Amazing designers and researchers you can trust to bring your humanity-driven products to market.
We’re a collective of researchers and designers who work with startups and accelerators to create products and experiences to advance humanity: in art & craft, sustainability, financial equity, edtech, health tech, social impact, gaming, and experiential tech (AR, VR, AI).
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Get out of your head and into the user’s
Founders often fell in love with ideas without the know-how to test those ideas in the market. Our design thinking process and research methodologies allow us to extract true & tested user insights to create products that are solving real user problems.
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20+ collective members vs. 1 full-time staff
We match the right Collective member with the evolving needs of the product. This allows our startups to access the right skillset at the right time. It’s a huge plus point that every one of us is passionate about creating for good.
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Metric-driven, not guess work
Founders waste a lot of time and money on unnecessary features and efforts. Our proprietary frameworks are analytically driven so we can make product decisions based on business, UX, and tech priorities.
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Long-term partnership & Smooth transitions
Our goal is to set you up with a validated MVP and then set you up with the right internal resources to own your knowledge! We’ll help you to interview for the right full-time staff at the end of the project and to integrate them so you can own your knowledge.
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For founders, by founders
We know the challenges you are going through because we have been there. A lot of our Collective members are also founders with our own endeavors. Our collborative mindset is give-first, founder-friendly, and non-explotative. We are transparent and generous with our approach and expertise.
Research for the Right Reason
Whether you’re a startup or an established organization trying to create new things, we help you discover real user needs with our hands-on workshops and proven user research methods that get the Business aligned with the User. Let’s create the right thing for the right person, from the start. Here’s a glimpse at our process and services.
Designed for Makers, by Makers
Our designers are so good we’ve all gone independent from the traditional agency model. We are a collective of makers who choose projects based on expertise and value alignment. Launching a knitting app? Your product designer is a knitter. Creating a game? The UX designer spends hours trying out games and even create our own. Passionate about creating equal opportunities for your community? We’re that community. Our shared passion matters. Meet our team here.
Emerging Tech for Human-Old Problems with a Global Team
AR for body measurements, VR for interior design, Alexa for instructional meditation: we create and specialize in human tech. We venture into new territories and are excited by new technology as a potential solution to old human problems. If you believe there’s a market, a solution that doesn’t exist -> let’s talk. Learn more about our distributed team and how you’ll give you the values you seek.
Hire Us
We are a group of passionate researchers and designers looking to help humanity-driven companies to launch your digital platform. You can learn more about the team, our services, who we’ve worked with (and their ravings!) If you don’t know where to start or you have problems to fix: We are there for you and we are in - all the way.
