“If we suggest an idea that’ll take us in the wrong direction, they’re willing to push back for the sake of the project’s success. They’re respectful and collaborative.”
“They’re all great to work with. They’re very pleasant, approachable, willing to listen, and they engage with our process instead of moving at tech speed.”
“Roket was instrumental in helping us create the solution. They developed the app, designed the web platform and user experience, and created the marketing materials.”
“Roket not only met deadlines but also had multiple iterations ready. This allowed us to react and evolve the design prototypes faster.”
“We can't overstate the value of Roket's partnership. They always performed really well and put their heart into the process. They really believe in it as their own.”
“In our first online product launch, we sold out our entire inventory in 46 hours. Everything worked seamlessly, and we easily fulfilled our orders.”
“Roket delivered a product that beat my expectations and met our agreed-upon timeline. The collaboration ran effortlessly from start to finish, and they were highly responsive at every step.”
Our app design firm commits our software developers and app designers to only a handful of projects a year. This keeps us focused on solving your software and team challenges—not on juggling clients. This type of attention makes Roket an easy choice as an app development agency.
Roket designed the companion apps and developed the e-commerce website for their revolutionary consumer electronics hardware: a rugged 360-degree camera.
Roket designed, developed, and launched consumer electronic IoT and smart device ecosystem at CES. Work included e-commerce platform, logo/branding, brand naming and marketing support.
Roket has recruited and managed talented UX design, UX research, and front-end software development teams for Google's data center software.
Working along-side internal software teams, Roket led UX design and software development for mobile and web-based enterprise software creation which included the creation of a corporate design system.
From corporate branding and identity design to the development of a custom CMS website and interactive property search tool, our partnership has helped this commercial real estate firm grow.
Align your vision with the market, establish app design goals and clearly map a path to success.
Develop a unique brand name and wrap it in a custom logo and identity, fit to your objectives.
Design a customer-centered experience designed to delight and fully backed by research and insights.
Get the right web and mobile technology to develop a flexible app that scales with your business.
Lean on Roket’s expertise for ensuring uptime, troubleshooting, and app improvements.
Create on-brand materials your business needs to launch, sell, and promote confidently.
When we understand your business, the more value we add during app design and development. In this spirit, our software development agency process is client-inclusive to help extract meaningful data, clearly map a path to success. And with our app design firm's clear communication—you’ll never have to guess what’s next.
Risk Reduction - Before execution, every decision is aligned with business goals, KPIs, and user insights to ensure ROI.
Get Further, Faster - Shortening time to launch with accountable teams, transparent timelines and a proven app design firm.
Build Confidence - Our disciplined, collaborative process to app design and development creates predictable results and executive-level confidence by reducing uncertainty.
We remove assumptions and define clear goals through collaborative workshops, research, and strategy. The plan is a living document that grows to feature process work and results of each decision and phase. This foundation sets us up for success.
We untangle complexities that prevent an effortless UX. Through strategy, wireframes, and design, we align your team and users around a clear vision for the design of your software.
Using agile development, we bring your application to life with scalable, forward-thinking code. Our process ensures efficient delivery, launch, and ongoing improvement across platforms.
We guide your app to launch with care, testing, and training for your team. After launch, we continue refining your app through our iterative cycle of “Create, Measure, Learn.”
Building software people love requires the perfect mix of informed user experience design and smart software development. For nearly 12 years, our top-rated app design firm founders—Alex & David—have led each app design and development firm project personally: no handoffs and no extra layers of management. As a Pittsburgh and Cleveland-based app design firm, we are honest partners delivering on Roket's mission to design experiences people love.™
Balancing product design and full-stack development, Alex's hybrid skillset gives Roket’s work a level of seldom-seen thoughtfulness and efficiency during the app creation process.
With a belief that empathy is drives smart user experiences and great teams, David has spent 20 years building products, brands, and high-performing teams.
TERRAWISE
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Roket designed and developed an intuitive mobile app, integrated with IoT hardware to give farm owners real-time insights into irrigation and field health. Our work included product naming, app branding, and a complete visual identity along with a easy-to-use admin dashboard.
TABS
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“We are extremely happy with Roket's performance and the final product.”
Roket designed and launched an all-in-one, smart home and locator solution named Tabs that included iOS and Android mobile apps.
We created a frictionless experience for our customers—from discovery, to purchase, to setup, to everyday use of the IoT products.
The e-commerce store was a custom theme and integrated Shopify’s APIs with modern development practices to create a speedy online store.
PJ DICK
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“They are a genuine part of our team.”
We identified, design, and develop a custom construction design system for PJ Dick that resolved decades old usability issues and improved app development speed. The unified design systems contained Angular component libraries, and CSS/JS stylesheets for cross-app support.
Roket developed a many custom web and mobile applications, all built upon our design system. This work established a cohesive user experience across the enterprise. Apps included a Angular ticketing app, NativeScript iOS and Android field apps, responsive time tracking apps, a help desk, and interactive GIS apps.
