We create comprehensive and scalable design systems to ensure consistency, efficiency, and reusability across all digital products.
New York web app development agency
Ramotion blends web app development expertise with New York City’s dynamic energy, crafting user-centric web applications that prioritize scalability, secure architecture, seamless API integration, and responsive design.
Featured clients
We specialize in enhancing web app experiences through thoughtful development, optimizing user interaction flows, and creating seamless, responsive web app interfaces for businesses of all sizes, from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 companies. Our expertise helps companies in New York City and beyond achieve their business goals.
Series of visual concepts for improving the user experience
Marketing website for a subsidiary of the CBRE Group's co-working space company
Iconography design for a payments infrastructure company with 250M+ API request per day
Official Apple tvOS app user interface development
Official Firefox rebrand and ongoing support for design projects at Mozilla
Brand identity design for an internal App Store by Universal Music
Visual identity for Adobe-owned company products
Ongoing design support for the leading destination for company insights
Designing a motion identity for Opera
Brand and marketing design support for an open source data structure server company
Ongoing design and development collaboration with an enterprise identity provider
Iconography guidelines, assets and web design for a digital forensics solution company
Redesign of the support portal and 30% improvement in users’ ability to get the answers they want
Design for a membership-based healthcare system
Iconography for a secure workspace software company with over 16 million cloud users
Rebranding for an open-source web testing platform with 5 million weekly downloads
Design for the world's first audio word processor
Brand identity for a secure data onboarding solution that processed more than 25 billion records
Website design for a B2B data provider platform with over 50 million company records
Brand identity and website for a tool used by over 80% of Fortune 50 companies' machine learning teams
Rebranding an e-commerce solution used by 180,000 entrepreneurs
Website for a blockchain data storage network that raised more than $250M+ at ICO
Rapid prototyping for an accounting software company with over 3.7 million subscribers
UX design for a medical group and technology company with a network of nearly 140,000 licensed doctors
Iconography design system for 500 million users around the world
Ongoing UX design and CRO for child care and education company with more than 200,000 children enrolled
Developing micro-interactions for the Lightning Design System
Marketing website for the cross channel marketing platform
Brand identity for a multi-chain crypto trading and liquidity hub with $10B+ in trading volume
Design for a global video game commerce company
Capabilities
Process
Industries
Design system development
POC and rapid prototyping
Our team delivers proof-of-concepts and rapid prototypes to validate ideas and accelerate project kickoffs with minimal risk.
UI development
We specialize in building responsive, intuitive, and visually appealing user interfaces tailored to your brand and audience.
Business logic implementation
We translate complex business requirements into efficient and maintainable code, ensuring seamless application functionality.
3rd party integrations
Our expertise in integrating third-party tools and services enhances your system’s capabilities and streamlines workflows.
API design & development
We craft robust, scalable, and secure APIs to facilitate communication between applications and systems.
Database architecture
We design and optimize database structures to ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability for your applications.
Microservices
Our team implements microservices architectures to promote modularity, scalability, and fault tolerance in your systems.
Continuous integration
We set up automated pipelines to streamline code integration, testing, and deployment processes, ensuring faster releases.
DevOps
Our DevOps practices bridge development and operations, enabling efficient collaboration, automation, and infrastructure management.
QA & test automation
We ensure product quality through thorough testing and automated solutions that catch bugs early and reduce manual effort.
Accessibility improvements
We enhance the accessibility of your digital products, making them user-friendly for people with disabilities and compliant with standards.
More about services
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Domain analysis
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand the business domain, identify core concepts, and establish a shared vocabulary (ubiquitous language).
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Strategic design
Define bounded contexts, identify subdomains, and establish context maps to organize complex domains into manageable parts.
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Tactical design
Create domain models through pure functions, algebraic data types, and event transformations while adhering to SOLID principles, leveraging the strong type systems of Typescript, Haskell and PureScript.
