We design products and services in brain health, aging, and care.
We’re the only design firm focused on brain health, aging, and care.
Changes in a person’s ability to think, remember, and make decisions impact how they interact with the world. We specialize in design for aging and cognitive impairments. Our focus includes the needs of those impacted as well as the family, friends, and 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 good design can help protect dignity along the journey of cognitive impairment.
We’re ranked among the best worldwide.
Slide UX is consistently named one of the world’s top UX agencies based on actual client feedback.
We help organizations in brain health, aging, and care.
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Marketing directors, operations leaders, or innovation heads at organizations offering services to older adults and families.
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Founders and entrepreneurs building apps or devices for aging in place, memory support, remote caregiving, or telehealth.
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Communications or program leads at nonprofits in Alzheimer's, dementia, caregiving or related communities.
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Heads of Product or Directors of UX at companies focused on elder care, remote monitoring, health data aggregation, or medication management.
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Portfolio leaders consolidating multiple aging or care startups, or incubators focused on elder tech or chronic disease management.
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Product managers or UX leads working on software used by neurologists, geriatricians, or care teams.
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Principal Investigators (PIs), program directors, or health communications teams working on public health campaigns, clinical trials, or community education tools.
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Innovation teams, service design leads, or digital product managers working to support aging members or those with chronic cognitive conditions.
Choose a design partner that understands your audience.
We’ve proud to have served over 200 clients in our 13 years in business, including many brands in medical, aging, care, and academia.
How we help teams in brain health, aging, and care.
We’re the go-to partner for anyone designing products, services, or experiences in this space.
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We help teams bring clarity to complex products. Whether you’re starting from scratch or refining an existing solution, we offer:
Information Architecture: Organizing your content so users can find what they need, fast.
Product Management: Aligning business goals, tech constraints, and user needs.
Technical Consulting: Collaborating with engineers to make smart, scalable decisions from the start.
Why it matters: This service is ideal for early-stage startups, growing product teams, or organizations navigating digital transformation.
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Our designs aren’t just attractive—they’re accessible, usable, and respectful of cognitive load. We create:
Interfaces that are easy to navigate for users of all ages and abilities.
Accessible experiences that meet or exceed WCAG standards.
Visual systems that reinforce clarity and trust, especially for health-related tools.
Why it matters: Good design helps people complete essential tasks—especially when life is already complicated.
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We study real people—patients, caregivers, clinicians, and others—so your product decisions are grounded in lived experience. Our research services include:
Usability Testing: Observing users interact with your product to uncover friction points.
Stakeholder Interviews: Listening deeply to understand clinical, family, or operational needs.
Ethical Recruitment: We know how to reach and respectfully engage people in protected roles and vulnerable populations.
Why it matters: We’re sensitive to the confidentiality and compliance needs that come with brain health, aging, and caregiving.
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We stay involved through the final mile—helping you move from concept to launch. This includes:
Development collaboration to ensure designs are implemented faithfully.
Content & Copywriting that communicates clearly with diverse audiences.
Image & Asset Production to elevate your brand and product visuals.
Launch Planning & QA to catch gaps before users do.
Why it matters: A strong launch experience builds confidence—internally and externally.
For Slide UX, brain health is personal.
Some Sliders have been caregivers. Others have seen loved ones fade into dementia. Others are fighting genetics that cause Alzheimer’s.
After years of simplifying complicated systems, guiding users through information overload, and making experiences feel simple and intuitive, we asked, “isn’t this exactly what’s needed in the world of cognitive health?”
👉 Because here’s the reality: many digital tools built for these moments fail people in their time of need.
It’s something we know too well, but this realization didn’t come from a whiteboard session. It came from the waiting rooms. From long-distance caregiving. From hours spent navigating fragmented systems. From the frustration of trying to access support—and finding friction instead.
🧠 Thoughtful, human-centered design can change this experience.
Our mission is:
✅ To reduce cognitive load in a world that only seems to be increasing it.
✅ To design with calm, clarity, and care.
✅ To bring dignity back to digital.
And we do this not as outsiders entering a new space, but as people already living in it.
You don’t have to take our word for it.
Nearly 150 reviews showcase our long record of client satisfaction. Here’s a sample.
Why brain health, aging, and care matters to us.
Like so many people, each partner at Slide UX has a personal connection to cognitive impairment.
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Carrying a rare genetic mutation linked to early-onset Alzheimer’s, Erin faces the disease not just as a daughter or a potential future patient, but as a parent navigating a 50/50 risk for her children. Her story is one of clarity, courage, and a quiet decision to turn personal fear into meaningful focus.
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Tom became a caregiver and legal guardian for his mother after a traumatic brain injury turned their lives upside down. The tools they relied on for care were often confusing and poorly designed—experiences that shaped his approach as a product leader. At Slide UX, Tom is focused on building for people in crisis, not personas on paper.
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Megan’s world shifted the week of Thanksgiving 2022, when she learned that her father had a rare genetic form of Alzheimer’s. She hasn't yet taken the test that could define her future, but her resolve is strong. Balancing motherhood, partnership, and purpose, Megan is channeling uncertainty into a mission that supports others facing similar paths.
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Jordan’s connection to dementia began with his grandmother, “Grandma Beads,” whose decline from a sharp-witted card shark to a resident in memory care was heartbreaking and formative. He carries her legacy—along with a missing ace of hearts—as a daily reminder of why this work matters. For him, empathy isn’t a UX tactic—it’s the mission.
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From witnessing his grandmother’s decline as a child to working in brain injury rehab during college, Brant’s story reveals a lifelong path toward understanding cognitive challenges. When his wife Erin tested positive for a dominant Alzheimer’s gene, their personal and professional worlds converged. Now, he sees design as a way to reduce mental load and return dignity.
Slide UX has joined the Walk to End Alzheimer’s many times.
Pictured above, Sliders from across the country and attended the 2022 walk on a chilly November morning in Austin, Texas.