human-centered design

Empatic & Co is a consulting firm that partners with organizations to achieve sustainable growth and operational excellence by integrating human-centered design principles with technology such as artificial intelligence. Its team blends strategists, creative designers, and technology experts to help businesses align people, processes, and systems.

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eSPark Consulting is a creative learning design agency that builds e-learning, animation production, and LMS support services. It uses visual storytelling and human-centered design to create custom courses, presentations, and training materials, and offers instructional design, 508 review, and facilitation for clients including Fortune 500 companies, non-profits, and government agencies.

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ESP is a strategy consulting firm at the intersection of business and design, combining human-centered design (HCD) with management consulting. Founder and CEO Patti Kwong has worked with government on problems including sexual assault, suicide prevention, patient engagement, and veteran unemployment. ESP is an Economically Disadvantaged Women Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) and a certified Small Women and Minority Owned (SWaM) business in Virginia. Based in the Washington DC metro area, it serves clients nationwide and internationally.

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F4 CTG Solutions JV LLC is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) joint venture between F4 Consulting and Capital Technology Group. It delivers information technology, management consulting, and procurement services to federal government agencies and commercial organizations, combining federal expertise with innovative solutions.

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Fíonta is a mission-driven Salesforce partner founded in 2001 that enables digital transformation for nonprofits, foundations, and associations through strategic Salesforce implementations, UX/UI, and web development, plus ongoing managed services. It is a majority-woman-owned and -led, remote-first firm headquartered in Washington, DC, with employees across the United States.

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Fisher ARCHitecture is an architectural firm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, describing itself as Artists and Artisans who are practical visionaries. With more than 20 years in business, the firm designs commercial, residential, institutional, and applied arts projects, and has a strong track record in complex projects with zoning challenges and adaptive reuse. Its work has been recognized by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Dwell Magazine, and has earned state and local design awards.

3D ModelingAdaptive Reusearchitectural designSustainable Design

Float designs and builds learning and performance solutions for businesses, using a human-centered design process and agile development. Founded in 2010, Float helps small and mid-sized businesses create, deliver, and measure training, including mobile-first solutions, AI-powered content, microlearning, mobile apps, and extended reality. Its product SparkLearn is a modern microlearning platform delivering bite-sized, interactive content with personalized learning paths.

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For People is a woman-owned small business that helps government agencies solve data and technology challenges through human-centered solutions. The company provides software engineering, data science and strategy, human-centered design, and policy analysis to make public services more efficient, accessible, and equitable. Its work has improved government programs serving over 145,000,000 people.

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ForwardPoint LLC is an innovative and forward-thinking technology services company headquartered in Ashburn, VA. Its team of tech professionals provides tailored technology solutions, IT staffing, technology solutions, and cloud solutions, emphasizing data-driven insights and Human Centered Design to exceed client expectations.

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The Frew Group is an emergency management consulting firm focused on cultural competence, inclusion, equity, and accessibility. Led by founder and principal consultant Suzanne Frew, it serves federal and local government, NGOs, international organizations, and large consulting firms. It is a Bay Area federal and state-certified woman-owned business with over three decades of experience building culturally competent community resilience and emergency management.

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Frontier Design is a design and impact advisory firm serving leaders and organizations. It helps organizations improve their impact, strengthen their teams, and integrate responsible AI through human-centered solutions. It works with federal agencies, AI labs, nonprofits, philanthropic funders, companies, and universities. The site notes it is celebrating 10 years of building a better world by design.

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Fuse is a San Diego-based, veteran-owned small business founded in 2010 that supplies communications, networking, and computing solutions for warfighters across airborne, maritime, and ground environments. It applies human-centered design processes to military systems engineering, with products including CORE Virtualized Network Systems, FTEN Tactical Edge Networking, T3 Remote Network Management, and KRAKEN.

