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Restoring the Promise of the Natural Internet

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A Catalyst for the Future  of Personal Audio

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Augmented Reality Meets Fine Art

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Rethinking the Pelvic Exam

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Breathing Life into Lumen

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Reimagining the Ride Ahead

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Great Work Happens Every Day

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Ultrasound UX Goes “Supersonic”

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Driving Digital Design

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Designing a Next Generation Experience

Imagine and build experiences, products and businesses that disrupt the status quo, win hearts and realize the future.

Imagine and build experiences, products and businesses that disrupt the status quo, win hearts and realize the future.

Bring bold ideas to life

Creating a brand to take down single-use takeout containers.

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“I’m looking 6-12 months down the road to say...this small [strategy] activity helped us here and here. I wish we were doing this a month ago.” 

We’ve all felt the guilt that comes with stacking a multitude of plastic takeout containers after ordering dinner in for the night. So in early 2020, frog jumped at the chance to work with Dispatch Goods, a startup trying to reduce waste by giving restaurant customers the option to order takeout in reusable containers. This values-based service fit their home market of San Francisco perfectly, but they needed a more compelling and trustworthy brand to convince customers of its safety and ease. As a pre-seed startup, they also had limited resources, so frog tailored a brandsprint to create an immediately-deployable brand expression. 
The frog team collaborated directly with the Dispatch Goods founders to clearly define the purpose, promise and values of their brand. Ultimately, they agreed that Dispatch Goods is all about providing a simple and delightful dining experience that results in measurable environmental impact.
To convey this playful yet purposeful brand promise, frog developed an energetic visual style featuring a mixed palette of muted complementary colors and an updated brand logo. The new stacked bowls logo reflects Dispatch Goods’s values by symbolizing reusability and evoking the experience of eating a delightful meal at home. frog also recommended a brand photography strategy that highlights the “velvet moment” experience of first seeing or tasting a delicious meal, and that spotlights the female-led Dispatch Goods team—a major brand differentiator in the sustainability sphere.
frog also helped incorporate these new visual elements into Dispatch Goods’s product design by updating their reusable aluminum containers with the brand’s new typography and logo, as well as providing plans for a branded Dispatch Goods insulated delivery bag. To provide a firm foundation for the company’s digital growth, frog designed representative desktop and mobile landing pages based on the new brand identity, as well as various iterations and combinations of the stacked bowls logo to be used as illustrations, backgrounds and banners for social media, email and the web.

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After only a few short weeks, Dispatch Goods had deployed the new brand language and identity on their website, social media and delivery van. Just a few months after that, they had established their brand credibility enough to enter into a pilot with industry leader DoorDash.

Designing a consumer air mask for pandemic times 


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In the pandemic era, confidence that the air we breathe is safe and healthy often comes at the cost of comfort and human connection. JustAir invented a way to have it all.


In 2014, the threat of Ebola prompted medical device inventor and entrepreneur Dan Burnett to conceive of a mask that actively filters air, ensuring every breath is virus-free. It was an excellent idea, and as the supply of surgical and N95 masks faltered at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, he knew such technology could help. Frontline medical professionals have been forced to go to extreme lengths, wearing filtered helmets and respirators so tight they leave their faces cut and bruised. So Burnett unpacked his 2014 patents and decided to find a better way. 
Burnett joined forces with frog, and they set out to design a comfortable HEPA-filtered mask that would be the safest in the world. But while the wearer’s safety and comfort are critical, medical workers tending to fearful patients or parents traveling with young children also need to communicate and connect with the people around them—a need not addressed by existing PPE. By balancing wearability and aesthetics with the functional imperatives of an air mask, they aimed to create PPE technology that is as inviting as it is safe.The frog team explored various concepts and configurations to determine the best size, weight distribution, and component placement for maximum wearability. Airflow simulation and analysis also helped identify the most optimal configurations.  
Ultimately, frog’s industrial designers and engineers were able to create JustAir, an adaptive air mask that is both functional and fashionable enough for daily consumer use. By shrinking the power, filter and air circulation components into a small module that sits behind the wearer’s head, JustAir is small and ergonomic enough for casual use, yet powerful enough for front line workers.

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As COVID precautions become a fixture of daily life, consumers are looking for more functional, fashionable and seamless face mask options. JustAir fills this need by combining the high-performance filtration of industrial air masks with the aesthetic sense of today’s consumer tech.

Fostering Virtual Collaboration for A Global Conference  

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“This virtual conference is the way to go and I think it will ease conferences in the future. After COVID, many of these bigger conferences and workshops will go in this way. People are more attentive, listen more and more engaged. 

