Founders of design studios typically come from the agency and consulting world. As clients ourselves, we noticed a consistent gap in the impact of the work and long-term ownership of the recommendations.
We believe design teams should act with the same urgency and ownership as the founders and business leaders they serve. This requires years of built-up scar tissue from working on in-house teams.
David ZhengDavid studied at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, better known as the Stanford d.school.
He brings over a decade of design leadership experience from venture-backed and Fortune500 companies.
Michelle BrierMichelle studied Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She was a full stack developer on Flexport's Service Catalogue team (Logistics) and then on Audius' Protocol team (Web3).
She now leads operations and all things technical at KOPPER.
User Experience Design @ Sheffield Hallam University, Bally's Interactive, Degree 53
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), OKX (Formerly OKCoin), Ethos, John McNeil Studio, WeWork
UC Berkeley, Dropbox, Google, Mercedes-Benz, LinkedIn, Chargepoint, Facebook, Meta, PWC
