Design &
experience
strategy

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Every unforgettable brand experience starts with a strategy that connects your brand’s goals to the way real shoppers think, feel, and move through a space.

And that’s what our retail design studio is built to deliver.

Imagine Studio brings together brand positioning, shopper psychology, customer journey mapping, and visual identity into a coherent creative direction.

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The largest brands trust Imagine
for more than 40 years and counting

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Seven Eleven Logo
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Celsius logo
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Dicks Sporting Goods Logo
Elf logo
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Family Dollar logo
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Hibbett Sports logo
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staples logo
SteelTek logo
Target logo
Taylor made logo
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Discover, Define,
Develop & Deliver.

Our process is built around four stages: Discover, Define, Develop, and Deliver. We dig into your brand, your category, and your customers through research, stakeholder interviews, competitive audits, and in-market experience expeditions. The result is scalable creative services and retail design rooted in shopper behavior and brand strategy.

“With Imagine, we’re uniting our full capabilities to create more engaging, meaningful shopping experiences.”

Nick Widi, President of Fleet Farm

Imagine Studio connects brand strategy to real-world shopper behavior by developing environments rooted in research and insights. By aligning design decisions with how customers think and move through a space, brands can increase engagement, improve conversion rates, and create more consistent experiences across locations.

Shopper psychology helps brands understand how customers navigate, evaluate, and interact within a retail environment. Designing around these behaviors creates more intuitive layouts and messaging, which reduces friction, improves dwell time, and drives more confident purchasing decisions.

Customer journey mapping analyzes how shoppers move through a space—from entry to checkout—to identify key decision points and opportunities to engage. This allows brands to design experiences that guide behavior more effectively, resulting in higher conversion and improved customer experience.

A defined process—such as Discover, Define, Develop, and Deliver—ensures that insights from research, stakeholder input, and competitive analysis are translated into production-ready creative. This structured approach reduces rework, accelerates approvals, and enables faster, more efficient project execution.

By grounding creative direction in research, competitive audits, and real-world testing, the final design minimizes guesswork. This leads to more informed decisions, fewer costly revisions, and higher confidence that final executions will perform as intended in-store.

A strong design strategy creates a flexible framework that can be adapted across different location formats, regions, and campaigns. With scalable creative and production-ready assets, brands can maintain consistency while efficiently rolling out experiences across large footprints.

Let’s talk about
what we can build together.