01Designed for the people who use it daily, not just for the demo
Shadowed · finance team
The daily taskthree screens deepone click from home
B2B UX design for complex,
data-heavy software
B2B tools are packed with data, roles and edge cases. As a B2B UX agency, we turn that complexity into clear workflows your users learn fast and your sales team is proud to demo.
Our clientshave raised $1B+ combined
Raised by our clients
$1 billion+
60+Founders backed
2Fortune 500
11Products shipped
Why UX design
matters for B2B platforms
02Less training time and support load from day one
Onboarding · new hires
Traininga two-day courselearned on the job
03Role-based interfaces for every user type in the organization
Roles · permissions
Each rolesees everythingsees its own work
04Scales from 10 users to 10,000 without a full redesign
Rollout · seats
The platformredesigned at every stagethe same system at 10,000
What poor B2B UX
costs your business
In B2B, bad design isn’t only a user experience problem. It’s an adoption problem, a support problem and eventually a renewal problem.
Every new hire costs training and tickets.
Days of onboarding, then a ticket for every question. A tool that explains itself cuts both, and the hours go back to work.
One screen for every role says nothing.
A rep and a director need different numbers. Show every number the same way and the one that matters gets lost.
Nobody uses it, so renewal has no ROI.
Teams drift to spreadsheets and Slack, and clients judge you by a dated portal. At renewal there’s nothing to point to.
Our B2B UX
design services
From CRMs and ERPs to client portals and internal tools.
B2B UX Research
Interviews with daily users, workflow observation and usage data analysis. We research both the people who buy the product and the people who use it, because they usually define success differently.
Enterprise Platform UX & UI Design
Role-based interfaces, permission structures and navigation that serve power users and occasional users without forcing either to compromise. For multi-team platforms, see our enterprise UX design engagement.
CRM & Sales Tool Design
Pipeline views, activity logging, contact management and reporting built around how reps actually work, not how managers assume they work. More in sales and CRM UX design.
Client Portal & Partner Platform Design
Client portals, partner dashboards, vendor tools and self-service platforms that give clients visibility without generating support calls.
Internal Tools & Admin Dashboard Design
Operations dashboards, admin interfaces and workflow tools for professionals who spend their whole workday inside them. We design for the power user, not the occasional visitor.
B2B Design System & Component Library
A documented component library for every role-based view, permission state and data display pattern, with usage guidelines your engineers can implement without a design review on every PR.
FERNHILL · PURCHASE ORDERS · 30 DAYS
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FERNHILL · ROLE-BASED VIEW
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MENU ITEMS12
One platformevery role sees everythingeach role sees its own job
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NOTES LOGGED SAME DAY31%
Field salesnotes typed at 9 pm, if eversaid in the car park, filed
FERNHILL · CLIENT NOTIFICATIONS
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Notify every stepCALLS TO SUPPORT3
Self-servicethe client chases youthe update finds the client
FERNHILL OPS · ORDER QUEUE
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Workflowopen, wait, back, open againapprove, and the next is open
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Engineering handoffevery PR waits on designthe library already answered
A rhythm built
for B2B product teams
We align with your stakeholders, your users and your engineering process from day one.
1
Stakeholder & User Research
We talk to the decision-makers who set requirements and the end users who live with the result. The gap between those two views is where most B2B design problems start.
Week 1Role Mapping & Architecture
Every user type who touches the platform, their workflows and the information architecture, all mapped before visual work begins.
Weeks 2 to 3Design & Testing
Role-specific flows tested with real business users under realistic conditions: real data volumes, real permissions and the workflows people run every day.
Weeks 4 to 5~2 hrs / week
A weekly sync plus async review. Key stakeholders join at set milestones, flow validation and design review, without being pulled into the daily work.
Your timeA B2B design engagement takes 3 to 12 weeks. Multi-role enterprise platforms with complex permissions sit at the long end.
Why B2B teams trust
Glow for platform design
Built for the demo and for month six.
The product has to win the sales demo and still work in daily use six months after go-live. We design for both.
Complex, never cluttered.
Role-based views and permissions are in the architecture from the start. The right things are obvious, the rest is one step away.
