Amplify Your
Product Team

We offer sprint-based research and design services that expand and focus resources, clear backlogs, and support product teams to advance quickly and deliberately.

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Crafted For Product Teams

Over the years, we’ve seen product and software teams struggle with three main challenges: effectively focusing limited resources, balancing product maintenance with innovation, and securing buy-in from leadership and users.

We have services to help with all three.

Generative Research

Uncover real user needs and surface the highest-value features

✓ Interviews
✓ Surveys
✓ Landscape Review

Evaluative Research

Ensure the design is right, before waiting/spending on engineering

✓ Audits
✓ Usability testing

UX Design & Writing

Enhance the current product or explore a potential future feature

UI Design

Prep wireframes for testing or dev; build out component libraries

Tutorials & updates

Educate and engage users on new releases

Roadmapping workshops

Align product and leadership on what’s next and why

Roadshow materials

Inform and engage colleagues about your vision

Desktop & Mobile

Capabilities that support your team across product experiences

Sprint-based

Keep your time and budget commitments to a minimum

Four By North helps product owners like Polymer Search prepare for a successful product release with targeted user research

Even when I replay an interview I've already watched, I feel like I notice something new and informative.

Yasser Ansari

Founder & President

4xN’s focused approach delivered a modern and compelling clean tech brand that appeals to key customers, prospects, investors, and partners.

John McLean

Director of Strategic Alliances
Screenshot of the Four-By-North-led brand expansion and website redesign of greenlots.com that preceded its acquisition by Shell Recharge

4xN’s research was instrumental in a new multi-million dollar platform critical to the company’s future.

John Dimatos

Head of Digital Product
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* 4 x Web Excellence Award Winner *

We Don't Walk. We Sprint.

We believe in scaling to meet our clients’ realities, and, for many, that means balancing rigor and depth with speed. That’s why we spent two years adapting the agile sprint method for creative design work.

Plus, unlike most agency engagements, when we are not in a sprint, you are not paying. The time between sprints, when your team is assembling feedback and thinking it through, we are not on the clock.

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