Experience Innovation

From consumer electronics to medical devices, our industrial design work shapes how people live, work, and connect. Every product we create blends aesthetics with performance—becoming a seamless, meaningful part of everyday life and delivering performance for professional users.
How we work
When you collaborate with us on an experience innovation project, you’ll get more than a vision—you’ll get a clear path to make it real.
We partner closely with your team to define opportunities, prototype possibilities, and establish strategies for sustainable, meaningful customer experience innovation.
Our insight-led approach uncovers unmet needs and unlocks new spaces for innovative experiences, bringing fresh, innovative ideas to improve customer experience.
We envision and design new ways for people to engage meaningfully with your product or service, enhancing the overall customer experience and innovation.
We seamlessly connect digital, physical, and human touchpoints into a unified, cohesive innovation experience.
Vision concepts align stakeholders, reduce friction, and energize roadmaps, clearly guiding your innovation journey.
Focused innovation sprints transform ambiguity into actionable, testable breakthroughs—rapidly generating innovative ideas to improve customer experiences.
Co-creation and comprehensive qualitative and quantitative research methodologies ensure the voice of your users shapes each step, fully embracing their perspectives and driving impactful experience innovation from start to finish.

“Vision without execution is imagination. Execution without vision is noise. Experience Innovation bridges both—turning bold thinking into meaningful, market-ready experiences.”

Laura Ogle, Lead Design Strategist

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FAQ

What exactly is experience innovation?

Experience innovation involves creating cohesive, meaningful interactions across digital, physical, and human touchpoints. It builds upon principles of product design and design thinking to enhance usability, drive engagement, and foster long-term customer loyalty.

How do innovation sprints accelerate modern product innovation?

Innovation sprints help quickly transform ambiguity into actionable, testable breakthroughs. By rapidly prototyping possibilities, teams validate ideas early, efficiently guiding product innovation efforts toward tangible, market-ready solutions. An innovation sprint can give an organization clarity into a future development roadmap and de-risk the investment in building out that pipeline.

What role does design thinking play in the innovation process?

Design thinking is central to our approach. We use it to uncover unmet user needs, generate fresh ideas, and prototype possibilities, ensuring that innovation is both user-centric and strategically aligned to business goals.

Can you support innovation for an entire product ecosystem?

We support innovation at every scale—from individual touchpoints to entire product ecosystems. Our holistic approach ensures cohesive experiences, aligning product design, brand messaging, and digital platforms into unified user journeys.

What research methods does Whipsaw use to inform design innovation?

We utilize a balanced mix of qualitative and quantitative research methods, including user interviews, co-creation workshops, surveys, and usability tests. This ensures the voice of the user guides every step of our design innovation process.

How do you ensure stakeholders remain aligned throughout the innovation process?

We create clear, compelling vision concepts that help align stakeholders, reduce friction, and energize roadmaps. By continuously sharing insights, prototypes, and user feedback, we foster clarity and buy-in at every phase of innovation. We meet regularly and iterate throughout the innovation process, with regular validation.

Why is prototyping critical in product innovation projects?

Prototyping brings innovative ideas to life quickly, allowing for rapid testing, validation, and refinement. It reduces risk by identifying challenges early, accelerating the path from concept to market-ready product innovation. We prototype using a variety of methodologies - sketching, CAD, model-making, developing interaction models, clickable prototypes, functional, and representational models.