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Competitive analysis
Competitive Analysis
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Iterative development
Work in short sprints, continuously refining the domain model based on feedback and new insights from stakeholders.
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Continuous integration
Implement automated testing, frequent deployments, and monitoring to ensure model integrity and system reliability.
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Refactoring & improvement
Regularly improve code structure while preserving behavior, ensuring the model evolves with the business needs.
More about process
Custom web apps
Develop tailored, scalable, and high-performance web applications that meet unique business needs and enhance user engagement.
SaaS platforms
Build robust, cloud-based SaaS solutions with seamless scalability, intuitive interfaces, and secure integrations to drive innovation.
Education
Create interactive, accessible educational platforms that enhance learning experiences and integrate with modern LMS tools.
Entertainment
Design captivating, high-traffic entertainment platforms with dynamic content delivery and immersive user experiences.
HIPAA-compliant healthcare apps
Develop secure, compliant healthcare applications for telemedicine, EHRs, and patient engagement while safeguarding sensitive data.
E-commerce and retail platforms
Build conversion-driven e-commerce platforms with intuitive navigation, secure payment systems, and advanced analytics to boost sales.
Logistic management systems
Streamline supply chain operations with efficient logistics management systems that enable real-time tracking and smart inventory control.
Fintech platforms
Deliver secure, user-friendly fintech solutions that comply with regulations and redefine convenience in digital financial services.
Developers with design intuition
Design-centric problem solving
Our developers understand both technical and design principles, leading to solutions that are not only functionally robust but also aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly.
Enhanced collaboration
Design-aware developers communicate more effectively with designers, resulting in faster iterations and better implementation of design specifications while maintaining pixel-perfect attention to detail.
Proactive UX improvements
With strong design intuition, our developers can identify and suggest UX improvements during implementation, catching potential issues before they reach users.
Type-driven development
Focuses on using strong type systems to encode logic, enforce correctness, and ensure that invalid states are unrepresentable.
GitOps
Manages infrastructure and deployments using Git as the single source of truth, enabling automated and reliable delivery pipelines.
Domain-driven design with types
Structures software around the domain model while leveraging type systems to explicitly define and enforce business logic.
Case studies
Vela
Vela
Ongoing Vela web app development, driving growth and optimizing e-commerce for 70,000+ sellers.
EMI Health
EMI Health
Optimized EMI Health’s UX for 300,000+ members, enhancing engagement, broker endorsements, and reducing service calls.
Coinread
Coinread
We designed Coinread’s branding, website, and UI/UX, enhancing user engagement and crypto market accessibility.
Web apps we build
Custom web apps
Bespoke applications tailored to your business needs, offering scalability, streamlined workflows, and results-driven outcomes to empower growth and innovation.
Rich interactive
Feature-rich applications with advanced visuals, smooth animations, and real-time interactivity designed to captivate and engage users.
Visually stunning
Beautifully crafted applications that combine intuitive functionality with visually impactful designs to deliver exceptional user experiences.
Data processing
High-performance applications capable of handling complex calculations, data modeling, and algorithm-driven operations with precision and efficiency.
Microservice backends
Flexible, fault-tolerant backend architectures designed to ensure seamless scaling, robust performance, and smooth integrations.
AI-powered web apps
Intelligent web applications leveraging artificial intelligence to deliver personalized, predictive, and automated solutions that elevate user engagement.
What our
partners say
ReviewsDelivering an incredible user experience for our customers was our top priority. Ramotion came in with research-based data and implemented what we needed into an effective UX with a beautiful design. The communication from the team was remarkable, and we always knew what they were working on, and what was coming. The end product speaks for itself. Our customers love it.
Erik Soderborg
Marketing Manager at EMI HealthI have impossibly high expectations, and the talented team at Ramotion didn't disappoint. They delivered thoughtful, polished designs, and code that made an outsized, positive business impact by dramatically increasing our customers' ability to find and understand support site content.
