About
Founded in 1984 by Jeff Smith, Gerard Furbershaw and Robert Brunner,
LUNAR (Lunar Design) is a
product design and development consultancy headquartered in the
San Francisco Bay Area. Key practices include design, engineering, user experience as well as insights & strategy. Core capabilities include industrial design, communication design, video story telling, mechanical and electrical engineering, manufacturing support, interaction design, user validation, design research, and need finding & assessment. LUNAR's current and past clients include Apple Inc., Abbott Labs,
Cisco Systems,
Hewlett-Packard,
Johnson & Johnson,
Microsoft,
Motorola, Philips,
Oral-B,
Palm,
Pepsi and
Sony. On May 14, 2015 Lunar was acquired by management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.