Buck Sleeper

Buck Sleeper

Buck Sleeper is an experience designer at the global design and innovation firm EPAM Continuum, working broadly to understand the needs and behaviors of humans, identify disruptive opportunities for businesses and institutions, and forge alignment within organizations to drive real change and implementation. Buck is obsessed with crafting a future that is inclusive, sustainable, and optimistic. He leads the Restaurants and Retail Vertical at EPAM Continuum, drawing from his diverse background of projects in education, healthcare, financial services, civic design, and connected devices to transform the future of shopping and eating.

Buck is trained as an architect, previously holding positions at Skidmore Owings and Merrill, Kennedy Violich Architects, and Howeler Yoon Architects. Buck earned his master of architecture at MIT in Cambridge, and holds a bachelor of arts from Middlebury College in Vermont. He lives just outside of Boston.

October 13, 2021 Blend Space: Study Examines the Potential Solution to Fragmented Retail Experiences

Retail was derailed by the 2020 global pandemic, but there were already pressures facing it from e-commerce and direct-to-consumer business models before we went into lockdown. Today, the brick-and-mortar store has become a hybrid, part showroom, part neighbor, part shipping center. No longer is the physical store the final destination for shoppers; instead, it's just…