Pivot Design Group

Pivot Design Group Pivot Design Group is a strategic design studio. Pivot looks at things differently — a team that knows how to listen is at the heart of work that delivers.

We often say, we’re not experts at what you do — we’re experts at listening to you. It’s this approach that helps us bring people together through design. Our empathetic approach is our strength. We apply design thinking differently and this is how Pivot has become one of the city’s most unique agencies in our own nimble yet robust way. We know it works because we’ve been perfecting and refining o

ur unique approach to communication design and user experience since Ian Chalmers, owner and creative director, first opened our doors in 1998. Well-credentialed with broad swaths of experience that come only from working first-hand in the evolving design landscape, we’ve been known to be picky about who we work with… This allows the team to maintain our pivotal hands-on approach. It’s an approach we know our clients love because they tell us as they experience the benefits first hand.

With   coming up, there's no better time than now to talk about where we're headed with Life-Centred Design. We're makin...
04/20/2023

With coming up, there's no better time than now to talk about where we're headed with Life-Centred Design.

We're making the shift beyond "human-centred" to a new design paradigm that is “life-centred,” where all life on earth are targeted beneficiaries of what we create.

Read more about via the 🔗 link in our bio or by visiting pivot.design/insights

It's that time of year... the 2023 RGD Student Awards are open! 🏆 Since 1998, the RGD’s Student Awards have recognized t...
02/07/2023

It's that time of year... the 2023 RGD Student Awards are open! 🏆 Since 1998, the RGD’s Student Awards have recognized the outstanding work of design students from across Canada.

We’re proud to sponsor the Award for Information Design 💪

Year after year, the Student Awards recognize the outstanding work of design students from across Canada 🇨🇦 Make sure to enter your work by May 12, 2023.

We look forward to seeing the creativity this next generation of designers will bring!

Learn more at www.rgd.ca/studentawards 👈

Had an ink-ling this would be a fun workshop with  🤓Glad we were able to carve out some time and get analog with our cre...
12/12/2022

Had an ink-ling this would be a fun workshop with 🤓

Glad we were able to carve out some time and get analog with our creative ideas 💪 We hope everyone is im-pressed with their cards this holiday season!

When designers embark on UX projects, they need to have a singular focus on users who are at the centre of their work. C...
10/06/2022

When designers embark on UX projects, they need to have a singular focus on users who are at the centre of their work. Certainly, there’s creativity and self-expression in the design process but it is not the main thing. What’s more important is understanding users—their needs and wants—and the best way to accomplish this is to make strategic use of two investigative tools available for harvesting this information: User Interviews vs Usability Testing.

Interested in more? Continue reading over on our latest blog post, Prioritizing UX Design Research. Link available in our bio.

Informing Design ▫️ Enshrine DEI in your workplace ▫️ Circular Design ▫️ Know your parameters ▫️ The future should be fr...
08/30/2022

Informing Design ▫️ Enshrine DEI in your workplace ▫️ Circular Design ▫️ Know your parameters ▫️ The future should be friendly ▫️ Empathy ▫️

To wrap up our birthday month, we've just posted our 4th and final weekly article featuring 24 things we've learned on working in design — over the past 24 years! ▫️ Read the last 6 insights via the link in our bio or at pivot.design/insights

It's week 3️⃣ of our weekly posts featuring 24 things we've learned on working in design — over the past 24 years! Read ...
08/25/2022

It's week 3️⃣ of our weekly posts featuring 24 things we've learned on working in design — over the past 24 years! Read the next 6 insights on our blog at pivot.design/insights or via the link in our bio 🔗✨

It’s week 2️⃣ of our weekly posts featuring 24 things we’ve learned on working in design — to mark the occasion of our 2...
08/11/2022

It’s week 2️⃣ of our weekly posts featuring 24 things we’ve learned on working in design — to mark the occasion of our 24th birthday in the month of August. Visit our blog at pivot.design/blog or click on the 🔗 link in our bio to read our next 6 insights! 💡

This month we're celebrating our 24th year 🥳 in business as a Toronto design studio. In the first of four weekly posts, ...
08/04/2022

This month we're celebrating our 24th year 🥳 in business as a Toronto design studio. In the first of four weekly posts, we thought we would mark the occasion by listing six interesting things that occurred to us about design practice and running a studio. In this post, and in each of our subsequent weekly posts for the month of August, we list the first six on the list...

Read the first batch via the link in our bio!

How   can be leveraged as a catalyst for cultural change and a tool for driving   and innovation: http://ow.ly/7l2k50Ij5...
03/15/2022

How can be leveraged as a catalyst for cultural change and a tool for driving and innovation: http://ow.ly/7l2k50Ij5hy

The last in a series of posts on the topic of Design Thinking and its impact on business innovation growth. This post looks at the role of Design Thinking in the maturing of the design-led organization, as a catalyst for cultural change and a tool for driving business strategy and innovation.

The pressure to innovate is always there — learn how   methodologies can help you gain a competitive edge in the 2nd ins...
03/23/2021

The pressure to innovate is always there — learn how methodologies can help you gain a competitive edge in the 2nd instalment of our Design Thinking for Business Innovation series: http://ow.ly/pCRe50E6k5u

7 minute read The second in a series of posts on the topic of Design Thinking and its impact on business innovation. This post looks into the dynamics of innovation and assesses Design Thinking as a methodology for optimizing innovation as a strategy for gaining a competitive edge in design-led busi...

Thinking Like a Designer... The first in a series on the topic of Design Thinking and its impact on business innovation....
01/19/2021

Thinking Like a Designer... The first in a series on the topic of Design Thinking and its impact on business innovation. http://ow.ly/uqSY50DbPjS

The first in a series of posts on the topic of Design Thinking and its impact on business innovation. This introductory post focuses on the origins and features of Design Thinking and its growth as a mainstream approach within contemporary design practice. According to the Design Management Institut...

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