Be Unicorn

Be Unicorn is a design studio that takes digital products from first idea through to launch. The team has built and sold its own consumer apps and now applies that experience to client work for companies and startups, with a strong focus on design.

What Be Unicorn offers

• Product design — website and mobile app design centred on UI and UX, with branding, illustration and 3D visuals.
• App development — iOS, Android, Ruby on Rails backends and app testing.
• Product research — market research, competitor analysis and investor presentations for new product ideas.
• Video production — explainers and clips covering script, direction, CG and VFX post-production and sound design.

Who it works with

The studio works with startups and established companies. Its founders' earlier work includes design for large consumer brands in food, pharmaceuticals, drinks and cars.

Key facts

• Own products: a parenting app with a baby feed and marketplace, a pregnancy app with yoga lessons and 3D visuals, a family video diary app and a mobile zombie game
• Recognition: several of its apps have been featured by Apple, and one parenting app won a Webby and first place at the Burda International Startup Competition
• Team: designers and art directors with between 8 and 13 years of experience