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UX Design for SaaS

Services/UI/UX Design / UX Design for SaaS

HMI for mechanical engineering – robust and intuitive

Intuitive and efficient interfaces for demanding software solutions.

Digital products face a particular challenge: users decide within the first few minutes whether to stay or leave. Complex functionality, unclear onboarding, and a UX design that doesn't grow with the product quickly lead to high bounce rates. We develop UX concepts for SaaS products that guide users quickly to their goals and remain understandable even as functionality grows.

✔ Faster, smoother onboarding

✔ Fewer dropouts, more active usage

✔ An information architecture that grows with the product

Optimize UX for your SaaS

Challenges

When functionality becomes a growth inhibitor

As functionality grows, many SaaS products face the same UX challenges:

Complex features that are not intuitively accessible to new users
Unclear onboarding that loses potential customers before their first success experience
Low usage of specific features or high dropout rates in the funnel
A UX structure that doesnt scale with the products growth

Solution

UX concepts that guide users to their goals

We develop digital products with the same structural clarity that we apply to physical HMI systems – consistently from the information architecture to the individual interaction element.

User guidance that brings new users to their first success experience quickly
Understandable structuring even of complex functionalities
Simplified interaction that deliberately reduces obstacles in the user flow
An information architecture that can grow with additional functions

Approach

Our approach

1. Analysis —We analyze user flows, onboarding, and usage data to identify the biggest friction points.

2. Concept —From this, we develop an information architecture and user flows that guide users purposefully through the product.

3. Prototype —The concept is tested as a clickable prototype before development resources are committed.

4. Testing —We validate with real users and check if core functions are found and used faster.

5. Implementation —The validated solution is implemented together with your product and development team.

Optimize UX for your SaaS

Reference

Röhlig Realtime

Röhlig Realtime shows how complex real-time logistics data becomes understandable and usable through consistent UX/UI design. BUSSE developed a clearly structured, scalable user interface with high information density, guiding different user groups safely through real-time transport data. A consistent design system provides orientation, efficiency, and long-term platform development.

View Reference CONNECT Welding App

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Result / Benefit

UX with an understanding of the system

Unlike pure software agencies, we approach digital products with the same structural discipline as physical systems: clear states, traceable transitions, consistent logic. We also apply this understanding of systems, drawn from the HMI sector, to the design of SaaS products.

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Our skills

Consulting

UX design

Design system / styleguide

User interface design

Clickdummy

User-centered design process

Usability Testing

Icon design

Animation

VR / AR

Your contact person

Evamaria Plehn, Head of UI/UX Design

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