Conscious Creation
Optimistic design and technical excellence
We see a beautiful future ahead – a place where insights, imagination, design, and technology conspire to deliver valuable and inclusive experiences for your customers, community, and society. That’s where we’re going.
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Our Work
Advancing the human experience in a digital world

Vroom
An integrated approach to supporting early learning
Social Impact iOS App Android App
Khan Academy
Leveraging research and storytelling to benefit historically under-resourced communities
Education Design Research + Strategy
USC Shoah Foundation
Modernizing experiential learning with a place-based mobile app
Edtech iOS App Android App
Jane
Simplifying the complicated world of legal cannabis for customers
B2B Responsive WebsiteDesign Conversations
Optimistic Design
Optimistic Design is a practical, positive look at the future of design, ethical innovation, and technology. Tune in each month with Wilma Lam, Substantial’s Strategy Director, as she is joined by creatives, makers, and thinkers to talk about what it means to design with hope for our ever changing world.