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Good design creates selflessly with others.

Too often those outside your core team don’t really care about you and the people you’re trying to serve. We’ve experienced this, and we hate it. So we take the relational approach. There’s no smoke and mirrors. No hidden agendas. Just hard work, and honest design.

Practice is better than theory.

We believe that doing something is always better than knowing something. We move quickly from analysis to action. From insight to inspiration. From knowing to showing. Everything we practice is about demonstrating what we know in a real and tangible way. If we cannot create real value with our ideas then we have failed.

People first, data next.

Data can inform what a great experience should be. But, if you only focus on the information you are apt to miss out on the people. The emotion and thought behind raw behavior. The facts never speak for themselves and always need an interpreter. A human filter. We separate the signal from the noise to sift through and understand what value can be achieved for the right people, at the right time.

Honesty is truth in action.

Everyone wants the truth, but truth is more than a message. Truth becomes real in the interactions we have with people. A run and gun approach leaves holes in products and people as they work through the smoke and try to understand. That's not our style. Honest design is a phrase we use to describe an experience and process that creates actual value. For people, and for business.

Learn from the past, expect the future.

We want to help you get from today to tomorrow and along the way give you care, kindness, and great work. We take the short term loss, for the long term gain. And we think about how decisions will affect the first time user and at the same time, build a relationship with the seven year power-user. We are committed to creating ideas that are innovative while incorporating what we have learned.

Don’t think in black or white.

The idea of opposites is misleading and labels create imbalance. We find the best aspects in each idea and use them strategically to our advantage. We’re constantly trying to find stability in everything. We're imaginative and analytical, insightful and active, old-fashioned and trendy. If you only dream, you'll never go to market. If you just study, you'll probably be boring. Strength is doing both.

We make human connections.

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