All of the design expertise.
None of the overhead.

Whether you’re suddenly scarce on in-house resources or have too much to do (and so little time), DesignMap can jump right in to augment and optimize your team’s product strategy and experience design practices.

Every engagement is different. Here's what's typical...

trophy Outcome: Maximized design impact
savings Investment:
timer Time: 30-90 days

How we help

Flexible and fractional services, rightsized to meet your needs.

Fractional Design Leadership

Gain an interim design leader who can sit alongside your product team, mentor staff, or serve as a thought partner to advance day-to-day work through weekly design reviews and 1:1s.

Design Teams at the Ready

Bolster your product team with our senior designers to make sure incremental or major product releases are purposeful.

Specific Design Skillsets

Missing key design capabilities—a user researcher, UX designer, or visual UI designer—and need them yesterday? We can help you fill in the gaps with experienced people.

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The DesignMap Difference

Our senior team of strategists, designers, and researchers confidently explore uncharted territory in domains like technology, healthcare, finance, security, networking, and green tech. It’s why visionary companies trust us to view complex problems through a design lens—so they can map a future that inspires.

Resources available at senior+, manager, and individual contributor levels.

Highly vetted talent (we make one hire for every 150 applicants).

Assign resources that don’t change frequently, so you can maintain continuity.

Full-time staff only—we don’t assign freelancers.

Our Services

The services we provide work to align clients around people, product, and purpose (with discovery and research underpinning everything we do).

People

Skills Development & Org Design

Break down silos, up-skill your team, or complement your staff to foster a growth-minded culture that harnesses the full potential of your people.

Fractional Design Leadership
Staff Augmentation
Workshops / Facilitation
Designer Training Program
Hiring Support
Thought Partnerships / Mentoring
Organization Design

Product

Product-Service Design

Make more informed and insightful decisions that create intuitive experiences and unified platforms—all centered around the people who use them.

Product & Service Design / Redesign
Products-to-Platform Transformation
Design Systems
Journey Mapping
Prototyping

Purpose

Strategy & Vision Consulting

Take a step back from incremental demands to draw the future state of your organization/product, make better decisions, realize new value, and align teams.

Visiontypes (North Star)
Transformation Planning
Business Design
Foresight & Sustainability Planning
Design Diligence
Discovery & Research

Our People

Gregory Baker Founder & Partner

Audrey Crane Chief Growth Officer

Chuck Moore Chief design Officer

Ryan Cornwell VP of UX Design

Kana Knaak Senior Director of UX

Pooja Kanipakam Director of Engagements

Barb Natali-Sherman Director of Design

Sean Jalleh Principal Designer

Sean Murray Principal Designer

Wanda Lam Visual Design Lead

Neal Sanchez UX Lead

Maggie Feuchter UX Lead

Will Fletcher UX Lead

Maggie Mitchell UX Lead

Chris Gaffey UX Lead

Charles Hamilton UX Lead

Morgan Keys UX Lead

Vivian Lee UX Lead

Brad Mu UX Lead

Beth O'Neill UX Lead

Tina Qi Senior Designer

Laura Sanford Senior Designer

Who we work with

We confidently explore uncharted territory in complex B2B and B2B2C domains like technology, healthcare, finance, networking, security, and green tech.