spent 15+ years specifically on B2B and healthcare UX; the studio has now shipped more than 300 healthcare products across 1,500+ total projects
  • Named clients — eClinicalWorks, Roche, Biofire, Medbridge, Well Health — span EHRs, telehealth, patient portals, and claims management, which is unusually wide coverage for one shop
  • Multiple iF Design Award wins, and an embedded model: designers sit inside the client’s product team rather than handing off a deliverable and disappearing
Signature strength

Breadth. Few studios can move between an EHR sprint and a claims-portal redesign without a learning curve — Koru treats that as its normal week.

Choose them if

you want one design partner who can cover most of your healthcare product surface area, not just one corner of it.

Look elsewhere if

your project is small and tightly scoped — Koru’s model is built for sustained, larger engagements, not a two-week sprint.

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Fuselab Creative

Regulated-industry UX, proven at government scale

McLean, VA (Washington, DC area) · Est. 2017 · GSA contract holder

Websitefuselabcreative.com

The track record
  • Designed the interface for California’s DHCS Medi-Cal member portal — 15 million residents, making it one of the largest deployed government healthcare interfaces in the country
  • Also named on NIH, NASA, Fiserv, and Uber, a client list that reads like a security clearance rather than a design portfolio
  • Holds an active GSA contract, which requires sustained government vetting most design studios never bother pursuing
Signature strength

Access. This is the rare studio that can actually get through a government or large-enterprise procurement process, not just design well once inside one.

Choose them if

you’re building for a government health program or an enterprise where compliance vetting matters as much as the interface itself.

Look elsewhere if

you’re pre-seed — Fuselab’s minimum project size and government-grade process assume a funded, larger engagement.

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Clay Global

Enterprise-grade design craft, not a healthcare vertical specialist

San Francisco, CA · Est. 2016

Websiteclay.global

The track record
  • A senior-led studio whose named clients — Coinbase, Meta, Slack, Tipalti, Snapchat — sit at the top tier of consumer and enterprise software, not healthcare specifically
  • Co-founders lead every engagement directly rather than handing it to junior staff after the pitch, which shows in the consistency of the finished work
  • No publicly documented patient portal, EHR, or clinical product in the portfolio we could verify — its strength here is transferable UX and brand discipline, not domain-specific healthcare experience
Signature strength

Craft. Few studios on this list can match Clay’s track record designing for scale and for brands with zero tolerance for a mediocre interface.

Choose them if

your health product’s biggest risk is looking and feeling like generic enterprise software, and you want agency-of-record-level design polish.

Look elsewhere if

you need someone who already speaks HIPAA, clinical workflow, and accessibility fluently on day one — that’s most other studios on this page, not Clay’s demonstrated territory.

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Neuron

Clinical-precision UX for consumer-grade products

San Francisco, CA · Est. 2016

Websiteneuronux.com

The track record
  • Built its name in San Francisco’s B2B enterprise market, then carried that rigor into healthcare with AcuityMD, a CRM built for medical device sales teams, and Flo, one of the most-used reproductive health apps
  • Specific skill: making dense medical and regulatory content read like a consumer app without quietly dropping the precision a clinician or regulator needs — harder than it sounds
  • Prices at the premium end, consistent with its enterprise B2B roots rather than a startup-friendly model
Signature strength

The translation problem. Neuron is good at the specific, narrow skill of making clinically dense products feel ordinary to use.

Choose them if

your product is data-dense — sales tools for medical device teams, reproductive health, diagnostics — and needs to feel approachable without cutting clinical corners.

Look elsewhere if

you need government-scale compliance credentials specifically; that’s Fuselab’s lane, not Neuron’s.

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G&Co.

