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Dribbble Selects Upheave as a 2026 Trendsetter Agency

Posted on May 15, 2026

Dribbble Select: Top Product Design Company badge

Dribbble has named Upheave a Select Trendsetter Agency for 2026 and included us in its Product Design Agencies directory, a curated index of studios focused on operationally involved, system-scale product design.

The recognition matters to us because most of the work it reflects happens out of public view: healthcare platforms, internal dashboards, AI-assisted tools, and operational software people spend hours inside every day.

Much of the industry is reorganizing itself around AI right now. We build with these tools daily. For most teams, the bottleneck now is comprehension. Helping people understand what a system is doing, and whether they should trust it under pressure, is where design earns its keep.

A small team helps here. Strategy, design, and engineering live in the same room, so implementation realities shape design decisions from day one.

We're continuing to focus on AI-assisted workflows and operational platforms where people rely on the product every day and the design needs to hold up over time.

Grateful to Dribbble for the recognition, and to the clients whose problems have pushed our thinking.

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