We measure who actually uses it.
A platform people say they like but don’t use is a failed design. We track adoption, feature usage and support volume.
Inside your team and your rules.
We join your standups and tools, and design with your security reviews, accessibility rules and integration limits.
Founders and product leads
on working with Glow
“About a week ago, we went a bit viral with 10k users in 2 days and we received a lot of positive feedback about the design - so thank you Glow for that!”
Israel Benarousse·CEO, Dropcall
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“Glow Design Agency delivered high-quality UX/UI designs that enabled the client to close more deals. Their animated video and design gained the client almost 500+ new LinkedIn followers. The team executed work on time and within budget.”
Doug Marinaro·CEO, Riptide
"The design work provided by Glow Design Agency completely exceeded project stakeholder expectations in terms of both quality and delivery. Their team was organized and communicative throughout the process, breaking down complex industry concepts and translating them into a sleek and useable UI."
Jon Fry·CEO & Founder at Lendflow (YC W21)
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"Glow Design provided UI/UX design for a office space provider and has since expanded their role to include design updates for the site's front- and backend as well as social media visuals and animations."
Eric Zellhart·VP Product at LiquidSpace
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"Glow Design Agency provided UI and UX design services for e-cars charging market company. They were tasked with designing the UX and UI of the app's prototype."
Max Grollmann·Managing Director
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"Glow was hired by an e-commerce platform for their UI/UX design services. They redesigned website and provided support. After the new website was launched, the client saw a significant increase in conversions."
Vinicius Rodrigues·CTO at E-Commerce Platform
Frequently asked
questions
What makes B2B UX design different from consumer product design?
B2B users are professionals paid to use the product. They tolerate more complexity, care more about efficiency than delight and bring specific workflow requirements. UX for B2B software also has to handle multiple roles in one organization, permission systems, dense data and buyers who rarely use the product themselves.
B2B users are professionals paid to use the product. They tolerate more complexity, care more about efficiency than delight and bring specific workflow requirements. UX for B2B software also has to handle multiple roles in one organization, permission systems, dense data and buyers who rarely use the product themselves.
How do you handle multi-role B2B products?
We map every user type: job function, main tasks, information needs and how often they use the product. Then we design role-based architecture and navigation that serves each type without cluttering the interface for the others.
We map every user type: job function, main tasks, information needs and how often they use the product. Then we design role-based architecture and navigation that serves each type without cluttering the interface for the others.
Can you redesign an existing B2B platform with current users?
Yes, and we do it regularly. We start with a UX audit of the current product, review adoption data and support tickets, then change the experience without disorienting users who already know the system.
Yes, and we do it regularly. We start with a UX audit of the current product, review adoption data and support tickets, then change the experience without disorienting users who already know the system.
How do you approach accessibility in B2B design?
WCAG 2.2 AA is our baseline. Enterprise procurement increasingly asks for accessibility in writing, and Section 508 compliance is mandatory for products sold to US federal agencies. Accessibility is a design constraint from the start, not an audit at the end.
WCAG 2.2 AA is our baseline. Enterprise procurement increasingly asks for accessibility in writing, and Section 508 compliance is mandatory for products sold to US federal agencies. Accessibility is a design constraint from the start, not an audit at the end.
Do you design for mobile in B2B products?
It depends on where people actually work, so we research that before setting device priority. Field and on-the-go tools get mobile-first design. Desktop-heavy products get desktop-first design, with mobile covering the tasks people really do on a phone.
It depends on where people actually work, so we research that before setting device priority. Field and on-the-go tools get mobile-first design. Desktop-heavy products get desktop-first design, with mobile covering the tasks people really do on a phone.
What deliverables do we receive?
Organized Figma files for every screen, role, state and edge case, a documented component library with role-based variants, annotated engineering specs, plus research findings, personas and journey maps. Everything is yours, with no proprietary tools or format lock-in.
Organized Figma files for every screen, role, state and edge case, a documented component library with role-based variants, annotated engineering specs, plus research findings, personas and journey maps. Everything is yours, with no proprietary tools or format lock-in.
