In today’s environment, human-centred design, biomimicry, and AI are shaping the future. We bring formal credentials and practitioner expertise in all three - knowing when to use them individually, and when their convergence sparks breakthrough solutions.
Every challenge is different. These three disciplines serve as building blocks—each with distinct strengths. Expand any card below for deeper detail.
The Convergence of Three Disciplines
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Human Intelligence
(Design Thinking)
Understanding what drives human behaviour. Solutions grounded in actual customer needs, not assumptions.​​
Best for: Market adoption, customer experience, transformational process, brand development, and stakeholder alignment. Why it works: Keeps empathy and feasibility at the heart of innovation. ​ 6th Sense experience: Close to 20yrs of practice.
Nature's Intelligence
(Biomimicry)
Brings nature’s wisdom - evolved and tested over 3.8 billion years - into business strategy.
Best for: Efficiency optimisation, sustainability imperatives, systems resilience, and organisational design. We use biomimicry when challenges require proven strategies from nature—or when combining it with human-centred design reveals solutions neither approach would find alone. Why it works: Applies proven models nature perfected - now inspiring global breakthroughs in many industries including tech, architecture, textiles, and pharma. 6th Sense experience: Nine years applying biological strategies to innovation work—one of the first Biomimicry certified business professionals in Australia to apply this commercially. Creator of proprietary methodologies: The Octopus Method The Spider Web Method
Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
AI as creative and strategic partner. Integrated throughout human-centred and biomimicry work—pattern recognition, creative stimulus, research, concept development — every stage.
Best for: Including in projects with needing advanced pattern recognition, research acceleration, creative stimulus, and scalable innovation. Why it works: AI rapidly analyses vast, complex data and uncovers patterns and opportunities that would take humans weeks or months to spot - speeding up research, revealing new insights, and fuelling creative leaps for innovation. 6th Sense experience: Formal training in applying AI across business functions.
6th Sense Triple Helix Method: Synergy at Every Step
What makes our Triple Helix Method potent isn’t just combining human, nature, and artificial intelligences — it’s how each discipline actively strengthens the others.
At every stage of our process, the three intelligences work fluidly together:
Human-centred insights shape our direction, reveal what people need and clarify which biological strategies we'll explore
Nature’s blueprints inspire resilient, innovative designs that are functional, elegant and sustainable
AI connects patterns and accelerates discovery and learning - keeping the process adaptive.
These three disciplines work dynamically, influencing each other. Insights from each stream guide the process, producing solutions that are human, sustainable, and future-ready.
This isn’t a toolkit;
it’s a living, adaptive system.
Biomimicry in Practice
We don't just use biomimicry for client work—we apply nature's strategies to improve our own processes and tools, demonstrating the convergence of biological thinking with human-centred design:
The Spider Web Method
(Strat Planning)
A strategic planning framework inspired by orb spiders' web construction and maintenance. Spiders don't build once and hope - they continuously monitor for damage, repair strategically (reinforcing high-stress points), and rebuild sections as conditions change, all while maintaining the structural integrity of the whole web. We apply this: your strategy becomes a living, visual network where core capabilities anchor throughout (like radial threads), teams can identify and repair weak connections in real-time, and the structure adapts to market changes without total reconstruction. This creates resilient strategy that evolves with your organisation, not static documents that go stale.
The Octopus Method
(Immersion)
Our proprietary research framework inspired by octopus neurobiology. An octopus doesn't just divide tasks - two-thirds of its neurons are distributed through its arms, allowing each to sense, process, and respond independently while the central brain coordinates. We apply this: specialised research streams (emotional, behavioural, contextual) run autonomously with their own sensing methods, then converge for synthesis. This creates richer, more dimensional insights than linear research or parallel work streams that simply divide the same approach. We use this on complex projects and offer it as advanced training for teams already fluent in human-centred design.