Case Studies

Enable effective collaboration between a research lab and a startup to create a hub of connected objects for the home.

• LIMSI: engineers at the R&D lab
• RPE: team at start-up
• AXEnergie: first client of start-up

• Participated in internal external meetings with the stakeholders
• Worked with engineers to create functional prototypes
• Collaborative workshops to determine design strategies, based on results from user research
• Searched for manufacturers in China

• Market research reports
• Design strategy
• Visual Identity
• 3D-printed prototypes
• UX and UI

Help Dalkia clarify and define their strategic vision for 2020 and create storytelling material to get buy-in from their C-suite.

• Attoma: project manager, and consultants
• Dalkia: the innovation team and 6 other members from different departments.

• 4 workshops from the definition of the scope of the project, to the elaboration of the concept and content, to final delivery.
• Worked with internal team at attoma to create activities of the workshop.

• Strategic research on Dalkia
• Intermediate sketches and contents
• Final PowerPoint presentation

Help the early stage start-up at Station f define their business model and then produce a functional prototype

2 co-founders

• 3 workshops

• Service design canvases
• Adobe XD prototype
• Business model simulations

Use the creative process to bring 19 member schools together under the new university for this major initiative sponsored by the French government.

• Members of the communications department at Université Paris-Saclay
• 15 communications directors from member schools
• graphic designers, developers, motion designers, musician

• Competition during the pitching stage
• Workshops to get buy-in from the visual identity work group
• Interviews and workshops to understand, and propose solutions to facilitate the flow of information between the complex systems involving multiple stakeholders, target audience, and various channels.

• Brand Guides
• Interactive New Year’s cards for the last 3 years and counting
• Marketing and communications material

Helping an analyst firm specialized in IT and Customer Experience establish their brand image and communicate complex concepts.

• Team of 12 people at Digital Clarity including CEO and analysts who are spread out geographically.
• Graphic designers.
• External content consultant.

• Work digitally with the whole team.

• Reports
• Presentations
• Brand Guidelines
• Information design

Being the external design department of a small service company dedicated to creating vibrate digital experiences for cultural institutions.

• Clients of MediaCombo
• Internal team at MediaCombo including project managers developers, UX designers, content producers…

• Working together for almost 10 years through all stages of projects starting from bidding, research, to final delivery.

• Strategic recommendations
• Wireframes, prototypes
• Design deliverables for programmers
• Marketing material
• Corporate website

Understand the competitive environment of the design industry and make recommendations for actions for change

• 27 employees at attoma
• 2 external consultants

• Interviews
• 1 workshop
• 1 presentation
• Secondary research

• Recommendations
• 60 page report
• Slide presentation