Idea generation: Problem solving with enthusiasm and consistency
Facilitation: Objective consensus building to help find common ground among groups and disciplines
Human-centered-design: Harness design methods to help guide the creative process
Dependability: Source of content generation to empower managers, internal businesses, and colleagues
Beauty: Visualize ideas in a splendorous and informed way throughout the design process.
Listening: Strongly dedicated to hearing and focusing on the needs of the client
Source of energy: Provide a positive and enthusiastic springboard toward idea evolution
Cost effectiveness: Competitive in a tough economy
Quality: Measured by insights and values, every sketch is tailored for communication effectiveness
Team Builder: Build teams around the company’s goals
Industrial Design:
Product Design
User Experience
Concept Development
Human Centered Design Methods
Design Strategy
Experience Scenario Visualizations
Packaging and P.O.P.
Exhibit, Display, Signage Systems, Kiosks
Furniture
Communication Design:
Print Collateral
Corporate Identity
Web Site Design
Embedded Screen Product Interface
Application Interface
Mechanical Design
Brand & Marketing Strategy
Usability / Human Factors
Web Site Development
Interaction Design
Each person has a different way, similar to each company. We enjoy using a spiral development or cyclical approach because this offers empathy a better chance to emerge.
Below, is an example of how Human-Centered-Thinking helps to fulfill human needs, desires, and aspirations. The ideal process (lean, agile, waterfall, other) is fueled by insights discovered in the blue "kite-tail" shown below. Design methods can also help to differentiate the company by harnessing internal values that support user needs.
Aethon, Inc.
Bayer Radiology
Canon, Inc.
California University of Pennsylvania
Carlow College
Federated Investors
Homelite, Inc.
Industrial Design Society of America
Mavrovic Architects, LLC
M*Modal, Inc.
Pax Health
Philips Healthcare
Pittsburgh Auditorium Authority
Pittsburgh Water Authority
Poiesis Informatics, Inc.
PPG
Precision Therapeutics, Inc.
Preptech, Inc.
Psychiatrix PC
Near Earth Autonomy, Inc.
Sensible Machines, Inc.
Sports Technology International
St. Clair Health Corporation
The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern PA
We're interested in products and systems that return the person to a human scale of experience, and fulfillment of essential needs.
Design is an act of compassion that improves upon or eliminates the troubles of others. Creativity (or divergent thinking) and innovation are the byproducts of our ability to share what others feel without judgment. This is the outcome of empathy.
Equally, a good process nourishes the point of view of those we work with and the lives of those we serve. This allows us to move a great distance beyond our first thought.