When the UNICEF-AstraZeneca Young Health Programme (AZ YHP) Global Planning Meeting could not meet in person due to COVID, we worked together to design a new kind of virtual conference with collaboration, creativity and inclusion at the forefront 

A global conference to launch a youth-led advocacy movement for NCD prevention 
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children&#8217;s lives and help them fulfill their potential. In a new partnership with AZ YHP, UNICEF tasked its country-level and regional-level teams with planning a multi-year initiative to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among young people. To launch this coordinated effort, UNICEF convened country teams, regional teams, partners and young people themselves, to establish the key pillars of this movement, share their activities, spark inspiration and foster collaboration as they begin this 5-year program. The resulting event was a three-day global virtual conference with participation from over 15 countries.
New constraints arise amid pandemic 
The COVID-19 crisis presented unique challenges for this global conference, which was forced to be held virtually. The organizers understood how valuable in-person collaboration had been for past conference goals, so they turned to frog to help co-create an entirely virtual conference using new digital tools, workshop sessions and human-centered design principles. We started by conducting a thorough technology audit to find the right platforms for the global conference. It was imperative that the chosen tools would be able to create a productive, engaging, efficient and memorable gathering across multiple time zones—one that provided the energy and intimacy of an in-person convening. 
 
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<h3>&#8220;frog’s expertise in designing user-centered experiences and products was what we needed to help develop a strategy at the inception of a new partnership, and on top of that to do so amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. We were looking for innovative and creative approaches to support our planning and felt that FROG could provide us with that.”  </h3>
– Joanna Lai, UNICEF NYHQ Adolescent Health Specialist  </blockquote>
 
Designing a new approach to virtual collaboration 
At the onset, we knew that we needed to co-create the event around the key focuses of enabling collaboration and elevating youth voices.  
Additionally, the UNICEF team came to us with three key design principles for the experience: 
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Uncompromising: We will prioritize human experiences and connections, and acknowledge that the work itself is centered around improving the lives of humans. </li>
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This global event helped UNICEF, AZ YHP, their partners, and young people share, learn and strengthen relationships. By introducing Miro and Hopin, two new tools for remote workshops and conferencing, the teams were able to connect and collaborate, empowering them to continue pushing the boundaries of  young people’s health and well-being.  
The format of the event was carefully calibrated to consider how we could enable the widest audience to participate at any given time and simulate the best parts of an in-person conference. This meant: 
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="2" aria-setsize="-1" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1">Virtual spaces: To accommodate side conversations and spontaneous interactions, we included unassigned rooms people could enter to talk to each other. </li>
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In addition to designing the spaces and coordinating speakers, frog helped facilitate workshops for the country and regional teams, as well as for external partners and youth leaders.  
From the beginning, the UNICEF team knew the importance of elevating youth voices, so we actively designed ways to empower the Young Leaders by providing them ample stage time, outlets for collaboration, and dedicated time to craft and share their call to action to the group.

The remote conference had both live and asynchronous components, with high interaction during live sessions. 

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Attendees joined from multiple time zones, from Indonesia to Angola, the United Kingdom to Panama. 

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The resulting 3-day virtual conference, made up of participants from more than 15 countries, marked the beginning of both a new partnership between UNICEF and AstraZeneca, and a powerful youth-led movement to prevent non-communicable diseases. It also proved that human-centered design can always provide solutions by helping to ask the right questions and understand where true value lies. For UNICEF, it was not just about recreating the event as it had always been, but understanding that the key to success is the ability to collaborate—whether we’re together in one room or connected across continents.

A Biopharmaceutical Company that Puts the Patient First

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“The team at frog partnered closely with us to meet with the people living with TNBC in their homes and to really understand their experience, pain points and lives. From there, frog turned those perspectives into ideation sessions with our team to explore potential concepts that could create an enhanced patient experience.”


The insights delivered by frog helped fuel the evolution of a truly patient-centric biopharmaceutical company.


