Design innovation consultancy
Overview
What We Do
Design Consultancy & Guidance
Interactive guidance and consultancy through co-creation projects and stakeholder engagements through the application of the Design Innovation framework. Consultancy and guidance to enable cultural shift and embed design capability in your teams and company to drive impactful innovation.
Design Education
Practice-oriented professional development, guiding professionals and students through the Design Innovation framework by engaging in a design sprint.
Design Research
Rigorous scientific study on design methods, tools, and principles to ground and advance interdisciplinary design practice.
Our Impact
DI Workshops
DI Participants
Design Guidance & Service Projects
Research Publications
Our partners and collaborators
Why Us?
Interdisciplinary Team
Research-backed design methods
Product-Service-System Design Expertise
Advanced Rapid Prototyping Facilities
Leverage the SUTD Network
A multi-disciplinary powerhouse
The DI family is a nest of avid problem-solvers of diverse professional backgrounds – we’ve got the brainy engineers, the imaginative designers, the inspiring educators, and more! Whatever challenge comes our way, we’ve got it covered from all sides.
Our Approach
Our Human-Centered, Interdisciplinary Approach
Design Innovation is centered on people and comprises of 3 distinct yet tightly integrated facets: Process, Methods and Principles. It also integrates the creative, technical, and analytical methods that emerged from 4 schools of thought: Design Thinking, Business Design, Design Engineering and Systems Engineering.
DI Methods
A Language of Design
DI methods form a ‘language of design’ and are guided activities to help teams work towards a desired outcome. Get a taster, practice DI methods for yourself with the help of our online materials.
DI Handbook
An in-depth guide for design practitioners and management to apply Design Innovation in their work and inspire a human-centred, systems thinking culture in their teams.
