UI/UX Design Portfolio and Case Studies
Two and a half decades designing across every industry, from fintech and healthcare to cybersecurity, entertainment, SaaS and beyond. Most of this work was built for companies where a bad interface costs real money. Dense, complicated products that have to feel obvious to the person using them. Pixel-precise interfaces, built to perform and made to last. This is design that earns trust and drives adoption, from a studio small enough that you work with the people actually designing your product.
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Project Showcase
The Skins Factory is a top user experience design company that has designed digital application products ahead of their time, across an array of platforms, for the world's largest and most influential brands, mid-sized companies, and extraordinary startups. What follows is a selection of that work, combining detailed case studies with more focused project showcases. Together, they demonstrate the quality and range of our work, along with some of the thinking behind the interfaces.
You’ll find fintech and payment platforms, cybersecurity dashboards, healthcare tools, enterprise SaaS, consumer mobile apps, and desktop software. Every project came with its own challenges, from complex workflows and compliance requirements to legacy technology and the everyday needs of real users. Some projects also include the design systems, user flows, and light and dark mode experiences we created to keep the product clear, cohesive, and consistent as it grows.
User-centered design is the foundation of everything we build. If your company needs UX design services from a team that knows how to simplify complex products and consistently deliver exceptional work, take a look through our work. If you like what you see, say hello.
NFL CHYRON VISUAL EXPLORATION
Visual Design Proof-of-Concept for 10’ Interface
The NFL contracted The Skins Factory to explore and create visual design elements for their 10-foot television interface shown on their ultra-popular television program, Total Access. Our design team created multiple comps and concepts that delivered a visually rich, on-screen display designed to deliver a futuristic style. The images shown represent our favorite versions. Touchdown!
FYRETV
Entertainment + Media VOD App UI/UX Design + Brand Identity + Company/Product Name Creation
The Skins Factory developed the entire UI/UX design for FyreTV, from designing icons and mapping out the remote control to the full-screen UI. We also developed the FyreTV TV guide, the account and login screens, settings panels, and even the icons and placement of them on the remote. The results, as Wired.com states, are a “super slick interface.” The Skins Factory also came up with the brand name FyreTV and brand identity.
BLOCKBRIDGE
Cybersecurity Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Blockbridge Networks delivers secure storage technologies for enterprise customers. The Skins Factory was brought in to design the user interface and interaction design for their flagship application. Our team of UI/UX design experts worked closely with the Blockbridge leadership to design a forward-thinking visual design not often found in enterprise-based application products.
JAMCLOUD
Entertainment Media - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
When JamCloud, a free social music app that allows users to play music and watch videos with others in real time, had a dream, a concept, and a rough prototype they needed to turn into a working product, they contracted The Skins Factory to whip up a slick little UI to bring their product to life.
ZENVIEWER FOR IPAD
Media File Manager iPad App UI/UX Design + Brand Identity
The critically acclaimed file viewer, reader, manager, and audio recorder. ZenViewer was designed by The Skins Factory with a singular purpose in mind: to design the most stylized and intuitive iOS file viewer and reader in the world. The app received outstanding reviews and critical acclaim.
PANASONIC ARBITRATOR
Law Enforcement Recording Software - Touchscreen App UI/UX Design
Panasonic Corporation of North America and our team joined forces to create the touchscreen-based interface for their Toughbook Arbitrator mobile client application, the software side of their groundbreaking Toughbook Arbitrator, a rugged revolution in law enforcement video capture. An important consideration during the development process was to create versions for both day and night use.
REDPRAIRIE
Enterprise SaaS Web & Mobile App UI/UX Design
Enterprise software giant RedPrairie contracted The Skins Factory to design the user interface and interaction design for multiple applications, resulting in perfect symmetry between their enterprise software application user interfaces. This included 3 desktop browser interfaces, a mobile browser app, and a native Android app. We also created a custom design system for the RedPrairie developers.
