UX design and research for
brain change, aging and care
The market around aging, care and longevity is vast and growing. But it’s full of unique challenges. When you choose a partner who understands the complexities of the space, you’re a step ahead.
We partner with AgeTech’s innovators to deliver experiences that people love to use. Our product designers and user research specialists understand the demands that brain change and aging put on a person and their support system.
Every part of life is complicated by changing abilities. These changes also impact a person’s family, friends, and the professionals who support them.
Headquartered in Austin, TX, we’ve served teams in this space for more than a decade. We care deeply, and we know that strong design and research advisors can help you avoid the many potential pitfalls that lurk in this complicated market.
We’re part of the ecosystem that’s changing
what aging looks like.
AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP
Slide UX is a proud member of the AgeTech Collaborative™ from AARP, which is a one-of-a-kind global ecosystem of innovators, investors, and industry leaders united around a single mission: making aging easier for everyone.
As vetted members of this exclusive consortium, we're actively embedded in the conversations, research, and relationships shaping the future of AgeTech. For our clients, that means a UX partner with a front-row seat to what's coming and the connections to help get there.
Client stories: how we’ve brought great UX to AgeTech.
Our mission:
To use design to make life easier for older people, those facing brain change, and those who support them.
This focus is personal for us.
Erin and Megan at the Walk to End Alzheimer’s in 2022.
Like so many, Sliders have their own family stories about brain change. Some have been caregivers. Others have seen loved ones fade into dementia. Others are fighting personal battles against the genes that cause the disease.
Brain change, aging and care are hard - not only on the person who needs support, but also on the family, friends and professionals who support them. We’ve seen personally that the products, websites, and apps that are intended to help often make the situation more difficult.
We’ve been there. Worrying from afar about loved ones. Wringing our hands in waiting rooms. Spending hours trying to navigate the fragmented systems. We know thoughtful, centered design can change this. We do this not as outsiders entering a new space, but as people who have been there ourselves.
Insider guidance for better user experiences in AgeTech
These free resources are meant to help leaders in brain change, aging and care deliver better digital products and services.
21-Day Email Course
What Product Leaders in AgeTech Need to Know about User Experience
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
Your Guide to High-Impact User Experience Research in AgeTech and Care
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
The Comprehensive UX Audit Checklist for AgeTech
This evidence-based scorecard offers standards for physical and visual aspects of the project, cognitive burden, intuitiveness, emotional impact, care, trust & safety, and more.
How we got here
Sliders at the Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Austin, way back in 2015.
In our early years, Slide UX worked with a wide range of senior care and HealthTech brands, and Alzheimer’s disease became one of our organization’s key philanthropic initiatives.
But our connection to the space stepped up in 2022, when Erin, Brant, and Megan learned about their family’s rare genetic connection to Alzheimer’s disease. Volunteering for a nonprofit in the space, Erin realized how much work there is to be done improving digital experiences in brain change, aging, and care. Soon after, the Slide UX partnership team collectively realized that this was a shared passion, an area worthy of the team’s focus.
We’ve been working to meet innovators and nonprofit leaders in aging services, AgeTech, and brain change ever since. If that’s you, please reach out and say hello!
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