Montparnas is a novel user experience consultancy with offices in Boston and San Francisco and clients throughout the world.

We specialize in making digital products easier and more rewarding to use while providing attentive service, rare in bigger firms. We have extensive experience optimizing web sites and web applications, mobile devices, and consumer electronics for clients from Fortune 500 companies such as Google to successful start-ups such as Scribd.com.

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Why Montparnas

Our name comes from Mount Parnassus, the home of gods of the arts and sciences in Greek mythology. We believe that it accurately reflects our commitment to design backed by empirical and systematic methods.


How We Are Different

Montparnas was founded on the partners' undying conviction that digital user experiences can be better designed when guided by empirical research and executed with an extensive process that incorporates both user-centered as well as business-centered design. To accomplish this, we integrated product development principles and methods into our approach.

The effect is that we are better able to consistently design and improve digital user experiences.


Our Team

We strive to hire the best and brightest user experience designers and usability researchers. Our team members hold undergraduate and doctoral degrees from top universities in a diverse set of fields including Computer Science, Psychology, Economics, Physics, Visual Design, and Interaction Design. Montparnas consultants’ training and experience makes them perfectly suited to execute our unique and demanding approach.

We are members of:
Usability Professionals Association  and  Bay-CHI