Why would a biopharmaceutical company care about patient experience, you ask? More and more, healthcare companies are realizing that the best care solutions extend far beyond the discovery or delivery of medications—rather they need to cater to a person’s entire care ecosystem. This is why Immunomedics partnered with frog on in-depth design research to uncover insights about the patient journey that would help them evolve into a more patient-centric bio-tech company.
Starting with the patient journey 
The initial challenge for frog was to help Immunomedics conduct research on the patient journey in order to uncover pain points and needs left unmet by healthcare providers and treatments alone. We started by looking at those affected by Triple Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC), which is an aggressive cancer with limited effective treatment options and innovation in recent years. Together, we conducted in-depth field research to understand the full ecosystem of care and support. Through interviews with women with TNBC, as well as their caregivers, healthcare providers and cancer care advocates, frog gained critical insights that led to the development of a three-part platform to address the specific needs, motivations and pain points of women with TNBC. “Ultimately, our engagement resulted in the creation of a digital community platform that provides a trusted space for people affected by cancer to share their stories and reliable resources,” says Immunomedics.
The resulting “Her Story” concept was designed as an online platform meant to disrupt the lack of trusted information surrounding this aggressive cancer by providing women with TNBC with affirmation, connection and community. In the “Her Story” platform, people living with TNBC share their experiences with others with TNBC and with the broader community, as well as access crucial information about this type of cancer.
In 2018, Immunomedics took these concepts to market with the launch of Humanly, a platform designed to celebrate the humanity of people living with cancer and provide guidance and support. The company evolved the “Her Story” concept and to reach a wider audience by addressing all people living with cancer. Our Stories on Humanly provides comprehensive and personalized information and resources across every stage of living with cancer. Our Stories allows users to connect with others at similar stages in their journey to share their advice, encouragement, resources and support.
Insights lead to actions 
In addition to the concept for Her Story, we also designed an immersive patient-experience environment for Immunomedics that helped to define the company’s ethos around patient-centricity. The assets we created for the boardroom—including stories and insights from our research—lived on as a tangible reminder of the kinds of decisions the company would continue to make.

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Today, Immunomedics continues on its mission to boldly deliver next-generation antibody-drug conjugate therapies for people with hard-to-treat cancers. The company was recently granted accelerated approval for Trodelvy in TNBC, while subsequent data from its ASCENT Ph 3 study demonstrated compelling efficacy including a doubling of overall survival and a near tripling of progression-free survival. The company continues to support Humanly as a platform for those impacted by cancer, with a broader commitment to infuse patient experience into all aspects of its culture. The company was recently acquired by Gilead Sciences.

Fueling healthcare innovation through venture design

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“The Design Collaborative extends Pfizer Consumer Healthcare’s innovation capabilities by tapping into the creativity and design expertise at frog.”

Leveraging our corporate venture building capabilities, frog partnered with Pfizer Consumer Healthcare to rapidly develop new, scalable consumer healthcare businesses, well outside of their original core offering.

Beginning in March 2016, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare (PCH) partnered with frog to establish the Design Collaborative, an innovation accelerator for the consumer health space. frog’s Venture Design principles, derived from many years of experience working as founders and with other entrepreneurs, guided the creation of the Design Collaborative. The joint initiative accelerated the development of new health solutions for consumers in the areas of sleep tracking and improvement, stress and energy management, nutrition and aging, among others. PCH and frog worked together to identify a range of opportunities within these target areas, select those most useful for empowering consumers to take health and wellness into their own hands, then structure both the offerings and business models around them.
The Design Collaborative was jointly staffed by frog and PCH, with key members co-located to ensure continuous engagement, strategic alignment and creative intensity. PCH team members rapidly adopted frog’s venture approach, favoring dynamic progress over rigid process, and leveraging customer insights to support accelerated decision making.
In nine months, the Design Collaborative delivered six new, refined and scalable business concepts that advanced Pfizer’s organizational goals and served as a beacon for innovation throughout the company.

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When frog and PCH partnered to launch The Design Collaborative, the team drew on frog’s Venture Design practice. First, they got to work identifying the target areas for innovation. They then tapped into design methodologies proven to achieve rapid, scalable business impact, leading to informed decisions about potential new opportunities.


A Venture Design Approach

The Design Collaborative used ‘experience simulation’ prototypes to validate opportunities with target customers. These empirical tests kept designers and developers tangibly immersed in the product experiences, and ensured customer needs stayed at the center of all decision making.

 Simulating Customer Experiences

After developing over 40 product & service concepts—each delivering new value in key consumer-focused areas—the Design Collaborative brought forward six new business opportunities to key stakeholders. Each was anchored in a large, unmet need, and presented with a clear business case for bringing to market. 

Making It Real

The Design Collaborative demonstrates the value of corporate venture building in enabling even the Fortune 50 to step beyond their prior boundaries and begin shifting their center of gravity to a next generation of core businesses.

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Orchid is a suite of open source tools and cryptographic protocols developed and run by people who want the internet to extend our natural human freedom, not curtail it. frog helped develop a brand strategy and identity to bring this highly technical and complex concept to life, allowing Orchid to become accessible and digestible to a global market of developers. Orchid is a frogVentures™ company that is funded by Tuesday Capital, a frogVentures™ partner.

frog helped bring Orchid’s platform to life by visualizing the brand and language. Through collaboration, we created an extensible design language system with an ecosystem of visual assets, which allows users to participate in Orchid’s open marketplace for bandwidth as freely and naturally as we coexist among nature.