PJ DICK
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We designed, developed, and maintained this business-critical application with an impressive uptime. Combining Angular and Node.js with a scalable AWS infrastructure resulted in a reliable, secure, and high-performance ticketing platform. We then expanded the functionality to support graphing, exportable reports, saved searches—and the largest addition—the inclusion of customer-direct e-commerce.
PJ Dick’s construction ERP software required a ground-up user experience and front-end technology overhaul to resolve decades-old usability and limitations. We led UX app design and front-end software development for this multi-release effort which included product management support, software branding, training videos, AI integrations, and overall focus on user task simplification.
Roket re-imagined PJ Dick’s construction mapping software to better meet the needs of its users and integrate our latest UX design system updates. While integrating new interactive features, intuitive navigation, and data views we worked to reduce user experience complexity of its current features.
ASKME.HEARME
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“They created an app that truly resonates with its audience.”
We partnered with the University of Pittsburgh to build AskMe.HearMe, a secure, responsive mental health screening app designed to educate, engage, and connect young people to critical resources. Built on Ruby on Rails and hosted on Heroku, the platform emphasizes reliability, accessibility, and data privacy to meet the sensitivity of its mission.
Sun Surveyor
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“Because of Roket, the quality of our design finally matches the quality of our product and engineering.”
Roket worked side-by-side with Sun Surveyor to redesign, rebrand, and relaunch their iOS and Android mobile applications. We focused on improving the user experience, refining the workflow, and designing a more compelling and competitive brand identity.
360FLY
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“Thanks to Roket’s approach, we launched successfully with a holistic look and feel”
Roket worked closely with 360fly’s marketing, product, engineering, and management teams to architect, design, and develop the apps that accompanied the launch a 360-degree action camera.
Built with the modern web stack of the time, our work focused on responsive design, dynamic interfaces, and integration across marketing, product, and e-commerce.
FORBES FUNDS
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“They really listen and their work is exceptional.”
UpPrize is a purpose-driven entrepreneurial competition developed in partnership with BNY Mellon and The Forbes Funds. Roket was responsible for the naming and identity of the competition as well as the development of the open innovation software that managed the competition.
The platform was developed in Ruby on Rails and hosted on Heroku. It was built to scale securely while providing a simple submission and judging experience.
ID THEFT
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A global firm specializing in identity theft protection approached Roket to leverage our user experience expertise and development know-how to re-envision their flagship SaaS product. We were tasked with combining several existing applications and a new set of features into one product. Our responsive website UI design accommodated for white labeling by third parties.
HOP CULTURE
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Our web design agency developed a compelling lifestyle brand and web magazine platform to drive the consumption of original content and establish loyal readership for HopCulture's beer-centered web magazine.
We built a custom built WordPress template and an easy-to-use administrative interface for article publishing. With repositionable UI content blocks, each post is configurable by the editor, giving an immense amount of control.
You’ve got the idea—we’ll get it launched. We take you from app concept to a complete software in just 90 days. It’s perfect for first-time founders, startups, or teams who want expert (and speedy) app creation without hiring in-house. Our battle-tested team handles every step: planning, branding, design, development, and launch.
Are you fundraising or kicking the tires on an idea? Our functional prototypes are a fast, focused 30-day engagement to bring your vision to life as a clickable, testable prototype. Whether you already have wireframes or need help starting from scratch, this is how you validate your idea with real users before you commit to full software development.
This is for founders and teams who need more than a pretty homepage—they need a website and brand designed to do work. Our Purpose-Built websites and brands engagement delivers a high-performing, custom-built website and a thoughtful brand identity—everything you need to launch with clarity, confidence, and conversion in mind.
Hit your deadlines. Our rapid-response UI design sprint and front-end delivery service is built for product teams under pressure. We drop in fast to transform your UI and get it implementation-ready with highly-polished and speedy output that makes your app (and your team) feel great.
Book a Quick CallOur team has spent decades building products as designers, developers, and innovators. Combining that experience with our leadership roles as business owners and managers, we know the challenges of building and shipping the best product possible—because we've done it. We are product experts—hiring product experts.
Complete the form below and Alex or David will respond—almost immediately. Or you can schedule a chat now. Call or text +1.412.444.4616 or email hello@roketco.com.
Roket is a comprehensive app design and development firm that brings together strategy, UX UI design, and software engineering all in one place. Unlike many other app design firms that are only really good at one part of the process, we excel at each part of software design and delivery. This includes strategy, user research, branding, app development, and go-to-market support. This end-to-end holistic set of skills makes our app design firm's output a unified software experience.
Our app design firm's designers and developers work with you to create software experiences that strike a balance between creativity, usability, and scalability. If you're looking for a mobile app design firm for iOS or Android or need help enhancing your product’s user experience, Roket provides a clear and collaborative process that efficiently takes you from concept to launch.
We emphasize transparency, speed, and measurable results, mixing design thinking, agile development, and trusted frameworks to build products that delight users at our app design firm. Based in Pittsburgh and Cleveland, Roket works with clients across the country, and around the globe, delivering the technical expertise and design quality that has made us one of best app design firms in the U.S.
