Our work requires collaboration with clients, and this is best done in person. Since that hasn’t been an option for a while, we’re all developing new ways of getting the information and feedback we need from our client teams. When you’re designing in complex enterprise spaces, you’ll encounter a common…

A year of learnings for presenting, collaborating and growing — For almost the last year, a team of us at Grand Studio have been working remotely with a sports client who’s based out of NYC. Our team has conducted remote project kick offs, facilitated several dozen design reviews and meetings, and found ways to hold remote sketching sessions for brainstorming…

Here we all are: one quarter down, and another begins. But there’s plenty of sunshine and patio meetings in our future so who can complain? Since we’ve been so busy over the last month, in particular, we wanted to share a peek at what’s been going on over here! Chicago…

We formed our design consultancy last year, and the first part of the year was rapid putting-out of fires. We were taking over clients from our NYC parent company who’d recently been acquired, figuring out payroll, forming a brand identity, and hiring a staff who could handle the workload we…

A trade show for everything in manufacturing — and some really cool tech. Our team had the opportunity to visit the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) happening this week in Chicago. Wow. What an overwhelming whirlwind of innovation in the manufacturing and industrial spaces! …

How writing a love/hate letter to a product can uncover what is and isn’t working. — I wrote this a couple of years back, but this methodology still holds up today as a way of understanding the relationship between tech and human behavior. Experience designers at Moment really enjoy writing, drawing, and explaining. In fact, we love it so much that we crafted a whole experience…

New name, same great Chicago-based digital strategy and product design consultancy. — Two years ago, a team of Moment designers came to Chicago to establish a new office. We were dedicated to growing Moment’s offering in a new city with new challenges and new clients. In these past two years, we’ve had the pleasure of working with some fantastic clients, had the…

Today is an exciting day. Moment Chicago is becoming an independent company. Moment New York is being acquired by Verizon. Things are happening. When we moved out here exactly two years ago to open up our Chicago business, we felt like pioneers. We landed in a city where we knew…

Our designers are curious people, so when new tech comes along with promises of new, better UX solutions, there’s at least a handful of us who are willing to swallow the red pill see how deep the rabbit hole goes. Typically this means investigating the technology optimistically and with an…