Sensate is a brand advisory led by Prem Kishore.

It began with a question: can design move beyond form and function to shape how organisations think, behave, and evolve?

Our name comes from sensing—attentiveness as a way of working. The studio is rooted in Richard Buchanan’s Four Orders of Design: symbols, objects, interactions, and organisations. Sensate explores a fifth: transformation.

We work with founders, teams, and institutions that are navigating change. That might mean refining identity, launching a platform, or scaling into new markets. Our role is to bring clarity, coherence, and systems that hold.

We approach brands not as messages that need to be delivered, but as participants—in culture, in organisations, in ecosystems. Design here isn’t an output. It’s a shift. Of narrative, of structure, of intention.

This is what we call alignment design. Between spirit, system, and story.

We work across four brand quadrants:

Clarity – identity, narrative, positioning
Systems – CRM, content ops, marketing automation
Experience – touchpoints, onboarding, UX
Community – brand behaviour, participation, belonging

Post-2020, Sensate also took on an ecological lens. Because design has consequence. It shapes behaviour, signals intention, and alters systems. The work must hold that complexity—with care.