Our Expertise

Unflinching commitment to human-centered design &  stewardship

How We Do It

We apply human-centered design across 3 core disciplines

Design-led research:

The journey from
chaos to clarity

Designing conversations to build trust and discover truth

We create the conditions for people to share openly and honestly. Because many times people don’t have the words to articulate their needs, we make our questions tangible - be it a sketch or a simulated user experience.

Design Research as
a tool to learn and to validate

We embed research throughout various phases of our work to ensure that our clients are ‘designing the right thing’ and ‘designing the thing right.’ We are fluent in conducting research to both explore the problem and validate our design hypotheses through user testing.

Turning human stories into data in ways that computers can’t

We take no one person’s word as gospel. We interrogate everything we hear in through rigorous synthesis designed to remove bias and challenge assumptions in order to reach a crystal clear customer truth (the what) and opportunity to address it (the how).

Case Studies

See our research in action

Design & Prototyping

The petri-dish
of innovation

Prototypes are vehicles to help answer complex questions

Every prototype, no matter the finality, is always rooted in a well researched hypothesis. Without a question to explore, a prototype is just a pretty artefact with no reason to exist.

Prototyping is about role playing the future before committing to it

There’s no ‘right’ way to solve a complex problem. By using prototyping to simulate the future we can gain confidence that a design best fits the needs of the customer and the business.

Prototyping is an interdisciplinary playground

Prototyping should not be exclusive to digital because in reality products and services don’t operate in silos. The best prototype are the ones that explore a hypothesis through multiple mediums (e.g. tools, roles, processes and space) to get to the best answers for your business.

Case Studies

See our prototyping in action

Business & Design Strategy

The art & science of
decision making

Thinking beyond silos
and vacuums

We believe that human behaviours are shaped to a large extent by the wider networks and systems they live, work, and play in. We believe that those systems, when designed well, can lead to monumental positive change.

Empathy for clients
and customers

We connect the dots between the departments of an organisation to enable more informed and holistic decision-making. Across the process we ground our recommendations and opportunities on human insight - whether that’s from your customers or stakeholders.

Designing beyond products to businesses, organisations, & systems

We believe that design can be applied beyond products and services to the benefit of entire systems, processes and organisations. Through the lens of value creation, we design opportunities from micro-moments to organisation-wide shifts.

Case Studies

See our strategy in action

Explore Our Capabilities In Detail

The AGENCY team is well-versed in
Research & Analysis, 
Strategy & Synthesis,
Design & Prototyping to guide 
organisations through the design process, from end to end.

We have comprehensive Research & Analysis capabilities that help us discover and construct a direction in-depth and with precision

  • Ethnographic Research
  • Experience Auditing
  • Trend & Cultural Research
  • Competitive & Market Analysis
  • Business Analysis
  • Data Analysis
  • Qualitative Analysis
  • Quantitative Analysis
  • Design from Day One

  • Workshop facilitation
  • Co-creation & Ideation
  • Stakeholder management

Our Strategy & Synthesis capabilities ensure we successfully define and translate insights into actionable and impactful opportunities

  • Audience Segmentation & Persona Development
  • Opportunity mapping & Prioritisation
  • Hypothesis-based decision making
  • Service Design, Systems mapping & ideation
  • Value proposition definition
  • Customer Journey mapping
  • Design conceptualisation
  • Organisational Design
  • Change management

Our Design & Prototyping capabilities underpin our 
cross-discipline fluency, ensuring that we can bring designed and tested solutions to the real world

  • Interaction, UX/UI Design
  • Comms and branding design
  • Physical & Digital
    product design
  • Environment & Spatial design
  • Business Model innovation
  • Digital and Physical Prototyping
  • User Testing and
    Usability Testing
  • Performance Measurement

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