Testimonials

"If you are looking for a team that can help your organization unleash its creativity, you have come to the right place. Lime Design is masterful at helping organizations, from colleges to corporations, tap into their potential for innovation. They provide provocative workshops and coaching on the creative process that are customized for your group. You will be blown away by their unique approach and the impact they will have on your organization."

Tina Seelig, Ph.D.
Executive Director,
Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Author: What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20

“Lime Design has been a fantastic partner in designing and facilitating a design thinking experience with us. Their professional approach, creative ideas and immense network, mixed with their passion for making a positive change makes them truly unique.”

Frederik Pferdt
Global Program Manager for Innovation & Creativity,
Google

“Working with Lime Design was an overall great and engaging experience. They conducted high-quality ethnographic research that led us to uncover terrific customer insights, and also designed and facilitated a hands-on innovative workshop during which customers acted as co-designers. The expert guidance of Lime Design coaches helped us harness the power of generative brainstorming in a creative way, and helped us quickly prototype solutions with real customers. If you are looking for new ways of discovering what customers need, I highly recommend this innovative design consultancy.”

Cheryl Ricketts
Director of Educator Marketing,
Microsoft Corporation

“Challenging students to explore their own thinking and the thinking of others -- work that was inspired and supported by Lime Design -- has done more to shape me as an educator (and a person) than anything else I've experienced in my professional career.”

Mike Berman
Director of Development & Community Partnerships,
East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy (Aspire Public Schools)

“It was an incredibly useful experience for my whole team to get our of our everyday day to day ways of thought and really learn about design thinking. It really gave us a fresh perspective that we are going to carry forward into our work, and an infusion of a completely different kind of energy.”

Colleen Cassity
Founder and Executive Director,
Oracle Education Foundation

"Fortunate to participate in 2-day design-thinking workshop led by Lime. The sessions were packed with learning, designed so thoughtfully and interactively that participants were engaged rather than overwhelmed. Even the initially-skeptical left fired up to tackle their thorniest work challenges -- and now capable of doing that in richer, user-centered ways. Expertly done!"

Pam Fox Rollin
Executive Coach,
IdeaShape

“We've been working with Lime Design for several months now, and I've been tremendously impressed by their ability to communicate the need for innovation at the same time that they convey methods to become more innovative. Even more important, I see the people they work with leave the room with a real intent to implement these methods in their practices in a deep way. I think Lime Design is going to be a fundamental part of our organization’s ability to grow.”

Christian Reilly
Science Teacher,
Santa Catalina School

“We are very pleased to be working with Lime Design for our school professional development program. Their ideas are innovative and provocative, their approach is collaborative and friendly, and the results are outstanding.”

John Aime
Assistant Head of School,
Santa Catalina School

“The Lime Design team can change your school or organization in no time. Our middle school, comprised of about 30 teachers, has learned to become design thinkers, approach our work in a different fashion, and trust that, through risk taking, quick prototyping and testing, we will find innovative pathways to change our school’s structure, curriculum, and student learning.”

Jeanne Elliott
Principal,
Bayside STEM Academy

“I found Lime Design's workshop at the East Bay Independent Schools Association (EBISA) active, fun, and engaging, as well as thought-provoking about the process of brainstorming and how to best promote idea generation. We have used ideas from the workshop in our classes (how to address climate change at a global summit), and our faculty meetings (how to tweak our new schedule to address some of its shortcomings).”

Molly Barrett Stern
Eighth Grade Dean/Math/Science Teacher,
Head-Royce School

“Design thinking changed not only the way I teach, but the way in which I approach issues and needs in my life. My students were immediately engaged in empathy building activities that also helped the understanding of various challenging texts. Additionally, students used the process to address concerns at school. I am learning the most effective ways of implementing this process into my classroom, and can't wait to become an expert!”

Joanna Ho
English Teacher,
East Palo Alto Phoenix Academy