We had a chat with the founder of Information Architects (iA), Christoph Lüscher, about iA and their work methodology.

Tell us a bit about Information Architects. What were your motivations for setting up the business?

As the founder of iA Zurich, I can only speak for myself. Founding my own company was, among many other things, my way to escape from the big companies I was working for before. Large corporate structures very often prevent you from getting things done. While we are still confronted with these structures in our projects, there is now a significantly larger amount of our visions actually making it to the end user. AND, in an agency, there’s always a new project on the horizon.

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We’ve been fans of DoGood here at Design Beckons for some time now and thought it would be interesting to have a chat with Head DoGooder and co-founder of DoGood, Faisal Sethi about their admirable social enterprise.

Tell us a bit about your business. What were your motivations for setting up DoGood?

DoGood Headquarters is a social enterprise that makes web applications. Our first product—The DoGooder—is an app that turns web surfing into cash for causes.

We started analyzing some of the barriers to social action in our own personal lives and quickly discovered that if we could break down as many of those barriers as possible, and make doing good really simple, we might be able to make a positive social impact on a grand scale.

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