About

Experience design is an operational problem.

27 years of aligning design, fabrication, technology, and operations — from the first brief through opening day and beyond.

JC Hendricks
27
Years in practice
20+
Person team led
4
Industry sectors
BFA
Industrial Design, KU
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Based in
Kansas City
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I spent 27 years building experiences. Now I help others deliver them.

I started my career as a graphic designer and grew into the role of Executive Creative Director at Dimensional Innovations — an Overland Park, Kansas-based experience design and build firm. Over nearly three decades, I led the creative practice through a period of significant growth, ultimately overseeing a 20-person multidisciplinary team responsible for some of the company's most complex and visible projects.

My background is rooted in industrial design, which gave me something most creative directors don't have: a genuine understanding of how physical things get made and what it actually costs to make them. That fabrication-grounded instinct — knowing how a design decision ripples through engineering, manufacturing, cost, schedule, and installation — became the foundation of how I work. It's the reason I could lead the LEGO Ferrari attraction from concept through install, coordinate a 7-ton LED baseball installation on a 4-month fabrication timeline, or align a 20-person cross-functional team across a multi-year project without losing the thread between creative intent and operational reality.

I've now taken that experience independent, working directly with organizations that need a seasoned partner to help solve hard problems across creative, technical, and operational boundaries. I work best when the problems are genuinely difficult — when there's no obvious answer, when teams need someone who can hold the whole thing together, and when the stakes are high enough that getting it right actually matters.

Design
Experience & narrative design
UI / UX for immersive environments
Graphic & environmental design
Motion & animation
3D modeling & visualization
Technology
Interactive & digital-physical integration
Projection mapping
AR / VR experience design
RFID & guest tracking systems
LED & media installations
Game engine visualization (Unreal / Unity)
Leadership
Cross-functional team leadership
Fabrication & manufacturing integration
Design-to-delivery alignment
Scalable workflow development
Operational systems design
Stakeholder & client management
Creative governance
User testing & validation
Production alignment
Tools
Adobe Creative Suite
Figma
3D Studio Max
Unreal Engine / Unity
SketchUp / SolidWorks
Game engine workflows
Clients & partners
LEGOFerrariNFL ESPNMLB · Atlanta Braves NHLAMC AndrettiU.S. Navy Carilion HealthConnecticut Children's Harley-DavidsonMerlin Entertainment

"Won Best of Show for the Kansas City Public Library Book Bindings installation — a civic landmark that transformed a parking garage façade into one of the city's most recognized public art pieces."

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