SMALL + DEDICATED + LOCAL

IN PITTSBURGH SINCE 2014

Concept to Launch
‍App Designers

A PITTSBURGH UX/UI APP DESIGN AGENCY TRUSTED BY:

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SOLUTIONS

COMPLETE APP

90 DAYS

App Design, Develop + Launch

PROTOTYPE APP

20 DAYS

Functional App Prototype

SPRINT

2 WEEKS

Front-End Design + Dev Sprint

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WE ARE YOUR

Pittsburgh App Design Company

Business leaders choose our Pittsburgh app design agency because they genuinely enjoy working with us. And sure, it doesn't hurt that our app design consulting services and design staffing solutions help them build better apps, faster.

PITTSBURGH SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Committed Pittsburgh App Designers

We commit our app designers and UX experts to only a handful of projects a year, in Pittsburgh. This keeps us focused on solving your product and team challenges—not on juggling clients. This type of attention makes Roket an easy choice as an app design and development firm.

Hardy Schmidbauer
FMR TABS CEO
“their dedication and talent were exceptional.”
Read the Review on Clutch

OUR LONG-TERM UX DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT & STAFFING CLIENTS

9
YEARS
PJ Dick

Roket worked along-side PJ's internal Pittsburgh team to lead UX design and dev of enterprise software.

6
YEARS
Google

For over 7 years, Roket built and managed design and UX teams for Google.

3
YEARS
Tabs

Roket led app design to launch the end-to-end customer app  experience at CES.

Lovie J. Jackson FosterAskMe.HearMe Founder
“...communication was faultless throughout...” 
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UX DESIGN APP AGENCY IN PITTSBURGH

Process-Driven App Development

When we understand your Pittsburgh business, the more value we add during app creation. In this spirit, our app design, branding, and coding process is client-inclusive to help extract data and map a path to success. And with our clear communication, you’ll never have to guess what’s next.

OUR PITTSBURGH APP DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

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Mission Plan

Our planning removes assumptions and sets us up for mutual success, working closely with our partners.

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Mission Design

We untangle complexities that prevent an effortless UX and work to get yours, and your user's, buy-in.

03

Mission Build

Using agile development, we ensure efficient delivery and continuous improvement of code.

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Mission Launch

Post-launch we can continue delivering value by applying our iterative cycle of “Create, Measure, Learn.”

MOBILE APP CREATION TEAM IN PITTSBURGH

Mobile App Design Agency

Our cross-functional Pittsburgh mobile app agency team has design, built, and launched hundreds of apps. We confidently shape concepts into market-ready mobile apps by expertly fusing strategy, UX design, branding, and technology. This confidence and experience means that the promises you've made to your team promises you will kept.

Craig E. OaksFMR 360fly Dir of SW Dev
“Roket attacked our problems with ownership.”
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END-TO-END PITTSBURGH MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

Strategy

Align your vision with the market, establishing goals and clearly map a path to success with UX, brand, and mobile development.

Brand

Design a unique brand name and wrap it in a custom logo and visual identity, fit to our goals and target market.

User Experience

Target a UX-centered mobile app designed to delight and fully backed by research and UX insights.

Development

Leverage the right web and mobile app technology to develop a flexible software that scales with your business.

Support

Lean on Roket’s expertise to ensure uptime, troubleshoot issues, and make UX app improvements.

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PROVEN MOBILE APP DESIGN AGENCY LEADERSHIP

Team Leads

We believe great UX is more than good design—it’s the key to building products people trust, adopt, and enjoy using every day. That’s why our Pittsburgh app agency focuses on crafting intuitive, meaningful user experiences that solve real problems and create value. Building web and mobile software that people trust, adopt, and enjoy comes from the perfect mix of thoughtful user experience and smart development.

For nearly 12 years, our founders have led each app design and development project in Pittsburgh personally: no handoffs and no layers of management. Alex & David are transparent and honest partners who strive to deliver on Roket's mission to design experiences people love.

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Alex Hendershott
Co-Founder, Engineering Lead

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.

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David Crawford
Co-Founder, DESIGN + STAFFING LEAD

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 in Pittsburgh.

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OUR APP DEVELOPMENT

Partnership Results

Over 12 years, our Pittsburgh app development company has been fortunate to have partnered clients in consumer electronics, construction, agriculture, healthcare, and beyond.

TERRAWISE

Agriculture APP DESIGN + BRAND

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Roket delivered a brand and intuitive, user-centered mobile app that integrates with IoT hardware to provide busy farm owners with critical data and insights about field irrigation and health. The work, by the Pittsburgh app design agency, included brand and product naming for the software along with the brand identity.

