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Nick Dauchot

Solutions

Engagements across industrial, digital, and service design — what the problem was, and how we approached it.

34 projects, 20132025

2025

Lead · 2025

Helping Business Leaders visualize tariff impacts on their network and mitigate risks

In light of new tariff policies, a global corporation needed help visualizing how tariffs were currently mitigating their network and identify opportunities to further mitigate where there was opportunity.

2024

Lead · 2024 - Present

Helping people remove ice from their cars

A friend of mine wanted to start a business to create an elevated snow scraper to help drivers remove ice from their cars.

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2023

Lead · 2023

Helping Value Stream Leaders visualize and optimize their supply chain

Value stream maps are complex artifacts that have been manually created for decades to understand supply chain flow. We helped our client design a tool that would digitize these maps and reduce the labor required to produce one.

2022

2021

Lead + Sr. Designer · 2021-2022

Measuring the usability of a radical shopping innovation

Client approached our team with a need to understand how well their new store met the needs of different kinds of shoppers whom needed to interface with a new store format

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Sr. Designer · 2021

Helping banks securely exchange valuable data to support frictionless transactions

Client wanted to create an application that would enable institutions around the world to sell data that could be used to verify international transactions. This product was aimed at solving problems related to fraud and inertia in the payments processing experience due to missing customer information.

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2020

2019

Designer · 2019

Assisting homeowners with the installation of thermostats in their home

Client wanted to make thermostat installation process easier on the homeowner.

Web Designer · 2019

Helping an online retailer digitize their wholesale business

A local small business tea company needed help finding out how to make their wholesale experience more scalable. At the time it required a lot of effort to collect, reconcile, and distribute wholesale orders, leading orders to fall through the cracks and impacting their efficiency.

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Designer · 2019

Supporting homeowners with storing things in their home garage

Client had need to understand how people organize things in their garage and what some opportunities might be to innovate in the space.

2018

Designer · 2018

Creating light in the right places for homeowners

Our client had an interest in creating an innovative consumer light switch.

Web Designer · 2018

Helping a local small business improve their online presence

A local small business called Storehouse Tea made fantastic tea, but their storefront really needed some love. The information architecture was all over the place, and for a domain like Tea with dozens of SKU’s, they were in dire need of making their site easier to explore.

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Designer · 2018

Streamlining the construction estimation process for contractors

Our client was interested in understanding the experience of estimating construction projects and how software might be used to assist in the process.

Designer · 2018

Balancing architect-approved aesthetics with fly-proof functionality

Client approached us with a need to innovate in the Air Curtain space. Air curtains are used in places that serve food to keep bugs out with a strong gust of air at the entrance. A major ask of theirs was to understand what an "Architect-Friendly" air curtain is and how to design one within the constraints of their design and brand language.

2017

Web Designer · 2017

Helping a local jeweler improve their online presense

Our client was a small business located in Chagrin Falls who wanted to create a new digital storefront for their brand, with the ability to sell their own creations and customize creations. Their existing website was not useful and was poorly designed in Wordpress by an overpriced third party.

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Designer · 2017

Helping people tow things easier

Our client Horizon / Tekonsha wanted to radically innovate off of their existing P3 Prodigy towing product line and invent a newer low-profile way for people to tow things. They had made “the thing” but they needed a companion application and user research to instill confidence

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2015

2013

Researcher · 2013 - 2014

Understanding and improving the Dota 2 new player experience

Tracking a community’s growth and sentiment is difficult. After graduating from the University of Arizona in 2012, I wanted to run a research report about my favorite game, Dota 2. This was not a paid project, or endorsed by Valve.

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