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thoughtbot is your expert design and development partner. We bring digital products from validation to success and teach you how because we care. It’s time to move beyond simply building features and start designing the right product with the right strategy.
STARTUPS, SCALE-UPS, AND BEYOND
Positive outcomes for hundreds of web and mobile
projects like yours
Harvard Business Review — Future-proofing Harvard
Business Review to inspire the next generation of global
business leaders
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Beyond Finance — Creating an impactful fintech app and a
robust in-house product team
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Lawbite — Rebuilding an existing platform suffering from
design debt
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Airrosti — Delivering an in clinic experience via mobile app
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OUR SERVICES
Your expert partners for building mission-driven products
Benefit from over 18 years of experience designing and building successful products. Whether you're a founder with a new idea, a product owner at a large enterprise, or somewhere in between, thoughtbot can help you solve meaningful problems with a design-led
approach. Work with a small, dedicated team of project-focused product experts built to fit the needs of your project.
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SERVICE HIGHLIGHT
Pay down your design debt to acquire, retain, and engage users
When time and talent feels constrained, teams sometimes default to shipping features without applying design thinking. But paying down design debt is an incredibly powerful source of user value. Taking care of your design debt enables you to hit your product metrics. Learn more about design debt and how to start tackling it today.
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thoughtbot can most definitely handle execution for you, but what's more important is that they know what questions to ask to pull the right projects to execute on from your brain and can implement a great process to execute on them.
Sergio Rabiela
VP of Technology, Beyond Finance
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Join the thoughtbot team and our special guests as we tackle today’s biggest product challenges. During our workshops, we cover the latest from the latest on how COVID-19 is impacting our product, design and development process to thoughtbot's tried and true process.
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OUR COMPANY
Purpose-driven teams
Our team is driven by our purpose and values; we continually improve our process, do our best work in strong partnerships with you, and transparently share how we work.
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RESOURCES FOR ENTREPRENEURS, DESIGNERS, AND DEVELOPERS
Reap the rewards of everything we’ve learned while building
successful products
Actionable advice for entrepreneurs who want to build products people love.
Dive into our resourcesGuide Our guide to conducting and facilitating Product Design Sprints.
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