AQ Lift

Rapid User Experience Consulting

Give your business a boost with
better user experience design.

Official UX Design
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Case Study

Bagcheck

Bagcheck

MyGengo

ATND

Good user experience is good business, but we can’t always get there on our own. What gets in the way? In our years helping digital services get off the ground, we’ve noticed a few patterns:

  • With all the demands of launching and growing a new business, there’s never enough time to perfect the user experience.
  • Teams have the ideas, passion, and development power but not the design sophistication to take the product to market.
  • After too long in the trenches of building, teams can no longer see what’s working or not.

That’s why we started AQ Lift, a user-focused review of your service by our team of UX experts. In just one week, you get a list of design changes to impact your KPIs.

Interested? Choose a plan to get started:

  • Step 1

    Download our Starter Kit, fill it out and send it in.

  • Step 2

    We’ll set up an initial consultation, in person or by phone.

  • Step 3

    We send you a project plan, then get started.

  • Step 4

    We check-in with you mid-project to review work and get feedback. (Heavy Lifters only)

  • Step 5

    You receive the finished deliverables.

  • Step 6

    We check in a few weeks later to see how things are going.

  • Light Lifters: The process is a little different, please get in touch and we'll walk you through it.

500,000 yen

Heavy Lift

Target:

Complex interactions like e-commerce checkout, or simple conversion paths that require a closer look.

What you get:

  • Annotated before/after screenshots
  • Report of identified problems and our fixes
  • A list of things to work on long term
  • One review at the halfway point

300,000 yen

Lift

Target:

Single pages, simple interaction flows or small improvements across a website.

What you get:

  • Before/after screenshots
  • One-page report specifying problems and fixes

100,000 yen

Light Lift

Target:

Quick copy improvements, logo variations, alternate layouts or interaction flows, etc.

What you get:

  • A half day, shoulder-to-shoulder design session with one of AQ’s designers.
  • Sketching, Photoshop, straight-to-code. Whatever gets the job done, it’s your choice.
  • Your place or ours (Tokyo area only).

About Us

AQ is a Tokyo-based, multilingual design office, started in 2004. We design and build useful, imaginative tools for business, culture and community.

We’ve helped launch and iterate on popular apps and web services around the world, including Toyko Art Beat’s smartphone apps, the My ASICS digital running service, Bagcheck, and ATND.

The Lift Team

  • Chris Palmieri
  • Tomomi Sasaki
  • Paul Baron
  • Ryan Ruel

AQ Lift might be good for you if:

  • You’re a startup web service in need of some last-minute polish before launch.
  • You’re an e-commerce site looking to increase completed orders or order value.
  • You’re a web app looking to increase engagement and retention for your web app.
  • You just want to experiment with some ideas before committing to a re-design.

If you have any questions, or want to setup a consultation, send us a mail at lift@aqworks.com.