Welcome to DesignMap, Inc.

We’re a studio of 40+ design-centered people: Researchers, Designers, and Frontend Engineers.

Co-founders, friends from college. Both bring creativity and rigor forged at the best design school.

Nathan Gregory

The studio is now nine years and counting. Chuck and Audrey add to an incredibly strong partnership.

in business

8 Years

Nathan Gregory Chuck Audrey

We’ve been internal and consultants over our careers, delivering successful products for over 18 years.

ddo1998 2006

Design that matters. Designers you can trust.

Bespoke Workshops

RESEARCH & MODELING

Workshops we provide to help your teams create truly great experiences.

USER INTERFACE DESIGN

MAKING USER EXPERIENCE WORK

Research 101Primer on basic research techniques: User Interviews, Competitive Analysis, Heuristic Reviews, etc.

Success with PersonasPersonas are the cornerstone of User Experience Design. Learn how to talk to users, identify patterns and develop personas that can be used in your organization.

Creating and Using ModelsModels help align project and organization understandings of complex systems and are great for consensus building.

User Interface Design 101Primer on basic Interface design techniques: Scenarios, Sketching, Wireframes, Visual Design and Prototyping.

WireframingFrom Concepts to Annotated Wireframes and High Fidelity Wireframes, this workshop will cover the gamut.

PrototypingDiscover all the different types of Prototypes and learn how they can be used in usability testing and reduce documentation.

SketchingSketching is an important step is any design process discover the benefits of effectively using sketching in your workflow.

Embedded UXD in the EnterpriseWe love partnering with our client’s internal design teams, they are often the unsung heroes, slugging it out for the users.

60 UX ToolsAn exhaustive list of Popular and Creative UX practices to help designers tackle all of their UX challenges.

Delivering to DevelopersFrom Style Tiles, Working with Developers, Front End Style Guides, to Prototypes we know the ways to get your teams design intent across.

Sparkle-ize It!How to look at a napkin drawing and work with the person who drew it to understand what their goals are, and propose alternative solutions.

Design that matters.Designers you can trust.

Hire.Contract.Studio.Agency. “Studio Effect”

100’s of tools & activities

Making UXD, part of your company’s DNA.

UXD / DNA September 13, 2013

Thought Leadership

Events & Meetups

Team Training

Innovation We bring fresh perspectives, approaches and insights.

Healthcare Industry Keeping people out of the hospital that save lives and money.

HealthTech An entire system that aggregates silos of info and functions in a medical group.

Quality Our creative and deeply analytical approach ensures only the smartest results.

Quality Our creative and deeply analytical approach ensures only the smartest results.

Financial Services Bloomberg Vault goes to the web, with all the security, power and performance they’re known for.

Dark Data Close collaboration and bleeding edge tech has been key to our partnership: we are helping enterprises uncover data in their archives numbering in the petabytes.

People We design solutions

that better meet the

needs of the people

who’ll use them.

People We invest in people:

our partners, clients,

employees, and the

design community.

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#productlaunches

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People We invest in people:

our partners, clients,

employees, and the

design community.

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#interns#biking

Impact By understanding the context of the business, the needs of the users, and the capabilities of engineers, we can partner with our clients to have a real impact.

Education An adaptive learning app, built with one of the leading charter school founders.

Zeal’s planning tools help translate data into action in the classroom.

Education Unique avatars give children one of many ways to positively engage with a learning tool.

Top brands choose DesignMap to help drive design strategy, research and execution.

Impact We consistently

deliver results for the

most complex design problems.

Impact We consistently

deliver results for the

most complex design problems.

Simple ≠ Simplistic We gave highly

technical users an

efficient visual

interface that

increases the power

of the underlying

functionality.

$2.5B Salesforce Acquisition Big data, digital

marketing innovation,

strategic UX design,

top to bottom.

$2.5B Salesforce Acquisition Big data, digital

marketing innovation,

strategic UX design,

top to bottom.

Customer Journeys Sophisticated

lifecycle marketing

campaigns made

simple, visually-rich,

and actionable.

1:1 Marketing Interactive marketing

workflows, visually

charting day-by-day,

hour-by-hour customer

engagement.

Constellation View Massive, data-

intensive modeling

and mapping

functions in a smooth,

engaging, scalable UI.

“DesignMap has been an incredible partner in driving our product design forward.”

“DesignMap has been an incredible partner in driving our product design forward.”Jason Day, Vice President, UX & Design Salesforce Marketing Cloud