About Slide UX
Our focus on brain change, AgeTech, and care is personal.
Slide UX at the Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Austin, November 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.
Brin 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.
Our mission is to make life easier for people facing aging or brain change, and the many who support them.
We do this not as outsiders entering a new space, but as people who have been there ourselves.
And that’s only part of why we’re a great partner.
Since our founding in 2012, we’ve been headquartered in Austin, TX. Our team is distributed throughout the U.S., and supported by a network of partners and contractors that extend our reach.
We’re 100% employee-owned, which means our incentives align with yours. Our culture centers on sustainability, empowerment, evolution, and a commitment to giving each client an exceptional experience.
We make it really easy to be our client.
We take a consultative approach: identifying not just interface problems, but root causes. We bring resourcefulness and optimism, applying UX thinking to business strategy, operations, and product-market fit.
Our clients can relax because they know where things stand at all times, and they’ve seen that we get done what we say we will. Clients often say meeting with us is a highlight of their week. They appreciate:
Transparent project updates
No surprises: clear scope, prompt invoicing, and detailed reporting
A dedicated lead, and direct access to the team working on your project
Slide UX is managed carefully and transparently. We resource projects carefully. We don’t reward stress or overwork, and we pursue thoughtful, manageable growth. Incentives are aligned; we thrive when our clients do.
Our managing partners
Tom Drugan
Partner & VP, Operations
Tom’s Story in Brain Health
Megan Baker
Partner & Senior Managing Director
Megan’s Story in Brain Health
Jordan Alsop
Partner & Director of Operations
Jordan’s Story in Brain Health
Our founders
Erin Young
Founder & Partner
Erin’s Story in Brain Health
Brant Young
Founder & Partner
Brant’s Story in Brain Health
How we got here
Slide UX at the Walk to End Alzheimer’s in Austin, back in 2015.
Erin and Brant met at National Instruments (NI), one of the earliest tech companies to establish a presence in Austin, TX. The collaborative and employee-friendly culture at NI made it a great place to work, and inspired the culture that Erin and Brant ultimately built at Slide UX.
After seeing first-hand the challenges of both in-house and agency UX early in her career, Erin started her own freelance UX and Information Architecture practice. It quickly took off, and Brant joined her full-time in 2012 when the pair founded the consultancy now known as Slide UX.
Even in our early years, we worked with a wide range of senior care and HealthTech brands, and we began attending the Walk to End Alzheimer’s.
But it wasn’t until 2022 that Erin and Megan learned about their family’s connection to Alzheimer’s disease, and their lives were forever changed. Soon after, the Slide UX partnership team collectively decided that brain change, aging, and care were a shared passion, and an area worthy of the team’s focus.
Today, we’re eager to meet innovators and nonprofit leaders in aging services, AgeTech, and brain change. If that’s you, please reach out and say hello!