Fortune 500 healthcare CX, brought down to earth

New York, NY

Websiteg-co.agency

The track record
  • Founded and led by Juan Manuel Gonzalez, whose client roster spans Fortune 500 brands including Thermo Fisher Scientific in life sciences alongside major names outside healthcare — the kind of enterprise trust that takes years to build
  • Partnered with Hims & Hers to streamline the digital journey from consultation to prescription, contributing strategic direction to a digital health company operating at real consumer scale
  • The firm’s founder also built Acumen, an AI-powered decision intelligence platform purpose-built for healthcare and life sciences — evidence the team thinks about healthcare data problems beyond the interface layer
Signature strength

Enterprise credibility. Few studios on this page can point to Fortune 500 life-sciences trust alongside genuine consumer digital-health work in the same portfolio.

Choose them if

you’re a life-sciences, pharma, or enterprise healthcare brand that needs design credibility recognized at the Fortune 500 level.

Look elsewhere if

you want a boutique, narrowly healthcare-only specialist — G&Co.’s practice spans multiple industries, with healthcare as one strong vertical among several.

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The Skins Factory

Patient-facing mobile health, built for real adoption

Fort Lauderdale, FL · Est. 2000

Websitetheskinsfactory.com

The track record
  • Built the Patientory connected-health app, a 90-plus-screen iOS product, and designed a provider platform for InnovaMD, an Anthem company — which came back years later for a completely different portal engagement
  • A repeat client at that scale is a stronger signal than any case study copy
  • Quarter-century of practice spanning patient apps, provider platforms, and pharmaceutical products
Signature strength

Retention. Most healthcare portals struggle to get patients to open the app twice — Skins Factory’s work is built around that specific failure point, not just first-run polish.

Choose them if

you’re building a patient-facing app where day-two adoption, not just usability, is the real problem.

Look elsewhere if

your project is EHR- or clinical-workflow-heavy specifically — Ungrammary or Koru UX Design sit closer to that work.

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Ungrammary

EHR and clinical systems, without enterprise pricing

Mumbai, India · Est. 2017

Websiteungrammary.com

The track record
  • Founded by IIT Roorkee alumni; client roster runs from Series A startups to global enterprises
  • Built a tailored EHR and client management system for a therapy-tracking platform, and an admin portal for WHILL, a global electric mobility device maker
  • Broader health-tech work in genomics, wearables, and lifestyle tracking shows range past clinical records alone
Signature strength

Accessible seniority. Genuine EHR systems-design chops at a price point a Series A healthtech founder can actually afford, not just an enterprise budget line.

Choose them if

you’re an earlier-stage or mid-size healthtech company building a clinical record or care-tracking system and want senior thinking without enterprise-agency rates.

Look elsewhere if

you need US government or large-health-system compliance credentials specifically — Fuselab covers that ground more directly.

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Denovers

Embedded design pods for funded healthtech startups

Remote / distributed · Est. 2020 · Founder-led

Websitedenovers.com

The track record
  • Named healthcare client 32co, a UK dental health-tech startup, raised £2.2 million from Balderton Capital on the product Denovers shipped
  • Works as an embedded pod — a dedicated team inside the client’s Slack and Figma, billed monthly, not a fixed-scope handoff
  • Healthcare sits alongside fintech, proptech, and AI-native work in its broader Y Combinator-adjacent client base — one vertical among several, not the whole business
Signature strength

Speed. This is a studio built for a founder who needs a design team moving at startup pace, days not months.

Choose them if

you’re an early-stage, funded healthtech startup that wants an embedded team instead of a traditional agency relationship.

Look elsewhere if

you want a studio for whom healthcare is the entire practice — here it’s one lane among several.

Compare

Quick compare

Healthcare UX studios compared by headquarters and where each is strongest. Facts only, no scores.
StudioHQWhere they’re strongest
Koru UX DesignMaharashtra, IndiaPure-play healthcare UX at scale
Fuselab CreativeMcLean, VAGovernment and regulated-industry health platforms
Clay GlobalSan Francisco, CAElite general UX/brand craft, applied to health where it fits
NeuronSan Francisco, CAMedical device sales tools and reproductive health products
G&Co.New York, NYEnterprise healthcare and life-sciences CX
The Skins FactoryFort Lauderdale, FLPatient-facing mobile health apps
UngrammaryMumbai, IndiaEHR and clinical record systems
DenoversRemote / distributedEmbedded-team healthtech startups

When each studio started

Founding year and base for all eight, from 2000 to today. A longer bar means longer in practice, not a higher rank.