Brian Beaver
VP of Design at TuroWe initially chose Ramotion to help us build a next-generation environmental platform, and we have been very impressed by the talent and speed at which the team is able to operate and deliver a high quality product. We would highly recommend Ramotion for any design build project going forward.
Daniel Sadik
Senior Vice President, at Carbon Solutions GroupWe reached out to Ramotion for support on a significant update to our product. The team provided an expert that perfectly matched our needs and the resulting collaboration was a huge success. I definitely plan on working with them again.
Mark Opland
Product Design Director at XeroRamotion is a rock solid team. They combine an innate instinct for good design with a keen understanding for real world business challenges.
Khoi Vinh
Senior Principal Design at AdobeTools we use
Crafting innovative, scalable, and user-centric web applications requires a precise set of tools, ensuring seamless functionality, cutting-edge technology, and measurable growth for your business.
Backend
Frontend
Infrastructure
QA
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Haskell
A statically typed, purely functional programming language designed for robust, high-assurance software development.
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Redis
An in-memory database designed for ultra-fast caching and real-time data processing.
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MySQL
A reliable relational database ideal for structured data and complex queries.
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PostgreSQL
A powerful, open-source database with advanced features for relational and object-relational data.
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Neo4j
A graph-based database optimized for modeling and querying relationships in data.
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Firebase
A comprehensive app development platform offering hosting, real-time databases, authentication, and serverless functions.
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TypeScript
A superset of JavaScript that adds static typing to enhance code reliability and maintainability.
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Purescript
A strongly typed, functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript, enabling type-safe front-end and back-end development.
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Tailwind
A utility-first CSS framework that streamlines the development of responsive and customizable user interfaces.
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Lit
A lightweight library for building fast and reusable web components using modern web standards.
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Next.js
A React-based framework for building server-rendered and statically generated web applications with exceptional performance and flexibility.
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Lottie
A library for rendering vector-based animations in real-time on web and mobile platforms.
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ESLint
A linting tool for identifying and fixing problems in JavaScript and TypeScript codebases.
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Three.js
A JavaScript library for creating 3D graphics and animations in the browser using WebGL.
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Chart.js
A simple and flexible library for creating interactive and visually appealing charts.
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Storybook
A development environment for building, testing, and documenting UI components in isolation.
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GitLab / GitHub
Platforms for version control and collaborative development, enabling seamless code management and CI/CD workflows.
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Docker, Kubernetes
Tools for containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) to build, deploy, and scale applications efficiently.
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AWS
A comprehensive cloud platform offering scalable infrastructure, storage, and managed services for a wide range of applications.
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Sentry
A real-time error tracking and monitoring tool for identifying and resolving application issues.
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Cypress
An end-to-end testing framework for ensuring the reliability and functionality of web applications.
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qase.io
A test management tool designed to organize and streamline test case execution and reporting.
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Lighthouse
An open-source tool for auditing and improving web performance, accessibility, and best practices.
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Jest
A JavaScript testing framework for writing unit tests with a focus on simplicity and performance.
Web application development benefits
Scalability
Delivers flexible solutions that grow with your business needs, ensuring long-term usability.
Cross-platform
Ensures seamless functionality across various devices and platforms, expanding your reach.
Enhanced security
Incorporates robust security measures to protect sensitive data and maintain user trust.
Cost-efficiency
Reduces development and maintenance costs with streamlined processes and efficient solutions.
Ease of maintenance
Simplifies updates and maintenance, ensuring your web app remains up-to-date and functional.
Customer engagement
Provides intuitive and interactive experiences, fostering stronger connections with your audience.
Why Ramotion?
Ramotion specializes in partnering with New York City-based companies to deliver web app development solutions that reflect the city’s unique culture and user-centered creativity. By leveraging deep local market insights and proximity for seamless collaboration, we tap into Silicon Alley’s vibrant tech ecosystem to craft applications that embody the innovative spirit of NYC.
