Unexpected Ideas.
Actionable Plans.

Innovation Design Strategy

Collaborating to take your product or service to the next level and into the future.

The outcome:

Product development and positioning, roadmaps for production, and strategies to communicate value. Guiding the product to market and concepts for future planning.

Creative Direction and Oversight

Leading the creative strategy and process and working with key stakeholders and design teams to execute brilliant projects.
Whether it is design assets, presentations, videos, podcasts, or experiences, we work together to develop a design strategy and content strategy, then assemble the right teams to execute.

From concept to production and publication or syndication, let’s work together to bring your project to life.

The process:

Discovery:
Clarifying what needs to be accomplished

Ideation:
Exploring how the product is best realized

Filtering:
Collaborating with teams for selection process, business viability, go-to-market strategy and testing

Design:
Working with UX/UI teams to develop a prototype

Planning:
Creating roadmaps for bringing the concepts to life

CASE STUDIES

Website homepage for OpenInvo showcasing innovation and ideas, with silhouettes of people in an airport or modern building in the background, and text emphasizing seeking and having great ideas.

OpenInvo, Inc. : Tech Startup and Consultancy

Business Concept, MVP, UX, Business Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Execution

Original Concept: Create a digital Open Innovation / idea marketplace platform

Project Achievements:

  • Conducted research of business models and competitive analysis

  • Designed the business concept

  • Created wireframes and UX for the web application

  • Managed technology, design, and content vendors

  • Raised seed funding

  • Spearheaded digital strategy and marketing campaigns

Assorted Seabond dental care products including dentures adhesive wafers, a dual-head cleaner, and a dental bath container.

SeaBond Denture Adhesive:
Product Innovation, Design Strategy, Creative Direction

Challenge: How can SeaBond speak to the new generation of denture wearers in a relevant way?

Project Achievements:

  • Collected insights from quantitative data

  • Conducted primary web / social / product / qualitative Research

  • Created and facilitated 4 focus groups /ideation workshops

  • Revealed undiscovered insights

  • Managed client, researchers, vendors, logistics

Results: New communication strategy + new product development

Logo with a stylized letter Q and the word 'quad', featuring geometric shapes and varying blue shades.

Quad: Creative Direction, Brand Strategy, and Leadership

Challenge:
Create a new brand for an online membership-based digital community.

Solution:
Management of all aspects of brand design, content strategy, UX, with supported marketing oversight and customer experience.

  • Creative Direction for Brand Elements

  • UX Research

  • Oversight of UX and Content Strategy

  • Creation of Communication Plan: Announcements, Social Media

  • Studio leadership for creative assets

Open brand guidelines booklet with colorful typography samples and infographics, set on an orange background.

TechSoup: Rebrand, Design Strategy, Innovation Design, Creative Direction

Challenge:
Rebrand a global nonprofit with 236 web instances and 60 partners.

Solution:
Led global implementation of rebrand for nonprofit, TechSoup. Including overall brand strategy and rollout across 236 countries and territories for multiple web products and support collateral.

Project Achievements:

  • Managed the rebranding program including strategy, creative, UI/UX, visual design, digital marketing, copywriting and overall communications

  • Interpreted multi-stakeholder organizational needs to create an enterprise-wide brand strategy including brand book and architecture

  • Liaised between designers and technical teams

  • Co-created complete brand guidelines, new external messaging, revised mission, vision, brand promise

  • Shepherded internal communications and refresh of facilities in accordance with the new brand