The Skins Factory
2000 · Fort Lauderdale
Koru UX Design
2011 · Maharashtra
Clay Global
2016 · San Francisco
Neuron
2016 · San Francisco
Fuselab Creative
2017 · McLean, VA
Ungrammary
2017 · Mumbai
Denovers
2020 · Remote
G&Co.
Year not stated · New York
Red flags

Red flags when evaluating a healthcare UX studio

Red flag

No mention of HIPAA, PHI, or accessibility standards anywhere in their process, unprompted.

If you have to ask, they probably haven’t done real regulated healthcare work.

Red flag

One or two “health-adjacent” projects buried in an otherwise unrelated portfolio.

That’s a generalist taking a healthcare job, not a healthcare specialist.

Red flag

No named, verifiable clients

A wall of anonymized logos and blurred screens is a reason to ask harder questions, not sign.

Red flag

Vague answers about clinical workflow specifically.

A studio with real experience should talk concretely about documentation burden, alert fatigue, or medication reconciliation, not just “we make it easy to use.”

Before you sign

Before you sign

  1. 1

    Ask which healthcare sub-category the studio has actually shipped in.

    Patient portal, telehealth, clinical tool, and medical device UX are genuinely different disciplines, even inside “healthcare.”

  2. 2

    Push past the HIPAA checkbox.

    Ask for one specific example of a compliance-driven design decision, not a compliance-aware tagline.

  3. 3

    Nail down the engagement model.

    Embedded team, fixed-scope project, and ongoing retainer carry very different costs and risk.

  4. 4

    Get a reference from a healthcare client at your scale,

    not the studio’s flagship case study.

FAQ

FAQ

Why does healthcare UX need a specialist instead of a general UX agency?

Healthcare carries constraints most software doesn’t — HIPAA and PHI handling, accessibility needs across a wide range of ages and abilities, and in many cases real clinical risk if a workflow confuses someone or an alert gets missed. A studio without direct healthcare reps tends to underestimate how much those constraints shape even simple screens.

What’s different about designing for patients versus designing for clinicians?

Patient-facing work has to hold up for people under stress, with wide variation in digital literacy and health status, usually on a phone. Clinician-facing work has to survive a 12-hour shift without adding to documentation burden or alert fatigue — closer to industrial UX than consumer UX in what it demands.

Do we need a HIPAA-specialist studio even at MVP stage?

Yes, if the product will ever touch protected health information. Retrofitting HIPAA-aware data handling after launch costs far more than designing for it from day one.

What does healthcare UX design typically cost?

It varies by studio tier. Startup-focused shops can scope embedded engagements in the low tens of thousands per month; studios with government or large-health-system experience carry higher minimums that reflect their compliance overhead.

Should medical device UX and patient portal UX use the same studio?

Not automatically. Anything that could be classified as Software as a Medical Device (SaMD) by the FDA involves usability engineering standards, like IEC 62366, that a portal-focused studio may not have direct experience with. Ask specifically.

What should we actually ask about accessibility?

Which WCAG conformance level they design to by default (usually AA), whether they test with real assistive-technology users or only automated scanners, and for one specific accessibility decision from past healthcare work.

Is it a problem if a studio works outside healthcare too?

Not inherently. G&Co. and Denovers both work across healthcare and other industries. What matters is whether they can point to specific, named healthcare work and talk fluently about healthcare-specific constraints — not whether healthcare is their only vertical.

How do we spot a studio that added a healthcare page rather than built healthcare depth?

Depth shows up as multiple specific case studies and fluent, unprompted talk about clinical workflow, HIPAA, and accessibility. A single “healthcare” tab sitting among a dozen other industries on the services page is the tell.