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Coalesce is an unconventional creative agency with 17+ years of experience in branding, product, and engineering.
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What Kirby Can Teach Us About Flexible Visual Systems
What Kirby Can Teach Us About Flexible Visual Systems
Kirby offers valuable lessons for brands navigating the ever-changing visual landscape.
Barbara Cadorna
Nov 14, 2023
The Good Splits Goodbye: Lessons in Letting Go of a Great Product
The Good Splits Goodbye: Lessons in Letting Go of a Great Product
Nothing delicious lasts forever (but building bridges in business makes change relatively painless).
Naomi Piercey
Oct 25, 2023
Hard Truths about Entrepreneurship: Urgency is OK. Panicking is not.
Hard Truths about Entrepreneurship: Urgency is OK. Panicking is not.
Our recent salon brought together the most stubborn group of people in NYC: Those crazy enough to start new businesses.
Naomi Piercey
Oct 6, 2023
Evolution in Engineering: What 17 Years Has Taught Us About Adaptation
Evolution in Engineering: What 17 Years Has Taught Us About Adaptation
Our engineering philosophy: Build human-centered products that stand the test of time.
Justin Rancourt
Sep 8, 2023
Is your team making decisions in a silo? Evidence-based design can help.
Is your team making decisions in a silo? Evidence-based design can help.
User experience research (UXR) asks us to identify our biases and hypotheses first, prove or disprove them to be true, and then act…
Jamie Woolfe
Jun 5, 2023
How Design School Helped me Make Uncertainty my Best Friend
How Design School Helped me Make Uncertainty my Best Friend
A.I. disrupts the best thing that helps define a young designer’s visual voice: good, old-fashioned trial and error
Barbara Cadorna
May 31, 2023
Content is dead! Long live storytelling!
Content is dead! Long live storytelling!
What is the new counterculture in the age of formulaic content marketing?
Naomi Piercey
Apr 21, 2023
Why are we investing in human words in an age of AI?
Why are we investing in human words in an age of AI?
Because the only thing we care more about than technology is humans.
William Margulies
Apr 5, 2023
How it Works: Swiss Design in Brazil
How it Works: Swiss Design in Brazil
Who really inspired the movement? Can we even know?
Barbara Cadorna
Feb 8, 2023
Why We Killed Off Our Company at This Year’s TOY
Why We Killed Off Our Company at This Year’s TOY
Building and designing things for ourselves is always last on the list. So we did an obituary exercise to see if our futures line up.
Naomi Piercey
Feb 7, 2023
Making Space for Creativity
Making Space for Creativity
Salons of the 1800s hosted some of the greatest minds in art, literature, and politics. Where can we have those conversations IRL today?
Naomi Piercey
Nov 9, 2022
Unconventional Teams Beat Uncertain Times
Unconventional Teams Beat Uncertain Times
Now is the time to invest in design and flexibility.
William Margulies
Jun 23, 2022
UX Surveillance: The Ethics of Session-Replay Tools
UX Surveillance: The Ethics of Session-Replay Tools
Do session-replay tools actually improve digital products, or do they invade our browsing privacy?
Jamie Woolfe
Nov 4, 2021
NFTs: Why Now?
NFTs: Why Now?
A breakdown of the current hype cycle, how NFTs are going to affect your favorite industries, and a really hard sell for our own artwork.
Justin Rancourt
Apr 14, 2021
Salesforce Hack: Score-ify Your Campaign Monitor Newsletter Activity
Salesforce Hack: Score-ify Your Campaign Monitor Newsletter Activity
A tutorial for connecting Salesforce and Campaign Monitor to create routinely-updated user scores.
Naomi Piercey
Mar 31, 2021
One Tool You Need Now: Customer.io’s Visual Workflow Builder
One Tool You Need Now: Customer.io’s Visual Workflow Builder
How leaning on existing tools helped us save countless hours developing user triggers.
William Margulies
Mar 23, 2021
Essential Tools for Musicians in 2021
Essential Tools for Musicians in 2021
Upgrade your toolkit this year with some of the best new software on the market.
Jordan Mattison
Jan 8, 2021
7 Easy Ways to Revamp Your Business Website Without a Full Redesign
7 Easy Ways to Revamp Your Business Website Without a Full Redesign
Small tweaks. Big splash. You don’t need to completely redesign your website to get some easy wins.
Naomi Piercey
Oct 22, 2020
Wordpress Hosting: Managed, Unmanaged, and Everything in Between
Wordpress Hosting: Managed, Unmanaged, and Everything in Between
Need a home for your site but not sure where to house it? We’ve been there. Here’s a side-by-side breakdown of your options.
Justin Rancourt
Mar 23, 2020
Coronavirus x Technology: 4 Considerations for Dealing with Digital Products
Coronavirus x Technology: 4 Considerations for Dealing with Digital Products
This is not a time for business as usual. Here’s how you can keep things running while teams are remote and your tech capacity is tested.
William Margulies
Mar 12, 2020
Engineering for Power Users and How to Optimize your Internal Product Resources
Engineering for Power Users and How to Optimize your Internal Product Resources
Insights from Ergatta, Walmart’s Intelligent Retail Lab, and the Product Community of NYC
Naomi Piercey
Feb 14, 2020
Why We Gifted Tattoos to Our Clients
Why We Gifted Tattoos to Our Clients
A lesson in helping people remember your holiday parties.
Naomi Piercey
Jan 15, 2020
25 Days of Space Pigeons
25 Days of Space Pigeons
A ode to our iconic mascot to celebrate 2019—a cosmic year for Coalesce.
Naomi Piercey
Dec 1, 2019
Engineering for Early Adopters and Creating Confidence with Your Product Teams
Engineering for Early Adopters and Creating Confidence with Your Product Teams
Insights from Andrena, Looker, and the Product Community of NYC
Naomi Piercey
Nov 18, 2019
Introducing Good Splits: A Royalty Calculator for Music Creators
Introducing Good Splits: A Royalty Calculator for Music Creators
Equitable music accounting gets a much-needed facelift.
Naomi Piercey
Oct 22, 2019
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