


Archeffect Design is a multi-disciplinary, intersectional design studio based in Los Angeles, California. They center womxn, people of color and their queer community (QTBIPOC) in their work and use their collaborative design processes to address challenges their communities face. Founded in 2010 by Lilliana Castro, a Salvadoran immigrant and queer-punk feminist, on the premise that the role of the designer is a facilitator rather than an expert. They share their knowledge and tools with their community for design to be accessible and inclusive to all.
Ascendum is a global information technology (IT) solutions company that accelerates innovative technology-inspired solutions to business-driven challenges. Ascendum’s hands-on teams help ideate, create, develop, implement and evolve their clients' customer and employee experiences. Having delivered more than 600 digital solutions, the firm pairs data engineering and design thinking to deliver end-to-end digital solutions. Ascendum's talented global team of technology strategists, designers, developers and data engineers create cutting-edge technologies that continually evolve and improve their clients’ transformation strategies.
Understand what matters most to your customers with Optimal Workshop – the user research platform that enables you to create user experiences like no other. The Optimal Workshop research platform offers 5 quantitative and qualitative tools to support your user research journey from beginning to end. help user experience designers, information architects, and user researchers, in 106 countries, and from some of the biggest organizations around the world, design ways to make the world a little easier to navigate and enjoy. tools continue to grow worldwide with users able to create studies in over 80 different languages.