Better Products, Faster.
We help the best companies in the world create products and innovate
better and faster.
Oak Meditation
We used the Design Sprint 2.0 process to completely redesign and reimagine Oak, a meditation app for mind-hackers. We worked closely with Oak’s Founder and Developer to release in record time. Watch the full case study here.
What AJ&Smart did:
- Design Sprint 2.0
- Product Strategy
- Product Concept
- UI/UX Design
- Art Direction
PRODUCT HUNT
App of the Day
June 2018
APPLE STORE
App of the Day
June 2018
4.9 on Apple Store
Oak Meditation
We used the Design Sprint 2.0 process to completely redesign and reimagine Oak, a meditation app for mind-hackers. We worked closely with Oaks Founder and Developer to release in record time.
What AJ&Smart did:
- Design Sprint 2.0
- Product Strategy
- Product Concept
- UI/UX Design
- Art Direction
PRODUCT HUNT
App of the Day
June 2018
APPLE STORE
App of the Day
June 2018
4.9 on Apple Store
“I can’t say enough good things about AJ&Smart. They were great partners and really drove the redesign and layout. LOVED the sprint process with them. Highly recommended if you’re looking for a design partner.”
Kevin Rose, Partner at True Ventures
Digital Product Design
WINNER
Mobile Innovation
SXSW 2016
WINNER
German Design
2018
WINNER
Apple Best Apps
2015
WINNER
Webby Gold
2016
We use Design Sprints to compress work that would usually take months into days. We cut the fat out of the standard design process to launch products faster so we can learn from real user data, not guesswork.
More about how we design products.
Innovation Training
Learn what works from people who actually work on successful innovation projects, daily. These are not your cookie-cutter Design Thinking courses from the 80s, we teach what works right now and give you practical, applicable takeaways.
Learn more about our Online Training.
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Jake and Jonathan Podcast
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No Busy-Work
When you pay for a design agency, at least 50% of your budget is going to “busywork”. This is simply work that keeps the agency employees busy, but has absolutely no value for you. Do you really think 3 weeks of research and benchmarking is really necessary? No, it’s not and they know it too.
Yeah, we know that design agencies don’t like when we point this out, but it’s true: The large-scale, complicated hierarchies and superstar creative directors that were once key to agencies’ successes are now exactly what’s putting them in the ground. As agencies struggle to “go digital” and adapt their existing structure to a world that no longer has time to hang around and wait for them to get it right, we ask “Why should a project take 6 months, when it could take 8 days?”
As the antithesis of the traditional Design Agency, AJ&Smart has been lean and digital from day one. Using a core team of just 10 employees; AJ&Smart is dedicated to creating the best products and services, without wasting your time or budget. No busy-work, promise.