A high-quality UX design for apps and websites is not a luxury, it is a necessity if a company wants to succeed. It is difficult to scale the impact of UX teams. In recent years, teams have turned to DesignOps platforms for help.A new startup is now aiming to be a major DesignOps platform for UX teams and has raised capital to do so.Zeroheight has raised a Series A round of $10 million led by Tribe Capital. Participants included Adobe, Y Combinator and FundersClub, as well angel investors such as Tom Preston-Werner, Bradley Horowitz, Irene Au, who built and ran UX design at Google, and Nick Caldwell, VP Engineering at Twitter.Zeroheight, a London-based company, will expand its presence to San Francisco/Bay Area and increase the number of employees. While its focus has been on UX documentation so far, zeroheight will now explore other areas like closing the gap between design/development.Jerome de Lafargue, co-founder, stated that zeroheight does UX the same thing DevOps platforms such as GitHub do for building or shipping code. Zeroheight provides a central location to document and manage UX components and design APIs to allow teams to speed up UX delivery.He stated that the company solves the scaling problem of UX teams. This is because UX has become so crucial for companies to compete, and UX has grown tremendously in recent years. This means that you need to centralize components so that teams are efficient and don't lose quality while shipping.Zeroheight has 1,300+ customers, including several Fortune 500 companies such as Adobe and United Airlines.