Expressing the Natural Internet

The ecosystem of visual assets the team created included discrete illustrations that can be built in a myriad of ways to create dynamic new patterns and designs. By using micro brand assets that are highly malleable but stick within the rules, Orchid is able to continue expressing their brand throughout every interaction and touchpoint.

Micro Brand Assets

The Orchid brand mark is a circular formation that takes inspiration from the emergent self-organizing behavior found in nature. People join the Orchid platform to freely contribute and connect, creating a harmonious system of mutual exchange. The brand mark illustrates this harmonious system with individual 'nodes' joining the platform, helping others to access the open internet.

A Mark with a Meaning

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We worked alongside the Orchid team to develop and visualize their brand and identity.

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Helping Physicians Adopt Emergency Telehealth Services


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“This excellent resource from frog should help health professionals around the world overcome their reservations about video consultations.” 

Telehealth services are crucial during the COVID-19 crisis. Doctors new to this way of working need immediate support. 


On a global scale, there is an urgent need to connect physicians and patients who are unable to meet in traditional settings as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Looking forward into an uncertain future, telehealth services will likely continue to play a critical role in delivering essential care. However, for many doctors, telehealth is a new and potentially intimidating way of working.
Launched in just nine days, the <a href="https://telehealthtoolbox.org/">Telehealth Toolbox</a> is a collection of guidelines and practical tools that aims to accelerate the adoption of telehealth practices by primary care physicians. The goal is to ease stress on the healthcare system by empowering more healthcare professionals to deliver telehealth. This should reduce unnecessary hospital visits and improve patient well-being overall.
The Telehealth Toolbox is a pro-bono project conceived of and launched by frogs passionate about contributing to the COVID-19 relief effort. To make the guidance broadly accessible—and as a reflection of the diversity found on this multinational frog team—the Telehealth Toolbox is already available in five languages, including English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
Knowing What Doctors Need Most 
During research for this project, frog found documentation and tools related to operating a telehealth service, but a lack of quickly digestible guidance and actionable tools that allow doctors to set up a fully remote practice fast. To develop the Telehealth Toolbox, frog conducted remote interviews with seven doctors who provided necessary background on the challenge, tested iterations of the concept and shared the Telehealth Toolbox across their networks.
Throughout this accelerated qualitative research phase, the frog team found there are three core steps on a physician’s journey toward launching telehealth services, each with mission-critical questions for doctors to answer for themselves and their patients along the way:
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<li>Preparing a practice: What communication channels are right for me and my patients? What environment, technology and tools do I need to practice? How do my methods and processes translate into a remote environment?</li>
<li>Preparing patients: What do my patients need to know to get started? What expectations around services should I set? How can I help patients manage remote health visits from a technical standpoint?</li>
<li>Delivering remote care: How do I assure my patient that telehealth services are confidential and secure? How do I perform clinical assessments remotely? How do I guide patients on what comes next?</li>
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These steps leveraged existing research by respected sources including the <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=XqQCFfpXVPFfeTxA7HhiThN_4Q_xeZkJEku45dVULNZ65i5t7Dvi9mwoOCz6eBkcInE25fqAEzewZH9UiWLZPn9RAC3oV4gHG91dLACcW7noNzl1sUKZonf9JVBhWV4g-t7JwucFDOPYxtCxZX8uzltikvvI-4ia2OLQSfutlIyk_OiaXG-yycF8Lv5O0Veqg0STSVqaO3Fmm9EvqZ7nWg==">Oxford Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine</a>, the <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=ZwxaIDcTSi-NCi0jTkydDIbywtB1Itfj-jWtKuJI_-6RUZl0rAavroqYw-uZxsSNocxhC5PjgW_69Olbb_mej3ZgEFl-dsX1tXMqHhhnXowLnnflHOjPyGqcq_KJ1FUI">American Association of Family Practitioners</a> and the <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=ZwxaIDcTSi-NCi0jTkydDBTQG8SuZZcXR6TchEgnXZdc0ZKU9IAz9s8menmnGPkK7IIQofOGtU6m1qQ2bx_ylLO-YgwxYkiVr-9IzjK8qYs=">American Medical Association</a>. At each, the Telehealth Toolbox offers essential, actionable guidance for physicians, as well as links to more available information and resources in context of where they are in their journey.

