Strategic Consultancy.
This is a new range of services, designed to help businesses improve their customer and employee’s understanding, solve complex problems and also boost their team’s creativity.
A marketing campaign is a final point on a journey. Brands normally run campaigns after they have correctly identified a problem, understood its source, explored routes to solve, figured it out and then decided to go for a campaign to implement that solution – this is the moment they write a brief to an agency. Our business of strategic consultancy helps you with all these steps before writing the brief.
Design Thinking
Design Thinking is a methodology developed by Hasso-Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford (d.school) and became famous through IDEO, who place it at the core of their business model. This methodology is used to solve complex problems, by understanding human needs, reframing the problem in a human-centric way, creating multiple ideas in ideation sessions, then prototype and test it. We use the whole process for complex problems (like employer branding proposition, positioning a brand, solving a complex issue like why do sales drop, creating a new service) or just parts of it (like empathy or ideation).
Inquire us if:
- You have a problem with your brand and you are not sure how to handle it
- You want to launch a new product or service and you need to better understand your audience
- You plan to implement a new business model, a new route to market, a new solution of any kind and you need to test it before
- You want to position or reposition your brand
USER EXPERIENCE
User experience (UX) design is the process meant to create products (usually digital ones in our field) that provide relevant experience to users. Don Norman, the inventor of the term, said “No product is an island. A product is more than the product. It is a cohesive, integrated set of experiences. Think through all of the stages of a product or service – from initial intentions through final reflections, from the first usage to help, service, and maintenance. Make them all work together seamlessly.” Easier said than done, but we are here to help.
Inquire us if:
- You want to do a usability testing – analyzing users’ behaviors while using a product
- You plan to create a new website or app and you need a good flow and a good design
- You plan to launch new products – digital or physical – and need to understand user perspective
- You are in prototyping phase and need support with consumer testing
- You need to map customer journey
SERVICE DESIGN
Imagine a restaurant with hosts, busboys, chefs and, of course, clients. Service design focuses on how the restaurant operates and how it delivers to its clients. This new design science connects the consumer experience with the back of house processes, people and props. It is an activity of designing, planning and organizing a service, in order to improve the customer experience with the service and the employee experience around it. With services being the most contributor to the economy, surpassing the production of goods, the quality and efficiency of services become of top concert.
Inquire us if:
- You need to redesign a service that you are offering to consumers.
- You want to create a more efficient way of delivering the service.
- You want to delight your clients – from a better experience to a faster service or delivery
- You know that creating memorable experience is important, but you don’t know how to do it.
CONSULTANCY
Within the recent trend of accessible design, we realized that plenty of companies see concepts and execution as two different parts. We have encountered many situations when clients needed our expertise for developing a strategic proposal and setting up the creatives, but then it would have been more efficient for them to execute in-house, with local agencies or with freelancers. If you consider a similar approach, call us.
Inquire us if:
- You need to set up the right base for your brand communication, but the day-to-day work needs to be fast and low cost.
- You want us to develop the creative strategy for your brand.
- You need a second opinion on the work you have already been provided – usually from in-house team
- You need us to coordinate a team of your selection and review their work for consistent quality
CREATIVE TRAINING
Minio is a learning organization – we believe in the value of constant learning – new skills, new fields, new ways to solve problems. Therefore, we are actively building a learning culture in our company and we are proud to offer support for your organization. We love teaching!
Inquire us if:
- You want to organize ideation workshops – inspiring you team to think of new ideas and exercise their creativity
- You need a trends workshop – so you can see what is happening out there and how you can capitalize on new trends
- You want to train your team in design thinking methodology – or just part of it, like empathy with users.
- You want to increase your team creativity level and creativity confidence – we organize fun and inspiring workshops
- You need us to speak at one of your in-house events about consumer-centric approach.