500 Designs

From offices in Irvine and the San Francisco Bay Area, 500 Designs provides brand, web and product design alongside growth marketing. It works with large enterprises and venture-backed start-ups, and lists Google, Meta, TikTok, FedEx, HubSpot, Cisco and 3M among its clients.

The agency has three service lines. Branding and strategy covers research, brand audits, naming, positioning, visual identity and brand guidelines. Websites and product covers web strategy, website design and development, web app design and build, UX audits, usability testing and design systems. Growth marketing covers content strategy, SEO, optimisation for AI search tools, paid search and social, lifecycle marketing, analytics and conversion testing.

Published work includes a brand system and conversion-focused website for the online therapy service BetterHelp, a website for Fresh Del Monte built around its people, planet and produce themes, and a meal subscription app design for EveryTable. The firm builds many of its sites on WordPress.