We are a lean Parisian duo with over 10 years of experience at some of the world’s top design studios.
We bring the same high-level quality and expertise with an agile, hands-on, and tailored approach. We are 100% with you—with focused creativity and close collaboration. Think of us as your own design team. We’re flexible, passionate, and absolutely love what we do.
And when there’s something outside our expertise, we tap into our trusted network to connect you with the best partners for the job. From bold concepts to final production, we’re with you every step of the way.
Through brainstorming and collaboration with Alpine, we developed 10 initial concepts that were tested early on with 30 potential users as part of user-centered research. Using prototypes, visuals, and surveys, we identified pain points and preferences at both visual and ergonomic levels. After this initial phase, we conducted broader quantitative testing on a larger sample to refine the insights. While a circular design initially appealed for its familiarity, we determined the "arrow" shape to be the optimal solution. It aligns naturally with the ear, ensures a secure fit, and reflects Alpine’s brand identity.
Since then, our partnership has grown, encompassing new product development, market positioning, manufacturing support, and communication strategies.
By engaging with non-users and testing ideas and concepts, we discovered that percussive massage devices needed to be more approachable and user-friendly to appeal to a broader range of users and encourage regular use. Through extensive prototyping and shape exploration, we developed designs that felt neutral, understated, and inviting. The combination of a carefully selected color palette, minimalist form, docking system, and intuitive on-device interactions resulted in a product thoughtfully designed for the home environment while maintaining usability and ergonomic efficiency.
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The team conducted worldwide research, interviewing sleep scientists, light designers, and homeowners. We uncovered how natural light and fresh air from above could improve our well-being by penetrating further into our living spaces. We have designed a smart home skylight, considering interaction touchpoints such as switches and the initial draft of the application, as well as the skylight itself featuring an elongated shape, modernizing its silhouette. We built a tiny home and a working prototype with built-in tunable circadian lighting that mimics natural light to test it out in real life. Additionally, it incorporates a four-side opening system to facilitate faster filling of our homes with fresh air compared to traditional hinged units.
The Q range reimagines pocket tools for everyday workers, from stay-at-home parents to search-and-rescue professionals. Through user research, we identified the need for versatile, lifestyle-friendly tools. From a pen-box cutter hybrid to a screwdriver with multiple bits, each tool is designed to blend seamlessly into daily life, all within the compact form of a pen.
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Water & Oil is a parisian beauty brand proactively researching new biomaterials and processes to live up to our skin and the planet. We helped them to design a refillable skincare system based on the powder technology from the user journey to the packaging to the branding and communication.
SC1 is a camera that can learn a person's nuanced preferences for self-portraits, and make them accessible as a function. The concept and software created by Jochen Weber leverages a combination of a person's muscle memory for how to hold the camera and a convolutional neural network, to identify the right moment for taking a picture. While the software is a fully functional application, we collaborated to imagine what a physical device with such function could look like as a provocative exploration around intuitive product interactions with objects that can learn. The camera has different modes available to help it learn what is considered aesthetic or neutral. Once the neural network has been trained, haptic and visual feedback helps capture the right picture at the right time, whether for a selfie or to take a picture of someone.
Thorough observation in the OR as well as interviews with technicians and equipment management crews helped us understand what were the risks, contamination and efficiency flaws of the existing video laryngoscope archetype. Through product ideation and collaboration with the engineering team we looked at ways to improve the device’s workflow in and outside of the OR by considering the device, the cart and the consumables as a whole rather than separately designed elements. The cable's orientation and location, the screen shape/materiality, the actuated arm and the cart organisation, every detail is refined to improve the product’s durability, reducing contamination, and Improving usability and efficiency in the Hospital.
