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Understanding people, helping people understand.
We’re a small and mighty information design, interaction design and design research consultancy. Learn more about us.
We believe that design can play an integral role in creating positive change.
What We Do
Platforms that inform decision-making, inspire action, and drive positive behaviors.
Our approach to designing digital products is grounded in interaction design and user experience best practices. Paired with our expertise in information design, we excel at building complex and information-heavy web tools and apps.
Dezudio + University of Pittsburgh Center for Women’s Health Research and Innovation
MyDecision and MyVoice: Tools to support women in family planning and decision making for reproductive health
What We Do
Research that delivers actionable insights at every stage of the design process.
As design researchers, we specialize in using or creating the right methods and research frameworks to meet you where you are. We are equally comfortable working at the front end of a design process to understand people’s needs, patterns, and behaviors as we are evaluating existing platforms to inform your decision-making about what to design next.
Dezudio + CooperVision
Novel approaches to ethnographic design research to understand the experience of presbyopes with vision correction
What We Do
Smart, disciplined document systems that get the job done.
We take a rigorous, 360-degree approach to help organizations communicate with purpose, including design and content strategy. We bring clarity and focus to your key messages and reinforce them through consistent design decisions. The more data, the better: we delight in making your information understandable to your target audience.
Dezudio + ACCESS
Communication system for paratransit program serving people with disabilities and older adults
What We Do
Design processes that gather stakeholders around a common challenge.
As experienced facilitators, we design and implement targeted processes to make progress on pressing challenges. We work with our clients collaboratively to articulate objectives and key questions, design the experience, and capture information throughout—always with an eye toward the end goal of sharing the outcomes and what we learned.
Dezudio + Brooklyn LAB Charter School
Tools, strategies, and communications for school reopening during COVID-19
What We Do
Digital strategy for organizations looking to inform, engage, and inspire.
We investigate, strategize, design, and develop for your digital ecosystem, whether your web presence is a single site or spans across multiple domains. We are laser-focused on maintaining your brand identity across a consistent user experience.
Dezudio + Genetics Society of America
Ongoing identity, communication, web design, and technology strategy
What We Do
Workshops and lectures that help teams connect and learn something new.
As educators, we believe that our teaching practice and our design practice are symbiotic. We bring the best of both worlds to organizations and communities through interactive workshops and engaging curricula on topics including interaction and information design, design research, collaboration, and more.
Dezudio + Red Chair Pittsburgh
Women in UX talk on gender bias in the design workplace
Our Approach
We believe that design differentiates powerful products and experiences from the rest. Great partnerships are powerful, too. Here’s what we bring to the table as partners on every project.
Understanding People
Research is what makes us great designers. Making sense of things by observing and interacting with people is a foundational aspect of our design practice. We don’t have a standard formula or secret recipe. Instead, we draw from a wealth of research methods and frameworks to suit the context and questions we face.
Helping People Understand
At its core, our work is about helping people to understand and engage with information for themselves, so that they can make decisions and take action. We make meaning from data and communicate it using proven strategies from the fields of information and interaction design. We move from the high-level down into the details and back until every element is doing its job to help people understand what they need to succeed.
Meet the team →We’ve worked with large companies, small startups, and everything in between.
