Brand systems, interface design and frontend engineering — one studio, from identity to shipped code. For the startup before Series A, the Mittelstand product that was built but never designed, and the insurer whose website is now required by law to work for everyone.
BMW · Accenture · Nissan · Sportradar — and a founder who trained in Munich.
One call, a lot of questions, no deck.Designer in Munich?
What We Build
Everything a product needs to leave the building, from one team — at a rate a Series-A budget can carry.
Explore servicesIdentity, voice and design language built as a complete system. Not how you look, but how you hold together across every surface.
Screens that think. Every state, every edge case, every micro-interaction resolved before a line of code is written.
We write production code. React, Next.js, TypeScript — built for performance, built for teams, built to last past the handoff.
Components, tokens and governance your team runs without calling us. The system is the deliverable, not the screens.
We map the distance between where your product is and where it needs to be — research, positioning, architecture — then build the roadmap to close it.
The gap between software that works and software people trust is how it moves. Choreographed with precision timing and physics-based motion.
Three and a half thousand companies started here last year. Most need a brand system, a product interface and a marketing site before Series A — and can't pay Munich agency rates for all three. We're one team for the lot.
Configurators, dealer portals, fleet tools, machine interfaces — the software the Mittelstand runs on was specified by engineers for engineers. We design it for the person who actually uses it, and hand back a system your own team can keep building.
Europe's insurance capital sells products through flows most customers abandon. We build the onboarding, claims and advisor tools that get finished — and, since June 2025, that are accessible by law.
Germany's most expensive property market still moves through PDFs and phone calls. We build the owner, tenant and management portals that replace them — the same systems we run for developers in India, built for German law and German tenants.
Munich is Europe’s insurance capital, and its products are still sold through forms most customers abandon. Since June 2025 those forms must also be accessible by law. We designed an onboarding and claims flow that does both.
See the conceptTodayForty fields on one page
One question at a time, with answers filled in for you
TodayA policy delivered as a PDF
The policy as a page you can read, search and share
TodayClaims by phone and post
A claim filed from your phone in minutes, photos included
An unbranded concept. Outcomes on the full page are design targets, not client results.
Since 28 June 2025 the Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz requires every consumer website, app, shop and banking service to meet WCAG 2.1 AA. Fines run to €100,000 — and a competitor can send the Abmahnung before the regulator ever looks. We measure every page we ship against AA. We can do the same for the ones you already have.
Read the BFSG timetable
Audit
WCAG 2.1 AA measured page by page, with every failure specified as a fix rather than a finding.
Fix
Contrast, focus, structure, forms and motion brought to AA inside your existing codebase, without a redesign.
System
Tokens and components that pass by default, so the next feature your team ships is compliant before anyone checks.
Handover
The documentation, the Barrierefreiheitserklärung and the test evidence a Marktüberwachung or an Abmahnung will ask for.
Documents
Tagged, navigable, readable by a screen reader — the contracts, statements and brochures the law counts as part of the service.
Ongoing
Quarterly re-checks as content and code change, so you stay compliant rather than having been compliant once.
We're looking for the first: German-speaking senior designers and design leads who can sit across the table in Munich — run discovery, present the work, own the relationship — with a studio team delivering behind them. Paid a day rate for your time, ten percent of what you bring in. No exclusivity. Three ways in.
Discovery, workshops and presentations, in German, in the room. Day rate agreed before you start.
Introduce a company. We scope, price and close; you lead it, and take 10% of the fee.
Portfolio reviews for the network, a presence at MCBW and Friends of Figma, published work with your name on it.
Where We Work
Bengaluru, Northeast India, Dubai and Denver each have their own page — the work we've done there, the people, and how to reach us. Pick a market.
Questions
The six things people in Munich ask before they write to us. If yours isn’t here, ask it.
Parallax is a brand, product and frontend design studio serving Munich, founded by a designer who trained in Munich. Each project gets a dedicated team built out from our Munich hub, with the lead on the ground for discovery, workshops and presentations. The studio builds brand systems, product interfaces and marketing sites for Munich's startups, mobility and industrial companies, insurers and property developers.
Discovery and presentations are run in English today, and in German as Munich-based leads join the studio's network. German UI copy, documentation and the Barrierefreiheitserklärung are produced with native German speakers; design files and code are delivered in English.
Yes. Since 28 June 2025 the Barrierefreiheitsstärkungsgesetz requires consumer websites, apps, shops and banking services to meet WCAG 2.1 AA, with fines up to €100,000 and competitor Abmahnungen. Parallax measures every page it ships against AA and audits, remediates and documents existing products to the same standard.
Parallax publishes its prices. Foundation starts at €12,000 for a brand identity plus one digital touchpoint; Studio starts at €28,000 for a complete brand system, product UI and a frontend build. Munich agencies typically quote well above that scope-for-scope; the difference is a Bengaluru delivery team behind a Munich lead.
Four sectors sit at the centre of the Munich practice: startups and scale-ups that need a brand system and product UI before the next round; mobility and industrial companies with configurators and engineering tools; insurance and finance onboarding that customers finish; and real-estate and proptech portals for owners, tenants and managers.
The dedicated project team is built out from the Munich hub and works in your hours, with the lead on the ground for reviews and workshops; the studio continues after you log off, so the next iteration is ready the following morning. 09:00 in Munich is 12:30 in Bengaluru, so the two working days overlap until the German evening.
We start by questioning the brief. One call, a lot of questions, no deck — in English or German. If we're not the right studio for it, we'll say so and point you at someone who is.
