About frog
frog works with the world’s leading companies, helping them to design, engineer, and bring to market meaningful products and services. With an interdisciplinary team of more than 1,000 designers, strategists, and software engineers, frog delivers connected experiences that span multiple technologies, platforms, and media. frog works across a broad spectrum of industries, including consumer electronics, telecommunications, healthcare, energy, automotive, media, entertainment, education, finance, retail, and fashion. Clients include Disney, GE, HP, Intel, Microsoft, MTV, Qualcomm, Siemens, and many other Fortune 500 brands. Founded in 1969, frog is headquartered in San Francisco, with locations in Amsterdam, Austin, Boston, Bangalore, Johannesburg, Kiev, Milan, Munich, New York, Seattle, Shanghai, and Vinnitsa. frog is a company of the Aricent Group, a global innovation and technology services firm.
In the News
PCWorld Features Light Trikes
PCWorld features frog's infamous SXSW Light Trikes at Maker Faire Bay Area.
Doreen Lorenzo on Fortune
President Doreen Lorenzo explores the consumer-as-creator phenomenon, or the "Cult of Me."
Programmer Magazine Features Mark Rolston
Programmer Magazine features an exclusive interview with Chief Creative Officer Mark Rolston.
Sharp Aquos Phone Serie
Sharp introduces the Aquos Serie, the new Android smartphone equipped with NFC as well as a new and sophisticated UI designed by frog.
Hosted Events
We host a number of events throughout the year with various partners in China, Europe, and the US to bring together the brightest minds on innovation, design, technology, and business with key decision makers and influencers. Our design mind Salons are one format. We also run the event series The Others, a "live mash-up," and the Digital Brand Tank events in Munich. We support the TED Salons in London. We host "Think-Ins" in San Francisco. And we throw the SXSW Interactive opening party in Austin.
Appearances
GSMA mHealth Alliance Mobile Health Summit
Vice President of Creative Robert Fabricant will moderate a session on May 29 in Capetown.
Sustainability Consciousness
Creative Director Brandon Edwards will give a lecture about "The Sustainable Designer" on May 29 in Shanghai.
SF Design Week
frog will join the annual San Francisco studio crawl on June 13.
Publications
- design mind
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We publish design mind, a semi-annual award-winning magazine about innovation, technology, and design. Contributors include some of the world’s leading thinkers, photographers, and writers.
- A Fine Line
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A Fine Line: How Design Strategies are Shaping the Future of Business is frog Founder Hartmut Esslinger’s story of the innovation process and how he built a small design shop into the global company we are today.
