People don’t buy products and services; they buy experiences. Even when their needs appear to be purely functional, people seek emotional fulfillment from their choices. They may have a need for assurance, and at other times they look for active engagement — perhaps exhilaration or surprise. Successful brands have a human-centered sensibility that promotes participation and builds social connections. In brand experience design, O+CO looks beyond traditional media to invent new ways for organizations to exchange experiences with their audiences and cultivate stronger emotional ties with them.