We believe that smart thinking thrives with a methodical approach.
We approach all of our engagements with one objective: To help our clients create world-class interactive experiences. Depending on who we're working with, this can mean different things.
Many of our projects include components of all three of the following services. What's the right mix for you? We'll work closely with you to craft an approach that will tackle the right problems and ensure that we get to the right answers.
Vision
Vision services help our clients better understand the opportunities they face and establish a clear direction for the future.Design
Design services are all about working through the details to craft a product or service to deliver to the market.Education
Education services provide instruction in research, design and strategy techniques and spark thinking to help clients be successful when doing design for themselves.Want Help?
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Establish a clear vision
Whether you're designing a product from scratch or trying to figure out your next move, you know it's critical to have a clear sense of purpose. Our experienced consultants provide just the right blend of research, synthesis, imagination, and facilitation to help your organization establish and rally around a direction.
We start by establishing a common understanding of users and the big opportunities for making them fall in love with your product, collaboratively exploring a variety of approaches. We build off your best ideas, help clarify them, and inject our own fresh thinking.
Then we help you express the vision and build momentum behind it. By creating prototypes, videos, storyboards and presentations we allow you to vividly depict the direction you're heading to your team, customers, investors, and other important audiences.
For more detail on the methods employed in all of these services, check out Our Approach.
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Design a breakthrough experience
You want a world-class user experience. We know that crafting one requires up-front planning and execution on countless details. Our design services take a variety of forms depending on what you need.
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We can jump in and provide immediate help with a Design Intensive. We travel light in these engagements, making this approach an especially good fit for start-ups, Agile development shops, and anyone who needs an injection of new thinking or time-sensitive execution. It doesn't matter how big or small the problem is: The objective is to seek out the key issues, see around corners, and ensure that the solutions are cohesive, compelling, and useful to your team. We can lead ideation activities, provide an expert assessment of your current product or design idea, help out with detailed design, create design language studies, sketch concepts to explore alternative approaches, or any combination of these activities.
Or we can take a deep look at the problem and craft something game-changing with a Design Blueprint. We start by understanding the opportunity space. We explore a variety of approaches, develop a clear vision, and then dive into the nitty gritty details to think through every interaction and to refine the visual expression of the product. We express the designs through detailed prototypes and specifications to support implementation.
Training
At Cooper, we help our clients and students face the challenges of design in the real world. Stodgy textbooks and abstract design theories aren’t at the core of our approach to teaching and mentoring. Instead, we draw directly from our 20 years of experience designing products and services for companies all over the globe. No matter where you are in the product service or life cycle, we can empower you with applicable skills that you can immediately put to use in your work and teams.
Training can take three forms: mentorship from our design team during a project, Cooper U’s custom coaching and training for companies, or our Cooper U classroom courses. In all of these situations, expert practitioners will teach you the techniques, methods, and best practices we use to design products and services that delight.
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Delivering outstanding products
Great design goes nowhere without great execution. Our integrated product development approach incorporates aspects of agile and lean product management and development with Goal-Directed Design techniques to plan, test and refine product ideas.
We deliver insight into your users and customers, their goals, and what it takes to reach them. You get working code and clear visibility throughout the project with early and continuous delivery of working software focused on meeting your business needs and users' goals. Our collaboration includes working with you to share our knowledge of and experience with Goal-Directed Design and agile development methodologies.
If you're looking to launch a mobile app, start up a new product or service company, or bring a fresh approach to an established business, an integrated engagement can set you in the right direction, release a great product, and train your people to carry your vision forward.
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