Gold Standard Consulting
Gold Standard Consulting is a boutique consulting practice helping organizations build usable, credible products through research, elegant design, and practical AI enablement.
Credibility
Founded in 2018, Gold Standard Consulting focuses on quality, clarity, and responsible delivery. Engagements are intentionally selective.
Engagement focus
Services
Clear deliverables, thoughtful collaboration, and credible outcomes.
Structured reviews that prioritize usability issues with evidence and clear next steps.
Research that surfaces decisions, reduces risk, and clarifies what to build next.
Responsive UI, interaction patterns, and design systems that stay aligned to product reality.
Navigation, labeling, and content clarity to help users find what they need faster.
Accessibility-first reviews that improve usability, trust, and compliance readiness.
Practical AI enablement rooted in workflows, evaluation, and responsible adoption.
Process
Each engagement follows a clear path to reduce risk and maintain focus.
Discover
Learn the context, users, and constraints.
Define
Clarify goals, success metrics, and priorities.
Design
Create solutions that balance usability and brand.
Validate
Test concepts early with real users.
Deliver
Provide clear documentation and handoff support.
Who this is for
Select engagements where UX and AI decisions must be precise and defensible.
Engagement note
Selected experience and references are available on request. The focus is always on relevance and fit.
Insights
External reading plus entries from Gold Standard Journal.
Your boarding pass has been sitting in that app for three days. But right now, as you sprint through Terminal 5, it’s the last thing you… Continue reading on UX Collective »
Building data color schemes with Generative AI. Continue reading on UX Collective »
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The design story of SaveUSPS: civic tools compete with apathy, defaults are the argument you ship, and the map is the stamp.
OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
ReadA survey of 604 tech and design professionals found that “UX” remains the default name for our field, while alternative names remain fragmented.
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