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UI Coherence Diagnostic

Understand where UI inconsistency is affecting customers and slowing your team. Get a clear view of what needs to change before deciding where to invest.

General notes

Outcome
Confidence in your next UI investment
Focus
Find the gaps that matter most

Start with the decision you need to make

A fragmented UI can point to a component problem, unclear ownership, or workflows that have outgrown the original product. We start with your concerns, the decisions ahead, and what resolving them would make possible for your customers and team.

What is Included

  • A walkthrough with your team. We walk through your application together, ask the questions that surface the real pain, and let your team show us where the system is breaking down.
  • A written assessment connecting the gaps we find to customer friction and delivery problems, with prioritized recommendations and the tradeoffs behind them.
  • A discussion of the findings with your team, so you can agree on priorities and make an informed decision about next steps.

What It Produces

You leave with a clearer understanding of the causes, the improvements worth pursuing, and the evidence behind that recommendation. Your team can use the assessment to plan its own work or discuss an engagement with us. A full design system may be the right next step; targeted fixes or clearer ownership may be enough.

Who This Is For

Established software companies where the product has been built over years (often through acquisitions) and the UI no longer feels like one product. Engineering-led organizations with a VP of Engineering, CTO, or Head of Product who has named UI inconsistency as a real problem.

Shape the engagement

We agree on the questions the diagnostic needs to answer and the value of resolving that uncertainty. The scope, investment, and timing reflect those decisions and the access needed to investigate them.

What Comes Next

Depending on the findings, the next step may involve:

  • Design Systems for teams ready to build the canonical token system, multi-tool round-trip, and AI-fluent design system architecture.
  • Embedded Design for teams whose underlying issue is the absence of a design function, not a system problem.
  • Rails Frontend for teams that need design plus production implementation on the existing stack.

Run personally by John Athayde, founder of Meticulous.