First Insights specializes in remote and in-person usability testing, qualitative research, focus groups, UX consulting, ethnographic studies, competitive reviews and heuristic analysis. Their team has been fortunate to service industry leaders and startups in the automotive, travel, banking, healthcare, insurance, pharmaceutical, packaged goods, and online retailing industries. With offices in New York City & Chicago they make things easy for clients by managing all the details during an engagement and have completed market research projects in over 39 cities in the US & Europe.
Fount are a product strategy, design and development studio. They create interactive digital experiences for their partners. Fount was created as an experiment to reinvent how digital experiences were created, built and launched. They believe that the future of how creatives and makers will operate in their space will be vastly different than its current state. Traditional organizational structures have been stifling the innovators within them and, in turn, underwhelming their client-partners. So, how could they best organize the independently- minded designers, developers, and strategists with whom they wanted to work
SmartaStudio is a creative agency that crafts beautiful, unique and exciting design to help brands express themselves. Creativity leads everything thye do. It always has and always will. But there’s strategy in their creative thinking. They build relationships with their clients. As they evolve, they help them to adapt by evolving with them, they learn new skills and grow their team. They believe in creativity, and they’ll never lose their love of craft.