We bring specialized user experience expertise to founders, product teams, and MarCom leaders. If you’re building for older adults, care partners, and the professionals who support them, we should talk.
Vetted member of the AARP AgeTech Collaborative
4.9 rating on Clutch,
159 verified client reviews
Serving product teams since 2012
Family-owned,
owner-operated, and
fully U.S.-based
AgeTech & Digital Health
You are building a product for people whose abilities are changing, and the busy people who support them. We help you determine what they actually need before you overspend on the wrong thing.
For AgeTech and digital health teams
Senior Living & Aging Services
Families, residents, and staff all touch your website and your software, and they need different things from it. We design for all three.
For senior living and home care providers
Nonprofits & Advocacy
Your audience is looking for something specific. We structure your site or application so they find it easily, whether they’re members, donors, clinicians, or researchers.
For nonprofits and advocacy organizations
Every part of life gets more complicated as abilities change. Aging and brain change reshape the demands on a person and their whole support system of family, friends, and the professionals who help them. Attention, memory, emotional load, and trust all shape whether someone adopts your product.
Our senior product designers and user researchers understand how that works, and we bring real users into the process so your team builds on evidence.
We came to this focus as people who have lived it. Some of us have been caregivers. Some are facing genes that cause the disease.
See how Slide UX helped Youngtimers rebuild its website and communications platform, giving families facing familial Alzheimer's a trusted digital home.
See how Slide UX helped Rare Remy Foundation launch a brand and website that earns trust from researchers and families alike. The new nonprofit raised $90K in seven months to accelerate research for DHX30 Syndrome, a rare genetic neurodevelopment disorder.
See how Slide UX helped a national senior care referral service increase engagement by streamlining search, clarifying calls to action, and designing a mobile-friendly experience for families navigating elder care options.
We’re proud to be rated 4.9 of 5 on average across nearly 160 client reviews. Read some reviews.
Experience audits, generative research, usability testing with older adults and care partners, and competitive research.
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Roadmap and requirements support for teams who need a product partner rather than another set of deliverables.
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UX and UI design that stays legible, calm, and easy to act on, with accessibility built in from the start.
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Everything we learn, published. Podcast episodes, research guides, a UX audit checklist, and a free 21-day email course.
More than 200 clients since 2012, including many names in care, brain change, and aging.
Our clients have left nearly 160 verified reviews online, averaging 4.9 stars.
21-Day Email Course
Through a series of small daily lessons, learn essentials of UX design for digital experiences in aging, brain health, and care.
9-Chapters, Easy Read
Learn how research can improve safety, satisfaction, and adoption for older adults and those living with brain change without breaking the project budget.
13-Page PDF Guide
This evidence-based scorecard offers standards for physical and visual aspects of the project, cognitive burden, intuitiveness, emotional impact, care, trust & safety, and more.
What does it take to truly understand the people you are designing for in aging and care? In this episode of Designing for Dignity, Erin Young speaks with Nicole Will, founder of Will Gather, a platform and podcast at the intersection of aging, caregiving, and AgeTech. Nicole shares her journey from family caregiver at age 15 to gerontologist, registered nursing assistant, and AgeTech advisor with over 240 podcast episodes.
What if your voice could reveal what is happening in your brain years before any symptoms appear? In this episode of Designing for Dignity, Erin Young sits down with Kara Uchtman, Clinical Research Officer at Vibes AI, a company building low-friction cognitive health tools based on voice and sound. They explore early cognitive detection, the ethics of longitudinal voice data, and what it truly means to design for dignity in brain health.
What happens when virtual reality becomes a bridge between generations? In this episode of Designing for Dignity, host Erin Young talks with David Wyatt, Head of Communications and Business Strategy at Mighty Coconut, about how the hit VR game Walkabout Mini Golf unexpectedly became a favorite among older players. They explore how VR, aging, and accessibility intersect—and what game designers can learn from older adults who are embracing play in digital spaces.
