What We Do

We offer an end-to-end capability to research, design, test, and successfully develop, validate, and launch new products and services.

Research

We use research to frame your product goals within the context of customer needs, desires, and behaviors.

Strategy

A great strategy begins with a comprehensive vision of the future, a firm grasp of available technology and business models, for tight product-market fit.

Design

With a program tailored to your needs, we can accelerate you towards innovative and transformative solutions.

Incubation

Hypothesis-driven, evidence-based product development is what we’re all about. Let us build your next product.

Stewardship

We help startups get up a leg up on by putting design leadership in place to develop mature processes for the long-term.

Mentorship

We put our depth of experience to work transforming processes and fostering new skills and guiding your team to success.

How We Do It

People-centered Innovation

We appropriate design thinking, agile development, and lean start-up methodologies to provide an iterative approach to research and design strategy focused on people's behavior and needs.

Co-design

We embed directly with your team by becoming an extension of your own organization, and enabling innovation and transformation.

Design for Experiments

From primary research, to concept validation, to usability testing, we are always evaluating and re-forming our working hypothesis.

Why We're Different

Partnership Model

We are a partnership of strategy, brand, experience design, content, technology, marketing and product operation leaders.

Behavioral Science

Through behavioral science and iterative design, we create products and services that understand context of triggers and address barriers.

Executive Leadership

Our team has extensive experience leading in-house teams and agency consulting, this enables us to gain alignment and execute quickly, addressing business needs.

We started Catalyst because we believe in the power of well designed products and services and a new agency model to make that happen.
Behavior Design
Brand Strategy & Identity
Content Strategy & Development
Customer Journeys
Ethnographic Research
Interaction Design
Mentorship
Mobile Design
Product Incubation
Product Strategy & Design
Prototyping
Service Strategy & Design
UX Audit & Assessment
Visual Design
Voice Interaction Design