Consulting Practice Scope

Design and technology R&D services for nonprofits, universities, and small/medium-sized businesses.

  • Patient-centered research and user experience evaluation.

  • Community engagement platform development.

  • Strategic innovation and research design.

Proposal/grant writing/reviewing services.

  • USA: NIH/NSF/Foundations; EU: HORIZON.

  • Domains: innovation development, intervention development for education or therapies using arts, digital arts, technology, community/stakeholder engagement, educational product delivery, distribution, and fulfillment.

  • Sectors: higher education, K-12, healthcare, museums.

  • Understand the gap between experts and lay users or the public with intensive, interactive conversations designed to promote mutual understanding and generate paths for innovative solutions.

  • Design and organize information and interaction structures for product and service development and delivery to help prototyping and implementation teams.

  • Gain understanding of user/patient/stakeholder needs, behaviors, and experiences to inform and improve product or service design through expert heuristic inquiry, think-aloud sessions, interviews and surveys.

  • Determine the appropriateness of research for desired measurable outcomes, set performance benchmarks and estimate feasibility of success.