UI/UX design · Udupi & Mangaluru
We design the screens of apps, websites and business software, test them with the people who will use them, and can build them exactly as drawn. One studio in Udupi does both, and keeps refining the screens once people use them.
In short
A UI/UX design company plans the screens of an app, website or business software, then tests them with real users before anything is built. At its Udupi studio in coastal Karnataka, Whirl Designs begins by watching your customers or staff do the task. It turns what it sees into practice screens they can tap through, fixes what confuses them, and can build the final version as drawn.
Start here
Design work comes in three sizes. Which one you need depends on whether the product already exists, and who will build it.
Best for: A working site or app where people get stuck
Best for: You already have someone to build it
Best for: A new app, website or business system
If the trouble is a hidden button or unclear words, an audit and a few fixes will do, and we will not sell you a full redesign.
Our work
Avi's Events & Management
Events & weddings · Udupi
Avi's Events & Management plans weddings and events in Udupi. Their work is entirely visual, so the site had two jobs above all others: let the photographs lead, and make the enquiry the easiest thing on the page.
Every service is laid out around its gallery, with the photographs ahead of the text. The enquiry form can be reached from every screen, so a visitor who likes what they see never has to hunt for it, and the pages are built to stay fast on mobile data, even when someone opens them at a venue.
Also built by us
Nityanand Agro
Agriculture & retail · Karnataka
A public catalogue for an agri-products business, plus the internal CRM its staff run the day on — installed on their phones as an app, working over patchy rural signal.
Jayalaxmi Jewellers
Retail jewellery · Karkala
A brand site for a gold house trading since 1990, built to feel like the shop it represents — and backed by a full retail ERP handling billing, savings schemes and old-gold exchange.
What you get
These are the parts that get skipped when a job is rushed. None of them is skipped here, and the written plan names each one.
How it runs
You tap through real screens long before anything is built, while changes are still quick to make.
A few of your customers or staff do the task the screens are for, while we watch and take notes. Our team comes to your shop, office or counter in Udupi, Manipal, Mangaluru, Karkala or Kundapura; farther away, the same session runs on a video call with screen sharing.
Each task becomes a short flow: what the person sees, taps and reads at every step. You approve the flows, the list of screens and the dates before any visual design starts.
Rough layouts, called wireframes, come first, so nobody argues about colours too early. Then a clickable prototype, screens you tap through like a real app, goes on your own phone. A handful of real users try it, and anything that confuses them gets fixed.
Your colours, type and parts are applied to every screen and every situation. You check it in the prototype again, by tapping through it, not by looking at still pictures.
Our team builds it from the approved design, or your developer does. Either way, the built screens are checked side by side with the design before launch, so what your users get matches what they tested.
After a few weeks of real use, we check where people stop, ask for help or phone you instead, and adjust those screens. Support carries on with the people who drew them.
Not a fit
Saying this at the first meeting saves everyone time.
Questions
UX is how a task works; UI is how each screen looks. UX design decides the steps, the order and the words a person needs to finish something, such as booking a table or raising a bill. UI design turns those steps into screens: layout, colours, type and buttons. A good-looking screen can still fail if the steps behind it are wrong, so both are designed together.
You get the finished screens and everything needed to build them. That means the user flows (the steps for each task), the wireframes, a clickable prototype, the final design of every screen, a small design system of reusable parts, and notes for the developer. All of it is handed over in Figma, a design tool that opens in any web browser.
A website's main screens usually need three to five weeks to design and test; a small app, five to ten weeks. Business software with several roles, such as counter staff, managers and owners, takes longer, because each role's screens are tried by people in that role. Slow feedback is the other thing that stretches it, so the written plan sets dates for both sides.
Yes, but it can be small. For most local businesses it means a few conversations with customers or staff and watching them try the task, often in one morning at your shop or office in Udupi, Manipal or Mangaluru. That is usually enough to find the two or three things that trip people up. Big surveys and long reports are rarely needed at this size.
Yes, and it usually starts with a UX audit: a written review of where people get stuck, made by watching them work. The worst screens are fixed first and what already works is kept, so your staff do not have to learn everything again. A full redesign is only worth it when the steps themselves are wrong, not just the look.
Yes. The design files are moved to a Figma account in your business's name, along with every icon and image exported for use. The design is yours to build on, with us or with any other developer. If a font or a photo needs a licence, the plan says so and the licence is taken in your name.
Yes. A screen can show Kannada only, English only, or both languages together. Kannada words often run longer than English ones, and Kannada lines need more height because parts of some letters sit above and below the line, so the design uses real Kannada text from the start. Times of Karkala, a news portal we built, publishes daily in both languages with Kannada typography that stays readable.
Business software often needs it most, because staff repeat the same screens many times a day. At a billing counter that means big buttons, few steps and totals that are easy to check while a queue waits. The billing app we built for Nityanand Agro runs on staff phones, works over patchy rural signal and prints receipts through a Bluetooth thermal printer.
Worth reading first
Clean, documented, tested code on a modern, proven stack — the foundation that keeps your ui/ux design fast and dependable for years.
Ready when you are
Show us the screen that confuses people today, or describe the one you have not built yet, and we will send a clear design plan in writing: which screens, who tests them, and by when.
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