Karen Nijmeijer's Contact Details

Karen Nijmeijer's Company Details

Freethinking

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa • 67 Employees
Design

We're problem diagnosticians and solvers that offer value-driven design through business-oriented thinking.We do things differently. We see innovation as a design problem, and this definition of design extends far beyond the limits of areas traditionally considered ‘design'. We understand that the right way to assess innovation is by its impact.With Design-Driven Innovation, we don't just work to improve or offer completely new solutions to existing problems – we redefine problems. We are advocates of the Conscious Capitalism movement, and we live to innovate for the big, systemic issues facing society today.Our approach is unique:We understand the issues inherent to Human-Centred Design and how it can't solve complex, systemic problems on its own. We can tackle systemic issues because we validate and test proposed meanings not only using Human-Centric Design principles but also Society-Centric Design principles and Systems Design.