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The multidisciplinary frog team followed an accelerated track of rapid research, design and development, launching in just nine days. 

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The Telehealth Toolbox has been accessed more than 18,000 times in countries all over the globe.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on how we all live, work and communicate. Today, many are feeling anxious, scared and unsettled about their near and long-term futures. At frog, we believe that form follows emotion, which is why many on the global team have been looking for ways to channel unsettled feelings about the crisis into a call to action to use design for greater good. The Telehealth Toolbox is one example of a multi-disciplinary, grassroots effort by frog designers, strategists, program managers and technologists that offers immediate benefit to doctors and patients during the pandemic, and will have lasting value for the healthcare system going forward. The Telehealth Toolbox has gone on to win Gold in the New York Design Awards, and also earned an Honorable Mention in the FastCo Innovation by Design Awards Health category and the SFDW Awards.

Rapid-Response Design for COVID-19 Ventilator Crisis

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“We loved working with the frog team. Their guidance on positioning and communications around the Spiro Wave device and Emergency Ventilator Response initiative helped us take this fluid, fast-paced project, and align all parties on a clear path for success.”

One of the most pressing shortages hospitals face during the COVID-19 emergency is a lack of ventilators.


On March 27, 2020, frog joined the Emergency Ventilator Response team in its mission to design, produce and distribute a low-cost, easy-to-manufacture automated resuscitator to help meet the growing demands on our healthcare systems amid the coronavirus pandemic. Frog worked closely with Newlab, the home to over 800 world-class inventors, engineers, and entrepreneurs applying technology to things that matter. Newlab members and staff, along with member company and product design firm 10xBeta, initiated the response and facilitated the rapid collaboration and transformative innovation required to respond to the crisis.
The goal of the initiative was to gather a crisis response team of leading designers, engineers, volunteer researchers, public health experts, critical care physicians, and members of the business community from across the country to create a medical device that could be manufactured quickly, at scale, and at a fraction of the cost of traditional ventilators, along with a brand and communications strategy that would help communicate the need to the world.
Within 48 minutes of the request, frog assembled a ten-person team to create a website that could take hospital distribution requests, donations and submissions for manufacturing partners. Within 48 hours, the frog team had led remote collaboration workshops to define and name the initiative and the Spiro Wave device. frog helped to organize the emergency response team around a dynamic pre-launch plan including the name, website and communications around Spiro Wave, which helped the team secure partnerships and begin Emergency Use Authorization discussions with the FDA.

Traditional ventilators have more than 650 components, over one million lines of code, and are sold to hospitals at $30,000 per unit. With the cost and timing constraints involved, it will take months for larger-scale manufacturers to ramp up production of full-feature ventilators to address the shortage. 


Challenges for traditional ventilators

The Emergency Ventilator Response team  brought partners together to create the Spiro Wave, inspired by MIT’s E-vent, an emergency ventilation device that helps hospitals expand their capacity to care for patients during this crisis. It is designed for rapid manufacturing, leverages low-cost, readily available components and is ready for distribution through partners and municipalities. 


A low-cost, rapid-response solution

The frog team, in collaboration with the Emergency Ventilator Response team, helped to organize the fast-paced emergency response team’s final push to get these life-saving devices into NYC hospitals, despite the hurdles of working with remote teams across a number of organizations. 


Clear communication helps align priorities 

We implemented the following tools to facilitate remote collaboration among the Emergency Response Team:
— Microsoft Teams &amp; Zoom for face-to-face meetings when we couldn’t be in the same room 
— Slack to keep on top of group conversations and communications 
— Google Drive and SharePoint to keep on top of collaborative documents 
— Miro for remote whiteboarding and collaborative brainstorming 
— Figma for collaborative design and delivery of the final marketing and communications website 
— Contentful CMS to allow team members to quickly update text with each legal review

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The Emergency Ventilator Response Team is on track to produce 500 units per day at their lead manufacturing facility in Long Island City, New York. As donations and manufacturing partners increase, so does the daily output of Spiro Wave. The Emergency Ventilator Response team anticipates production to scale to other global cities in the near future. 

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The time it took for frog to develop the communication plan and website for the Emergency Ventilator Response Team. We remained a close partner through pre-launch, as counsel and front line response, to make updates for legal and FDA compliance measures along with partner feedback. 

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The Spiro Wave will be made available to medical device manufacturers capable of assisting in scaling the production and distribution  of these devices across the country and around the world. In addition, frog helped to design and launch a fully-functional communications website through which interested parties can either request devices for their hospital, request to become a manufacturing partner or donate funds to ensure hospitals are provided with the devices they need regardless of ability to pay.


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