the customer is always right?

They don’t always know what they want, and some argue that it is not possible for a consumer to ask for something that doesn’t exist, but they are often a good place to start.

We run co-creation and creative events, over one or two days, to explore consumer behaviour and gain insights into their experience of the product, what’s good about it, what’s bad, how could it change, what doesn’t it do that it should… and we always have tea and cakes.

As Henry Ford once said: “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said a faster horse.”

ask the user? or measure them

Insights may not come from discussions, but from a tape measure.  We work closely with ergonomists such as Davies Associates (for example on the BAA washrooms) to understand the physical abilities and behaviour of consumers.

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DBA Design Effectiveness Award WINNERS……!

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Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Already an award winner, our Superlight aircraft seat for Acro Aero, has now won a DBA Design Effectiveness Award, revealing that the seat is not only great for passengers, but from a airline point of view, the design is… er… effective. We are a little over-excited..!