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, Johannesburg, Kiev, Milan, Munich, New York, Seattle, Shanghai, and Vinnytsya. frog is a company of the Aricent Group, a global innovation and technology services firm.
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In the News
Bloomberg quotes Mark Rolston
frog's Chief Creative Officer Mark Rolston shares his perspective on Apple's mobile operating system redesign.
Inc features Doreen Lorenzo
Inc features six steps for fostering innovation from frog's President Doreen Lorenzo.
Wired features DARPA'S Plan X
Executive Creative Director Nick de la Mare talks to Wired about frog's project mapping DARPA's data.
Business Insider features Jan Chipchase
frog's executive creative director of global insights discusses design research and technology trends.
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. In June 2012, we held the "Revinvent Business" hackathon. We 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
IxDC User Experience Week
frog Executive Creative Director Rainer Wessler will deliver the open keynote and frog will facilitate a workshop in Hangzhou, China on June 21-22.
AIGA Design Week
frog's San Francisco studio will open its doors on June 25 for the annual studio crawl.
PopTech
frog will facilitate a workshop at Poptech's "The City Resilient" summit on June 25 in Brooklyn, New York.
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.
