Our engagements are tailored to meet you where you are.
So, where are you feeling the most friction along your team's path to success? Our product strategy and experience design services align clients around purpose, product, and people (with discovery and research underpinning everything we do).
Our Services
Strategic Vision
Take a step back from incremental demands to draw the future state of your organization/product, make better decisions, realize new value, and align teams.
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A prototype of the future, visiontypes are centered on new ideas and the goals an organization wishes to achieve. They make concrete your team’s greatest ambitions.
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Define and shift the trajectory of a business from the current state to the future (ideal) state. We help you identify and realize new long-term business value.
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By applying customer-centric design methods, we enable teams to architect profitable/viable business models and overcome your most complex business challenges.
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Apply proactive sense-making and speculative design, so your team can better anticipate a desired future and capture future-facing opportunities for growth.
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Two weeks to actionable design diagnostics. We evaluate a company’s design maturity, opportunities, and risks, so investors can uncover new value creation opportunities and maximize the impact of design. This service can also be adapted for Startups.
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Whether auditing a product, analyzing the competition, or evaluating the market, we offer rigorous and methodical discovery and research to make sure are solving the right problems.
Read more about how we use discovery to untangle complexity.
Product-Service Design
Make more informed and insightful decisions that create intuitive experiences and unified platforms—all centered around the people who use them.
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Companies that excel at design grow revenues at nearly twice the rate of their industry peers (source: McKinsey Research). We can help you become one of those companies through strategic, user-centered UI and UX Design, as well as Visual Product and Service Design.
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Two great products coming together does not automatically equal one amazing experience for users. With this service, you’ll gain a shared understanding of cross-product user scenarios, so you can better align on and realize sustainable value (i.e. unified monetization, upselling, or cross-selling models).
Read more about enterprise product-to-platform transformation.
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Design and build more consistent user experiences by developing a shared library of widgets, pages, interactions, and even code. We’ll also audit, organize, and stand up an efficient process for your team to maintain the library as you scale.
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By auditing and mapping an entire experience from your customers' point of view, we’ll uncover strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities to holistically improve their journey.
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Move beyond cumbersome documentation of your product intentions. Instead, we’ll help you design products in their intended environments with interactive, dynamic prototypes that can be shared with stakeholders and tested with users.
Skills Development & Organization Design
Break down silos, up-skill your team, or complement your staff to foster a growth-minded culture that harnesses the full potential of your people.
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Gain an interim design leader who can sit alongside your product team, mentor staff, or serve as a thought partner to advance day-to-day work through weekly design reviews and 1:1s.
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Bolster your product team with our senior UX designers, researchers, or visual designers to make sure incremental or major product releases are purposeful. We can help you fill in the gaps with experienced and collaborative people.
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Our guided workshops can span an afternoon, day, or week(s). We can work with your designers or facilitate cross-discipline collaboration—from the C-Suite to product management, and engineering. Our aim is to empower your entire organization to view complex business challenges through a design lens.
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We’ve hired, trained, and mentored dozens of designers to be expert leaders and collaborators. This training program collects what we know makes the difference between designers who execute and designers who shape a more purposeful product strategy.
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Hiring new design talent is a big investment, so it’s important to get it right. We can help you determine the most important design roles to bring onboard, consider compensation, write job descriptions, and interview candidates so you find the right fit for your team.
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Each of our partners have more than two decades of experience and can help senior designer leaders learn how to best collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage stakeholders, and build strategic design teams. Elevate your design strategy and grow a great internal design team along the way.
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The structure and makeup of your team, systems, and processes are the foundation for your success. We evaluate existing company structures and design more complementary and collaborative ways to harness the power of your people and programs.
Artifacts & Activities
Design Strategy & Planning
Collaborative Goal Setting
Prioritization Workshops
Activation Planning
Research & Insights
Competitive & Landscape
Stakeholder Interviews
Heuristic Analysis
User Interviews
Personas
Scenarios
Concept Validation
Usability Testing
UX Design
User & Work Flows
Concept Maps
Storyboards
Journey Maps
Sitemap, Information Architecture (IA), & Navigation
Use Cases
Screen Types
Wireframes
UI Design
Component Specifications & Libraries
Visual Design Direction/Exploration
Hi-Fidelity Mockups
Development Support
Concept Validation
Key Screens
Style Tiles
Moodboards
Gain the direction and momentum you need to reach your team’s full potential.
Complexity, Clarified
We’re immersed in enterprise. Not every firm can work in B2B and B2B2C. We bring perspective and meaning to scattered and complex spaces. And we enjoy exploring the possibilities along the way.
Down with Politics, Up with Purpose
We work with organizational influences and dynamics. Together, we can proactively and productively respond to them and establish a better way of working.
Grow as We Go
(Together)
We invest in and develop our clients so that goals are shared and outcomes inspiring. We empower people to imagine and achieve new possibilities—even after engagements wrap.
Rigorous (Not Rigid)
You and your circumstances are unique. We don’t try to shoehorn you into a process because it’s convenient for us. Expect us to show up with thoughtfulness and thoroughness.
Who we work with
We confidently explore uncharted territory in complex B2B and B2B2C domains like technology, healthcare, finance, networking, security, and green tech.