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Global Alliant, Inc. (GA) is an award-winning IT and government technology company founded in 2018 and headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. It helps Federal, State, and Local agencies modernize critical systems, including health platforms, case and workflow management, secure cloud, and data and SI. Customers include CMS, IRS, USCIS, NIH, and the State of Maryland. It is an SBA 8(a) certified small business appraised at CMMI-DEV and CMMI-SVC Level 3 and certified to ISO 9001, 20000, and 27001.

Agile Transformation & DevSecOpscloud modernizationCybersecurityData AnalyticsDigital transformationHealth ITLow Code / No Codeprogram managementSuper Intelligence & Machine LearningWorkflow management

Grimm + Parker Architecture, Inc. is an architecture firm with over 50 years of experience designing sustainable buildings and community spaces. The firm emphasizes collaboration, transparency, and a human-centered, research-driven process, and reports 250+ awards in design, sustainability, project impact, and educational environments, with 80% of projects for repeat clients.

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Horizon Advisory Group is a strategic consulting firm based in Atlanta, GA, serving clients across the United States. Since 2019, it has provided organizational strategy services for purpose-driven organizations supporting historically excluded communities, using a human-centered design approach to help leaders define their path forward through strategic planning, organizational development, and facilitated stakeholder collaboration. Horizon is a certified MBE, WBE, and WOSB.

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Fairfax-based iCUBE Inc. is an SBA 8(a) federal IT partner delivering data governance, AI/ML, human-centered design, and software engineering to federal agencies. The company has been reappraised at CMMI V3.0 Maturity Level 3 for Development and Services, first appraised in 2021, reflecting disciplined, well-defined processes and continuous improvement.

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IdeaCrew is a mission-driven technology firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., founded in 2002. It designs, builds, and operates digital systems for government agencies and public-serving organizations, including state-based health insurance marketplaces, data integration, and cloud environments. Its marketplace platform runs in Massachusetts, Maine, and Washington, D.C.

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IgniteAction is an SBA certified Mentor Protégé Joint Venture (MPJV) combining Ignite IT and ActioNet, providing Digital Modernization services to the Federal Government. Its combined 700+ professionals deliver services in Transforming and Modernizing Systems, Data Services, Human Centered Design, Agile Services, and Security. It is headquartered in Coral Springs, FL.

Agile ServicesMigration and enterprise integrationMulti-cloud and hybrid environment managementoperations and maintenanceprogram managementsecurity

Inadev is a multinational technology firm formed in 2011 that delivers digital solutions to federal and commercial clients. It combines creativity, technology and empathy to deliver products and services with quantifiable outcomes, offering human-centered design, digital engineering, cloud strategy and security, data management and analytics, data science and AI, and modern IT operations. It also offers Ceebit, its Agentic AI accelerator.

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LINK is a consultancy that brings people together and delivers change to technology, defense, and government challenges. Its solutions take the form of experiences, strategies, and visual stories, brought to life through facilitation, human-centered design, and visualization. The company describes itself as Partners in Change, engaging people, designing change, and delivering impact.

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InnoVet Health is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) founded by MIT alumni and health IT executives. It delivers Health IT modernization, business intelligence, and systems engineering services to federal and private sectors, with a mission to improve healthcare outcomes for Veterans.

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Innovus Partners is an approved SBA-certified 8(a) mentor-protégé joint venture (JV) IT consulting firm formed by MAJUS Consulting and Insignia Federal Group. It provides AI solutions, cloud solutions, DevOps, intelligent automation, human-centered design, and data analytics to the Federal government, with combined 25 years of service experience.

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INVIVIA is a design consultancy and technology research lab based in Cambridge, MA, that helps forward-thinking organizations create transformative solutions. For over 20 years it has created impactful human-technology interactions, using a research-driven, interdisciplinary process to address complex questions across scales.

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IT Hub Inc is an SBA HUBZone certified, Economically Disadvantaged Women-Owned Small Business (EDWOSB) and Virginia SWaM certified company providing technology consulting and IT solutions to government and commercial clients. It offers expertise in domains including DoD, Civilian, Mortgage, Financial and Healthcare, using Agile, DevSecOps, and CI/CD approaches.

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