A behaviour-centred design and training company
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We offer two services:
Design consulting
We deliver value across digital and physical contexts, from strategy to implementation
We design world class products and services and train others to do this too
Design
consulting
Capability
building
Making new or improving existing products, services, brands and communication.
Training individuals and teams to use behavioural insight to do their jobs better.
Transformation
and change strategy
Working out how to best move people and organisations between current and aspirational states
Digital strategy
Exploring and proving ways to leverage digital channels to increase growth
Behavioural investigation
Uncovering the needs and motivations of people and organisations interacting with (and delivering) products and services
Ideation and testing
Designing changes to existing or new products and services and testing to prove results
There’s no ‘right’ solution in product or service design, rather, many directions that could realise desired results in different ways.
Our job is to find the most plausible direction and create the environment required for that to succeed.
This demands objective decision making informed by robust evidence.
We investigate
and validate plausible interventions
Over a decade of partnerships across sectors, geographies, and contexts. In times of growth and crisis
Capability building
Behaviour-centred training focused on building practical capability within consumer-facing teams
Evidence-led approach
Expert trainers
Our trainers have decades of demonstrated experience.
They train from this experience, not scripts or templates
Our approach is grounded in the latest evidence in learning psychology to maximise chances of effectively embedding capabilities
Practical outcomes
Measurement and tracking
We work with organisations to understand how training success is measured and work our training into those frameworks
We prioritise capabilities that will contribute to organisation success, these are reinforced over time through tailored coaching
Training in critical areas to solve problems and grow businesses
Designing products
and services
Communication
and collaboration
Behavioural
investigation
Teams learn to conduct investigation with people and properly synthesise outcomes. With this, they make better decisions.
Learn how to gather evidence from humans, then conduct product and service experiments
Learn how to imagine, prototype and execute new product and service designs
Learn how to build an inclusive culture, how to create compelling narratives then deliver them to inspire
Understanding
human behaviour
Inventing products
and services
Teams learn to generate novel ideas for products and services that don’t yet exist.
Building a compelling narrative
Teams learn the parts of an effective story and how to structure a narrative to ensure engagement and comprehension.
Improving products and services
Teams learn to design and prioritise possible ways to improve on current state versions to increase value and impact.
Presenting with purpose and impact
Teams learn the elements of effective presenting and how to overcome personal barriers to inspire audiences.
Conducting experiments
Teams learn how to design and execute experiments that run over time, in market, in order to validate assumptions and measure value in real time.
User interface prototype design
Teams learn how to design, prototype and test world class UI to ensure users’ interactions are the best they can be.
Working with diversity and inclusiveness
Teams learn to build an inclusive culture and leverage the perspectives that diversity brings to make teams better.
We have recently trained
Personas make marketers stupid: It’s time to embrace the complexity of human behaviour
Why objectivity is the most powerful business tool
Published by Michelle Gilmore
Design Director and Founder of Neo
Show Me, Don’t Tell Me: Counteracting Biases in Product Testing
Published by Michelle Gilmore
Design Director and Founder of Neo
Michelle Gilmore on Behaviour-Centred Design
Published by Michelle Gilmore
Design Director and Founder of Neo
What we talk about
Get in touch with our Directors to talk about working with or for us
Michelle Gilmore
Founder and Design Director
Michelle@neoteny.agency
Nic Chamberlain
Managing Director
Nic@neoteny.agency
Interface and visual design
Conceptual and detailed (production ready) design for physical and digital products and services
Brand and communication
Design and production of brand and communication assets to effectively talk to consumers and teams
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There’s no ‘right’ solution in product or service design, rather, many directions that could realise desired results in different ways.
Our job is to find the most plausible direction and create the environment required for that to succeed.
This demands objective decision making informed by robust evidence.
Our equitable design process decreases risk
At Neo, we are only interested in shaping realistic outcomes for our partners and making sure they happen.
We design practical, proven solutions; not abstract propositions. Selling a utopian notion that will never be realised is an easy way to make money.
But strategy decks that sell the dream and 'wow' the board rarely lead to anything tangible.
We are realistic, not idealistic
We only have hands-on senior designers, who move projects forward without the need for producers or project managers.
Our team are the best because they privilege evidence, can rationalise decisions and aren’t personally
attached to their work.
We don’t privilege a channel, we work in digital, physical and virtual spaces and ensure those work together.
We have proven experience across channels and industries
We work on initiatives attached to tangible and measurable outcomes.
We use behavioural design to increase market reach and value, reduce risk, and acquire and retain employees and consumers.
We don’t sell templates; buying ‘UX’ or ‘Personas’ is not how outcomes are realised; those selling these are wasting budget loading new data into well trodden templates.
We sell outcomes, not artefacts
There’s no ‘right’ solution in product or service design, rather, many directions that could realise desired results in different ways.
Our job is to find the most plausible direction and create the environment required for that to succeed.
This demands objective decision making informed by robust evidence.
We know being customer or human centric isn’t enough
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