OpenSourceEmpathy — Design for Humans, Not Just Users.

A multidisciplinary studio spanning concept, product, and visual design — built on the conviction that the best design starts by understanding the person it's for.

Our Work

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Concept Design

This is where ideas get to be ideas before the world has decided what they are yet. Projects span gestural AR interfaces, headphone paradigm research, Disney + Bose spatial audio experiences, musical taste visualization, and more. Work that earns its existence by asking the question before the industry knew to ask it.

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Product Design

This is where things get real — shipped, used, and lived with by actual humans. If the Concept Design section is about asking "what if," this section is about answering "okay, but how." Hardware, software, and the space between — work shipped for Bose, Philips, and Microsoft.

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Installation Design

This is design that takes up space — physical, emotional, and sometimes a whole Times Square billboard. The work in this section lives at the intersection of art, technology, and people who walk into the room and find themselves in something they didn't expect to feel.

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Workshop Design

This is where the room becomes the medium — structured enough to create safety, loose enough to let surprise in. These are the sessions where teams stop talking about the problem and start having one — productively, on purpose. Facilitated for teams at all scales — from startup off-sites to enterprise innovation sprints.

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Game Design

Games are design with stakes. You have to earn the next screen. This section covers two distinct chapters of game design work, and they couldn't be more different in context — which makes them a pretty good argument for the breadth of what game design actually is.

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Graphic Design

Graphic design is the foundation that everything else is built on: the discipline that teaches you that every choice is a choice, that negative space is doing work, and that typography has feelings.