BRAND & UX SERVICES

Brand/Product Naming
Logo + Brand Identity
UI Design & Delivery
Detailed mobile UI for a agriculture internet of things UX, naming and brand client

TABS

APP DESIGN + GO-To-MARKET

02 .

11

Consumer Electronics App UI
IOT App UI
IOT Ecomm UI
IOT App UI
IOT_Marketing
“We are extremely happy with Roket's performance and the final product.”
Hardy Schmidbauer
Former CEO of Tabs

Roket designed and launched an all-in-one, family-focused smart home monitoring and locator solution named Tabs, a solution using LoRaWAN connectivity.

We creating a frictionless user experience for the Tabs  customers—from discovery, to purchase, to setup, to everyday use of the IoT app products.

PITTSBURGH DESIGN & DEV SERVICES

Strategic Mission Planning
Brand/Product Naming
Logo + Brand Identity
Go-to-Market Support
E-Commerce Store

PJ DICK

PITTSBURGH APP DESIGN SYSTEM

03 .

11

“They are a genuine part of our team.”
Dennis DiPalma Former IT Director at PJ Dick

Pittsburgh App Design Leadership

Roket worked with Pittsburgh-based PJ Dick to identify, design, and develop a custom construction design system that resolved decades old usability issues and improved app design and development efficiency.

Pittsburgh App Development

Roket applied our design system UX design standards and UI components to dozens of applications. The work created a cohesive user experience across the corporation and aids each new application design and development process.

PITTSBURGH APP DESIGN SERVICES

Enterprise-wide UX Leadership
Full-Stack Development
Design Systems

PJ DICK

CONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

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11

TICKETING
ERP
GIS

As a Pittsburgh app design agency, Roket designed, developed, and maintained this business-critical application with impressive uptime. Using Angular and Node.js on a scalable AWS infrastructure, we delivered a reliable, secure, and high-performance ticketing platform for PJ Dick's Pittsburgh team. We later expanded functionality with graphing, exportable reports, saved searches, and the most significant upgrade—customer-direct e-commerce.

APP CREATION SERVICES

Full-Stack Development
UX Design
Design Systems

PJ Dick’s construction ERP software needed a complete user experience and front-end overhaul to overcome decades of usability challenges. Our team led Pittsburgh app design and front-end software development for this multi-phase initiative, delivering product management support, updated branding, training videos, AI integrations, and a streamlined approach to simplifying user tasks.

APP DESIGN COMPANY

Front-End Development
UX Design
Logo + Brand Identity
Construction ERP Software

As a Pittsburgh UX design agency, Roket re-imagined PJ Dick’s construction mapping software to better serve users and align with our latest UX design system updates. We introduced interactive features, intuitive navigation, and enhanced data views while simplifying the overall user experience.

PITTSBURGH APP DESIGN SERVICES

User Experience Design
Rapid Prototypes
Construction UI

ASKME.HEARME

Mental Health Screening App

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11

healthcare app UI
Healthcare UI
Healthcare Education UI
“They created an app that truly resonates with its audience.”
Lovie J. Jackson Foster
FOUNDER OF ASKME.HEARME

As a Pittsburgh app design agency, we partnered with the University of Pittsburgh to create AskMe.HearMe, a secure and responsive mental health screening app that educates, engages, and connects young people to critical resources. Built on Ruby on Rails and hosted on Heroku, the platform prioritizes reliability, accessibility, and data privacy to support the sensitivity of its mission.

SOFTWARE DESIGN SERVICES

Product Strategy + Definition
Logo + Brand Identity
User Research
Full-Stack Development

Sun Surveyor

PITTSBURGH APP DESIGN + BRAND

06 .

11

“Because of Roket, the quality of our design finally matches the quality of our product and engineering.”
ADAM RATANA
Creator of Sun Surveyor

Roket’s team of Pittsburgh app designers partnered with Sun Surveyor to redesign, rebrand, and relaunch their iOS and Android mobile applications. We focused on elevating the user experience, refining workflows, and creating a more compelling, competitive brand identity.

APP UX & BRAND SERVICES

User Experience Design
Logo + Brand Identity
Go-to-Market Support

360FLY

360° video app ecosystem

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11

360 App UI
“Thanks to Roket’s approach, we launched successfully with a holistic look and feel”
Craig Oaks
FMR Dir of SW Dev at 360fly

Roket’s team of Pittsburgh app designers collaborated with 360fly’s marketing, product, engineering, and management teams to architect, design, and develop the apps that launched alongside their 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.

