UI + UX Design for Audio Software
The best tools disappear. We design interfaces for synthesizers, plugins, DAWs, and virtual instruments. Software that should feel like an extension of thought, not an obstacle to it.
Audio plugin UI design is its own discipline. We don't import patterns from consumer apps and call it innovation.
The conventions, interaction models, and cognitive demands here are specific to this context — and we've spent over a decade developing fluency in them.
Our work spans compact single-purpose effects to sprawling modular synthesizers, new products to legacy interfaces with opinionated communities. Every project is different. The standard isn't.
Capabilities
Interaction Design
Parameter control, navigation, modulation routing, and state logic
Information Architecture
Organising complex feature sets into coherent, learnable structures
Visual Design
Typography, colour, iconography, and hierarchy for audio UI
Prototyping
Interactive Figma prototypes for validation and developer handoff
Design Systems
Component libraries built for audio: knobs, sliders, meters, displays
Developer Handoff
Specs and assets for JUCE, HISE, and web-based development teams