HiveDesign

Designing the future through sustainable solutions that can tackle even the most complex challenges. We partner with mavericks to reimagine products, build design that delights, and unites innovation with company culture.

We help our clients and partners drive growth and relevance by spotting opportunities to co-create what’s next for your organisation. This includes new products, customer strategy, experience, culture and more. Design-led approaches are in our DNA and we seek to take a human-centric approach to all that we do.

Thomas Watson Jnr famously said “Good design is good business”, and in a world where stakeholder expectation is evolving at a pace previously unseen, never has there been a more imperative time than yesterday to start harnessing the power of design with exponential technology opportunities.

HiveDesign difference

Innovative design is in our DNA. HiveDesign itself is built to blend decades of design
experience and learning, across sectors, into one capability that can reimagine the future
for our clients.

Seasoned experts with real-world expertise

With backgrounds in some of the most challenging and dynamic environments, our professionals don't just theorize about potential solutions; they've been directly involved in crafting real-world applications. This direct experience equips them with unique insights and practical knowledge that are evident in the design and functionality of our offerings.

Fusion teams that build sustainable change

By leveraging on both partners expertise and experience, we build teams that can design solutions that make sense for your organisation.

Blended skills to create solutions attuned to user needs

The diverse experience and skills across our teams means we can design to your business’s unique strengths and challenges, delivering greater benefits more efficiently and effectively.

What are you looking to achieve?

Deliver new products to market

HiveDesign has all the product bases covered from strategy and inception through to creation. Our strategists, designers and engineers collaborate to ensure you get product-market fit at pace.

Create better customer experiences

HiveDesign is all about creating better experiences, our strategists and designers are passionate about creating experiences that wow.

Kick start innovation

HiveDesign is your partner when you are looking to innovate, experiment or think about what’s next. We have the experts and propositions to get going quickly to help you get a return on imagination.

Design and deploy new employee experiences

HiveDesign is passionate about building next generation work experiences and cultures. We use design centric techniques to create differentiated experiences that maximise the chances of attracting the right talent.

Infuse design and innovation into your culture

HiveDesign can’t imagine a world without innovation and design. We love to collaborate with customers as a partner to help them build their own muscle and embed it into their culture.

The skills and capabilities we unite under HiveDesign

Integrated design and systems thinking

Our experts bring together the user-focused approach of design thinking with the holistic view of systems thinking. This enables the creation of solutions that are deeply attuned to user needs while also considering the broader system's dynamics, something which Design Thinking in isolation can sometimes neglect.

Business strategy formulation

With strategists and analysts from top tier consultancies and blue-chip organisations we can help you develop a comprehensive understanding of the competitive landscape, including insights into market trends, business modelling techniques, and the development of compelling value propositions that differentiate your offerings in the marketplace.

Digital innovation

We’ve a deep understanding of the modern digital landscape, including emerging digital trends, AI, platform development, and technologies that can be leveraged to drive innovation. This involves an understanding of how digital tools and methodologies can transform business models, enhance customer engagement, and create new opportunities for value creation in the digital era.

User experience (UX) design

Our UX community brings deep expertise in crafting products, services, or processes that deliver impactful and relevant experiences to users. This encompasses a range of activities from conducting user research and usability testing to designing the interactions and interfaces that shape your user experiences.

Prototyping and testing

The skill to rapidly develop prototypes for products or services, facilitating quick iterations based on user feedback. This iterative cycle helps in refining concepts until they meet user needs effectively.

Customer insights management

We bring the latest thinking in Customer Insight Management to accelerate the collection, analysis, and interpretation of key data and feedback from customers to inform and guide your strategic decisions, ensuring that designs and strategies are deeply rooted in real customer needs and preferences, not opinion.

Visual and communication design

Design without communication is pointless, we bring deep competence and experience in using visual design principles and communication strategies to articulate ideas, concepts, and solutions effectively. This includes skills in graphic design, branding, and the creation of compelling narratives to communicate the value of designs.

Experts at a glance

Michelle Spaul

Michelle helps founders, owners and leaders build revenue and resilience by ensuring customers remain loyal. Michelle works with visionary founders and leaders who want to get ahead of the game and tackle CXM proactively. She has 30 plus years of industry experience working across diverse organisations.

Jordan Dalladay-Simpson

17+ years of experience building, launching and scaling digital businesses, helping ambitious leaders turn audacious ideas into success stories, and whose design/innovation theories are published by Routledge and Oxford University Press.

Lisa Valipour

Expert in digital services including SEO, E-commerce, Web Development, UX/UI Design, Digital Advertising, and Innovation Management for clients including BP, Cisco, Brand Uprise, Google, SAP, Andra Capital.

Anja Klüver

Anja is an independent service experience & innovation strategist, experience designer and design entrepreneur with nearly 3 decades of award-winning design and business leadership experience. She has worked with clients including, the Design Council, The Royal Society of Arts, Opodo and Nokia. Previously co-founding Prospect, a London-based Experience Design Consultancy, which was acquired by Manyone, a global strategy-design hybrid, in 2020.

Andy Piper

Andy is an enabler, a synthesiser, a connector, and a community-builder. He has worked across industries in global organisations bridging the gaps between humans and technology. Andy works with organisations who promote diversity and inclusion in tech, delivering a clear approach to understanding the possibilities of technology. These have included, Twitter, VMware and IBM.

David Kolb

Supports organisations to navigate the uncertainty of long-term impacts in AI by harnessing AI strategically. David is a facilitator and coach with IDEO-U, delivering for clients across sectors. David specialised in innovation, and led HSBC as Global Technology & Operations Head. He partners with visionary leaders in the early stages of AI exploration.

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