Marking the way through complexity
We help organizations design data experiences that the right people can understand, act on, and trust at every level, for every audience, over time.
Services
Starting a new product or service.
For building something new, grounded in real audience understanding from day one
Something isn’t landing.
For tools and services people have quietly stopped using or find overwhelming
Unifying or scaling a product portfolio.
For bringing a patchwork of dashboards and tools into one coherent system
Explaining high-stakes information.
For turning complex medical, political, or technical information into something easy to understand.
Featured Work
From Siloed to Searchable: Clinical Trial Data at Scale
A pharmaceutical company's own scientists couldn't find, trust, or share their research data for accelerated clinical research. A unified platform fixed that and helped speed up the search for treatments.
Making the Midterms Make Sense
A plain-language voter guide that became a funded university-wide initiative, a national Design for Democracy feature, and a Connecticut Art Directors Club Silver award winner for social impact.
Accessible by Design: Data Products, Dashboards & Comms
A Fortune 100 company's data visuals didn't meet global accessibility standards. A company-wide design system, grounded in 25+ research sources and best practices, turned a compliance requirement into a scalable standard.
Guiding Principles
Start with people, not data.
We understand who uses the data before we design anything.
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Connect the front to the back.
The systems and teams behind the screen shape the experience as much as the interface does.
Design for trust.
Data nobody trusts is data nobody uses.
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Build to scale.
Every solution is designed with reuse and growth in mind, so investment compounds rather than starting over.
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Data Humanism in Practice
Human-centric approaches to contemporary design challenges
This book explores the unique skills required to create information design as it relates to the visual explanation of some of today’s most challenging human-centered concerns including social, political, environmental, and global health issues.
Coming Fall 2026 from Segnara Press. A field-defining approach to designing data systems people actually understand, trust, and act on.
Get updates on the book launch, new templates, and upcoming Segnara Labs.
Information Design for the Common Good
“Courtney introduces the right frameworks at the right time... brings passion, rigor, and subject matter expertise that is rare.”