UI/UX design

UI/UX design for small businesses: wireframes, prototypes and usability

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UI/UX design for a small business plans how your website works (UX) and how it looks (UI) before anyone writes code. You get wireframes, a clickable prototype and a check against real customer tasks, so visitors find the service they need and can call or book without getting stuck.

  • Free audit
  • Month to month
  • Reports on leads
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Clients served
350+
Years in business
7+
People on the team
10+
Founded
2018

What is the difference between UI and UX?

UX is how the site works: what is on each page, in what order, and how many steps it takes to call or book. UI is how it looks: colors, type, buttons and spacing. A site can look good and still be hard to use. Good UX decides where the call button goes. Good UI makes sure people notice it.

For a small service business, many UX problems are simple and costly. The phone number is buried. The menu has too many items. The quote form asks for an address, a budget and a project description before anyone has talked. Fixing those comes first.

What is included in UI/UX design?

Our UI/UX work covers a review of your current site, a site map, wireframes, UI design, a clickable prototype, usability checks, a small design system, and either a handoff to your developer or a build by our team.

  • A UX review of your current site, using your analytics and session recordings if you have them, and a walkthrough on a real phone.
  • A site map and page structure built around the services people search for.
  • Wireframes for the pages that matter most.
  • UI design that fits your brand.
  • A clickable prototype you can try before anything is built.
  • Usability checks against the tasks your customers come to do.
  • A small design system: colors, type, buttons and form styles.
  • Design handoff for your developer, or a full build by our team.

Wireframes, prototypes and final design

The design runs in three stages before the build: wireframes decide what goes on each page, UI design decides how it looks, and a clickable prototype tests whether the steps make sense. A change costs less the earlier it comes.

Stage What you see What it decides Cost to change
Wireframe Gray boxes and plain text What goes on each page and in what order Very low
UI design Full color screens How it looks and how clear the buttons are Low
Prototype Clickable screens on your phone Whether the steps make sense to a real person Low
Built site The live website Speed, content and final details Higher

How we check usability on a small business budget

You do not need a lab. We check every design against the tasks your customers come to do:

  • Find out whether you serve their town.
  • Find the price or the way to get a quote.
  • Call you, or book a time.
  • Find your reviews or your license details.

Where a task takes too many steps or a button is hard to find, we change the design and check again. On an existing site, session recordings and form analytics show us where visitors stop before we draw anything.

Common problems we fix

The usual problems are a phone number you can’t tap, buttons too small for a thumb, popups over the call button, service pages that never name the area, long forms, and trust signals far from the button.

  • A phone number that is not a tap to call link.
  • Buttons and links too small to tap with a thumb.
  • Pop ups that cover the call button on a phone.
  • Service pages that never say which area you cover.
  • Forms with more fields than you need to call someone back.
  • Trust signals placed far from the button, or badges that are not real.

Designing for phones first

We design the phone layout first and the desktop second, because many of your visitors arrive on a phone, often in a hurry. That means a call button within reach of the thumb, short pages with the answer near the top, text that is readable without zooming, and forms that work with autofill. We also check color contrast, form labels and text size against the WCAG accessibility guidelines, because a site that is easier to read is easier for everyone to use.

After the design: handoff or build

If you have a developer, we hand over design files with notes they can build from. If not, we build the site on WordPress or Shopify. If your current site needs more than a design pass, see our website redesign service.

What affects the cost of UI/UX design?

After a free audit, we tell you the price before any work starts. VentCube is a digital marketing agency for service businesses, founded in 2018, that runs SEO, Google Ads and web design; its team of 10+ people has served 350+ clients. The cost depends on how much work your business needs.

How we work

How we turn clicks into customers.

Every service starts the same way. You get one specialist who does the work and reports in plain English.

Start with a free audit
  1. Study your market

    We look at your market, your competitors and what your best customers search for before we touch your ads or your site.

  2. Set up tracking

    Calls and forms get traced to the ad, keyword or page that produced them, so every report starts from real leads.

  3. Do the work

    Our SEO, Google Ads, design and development people do the work your plan needs, and you hear from them directly.

  4. Report on leads

    Reports show calls, form fills and booked jobs, and what each one cost, in plain English. If something is not working, we say so and change it.

Industries we work with

Built for home and professional services.

Each one wins work a little differently, so we start with how your customers choose.

Start with a free audit

We will walk through your site on a phone as a new customer would, and show you where people are likely to get stuck. Request your free audit and you will have it within 2 business days. Free audit. No obligation. No hard sell.

UI/UX design FAQ

Common questions about UI/UX design

How long does a UI/UX design project take?

We agree a timeline with you at the start, and each stage needs your approval before the next one begins. How long it takes depends on how many pages and user flows are involved: a small service site moves faster than a booking flow or an app.

Can you hand designs to my developer?

We hand over organized design files with notes on spacing, states and behavior, so your developer can build it as designed. We can also build it ourselves.

Will I see the design before development starts?

Yes. You see wireframes first, then the full design, then a clickable prototype you can try on your own phone. Development starts only after you sign off.

How do you know if the new design worked?

We set up call and form tracking before launch, so you can compare leads before and after. We also check the same customer tasks on the finished site. We do not promise a set increase, because traffic, season and offer all play a part.

Free audit

Free audit. No obligation.
No hard sell.

We look at your site, your Google Business Profile and your ads, then send you a written report within 2 business days that says what to fix first.

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