Strategic Design Process

Strategic design & innovation for a dynamic connected world.

The following methodology embraces the best of a design thinking approach and the power of creativity to help businesses innovate, solve problems and rethink customer experiences for our fast changing technological world.

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A user-centric, context-relevant, tech-empowered, business-aware approach to design & innovation, helping to identify, create, enhance and extract true value.

Discover: Start by taking a holistic approach to understanding users, context, technology and business. Ask the big questions why and seek the meaning behind the answers. Build clear insights as a foundation to design breakthrough solutions.

Design: Whether software or hardware, brand or tech. It is important to explore a range of creative concepts that each represent unique value. Then iterate and test these ideas for functionality and appeal before arriving on the chosen direction.

Develop: Continue to develop the chosen direction adding greater definition and value, Refining and optimising the solution until it just makes sense. Continuing to test and validate across system, function, user appeal, context, brand and business dimensions.

Deploy: Prepare the solution for its introduction into the real world, ensuring design intent, relevance, accuracy, quality and compliance. Facilitating a better user experience and adoption by our clients, partners and their customers.

VISUALISING ZINC VALUES

Creation of internal Brand Value visualisations for Zinc, mixing physical and digital products with key messages to inspire and align the team.

Design Thinking Capabilities

A Design Thinking capabilities presentation for Zinc that I prepared to share with Health & Wellness prospects. Highlighting the 8 key human-centric design principles to remember.

DESIGN VALUE FOR START UPS

A presentation about the Value of Design.

Design Value: How start ups can use design to build real value that investors love.