How can we help?

Sometimes you know exactly what you need. Sometimes you just know something isn’t working.

We work with organizations and communities at different points in a project—from understanding a challenge to designing, testing, and implementing what comes next.

You don’t need to know which service you need before talking to us.

Social Impact Design Audit

Take a closer look at what’s already there.

Design shapes how people encounter your organization: who can access it, who participates, and where people get left out.

Our Social Impact Design Audit looks at how design is already operating across your organization—from communications and services to spaces, digital experiences, accessibility, and engagement practices.

We identify what’s wroking, where there are gaps, and where design could better support the people you service.

A close-up view of a sense-making session: A person writing on blue paper surrounded by scattered colored cards, a smartphone, orange paper, scissors, and stickers on a wooden table.

Research & Strategy

Understand before deciding.

We help organizations make sense of complicated questions before jumping to solutions.

Through research, conversations, and mapping, we look at the people, systems, histories, and conditions surrounding a problem—then turn what we learn into useful directions for what comes next.

A collaborative brainstorming session: Two women work together at a table covered with sticky notes and office supplies, with a whiteboard.

Co-Design & Community Engagement

Share the decisions

We create ways for the people affected by a project to meaningfully participate in shaping it.

From a single workshop to a longer engagement process, we design and facilitate participation, document what we learn, and help translate it into deciisons—not just feedback.

A product design session: Two women wearing masks collaborate on an electronics prototype at a workstation filled with tools and hardware components, with one leaning over the table while the other adjusts a component.
An ideation and conceptual design session: Hand-drawn sketches on colorful sticky notes arranged on a table, including diagrams of a microphone, a ladder, and handwritten notes reading "KINSHIP + CONSTRUCT" and "REFRAIN FROM PLATFORM''.

Design & Implementation

Make it real

We move from research and ideas into designing, prototyping, and implementing what comes next.

Because our practice crosses disciplines, the outcome isn’t predetermined. It might become an identity, publication, digital experience, object, space, installation, service, program—or something we haven’t named yet.

Not sure where to start?

Bring us the questions, the half-formed idea, or the thing that isn’t quite working yet—we can start there.