Team
A small practice, by design. You work directly with the people doing the work, not account managers.
Founder & Principal Designer
Eric leads design and strategy, drawing on two decades making complex, high-stakes systems navigable, from consumer products at the scale of Volkswagen, Audi, and Walmart to healthcare, civic tech, and education. He brings that caliber of craft to the organizations that need it most, with one goal that never changes: tools people can actually trust when it matters.
Design & Research Partner
Abbey partners on research and delivery, turning messy realities into clear, durable products. The work stays grounded in the people it serves, never in assumptions about them.
Our purpose
When an unexpected illness came into our family, we spent months living inside the tools meant to help us care for someone we love: patient portals, benefits forms, scheduling systems, pages of care instructions. They were dated and neglected, none of them built for the human moments that come after a diagnosis. The moments where clearer instructions could have eased our fear, where one less redundant form could have lightened the weight, where a tool that simply worked could have felt like hope. These details matter.
We had spent our careers making products effortless for some of the largest companies in the world. Standing on the other side of the screen, we saw how rarely our industry thinks about how its work lands in the most important moments of someone's life. Æther & Stone is our answer: the same craft, aimed at the people and causes who need it when everything is on the line.