Ishmael Interactive

The scientific method for business

Ishmael Interactive Services

Ishmael Interactive offers several ways to engage:

Consulting services

Digital Audits:

We deploy various proprietary web crawlers to define and index all of an organization’s digital properties—giving you the ability to wrangle and rationalize them.

Data Profiles:

We use traditional research and artificial intelligence tools to build data profiles for your wicked problem spaces, including customer, employee, and digital experience (CX, EX, and DX)—so that you can understand the data you have, and how it affects each other.

Impact Indices:

We use best practices from data and evaluation sciences to build right-sized impact indices—meaning you can quickly, easily, and reliably understand if your offerings are moving the needle in the right direction for your business.

Product and Service Development

Our consulting services include both full-cycle business development services as well as deep-dives on specific spaces your organization wants to focus on. The HCD System™ includes:

  1. Discovery: research with customers and other stakeholders into a defined problem space.
  2. Design: production and testing of delightful, sustainable solutions that resonate with stakeholders.
  3. Delivery: the project management of introducing and sustaining solutions
  4. Measurement: the design and implementation of impact measurement tools to understand solution effectiveness.

In-depth, bespoke training

Ishmael Interactive offers bespoke, multi-day training on the HCD System. Geared towards teams looking to level up efficiency, velocity, and intelligence, these can focus on one part of the HCD cycle, or provide a flyover of the entire process. Book a call to learn more.

Workshops

Ishmael Interactive workshops run the gamut from introduction to immersion in the HCD system. Geared towards the individual contributor or visionary leader, these workshops will move your thinking and doing forward, all while teaching you how to document your work and bring your stakeholders with you along the way.

We offer individual classes in human-centered design generally as well as in the four specific phases of the cycle: Discovery, Design, Delivery, and Measurement. We also offer certifications in human-centered design, including:

  1. HCD Specialist certification: a recognition that the individual has completed our full concepts and operations training course.
  2. HCD Practitioner certification: recognition that the individual has completed our full course to the extent that they are able to practice HCD in a systematic way.
  3. HCD Lead certification: recognition that the individual can lead HCD projects in any organization.
  4. HCD System™ Teacher certification: recognition that the individual has completed our HCD course as well as a capstone project and can teach the HCD System™.

Book a call to learn about the timing of our upcoming workshops and courses.