What we do

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Shaping your future through design and research

We embed ourselves in your business, working with you to untangle knotty problems and giving you the insights and confidence to make good decisions.

We don’t just shape strategy, we help you find the routes to make it happen - getting you from thinking to knowing to doing.

How we supported a team of visionary founders to revolutionise sexual healthcare in the UK
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Making impact through great products

Our designers and technologists work in tandem to deliver great digital products and experiences that create lasting impact for your customers, clients and your team.

Our agile, iterative approach means your business can see benefits quickly and focus your investment for the future.

How we changed the way that people take part in the UK democratic process
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Growing teams that thrive in complexity

We build relationships that inspire trust. We put people first in everything we do, from research and design to nurturing capable teams.

Through coaching and ‘learning by doing’, we build the agile and user-centred capabilities that give your people confidence to sustain and scale impact.

How we’re making life easier for planning officers in the UK

How we deliver value to you

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Explore

Great products solve big problems. So, the first step is for us to define, qualify and articulate the problems we are trying to solve.

Together, we identify your end users, how we can benefit their lives, and what the business case for your product looks like.

  • Digital transformation
  • Change management
  • Digital strategy
  • User research
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Strategic design
  • Business model
  • Business case
  • Theory of change
  • Target operating model
  • Discovery
  • Design research
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Ideate

Big ideas can change the world. But turning a big idea into reality means breaking it up into manageable steps.

We’ll guide you and your team through the ideation phase, transforming your big idea into something tangible.

We create technical proof of concepts and iterative prototypes, ready for testing.

  • Ideation workshops
  • Design sprints
  • Service design
  • Product design
  • UX/UI design
  • Content design
  • Prototyping and testing
  • Proof of concept
  • Lean Startup
  • Alpha
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Develop

Now it’s time to turn your vision into reality. Through our iterative, collaborative process, we’ll work closely with you to develop your product.

Along the way, we’ll refine and optimise, looking out for new opportunities and features. We will work with you to deliver a skeleton product that can be tested in real life scenarios by actual users. From this we will bring together a wealth of incredible ideas, refining the product until it is viable, feasible and desirable.

  • Agile delivery
  • Open source software
  • Minimal Viable Product (MVP)
  • Front-end and back-end development
  • API development
  • Ruby on Rails
  • React.js
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • User testing
  • Usability testing
  • Private and Public Beta
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Sustain

A new service or product launch is a huge moment. But even once your product is ready, there’s still much work to do.

Sustaining the life cycle of your product is just as important as building it. But don’t worry, we’ll be right there with you, making sure your business has what it needs to nurture and evolve your product for continuous growth.

  • DevOps
  • Cloud hosting
  • Support desk
  • Software support, upgrades and maintenance
  • Performance monitoring
  • Data analysis
  • A/B testing
  • Penetration testing
  • Accessibility
  • Live

What people say about us

Jack Burrows, Product Manager | Carwow

"The Unboxed technical expertise and knowledge have significantly accelerated our initiative's progress. The team at Unboxed quickly adapted to our ways of work and tech stack, becoming highly reliable members who made substantial contributions and helped effectively troubleshoot for others within the team"

The packages we offer

Digital Accelerator

Digital Accelerator

  • Reduce the risk and longer term costs
  • Create and tests your prototype
  • Esnures customer satisfaction
  • Understand constraints of your product
  • Creates a shared vision
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5-day Design Sprint

  • Redefine problems, generate solutions, engage stakeholders
  • Explore and decide on new directions, seeding new projects or programs
  • Develop a user validated prototype of your product or idea
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10-day Impact Sprint

  • Prioritise new opportunities - know when, where and what to start
  • Keep track of progress - know when to push on and when to stop
  • Assess and evaluate - demonstrate success and learn from failure
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Agile Training

  • Understand the agile processes, methodologies and roles
  • Get clarity on types of projects that benefit from an agile approach
  • Understand iterative product development, and how design thinking and service design is applied
  • Set vision of how your team can go forward from day one
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Tell us about your project

Let’s start with an idea. Get in touch with Unboxed today to learn more about our services and what we can do for you.