APP DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

Design and Dev Team Augmentation
Front-End Development
User Experience Design
Go-to-Market Support
E-Commerce Store

FORBES FUNDS

OPEN INNOVATION APP + BRAND

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11

“They really listen and their work is exceptional.”
Kate Dewey The Forbes Funds FMR PRES
App Design UI

As a Pittsburgh app design agency, Roket partnered with BNY Mellon and The Forbes Funds to launch UpPrize, a purpose-driven entrepreneurial competition. We led the naming and identity design, as well as the development of the open innovation software that powered the competition.

Built on Ruby on Rails and hosted on Heroku, the platform was designed to scale securely while providing a simple, intuitive submission and judging experience.

PITTSBURGH APP DESIGN AGENCY

Product Strategy + Definition
Brand/Product Naming
Logo + Brand Identity
Full-Stack Development
Go-to-Market Support

BACK'D

RETAIL Loyalty App DESIGN

09 .

11

“They delivered a crisp and clean user experience.”
Matthew Williams FOUNDER + CEO OF BACK'D

ID THEFT

Consumer SaaS App DESIGN

10 .

11

A global firm specializing in identity theft protection approached our Pittsburgh app design agency, Roket, to leverage our user experience expertise and app development know-how to re-envision their flagship consumer SaaS product. We were tasked with combining several existing applications and a new set of features into one product. Our responsive app design accommodated for white labeling by third parties.

UX + DEVELOPMENT SERVICES

Product Strategy + Definition
UI Design & Delivery
Front-end Development
Detailed mobile UI for a agriculture internet of things UX, naming and brand client

HOP CULTURE

Web Magazine + BRAND

11 .

11

Our Pittsburgh 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.

PITTSBURGH WEB DESIGN SERVICES

Strategy + Definition
Logo + Brand Identity
Wordpress Development
Go-to-Market Support
OUR END-TO-END
App & Team Solutions

Are you a Pittsburgh business in need a quick working prototype? Maybe a full market-ready app? Or perhaps just a few extra product teammates, we can tackle any challenge. Are you ready to chat? Choose a time here.

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· STARTING AT $25K ·

Market-Ready App in 90 Days

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) Pittsburgh app creation without hiring in-house. Our battle-tested team handles every step: planning, branding, design, development, and launch.


Full Mission Planning
Brand + Product Naming
Logo + Brand Identity
Complete UI Design
Development + Launch
30-Day Support
Schedule a Free App Consultation
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· STARTING AT $8K ·

Functional Prototypes 30 Days

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.

Focused Mission Planning
Features Scoping + Flow Mapping
UI Templates + Rapid Visual Design
Development + Launch
Schedule a Free Prototype Consultation
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· STARTING AT $15K ·

Purpose-Built Website + Brand 60 Days

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.


Full Mission Planning
Project Management
Logo + Brand Identity
End-to-End UI Design
Development + Launch
Schedule a Free Consultation
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· STARTING AT $10K ·

2 Week Urgent UX Design + Dev Sprint

Hit your deadlines. Our rapid-response Pittsburgh app 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.

Focused Mission Planning
Complete UI Design + Figma Components
Front-End Handoff or In-Sprint Delivery
QA Support for Your Dev Team
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Hire Product Team Talent Quickly

Our 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.

Contract-to-Hire
Direct Hire
Team Augmentation
Retained Search
Offshore Team Building
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PITTsBURGH APP DESIGN & DEV STAFFING TRUSTED BY:

Staffing Agency Client
Team Augmentation
Staffing Agency Client
Contract-to-Hire
Staffing Agency Client
Team Augmentation
Contact-to-Hire
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Recruiting
Staffing Agency Client
Direct Hire
Consumer Electronics App
Team Augmentation
Retail App Client Logo
Offshore Team
What can we help you build?
Let's Chat

Tell us about your needs 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.

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  • APP DEVELOPMENT Services
  • Mission Planning
  • Brand + Product Naming
  • Logo + Identity Design
  • UI Design + Delivery
  • Mobile + Web Development
  • Design Systems
  • Rapid MVPs + Prototypes
  • AI Development
  • CMS & Ecommerce
  • Go-to-Market Support
  • INDUSTRIES
  • Construction Software Development
  • Consumer Electronics App Design
  • IOT App Developers
  • Agriculture App Developers
  • Healthcare App Developers
  • Retail App Designers
  • Education App Development
  • Staffing Services
  • Contract to Hire
  • Direct Hire
  • Team Augmentation
  • Offshore Teams
  • Retained Search

Roket is a hybrid app development agency, app design agency, and staffing firm located in Pittsburgh & Cleveland. Services include end-to-end product strategy, user experience design, and full app creation and development paired with custom staffing services (contract, contract to hire, and direct hire services) for product team roles including: designers, developers, QAs, product managers and more.Our expertise includes brand and communications development, user experience design (UX), user interface design (UI), web and mobile development and full-stack software development.