HYPERLINKS
Proof of Concept iPad App UI/UX Design + Brand Identity Design
In-house proof of concept. The Skins Factory is designing Hyperlinks for iPad, a bookmark and browser experience never before seen on any platform. Manage bookmarks in categories, view your hyperlinks in multiple layouts, customize each bookmark, secure categories with passwords, and even launch multiple web pages at the same time with the application's custom launchpad and browser.
NORTEL PC COMMUNICATIONS
Communications Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Nortel contracted The Skins Factory to redesign their feature-rich communications application, the Nortel PC Client. The PC Client is an application that provides advanced IP telephony features not featured on traditional phones. By completion, The Skins Factory created over 45 separate screens and UI assets with a strong focus on ease of use and an attractive visual design aesthetic.
TARGET'S STUDIO RED MUSIC STORE
Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Target commissioned The Skins Factory to design the main layout of their music store desktop application, StudioRed. The Skins Factory's experience designing media players is legendary, having started out as a Windows Media Player skin design studio. Our team worked closely with the creative team from Target, along with a third-party design studio who handled creating the actual music store layout.
NERO SHOWTIME 3
Media Player - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Nero contracted The Skins Factory four separate times to design the user interface and interaction design for the Nero ShowTime media player application. The results are readily apparent, a super tactile design with a generous helping of easy-to-use interaction design. In an effort to create a smaller footprint on the desktop, our team designed a special micro-mode version of the main player.
NERO SHOWTIME 4
Media Player - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Nero contracted The Skins Factory four separate times to design the user interface and interaction design for the Nero ShowTime media player application. The results are readily apparent, a super tactile design with a generous helping of easy-to-use interaction design. Meticulous attention was paid to lighting and shadow effects throughout the visual design creation process.
IRIVER PLUS
Media Player - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
When The Skins Factory was approached to design and create iRiver's new digital jukebox user interface, iRiver Plus, our team set out to develop a style that would set this application apart in a market saturated with digital audio media players and jukeboxes. A fusion of functionality and design, iRiver Plus is the culmination of years of user interface design experience and attention to detail that vaulted this desktop audio appliance ahead of its competitors.
MOTOROLA IRADIO
Media Player - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
Motorola, Inc. and The Skins Factory collaborated on the creation of the beta user interface for their iRadio music application. The Skins Factory's design squad created a tactile environment using deep cobalt blues and shiny alloys that deliver a rich, real-world feeling to the end user. We started with detailed wireframes before diving into the actual visual design mocks. The player was then modeled in 3D to support the animation sequences we had planned for the player.
NVIDIA REACTOR FOR XFIRE
Communications + Messenger - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
NVIDIA and The Skins Factory presented the NVIDIA Reactor skin for the Xfire skinnable gaming chat system. Designed like a future-world communication device, NVIDIA Reactor, with its obsidian colored glass and jet black rubber trim, brings to life a Blade Runner–esque style that gamers everywhere enjoyed. The skin was so successful that NVIDIA then contracted The Skins Factory to create a custom Windows Media Player skin that shared the same design language, one of our most popular WMP skins ever.
ZENVIEWER FOR IPHONE
Media File Management - Mobile App UI/UX Design, Brand Identity
ZenViewer for iPhone was a prototype app design The Skins Factory mocked up as a follow-up to our critically acclaimed iPad app, ZenViewer HD. ZenViewer for iPhone offered a structured folder architecture for storing and viewing document files, images, music, and videos, and even allows you to record and play back your own audio files. While never reaching code development, ZenViewer for iPhone demonstrates The Skins Factory's prowess when it comes to UI and UX design.
TDK DIGITAL MIXMASTER
Media Player + Recorder - Windows Desktop Client App UI/UX Design
TDK Electronics Corporation came to The Skins Factory to build the default interface for their proprietary audio player. The TDK Digital MixMaster was part of the CD Blender Software Suite of applications that shipped with their veloCD reWriters. While this is a little bulky in terms of today's UI design language, in 2001, when we created this, it was cutting edge. This is proof positive that we were ahead of our time, even when our studio was only a year old. ZDNet called our UI design a spiffy, circular skin.
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