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Focus.

While nearly everything else has the potential to change, delivering value to people every day is non-negotiable.

We solve human problems.

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Create the future you want.

Our mission has always been to expose human stories and decode customer truths. This is what propels organizations into action.

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Our Approach

Problem Framing

Problem framing allows organizations to see human, market, and technology changes in a new light. It is a set of tools through which we identify and articulate the needs we are trying to meet and define how our business must change to survive and thrive. The practice of framing happens when we physically or mentally change our point of view, by seeing the world through the eyes of others. We start with questions that begin with "why," live in the world of our customer, or view the world from a different cultural perspective. Together, these approaches enhance your ability to generate imaginative responses to the problems that come your way.

  • Strategy Planning + Positioning
    A structured way for organizations to frame their hunches (fixing problem spaces, new initiatives, new products, business risks, competitive risk) to create a way to test and validate risks and opportunities. Delivered by the right team of experts as a half-day working session around the needs and space. Facilitated with a team addressing this issue.
  • Executive Briefing
    Leading experts help frame C-suite, business unit, or role-based views of new thinking and knowledge as an input to talking action. This work sets the playing field for exploration of specific problem sets within a company and brings lenses to see the question clearly.
  • Market Scan
    We frame ways of understanding the key questions facing your organization. This is comprised of both data on your business and organization as well as work that we do on your behalf including work like environmental scan, marketplace research and assessment.
  • Immersive Experiences
    Crafted experiences to change the perspective and frame of teams to allow them to see their situation from another perspective: this can be cultural, social, financial, technical. Our objective is to deliver a deep, shared experience that is transformative for the team, individual, and organization. We bring your core team members with our research team or design a specific immersion experience for you.
  • Customer + Stakeholder Deep-Dive Research
    Our speakers believe that real human stories are the key to innovation and growth. We want to share this belief to help inspire and motivate your organization into action.
  • Insight Platform
    This is the platform that allows companies to upload and tag qualitative research from multiple sources to build core concepts around people (personas) or functional areas of a company (call center, at retail advisor team) as well as initiatives (IOT) and emerging themes (gamification). In addition to the video data, other web-based insight and assets can be added to the tool. The tool is designed to allow organizations to see these topics over time and cross study to better leverage past studies and link insight work together.
  • Concept + Usability Testing
    Validate your concepts with real customers before building them. See where users might be hitting roadblocks with your tools and resources to solve problems, and see what works well to identify your highest value investments.
  • Field Work
    Observe and interview your team in the field to better understand their daily challenges. Identify opportunities for change and growth while considering work flow, space and team dynamics.

Co-Create

Our Co-Create framework packages business strategy, customer understanding, and product needs to rapidly uncover and validate potential solutions. Co-Create outcomes are directly actionable by business and product development teams. Our approach leverages industry best practices pulled from agile methodologies, design thinking, and 18 years in the trenches helping companies accelerate their product design process.

  • Human-Centered Design
    We're wired to explore possibilities that help people. We help our clients improve their product and service experiences, digital products, and enabled services by first gaining a deep understanding of users.
  • Innovation + Co-Create Workshops
    Co-Create workshops move fast, and every voice counts. We bring together product owners, business analysts, subject matter experts, engineers, designers, customers and facilitators to create a shared product vision, gain momentum, validate, and build confidence in our solution.
  • Product + Service Experience Design
    We turn research and human understanding into tangible solutions. We help define product and service experience features and tools that will solve problems and propel your organization forward.
  • Visual + User Interface Design
    We design process and flow for your product to fit the needs of your user, all while making it look visually beautiful through color, typography and iconography.
  • Prototyping
    By getting prototypes into the hands of users as soon as possible, we validate solutions, catch issues early, and see possibilities for the future.
  • Experiential Storytelling
    We take a look into the future by visualizing the story of your product experience. Share the story internally, with potential investors, partners, and customers to get them on the same page and excited about what is possible.

Detailed Design

Detailed Design is a framework for evolving high-level product concepts into detailed functional designs and product requirements. We ensure that product vision is executed throughout the product and service, aligning functionality, performance, usability, and customer delight.

  • Functional Specification
    We get into the specifics and document how every detail on your product looks, works and feels.
  • Agile Sprint Level Design
    We create screen layouts, activity workflows, clickable prototypes, component and pattern definitions, and functional requirements, allowing product owners and engineering teams to focus on the technical solution.
  • User Interface Development
    Our developers bring your product to life by turning designs into a living product ready to be placed into your users' hands.
  • Coordination with Integration Partners
    We work with your development team to make sure they have everything they need to bring your product into the real world.

We enable leaps, so that you can innovate while running the business.