Not at all. While Roket is based in Pittsburgh and Cleveland, our app design firm partners with clients across the U.S. and around the world — including Austin, New York City, Denver, Baltimore, Cupertino, and San Jose, as well as teams in Europe, India, and Australia. We specialize in app design and development, helping startups and enterprises create software through expert UX UI design and strategy. Our process has always worked remotely, making collaboration simple. No matter where your team is located, Roket’s mobile app design firm delivers the same creativity, precision, and technical excellence that define every project we take on.
Roket prides ourselves on being a full-service app design firm that balances speed with quality. How long it takes to design and develop an app really depends on how complex it is, the features you want, and what platform you're targeting. However, you can generally expect a timeline of about 3 to 6 months from the initial concept to launch.
In those first few weeks, our focus is on strategy, user research, and user experience design. We’ll work on defining your goals, mapping out user flows, and creating an app prototype that shows exactly how your app will look and function. This step is crucial because we base our design choices on real user insights and your business objectives.
Once you give the thumbs up on the app design, our development team jumps in. We work in agile sprints, managing both front-end and back-end development at the same time. This usually takes about 60% of the timeline, depending on how many features you need, what kinds of integrations are involved, and the depth of testing.
Throughout the process, our designers and developers work closely with your team to keep communication open and ensure we’re all on track toward the same goals. Collaborating with a seasoned app design firm like Roket means your app can go from idea to launch smoothly and efficiently, without skimping on creativity, usability, or performance.
Roket is a comprehensive app design firm that focuses on building mobile apps, web applications, and custom software solutions tailored for businesses of any size.
We've worked with startups, large enterprises, and nonprofits across various sectors like healthcare, construction, SaaS, fintech, and e-commerce development. Are you looking for a consumer app for iOS and Android? Or an optimized enterprise dashboard designed for your construction firm? Roket customizes each project to align with your business objectives, user needs, and future goals. We ensure every app we create offers a intuitive user experience design, easy-to-navigate interface, and lasting value.
Absolutely! Roket often collaborates with companies that have their own developers but require specialized support in app design and UX/UI design. We integrate into your existing process, creating design systems, interactive prototypes, and front-end code that your developers can easily implement. We focus on establishing clear user flows, creating intuitive interactions, and developing a design language that works across your org. From day one, our collaborative approach makes sure that design and development are in sync, minimizing rework, speeding up time-to-market, and improving app usability.
As a top app design and development firm, Roket follows a straightforward, collaborative process that prioritizes speed. Every project kicks off with discovery and strategy to pinpoint your goals, target users, and success metrics. Next, our user experience design team maps out user flows, develops wireframes, and creates interactive prototypes that visualize the user experience before any coding begins. Once the designs are approved, our development team begins building both the front-end and back-end simultaneously using modern frameworks like React, Next.js, and React Native. We thoroughly test throughout each sprint to ensure quality, performance, and security. This app design firm workflow helps businesses transition from concept to launch more quickly, while maintaining creativity and technical accuracy.
Roket partners with a diverse range of clients. From early-stage startups (HopCulture, Thread, Tabs) to established mid-sized firms (360fly, The Forbes Funds) and larger enterprises (Google, PJ Dick, Fitbit).
Startups come to us for MVP design and development, as we help validate their product concepts through research, prototyping, and rapid iterations. Larger businesses and enterprises often seek Roket's expertise to enhance user experience and user interface design, modernize outdated systems, or expand their digital offerings with custom web and mobile apps. As a versatile mobile app design and development firm, we adapt each engagement to match your budget, team setup, and timeline. Our collaborative style allows us to become an extension of your internal team, offering strategy, design, and engineering support right where it’s needed.
Yes, we do! Roket offers extensive app maintenance and support services after your app goes live. As a full-service app design and development firm, we believe our work doesn't end when the app is deployed. That’s just the beginning. Our team keeps a close eye on performance, optimizes functionality, and rolls out feature updates to ensure your mobile app remains secure, scalable, and aligned with user demands. We handle version updates, bug fixes, and design enhancements to help your product grow along with your business. With Roket’s post-launch retained model, we ensure long-term success by blending user experience design improvements, analytics insights, and technical upgrades.
The cost of an app can vary based on its complexity, features, and platform requirements. Most of Roket’s app design and development projects fall between $25,000 and $250,000, depending on whether it’s a prototype, MVP, or a full-scale product. As an app design firm in Pittsburgh and Cleveland, often working remotely, we kick off every project with discovery sessions that outline scope, timelines, and deliverables. This ensures your investment is directly tied to measurable outcomes. Our pricing reflects not just the design and development, but the entire software lifecycle, including strategy, user experience design, engineering, testing, and post-launch optimization. For startups, we offer prototype app design packages that help attract investors and quickly validate concepts. For larger enterprises, we provide custom engagements focused on scalability, integration, and performance.
