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Your Partner for Product Design, Development, and Product Strategy

Big Nerd Design helps startups, SaaS, and growing businesses turn ideas into market-ready products through UX design, prototyping, and product strategy. We blend human-centered design with AI workflows to deliver faster without sacrificing quality.

About Big Nerd

Big Nerd helps startups, SaaS companies, and enterprises bring their ideas to market with speed, clarity, and confidence. Our focus is on UX and UI design, product design, product development, and AI-powered workflows that accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality or craft. We also offer training for both aspiring and tenured UX and Product Design professionals.

With over 20 years of experience in user experience design, user interface design, and product design and development, we understand how to turn a concept into a dev-ready, user-tested prototype. From rapid prototyping and user testing to UX strategy and fractional product design leadership, we provide end-to-end solutions that align teams and delight users.

About Dan Olsavsky

Dan Olsavsky started Big Nerd Design with a simple belief: great products can be built fast when you combine AI-first workflows with human-centered design. After more than 20 years in UX/UI design and product development, he wanted to create a space where startups and growing organizations could get clear, user-focused products into the world faster.

Turning Big Ideas into Better Products

We combine ideation, prototyping, user testing, product design leadership, and AI-powered workflows to move you from concept to fully functional MVP with clarity, speed, and confidence.