Downstream Insights

Forecasting 2025: Five Experience Design Trends Shaping the Future of Spaces

Downstream — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 11:22:50 GMT

Experience design is coming of age. We explore the rise of hyper-personalization, immersive storytelling, multi-sensory engagement, sustainability, and the risks of the commoditization curve.

HP's future-forward design snags the spotlight

Downstream — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:04:45 GMT

Our immersive experience design HP Inc's workplace and Executive Briefing Centre won 'Best Innovation' at the 2024 Commercial Design Awards.

Geelong Sports Museum kicks goals at the AGDA Design Awards

Downstream — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:55:06 GMT

Our immersive experience design for Geelong Sports Museum, which celebrates the region’s sporting legacy, has been selected as a finalist in the 2024 AGDA Awards.

The convergence of retail and hospitality design

Downstream — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 18:11:54 GMT

Commerce + Communities Today sits with Sean O’Connor, Executive Creative Director at Downstream, to understand how retail and hospitality are converging to create next level customer experiences.

In a recent interview with Commerce + Communities Today, Downstream's Executive Creative Director Sean O’Connor discussed the blending of retail and hospitality. He highlighted the opportunities and challenges in blending traditionally separate industries together to create immersive, multi-faceted experiences.

Citybiz features Zoom’s groundbreaking experience center

Downstream — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 18:19:03 GMT

As a leading immersive experience design agency, Downstream has leveraged its expertise in experiential technology to create a dynamic, interactive environment that elevates the customer experience at Zoom’s new London office. Collaborating with Zoom Video Communications Inc, we’ve crafted an engaging space that brings Zoom’s innovative solutions to life, enhancing both client and team interaction. Our role in this project highlights the power of immersive experience design in redefining modern client and employee spaces and brand engagement.

Downstream appoints Annabel Dundas as Creative & Managing Director

Downstream — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:22:27 GMT

Annabel Dundas moves into a newly created role as Creative & Managing Director, ANZ, to unlock Downstream clients’ experiential and digital transformation opportunities.

What Taylor Swift can teach us about experience design

David Waingarten, Downstream — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:05:43 GMT

David Waingarten, Creative Director of Strategy at Downstream, discusses three things the modern office can learn from today’s experience economy.

Google’s St. John’s Terminal HQ redefines immersive design and experiential technology

Downstream — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 05:00:00 GMT

Today marks a significant milestone as we celebrated the ribbon cutting at Google’s newly transformed New York headquarters at St. John’s Terminal

The Tennessee Titans' game-changing new Nissan Stadium

Downstream — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 23:13:00 GMT

Downstream is proud to be a key player in shaping the narrative, brand, and guest experience at the upcoming new Nissan Stadium, set to become the home of the Tennessee Titans and a premier entertainment venue in Music City.

AI and experience – what’s real?

David Waingarten, Downstream — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 21:09:00 GMT

Organizations are feeling pressure to embrace new technology, and ultimately they will be forced to forge a new direction. David Waingarten, Rick Waritz, and Trent Hays of Downstream share the promises (and pitfalls) of AI and how to harness its potential to design and create better spaces.