We are Design Thinkers. Straightforward, honest, creative problem solvers who believe in replacing the “talking shop” with “action”.
Our story all began with an idea. We wanted to launch a business, turning a hobby into something more.
After having tirelessly worked on multiple projects with nebulous statements of work replete with ambiguous deliverables, the realization dawned on us that so many Big 4 firms fail to sit down with their clients to understand what the problem is and brainstorm solutions with the right people in the room. As a result, expectations are never discussed resulting in wasted time, effort, and money.
Design Thinkers dares to change this narrative one client at a time. By pulling that chair up to the table and engaging in exercises with those closest to the problem, we often find that this is where the creative juices start to flow, where problems start to dissolve, and where solutions present themselves in the most unexpected ways.
Various learned lessons taught us is that there are no shortcuts to the solution and that the discovery phase with the key stakeholders is often skipped, overlooked, or disregarded completely.
Investing extra time at the outset to crowdsource different voices through carefully selected design thinking exercises eliminates the perceived problem(s) and helps to dial in on the root cause of the actual problem(s), setting our team and yours up for a fruitful discussion about what is needed to address it based on a number of factors, such as timeframe, budget, and competing priorities.
Simply put, what sets us apart from the rest is that we are not here to sell you an overly verbose and lengthy slide deck that regurgitates ideas communicated to us in meetings, but rather a partner who will work together with you to discover the problem and then go shoulder-to-shoulder with you in the trenches to test ideas quickly, identify failures, recalibrate, and, then quickly again, move the needle on what matters most to your organization.
Meet The Team
Nicholas Morrione
Founder, CEO
Matt Muhlenkort
Partner - Technical