Shelley Sather Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Greater New York City Area

I use Qualitative, context-driven methods to bring people into the heart of the design process, shape early opportunity spaces and guide the expression of new things. I'm drawn to work that constructs the space to think deeply about human problems, cross disciplinary collaboration and projects that have a bit of bravery baked in.Client engagements range.

Greater New York City Area

As VSA's sole ethnographer-in-residence, I worked directly with strategists and designers on a wide range of engagements, to help rewire the thinking behind whatever VSA ‘makes’, based on a human-centered (vs 'aesthetes') approach to design.

Greater Chicago Area

Leveraged design principles to solve business problems, among a merry band of futurists who believe in designing for meaningful growth.Most of my work here was focused on the integration of mobile technology and the future of adult beverages, although there were forays intro revamping breakfast and Human-Computer Interaction paradigms.

Greater Chicago Area

Used traditional Qualitative methods to help companies understand the perceptual landscape their brands lived within, and develop strategies for creating deeper connections with existing or new users.I am grateful for the pattern recognition across almost every consumer category you can imagine, and the talented people who taught me how to do the job with.

Greater Chicago Area

The Green at Grant Park was backed by one of the first private developers to take a small tract of Chicago's vast scape of (then defunct) parkland, and turn it into something both usable + beloved. We built a little gem of an outdoor oasis, where you could knock around a few golf balls on professional putting greens, and more likely, have a really nice.

Greater Chicago Area

Fresh from having worked on the trading floor (30 Treasuries) as a college student, I was hired to help this London-based commodities software company tap into the American trading community, just as computerized trading platforms were being introduced into the Chicago markets. Essentially, I served as the universal translator for American sentiments.