Founder-led UX design and product strategy in Newport Beach.

SapphireX is a founder-led UX design and product strategy practice in Newport Beach, California. The studio is at 120 Newport Center Drive and serves SaaS, healthcare, enterprise, and AI product teams that need senior help simplifying complex products.

The work is not a local volume agency. Engagements are limited and run directly by founder Safa Badamchi.

Services available from the Newport Beach studio

• Product Experience Audit
• SaaS UX Audit
• Product Strategy & UX Optimization
• SaaS & AI Product Design and AI product design consulting
• Design Systems
• Strategic Product Partnership

Who SapphireX works with

Product executives, founders, Heads of Product, UX leaders, and teams inside healthcare, enterprise software, SaaS, and AI companies. The fit is a complex product with an adoption, workflow, or trust problem, and a team that wants senior judgment rather than staff augmentation.

Why work with a local founder-led consultancy

A local practice can sit with the team, walk the product, and make decisions in the room. The more important distinction is the engagement model: no junior handoffs, strategy combined with execution, and a limited number of concurrent clients. Newport Beach is the studio location. The standard of work is the same remote or in person.

Remote and in-person engagement model

Discovery, audits, and design can run remotely. In-person working sessions in Newport Beach are used when the problem benefits from shared whiteboarding, stakeholder alignment, or reviewing a dense operational product together. Travel for teams outside Orange County is scoped when needed.

Industries

• Healthcare product design
• Enterprise UX consulting
• SaaS product teams, including SaaS UX audits
• AI product design

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