Years in business
15+Distributed team members
70+Web apps delivered in New York
50+Avg. rating on DesignRush & Clutch
4.9Awards & recognition
More awards
- Best App of the Year
- App of The Week
- App Store Editors' Choice
- Top Web App Development Company in New York
Best Web App Development Agency in New York, NY
10 Best Apps of the Year
Best Web Application Development Company
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Branding
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Web design
Optimized websites for New York City brands with intuitive navigation, responsive design, SEO, mobile compatibility, and user-focused performance.
UX design
Enhance usability through user-centric research, interaction design, and functional prototypes, crafted to meet the high standards of NYC’s dynamic innovation environment.
App design
Create platform-specific apps with intuitive flows and high user retention, reflecting New York City’s culture and reputation as a global hub for business and creativity.
Web app development
Develop web apps with a robust backend, sleek frontend, seamless API integration, intuitive user interface, optimized performance, and scalable architecture.
Design system
Streamline workflows with scalable design libraries, tokens, and cohesive guidelines.
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Nov 5, 2024Read moreWhat is web app development?
Web app development is the process of building interactive, browser-based applications that provide functionality similar to mobile or desktop apps.
It involves front-end design (user interface), back-end development (server-side logic), database management, and API integrations to deliver a seamless, accessible user experience across devices.
Why is web app development important for businesses in New York?
Web app development is essential for New York businesses because:
- Diverse industries: NYC’s finance, fashion, real estate, and hospitality sectors rely on cutting-edge web apps to streamline operations and engage customers.
- Fast-paced audience: New Yorkers demand fast, responsive, and intuitive digital solutions.
- Competitive market: With countless businesses competing for attention, a custom web app helps you stand out.
- Scalability: Web apps are easily scalable, meeting the needs of startups, small businesses, and large enterprises as they grow in NYC’s dynamic market.
- Local engagement: Tailoring your app to reflect New York's diverse demographics enhances customer connections and loyalty.
How much does web app development cost?
The cost of web app development depends on several factors:
- Complexity: Apps with simple workflows cost less than feature-rich apps with real-time updates, geolocation, or AI.
- Features and integrations: Custom dashboards, APIs, and third-party services may increase costs.
- Scale and traffic: Apps designed for heavy traffic or enterprise solutions may require advanced infrastructure, increasing development time and expenses.
For New York clients, additional customization to align with NYC’s unique industries or audience expectations may affect pricing.
How to choose a web app development agency in New York?
When selecting a web app development agency in New York, consider the following:
- Local expertise: Choose an agency with experience in NYC’s industries, such as finance, fashion, real estate, and hospitality.
- Portfolio: Look for examples of web apps that demonstrate innovative solutions and high-quality design.
- Scalability: Ensure the agency can build apps that grow with your business and user base.
- Technology stack: Check that the agency uses modern frameworks and technologies for performance and scalability.
- SEO and performance optimization: Select an agency that prioritizes fast load times and SEO for visibility in New York’s competitive digital landscape.
- Reputation: Check reviews, case studies, and testimonials, especially from other New York-based businesses.
Our agency has extensive experience working with New York clients, delivering innovative and scalable web app solutions tailored to NYC’s competitive market.
Can web app development help my business grow in New York?
Yes! A well-developed web app can:
Improve customer engagement: Provide an intuitive and user-friendly experience that keeps users coming back.
- Streamline operations: Automate workflows and improve efficiency in industries like finance or real estate.
- Build credibility: A polished app reflects professionalism and innovation, key to succeeding in NYC’s fast-paced environment.
- Attract local customers: Features like geolocation and personalized recommendations enhance user engagement in New York.
- Support scalability: Design your app to grow as your business expands in NYC and beyond.
Location
Remote culture
Ramotion is primarily a remote-first company, with established meeting spaces, including one in New York