Whitespace - Higher Return on Human

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Let's design the future together.

Whitespace is a strategic consultancy working at the nexus of employee experience, customer experience, and technology.

We create human-centered products and services for global companies, startups, and government institutions. We also train our clients so that design methods and mindsets take root in their culture.

Interested in bringing design-led digital transformation to your organization? Find out why working with us leads to better business outcomes, sustainable futures, and a higher Return on Human®.

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Let's design the future together.

Whitespace is a strategic consultancy working at the nexus of employee experience, customer experience, and technology.

We create human-centered products and services for global companies, startups, and government institutions. We also train our clients so that design methods and mindsets take root in their culture.

Interested in bringing design-led digital transformation to your organization? Find out why working with us leads to better business outcomes, sustainable futures, and a higher Return on Human^®.

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LATEST

Well Designed: a podcast about Design as a business superpower

In our series launching this fall, we invite Design leaders and senior departmental stakeholders to share stories about how Design is making an impact on their organizations.

Design has the power to transform how innovation happens, how decisions are made, and who benefits when businesses succeed. Join us on our quest to steer the human experience toward a better future with Design.

Announcing the transPHARMAtion™ podcast

The Pharma industry is on a quest to dramatically accelerate the pace, lower the costs, and increase the success rate of drug development.

Launching in autumn 2023, the transPHARMAtion podcast explores this rapidly changing business landscape, bringing together people at all levels and functions within the life sciences industry to discuss the journey they are on and share insights about wins and fails along the bumpy road to change.

Join us as we shine a light on the people, processes, and technologies revolutionizing a vital industry.

Episodes are available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your podcasts.

Sustainable finance gains market intelligence with Tameo Analytics

Tameo is a start-up based in Geneva aiming to promote impact investing, a growing market intended to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact together with financial return.

Tameo was seeking an experienced UX and Technology partner to design and build a centralized and trusted market intelligence fund platform, Tameo Analytics, offering Fund Managers and Investors a wealth of independent research and comparative tools on impact investment funds.

See the case study

Webinar on Scaling Design Systems

View the recording of our recent panel discussion on Scaling Design Systems, featuring Dave Malouf (author and moderator), Julien Vanière (Sage), and Ryan Robert Kane (The Weir Group).

You will learn:

How to manage your team and increase collaboration
How to put in place governance structures
How to accommodate multiple or changing tech stacks
How to measure and track adoption
How to seek and sustain funding

Designers! Don't miss the 24 Minutes of UX podcast

Whitespace is a proud sponsor of the 24 Minutes of UX podcast, available wherever you prefer to listen.

The latest 24 Minutes of UX podcast episode is all about Systems Thinking, featuring Sheryl Cababa as the giver and our very own Peter Horvath as the seeker.

Sheryl is the author of a new book entitled Closing the Loop: Systems Thinking for Designers, published by Rosenfeld Media. Sheryl Cababa does a great job of bringing Systems Thinking out of academic silos and into the light of our everyday design practices.

Whitepaper on Enterprise Design Systems

Download a free report, co-authored with UXPin, on how leaders and design system contributors build, manage, and grow design systems that serve the development of internal and external products.

Ready to see how you compare?

Get key insights about:

Design system adoption and scale
Design-development collaboration
Tools and processes hurdles
Maturity challenges
Expectations for the future

Portfolio

Our senior team of consultants has years of experience in health, finance, luxury, manufacturing, sports, media, technology, education, and the public sector.

UNDRR

Tameo

ITC

Swiss Timing

Special-T

SITA

IFRC

SIG

WHO

Edwards

Medgate

ICRC

IAEA

EADV

Ferring

European Parliament

A+E

Terre des hommes

VMRAY

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Services

Strategic Advisory

Design-led organizations outperform their peers 2-to-1, but building an innovation lab isn't enough to create a space where innovation can flourish. Only a design culture can do that.

Our experts help you align initiatives with objectives, design practical and effective innovation programs, and see the forest through the trees.

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Development by Design

Agile development works best when paired with human-centered design. The alternative is risky and can prove fatal for your business.

Our UX, software, and industrial engineering teams work with you to craft products and services that your customers, employees, and partners need ... and love.

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Delivery on Demand

Many of today's tech jobs are outside of the tech industry. Yet companies are struggling to attract the talent needed to meet the demand.

Leveraging our multi-shore model, we collaborate with your internal teams to source the right people, at the right time, with the right skills, at competitive rates.

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Expertise

Innovation & Transformation

Together, we can define the processes to improve, the mindsets to shift, and the future opportunities to seize.

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UX & Service Design

We are passionate about blending Agile with UX to create human-centered, planet-friendly products and services.

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Employee Experience

Your teams need modern business systems that make it easier – and more enjoyable – to get work done. Just as important, Change Management must accompany new process and technology adoption.

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Product Engineering

As IoT, AI/ML, and AR/VR go mainstream, our software and industrial engineering practices are ready to meet the demand.

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Pharma & Life Sciences

We are proud to be working with global pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech companies to improve human health.

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Digital Health & Wellness

Tech is transforming the health sector, and we are at the forefront of this change, with expertise that includes digital therapeutics, telemedicine, wearables, and sensors.

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Design Systems & DesignOps

We assist in establishing systems and processes that enable you to design at scale and accelerate the development process.

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Academy

Investing in the professional development of your staff is an investment in the future of your business. Our corporate training programs give you the theoretical and practical tools needed to integrate design methodology into your SDLC, R&D, manufacturing, marketing, HR, and clinical practices.

What we teach is based on our real-world experience in multiple industries, and we also have the pedagogical prowess to match our street smarts. Many of our trainers are regular lecturers at leading universities, including the University of Geneva, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, HEC Lausanne, and Wharton.

Available training programs

Executive Leadership

UX for Non-Designers

Clinical UX Fundamentals

Digital Therapeutics

Agile that Actually Works

Insights

Publications

Be sure to download our latest white paper entitled Design Systems & DesignOps in the Enterprise, co-authored with UXPin.

Coming soon, we will be publishing white papers and market studies covering topics like Digital Health, Employee Experience, Agile UX Development, and more.

Explore our publications