UX/UI design
App Designers Sydney & Melbourne
Rocket Lab Australia is a team of app designers in Sydney and Melbourne. Our UX/UI design service covers iOS, Android and web apps: user research, user flows, prototypes, high-fidelity UI and design systems, made to hand over cleanly to the engineers who build them.
- iOS, Android and web app design
- Sydney and Melbourne team
- Designs that hand over cleanly to engineering
- Designers and engineers One team
- Founded 2014, Sydney and Melbourne team
Designing digital experiences that feel effortless.
Great digital products do more than look good. They simplify complex tasks and guide users intuitively. We create streamlined, elegant experiences that delight users and deliver measurable impact.
About the service
At Rocket Lab, we bring design expertise combined with a user-first mindset. Whether you are launching a new product, refreshing an existing experience or advancing a platform for scale, we prioritise intuitive designs that support both your users' needs and your long-term goals.
What we offer
User research and discovery
We begin with user interviews, testing and behavioural insights to fuel purposeful design decisions.
UX strategy and flow mapping
Clear, efficient user journeys designed to reduce friction and boost engagement.
Wireframes and prototyping
From sketches to interactive prototypes, we validate assumptions early so you can move forward with confidence.
High-fidelity UI and visual design
Polished, accessible interfaces that reflect your brand and delight your users.
Design systems and style guides
Reusable design components and guidelines that keep your product consistent as it grows.
Design and development collaboration
Designers working side by side with engineers to ensure pixel-perfect implementation and practical interaction.
Design is the first paid step of a build
Most of our builds start with design. A short, paid design phase turns your idea or brief into user flows, a tested prototype and high-fidelity screens before anyone writes code, so the build is quoted from a design rather than a guess.
The designers and engineers work as one team, so the design carries straight into the build: the same people, the same flows, and no gap at handover.
- A prototype your users and stakeholders can try before any code is written
- A fixed quote for the build, based on the designs
- A design system your engineers build from
Before You Buy's platform started with 2 months of wireframing, design thinking and architecture, then a 9-month build from scratch.
App design work
Apps we have designed
Four projects from our case studies where design came first.
WeView
We turned the founder's idea into a fully designed digital ecosystem, mapped end to end across mobile and web. The design phase took six weeks.
Exetel
UX and UI, brand, app design and website design for an Australian internet and mobile provider, and the build of the previous version of its app.
Before You Buy
The whole platform, designed and built from scratch: the public website, the customer portal, the admin, BYB Assist for agents and the BYB Inspector app for iOS and Android.
MyGig
The MyGig app for iOS and Android, designed and built in Flutter. Casual workers find shifts, see the pay up front, clock in and out and track what they earn.
Our design process
Six steps from understanding your users to an experience that keeps improving after launch.
Discover and align
We explore your objectives, users and challenges to define what success means.
Plan and map
We craft user flows, wireframes and information architecture that lay the groundwork for clarity.
Design and prototype
We develop high-fidelity designs and interactive experiences that bring your vision to life.
Test and refine
We validate ideas with real users, gather feedback and iterate for usability and impact.
Handover and support
We provide development-ready assets, documentation and ongoing support for a smooth implementation.
Evolve and optimise
We track performance, gather user insights and keep refining the experience as new needs and opportunities appear.
Why Rocket Lab
Design that does the hard work for your users.
- We turn complexity into clarity
- We design with purpose and intent
- We deliver value through every interaction
- We solve problems with elegant solutions
- We design with care and empathy
Related capabilities
Custom, scalable web platforms built on modern frameworks like React and Next.js. Engineered for performance and maintainability.
iOS, Android and cross-platform apps with React Native and Flutter, built for speed, usability and long-term scalability.
We deep dive into your goals, users and market to design a product roadmap that aligns with business outcomes.
Installable, offline-capable progressive web apps built with React and Next.js.
In our clients' words
Clients on designing and building their products with us.
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Julien and his team are a real pleasure to work with. They are well rounded with a solid understanding of design/user experience best practices as well as diving deep under the hood with solid web and app development capabilities.
They took what was just an idea in my head and turned it into a product that’s now live on both the App Store and Google Play. From day one they felt like an extension of our team, not an external agency.
When it comes to out-sourcing and partnering with a technology vendor, Rocket Lab is top of mind. Julien, Jen and the team are incredibly detailed and thorough whenever they’re engaged in a project. And, they do so at velocity.
Our business has hundreds of suppliers and thousands of customers so we needed a highly robust structure and that’s exactly what was delivered by Julien, Jen and the RL development team.
Tell us what you are building.
A 30-minute call. No pitch deck, no obligation. We will tell you if we are the right fit.
