Design, systems and strategy consultancy · Delhi · Assam

Design that starts with thinking it through.

Think Studio is a consultancy for organisations that want to change how things work. We design products, spaces, systems and policies, and we build the thinking skills that let teams keep improving them after we leave.

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Practices

Two practices, one way of thinking.

Our design practice shapes what an organisation makes and how it runs. Our cognitive practice shapes how its people think. Many engagements draw on both.

Design services

Design, systems and strategy

For organisations that need something designed, rebuilt or set on a new course.

What people use

Products, places and digital services designed around the people who use them every day.

  • Product design
  • Space design
  • Interaction design

How things run

The systems, policies and strategy behind an organisation or public programme.

  • Systems design
  • Policy design
  • Strategic consultancy
Cognitive services

Thinking, behaviour and learning

For teams and institutions that want people to think more clearly, work better together and keep learning.

Ways of thinking

The disciplines we teach and apply: how people perceive, decide and work together.

  • Design thinking
  • Systems thinking
  • Psychology and human behaviour
  • Metacognition

Programmes

How we deliver them, from a single workshop to a months-long fellowship.

  • Corporate capacity building
  • Workshops and retreats
  • Mentoring
  • Fellowships
Who we work with

Built for three kinds of organisation.

How we work

Four stages, in this order.

We spend real time on the first two stages, so that the design solves the right problem.

  1. Listen

    We meet you and the people the work is for, and learn how things actually run today.

  2. Frame

    We agree in writing what the problem is, who it is for, and how we will know it worked.

  3. Make

    We design, share drafts early, and revise with you rather than presenting a finished surprise.

  4. Hand over

    You get finished files and the guidance to use and maintain them without us.

Part of Unfolded Future

Your project keeps a community going.

Think Studio is the consultancy arm of Unfolded Future. What it earns also sustains Drishta, our programme of gatherings and retreats that help people witness and steady their own minds. Visit Drishta

People

Who you work with.

Dr. Partha Pratim Das

Founder

Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at Delhi Technological University. M.Des in Product Design and a PhD in systems design for sustainable rural sanitation, both from IIT Delhi.

Akanshya Dutta

Co-founder

Independent researcher and consultant, and visiting faculty in the Department of Design at Delhi Technological University, where she teaches data visualisation and social media. Previously worked in policy monitoring and evaluation at the Chief Minister's Secretariat, Assam.

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