Design
Mobile App Redesign & UX Audit
Your app works, but it feels dated, reviews mention frustration, and retention is soft. We audit what is actually going wrong, then redesign with a plan your team can ship incrementally.
Most apps do not need to be thrown away. They need honest diagnosis: where users drop off, which screens generate support tickets, what feels slow, and where the interface has drifted years behind platform conventions. We audit against evidence — analytics, reviews, session behaviour, platform guidelines — then redesign in a way that can ship in stages, so improvement starts reaching users in weeks rather than after a rebuild.
Clear diagnosis
a prioritised, evidence-based account of what is hurting the experience
Staged delivery
improvements shipping in weeks, not held for a big-bang release
Modern baseline
current platform conventions, accessibility, and dark mode throughout
The UX audit: evidence before opinions
We review your app the way a demanding user and a senior engineer would, together. Flows are walked on device, friction is logged against heuristics and platform guidelines, and findings are cross-checked against your analytics and reviews so the report reflects what users actually experience, not just what a designer would change.
- Heuristic and platform-convention review across every core flow
- Analytics and store-review analysis to locate real drop-off, not guessed drop-off
- Performance and accessibility spot checks — perceived speed is a UX issue
- A prioritised findings report: what to fix, why, and in what order
Redesign that respects what already works
A redesign that changes everything at once resets your users' muscle memory and your team's velocity. We separate what needs rethinking from what needs refinement, keep the mental models users already hold, and modernise the visual and interaction layer to current platform standards.
- Interaction architecture fixed where it is broken, preserved where it works
- Visual refresh aligned to current iOS and Android design language
- Navigation modernised — gestures, tabs, and hierarchy users expect today
- Dark mode, Dynamic Type, and accessibility brought up to standard
Shipped in stages, not gambled in one release
We structure redesigns so they can be released incrementally: foundation first (tokens, components, navigation shell), then flows in order of impact. Each stage is testable and reversible, users adapt gradually, and your roadmap keeps moving while the redesign lands.
- A staged rollout plan mapped to engineering effort and user impact
- Design system foundations delivered first so every later screen gets cheaper
- Before/after flows documented so success is measurable per release
- Support for your engineers, or ours, through implementation
When we will tell you not to redesign
Sometimes the audit shows the design is not the problem — performance, reliability, or onboarding is. In that case we say so and point the work where the evidence leads, because a redesign that does not move the real metric is expensive decoration.
Every engagement includes
- Native architecture planning before code
- Senior developer review on every pull request
- App Store & Play Store launch support
- 3 months of free post-launch support
Frequently asked questions
Can you redesign an app you did not originally build?
Yes — most redesign work is on apps built elsewhere. We audit the current experience and the constraints of the existing codebase together, so the redesign is ambitious where it can be and pragmatic where the architecture makes change expensive.
Will a redesign annoy our existing users?
A careless one will. We preserve the mental models users rely on, stage changes so nothing shifts all at once, and prioritise fixes users are already asking for in reviews. Done this way, a redesign reads as the app getting better, not becoming unfamiliar.
What do we get from a standalone UX audit?
A prioritised findings report covering flows, platform conventions, accessibility, and perceived performance, each finding tied to evidence and effort. It stands alone — you can act on it with your own team, or engage us for the redesign, and we are equally comfortable either way.
Related services
- Mobile UX/UI DesignInterface design for iOS and Android by people who understand what the platforms can do — screens designed around speed, clarity, and native behaviour, delivered as specs engineers can actually build.
- App Performance & Quality ReviewYour app feels slow, crashes too often, or reviews keep saying "laggy" — and nobody can say precisely why. We measure it, find the causes, and hand you a prioritised plan.
- Native iOS DevelopmentiOS apps built in Swift and SwiftUI that feel at home on the platform: fast, precise, and finished to the standard Apple users notice. From first prototype to App Store and beyond.
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