18 digital design agencies and studios compared

The same Moonb team covers landing pages, site redesigns, brand identity, presentations, ads, motion and video. A full site goes through the same loop as one broken landing page, briefed the way you'd brief someone down the hall and reviewed in Figma. That turnaround figure is measured from brief to first draft, so a full site takes longer than that to finish.

Work & Co counts 467 people in eight cities, with hubs including Brooklyn, Portland, Los Angeles, São Paulo and Copenhagen. Several entries on its client page are long relationships, such as ongoing omnichannel work for IKEA, including the retailer's first ecommerce app, and a global partnership on the Today at Apple retail program. The Panera entry reports 30% growth in users and a 16% increase in order conversion after modernizing the brand and the omnichannel experience. Both figures are Work & Co's own, from its client page.

MetaLab's homepage headline is "We make interfaces." It designed Rooms for Midjourney as the company grew past Discord, turned the Atomic Habits book into the Atoms app, and worked on a new advisory product for Robinhood, a case it frames around building for 25M+ investors. Its work page files case studies under Finance, SaaS, Health & Wellness, Media and Ecommerce, with a separate Full Build category.

ustwo says the digital products it has made over 20 years are used by millions. Lately that has meant AI-supported health coaching for RVO Health in the US and a digital experience for The i Paper. It describes itself as a comprehensive design and development studio, and in practice one cross-functional team carries an idea from discovery to launch with no handoff to an outside developer.

I'd bring Fantasy a roadmap that already has AI features on it. It says it has spent 25 years combining research, design and technology, and it builds what it designs; the LIV Golf project is described as a replatforming with full-stack AI, design through deployment. For Royal Caribbean it handled an end-to-end digital transformation of every cruise touchpoint, and on the brand side it gave Vimeo a new identity plus what Fantasy calls a unified destination.

Clay's portfolio mixes brand and product work, including an interactive demo experience for Slack, a web redesign for Grayscale, a website and digital branding for Marqeta, and a commerce and loyalty app for Joe & The Juice. Offices in the footer include San Francisco, New York, Austin and Denver. After the first calls Clay recommends an engagement model and sends a proposal with timeline and cost. Before a meeting, that's about as much pricing detail as most studios will give you.

Instrument has been designing and building across brand, product and marketing for more than 20 years. I like its Build Week program, run with Vanport Studio, which helps underrepresented founders with brand systems, packaging, digital experiences and product design. Its recent writing argues that taste is the new competitive advantage. I'd like to see that argument play out on a real account, especially one where most of the content is generated.

Huge's current description of itself is a human-first, AI-native design and technology company. The clearest AI example on its homepage is for NBCU, AI-assisted discovery of the Olympics schedule. The same page shows crypto tax reporting for CoinTracker and a site for Big Green Egg that blends commerce and cooking.

Code and Theory says the half-and-half model has earned the trust of 50+ Fortune 500 CEOs, CMOs and CTOs. Under its forward-deployed expertise model (FD/x), experts work inside the client organization. That puts a firm this size surprisingly close to the embedded model. In July 2026 Stagwell announced it would acquire QStrauss Consulting to expand Code and Theory's Adobe implementation work. If your marketing stack is Adobe, ask about that team.

Wilson is the case study I'd open first. BASIC/DEPT reimagined the visual identity and made a brand campaign to support a product drop and the opening of Wilson's first brick-and-mortar store in its 108-year history, and it ran all of that as one job. For KFC it ran a global digital transformation spanning ecommerce, the mobile app and new drive-thru experiences.

For Semgrep it made a series of out-of-home campaigns written in the language of security engineers. For Asana, Moving Brands evolved the brand strategy, visual identity and digital experience together, and the Eppo project covered the brand and how it shows up across the website and product. If a B2B tech company asked me for one studio to handle both the identity and the launch campaign, Moving Brands is the first name I'd give.

Its culture page traces the firm to Arnaud Mercier and George Eid, who still leads it as founder and CEO. The two set out to apply modernist design principles to the web and saw brand, experience and technology as one. It helped scale Magnific, a one-million-subscriber platform, into a creative AI business, and made a digital flagship for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Its capabilities page promises no black boxes or big reveals, and I'd hold it to that in the contract.

Its case studies include AI-supported mentoring that keeps operational know-how inside National Grid's workforce, a project on luxury craftsmanship for Tiffany & Co. and customer engagement work with IKEA Retail. It also builds new ventures for corporations. I'd suggest frog when the service itself still has to be invented.

Its position is that all brands are digital, and the tagline is Brand Through Digital. The Nike project was a global digital brand reset; for Etsy it made The Universe of Special. The journalism background shows in the client list, where Vogue, PBS News and ESPN sit next to MIT and Harvard, and Don Norman isn't the only big name on the homepage; Brené Brown is quoted there too, on collaborating with the team. A site that is mostly content, where the CMS decides how the brand looks day to day, is the job I'd most want to hand it.

Athletics talks about prioritizing tools over rules and says it designs everything to scale, from the generators to the strategy frameworks that spark campaign concepts. Its homepage sorts the work into brand strategy, identity systems, digital experiences and next-gen innovation. I like it for a rebrand where the rollout is the hard part and most of the people making assets each week aren't designers.

The project list also has Gemini for Google, a merch line for Robinhood, research into AI-generated imagery, and a hypothetical brand built for Google DeepMind with Nano Banana Pro. Nike Run, another project on the list, set out to make Nike the running brand once again. Most of the portfolio is brand-led, so for a complex product build, pair it with one of the product studios further up.

Its homepage line is "your creative team's creative team," and it says it supports 400+ global brands. The pricing page lays out three ways to work: a Dedicated team with the same people every month, a Flex arrangement where unused budget rolls over month to month, and fixed-scope projects. Product design and design systems are marked new on its menu.

ManyPixels keeps the setup light on purpose. You submit requests in its platform and comment on the designs there. An Assigned designer plan puts one part-time designer in your timezone on the account for $1,399 a month on monthly billing. One case study credits a redesigned website with 400% MRR growth at WP Buffs; it's a client story on the vendor's own site, so read it as one.