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Creating
lasting value

We believe the way we advance digital today is imperative to ensuring a more open, resilient, and optimistic world. For 20 years, we’ve dedicated ourselves to creating lasting value with our partners.

By crafting brands and products that are fundamental to our interactions as people, we can make the internet an enhancement of our lives, not a distraction from it.

We flourish with difference and determination

Diversity, equity and inclusion are fundamental to achieving our vision through the experience and representation of our team and clients and our collective contribution to society. Read our DEI Statement.

We are consultants and craftspeople

We concept new brands and digital products and innovate on and transform existing ones. Our work simplifies business, inspires new behavior, and serves people’s needs. Learn more about partnering with us, get in touch.

  1. 01 Strategic platforms

    We look across an organization’s entire business to identify actionable advancement across brand, product, and technology. Through collaborative workshops analysis and immersion, we define your purpose, clarify your product and content, and align your business with the user’s experience.

    Partner with us to shape your brand, establish your product vision, and transform your digital experience.

  2. 02 User experience

    Whether thinking about the end-user or admin on the backend, we channel human insight and robust data to craft joyful, useful and intuitive experiences across and within the full brand and product ecosystem. With an understanding of users’ behavior and expectations, we design experiences to serve people’s lives.

    Partner with us to craft a holistic experience across an ecosystem or through singular products or services.

  3. 03 Design systems

    We create modular design systems that pique curiosity, express core beliefs and ensure scalable design integrity across brand, product, and technology. Creating dynamic digital libraries of designed modules, our design systems are intelligent, resilient and extensible.

    Partner with us to create or advance your identity or product UI to grow with your organization and users.

  4. 04 Technology

    We make engineering a fundamental part of our design process ensuring that the final product responds directly to business needs and user expectations. Using open-source technology, we develop customized software for web and mobile apps.

    Partner with us to develop a new product, re-platform an existing one, or for technical leadership.

  5. 05 Product management

    We measure success and ensure optimal reach by implementing holistic frameworks for monitoring, analytics, SEO, social and content syndication. We help you get more data from your products to gain insights, maintain quality, and grow your products.

    Partner with us to learn about our product care and sprint-based growth programs.

Clients

With a unified team and a shared roadmap, we collaborate with our clients as one from vision to reality. We immerse ourselves in their culture, communities, needs, and ambition.

Together, we discover ideas, explore concepts, establish purpose, and create lasting value that impacts their business and the people they serve.

  • Balenciaga
  • Columbia Business School
  • OpenAI
  • The New York Times
  • Fondation Louis Vuitton
  • National Gallery of Canada
  • Getty
  • Wyss Institute
  • The Aspen Institute
  • OXMAN
  • NIKE
  • International Energy Agency
  • Pentagram
  • US Chamber of Commerce
  • Celine
  • Accor

See case studies of our work or a complete list of all 242 clients we’ve partnered with across the arts, culture, commerce, and social progress.

Team

We are an international team of 70+ people from 18 countries, speaking 13 languages. Inspired by the world around us and united by our values, we are dedicated to our craft, impact, and soul.

Creating great work and living great lives is central to our culture, people, and operations. We do our work through the lens of life, not the other way around.

View a permanent online collection devoted to the work of Arnaud Mercier, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific interactive designers. Bringing together over 2000 images, this retrospective encapsulates Arnaud’s entire body of work.

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