Human-Centred, Tech-Enabled Service Innovation
I believe that companies which are digital at their core, value-led and customer-obsessed will be the ones thriving in the future. My mission is to help companies to push current boundaries by igniting ecosystem collaboration, human-centred design, rapid prototyping, and continuous learning.
In February 2023, I joined TCS Pace Amsterdam as Senior Manager where I currently lead innovation engagements. In 2022, as Course Director for ‘UX & Digital Product Design’ at Berghs School for Communication, Stockholm I completely redesigned the curriculum and led the course for 2 terms. Between 2016 and 2021 I worked at Red Badger London, as Product Director and Senior Designer with health, finance and retail organisations.
Between 2006 and 2016 I developed my design and consulting skills while working in Cologne, São Paulo, London, and Amsterdam.
Anthony Nolan
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FutureNHS
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Sky
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HSBC
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Fortnum & Mason
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Fidelity
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Anthony Nolan 〰️ FutureNHS 〰️ Sky 〰️ HSBC 〰️ Fortnum & Mason 〰️ Fidelity 〰️
Voice of managers and team
‘Where others have said ‘it's too hard’ Andreas has dived in, set objectives, put a plan in place and ran with it. He leans in and is not afraid to lead others. Andreas is full of ideas and is also capable of executing them. A powerful combo. The planning and structure put in place for the joint-value prop with Edelman were exceptional. I want to bottle what he has done and use it to develop other partnerships.’
— Cain Ullah, Founder
at Red Badger Consulting London
Andreas is definitely a leader of change. He has a strong strategic vision, he is able to express this well and convince stakeholders to choose a new strategic direction. He has excellent presentation skills. He is very engaging and takes the lead in creating mission storyboards to align the team and stakeholders around it. ‘Andreas' sincereness in asking questions and openness to thoughts make it easy to establish a relationship. This allows Andreas to open doors. With his positive relation style he is well informed, connected and trusted to in the organisation.’
— Tom Rijks, Customer Success Director
at TCS PACE Amsterdam
‘One of Andreas’ signature skills is how he approaches any problem with curious optimism and positivity. When others are discouraged and defeated, he sees an opportunity to do better.’
— Sean Gabriel, Product Lead at Birdie
Key Experiences
Learning Experiences
Creating & delivering a custom, highly interactive learning experiences for Berghs School of Communications, Stockholm
Role: Course Director / International Advisory Board Member
I completely re-designed the curriculum for ‘UX & Digital Product Design’ in professional education. In an action-based approach I blend theory with practical application working on real-world projects. Each term was run under a new umbrella theme. Spring 2022: Circular Service Design: 'From ownership to access of products' — Fall 2022: Digital Health: 'Healthy body/Healthy mind'. For any topic, I leverage my network and invite industry experts from companies such as Google, Frog, VanMoof and Digital Catapult.
The students learn to form effective teams, conduct generative research with users and subject matter experts to frame the challenge worth solving, ideate and test value hypothesis. Students learn how to develop a service that is desirable and works. They prepare low-fi prototypes for early user testing, iterate and prepare high-fi prototypes with Figma, explore real-world constraints and ways to prioritise features for releases. Students learn to present their work as a portfolio case, and conduct productive design critique sessions.
2022 Graduation Show
Graduation event of the Berghs ‘UX & Digital Product Design’ course, with Q&A guests from Google, Frog and VanMoof.
A student perspective on the ‘UX & Digital Product Design’ course
Developed custom Service Design & UX trainings for in-house teams in UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, and Anthony Nolan
Action based learning
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Flipped classroom
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Action based learning 〰️ Flipped classroom 〰️
Voice of students and teaching team
‘I hadn't done a course similar to this in a very long time — with the same energy, tempo, focus and overall gusto. It feels like we're doing something meaningful and important, which means a lot in these times. At the end of the course, I have a portfolio piece that I'm proud to share and new connections with people I want to keep alive. Taking the course was the smartest professional decision I've made in years, and I highly, highly recommend it, especially to people who want to shift into UX research and service design.’
— Student at Berghs School of Communication ‘UX & Digital Product Design’
‘Such a pleasure working with Andreas! He's great at what he does and he's very easy to work with. Berghs School of Communication is lucky to have him leading one of its top courses in UX and Digital Product Design. Andreas is an excellent course leader, competent, fully committed, resourceful, and inspiring. He has created a great collaborative culture in his course, bringing international professionals from different backgrounds together in a great learning experience. Reading his students' feedback was simply a joy!’
— Marco Ortolani, Director International Business
at Berghs School of Communication Stockholm
Signature Competences
Product Discovery & Digital Strategy
Using human-centred design to unlock growth, efficiency and business resilience
I look at the world with optimism and curiosity, while navigating complex challenges. Guiding clients from a vision to a rock-solid and pragmatic strategy that unlocks business and user value.
By identifying patterns in human behaviour, emerging technologies, and global trends, I enable organisations to discover leverage points for transformative change in future business processes, user experience and operations.
I’m thrilled when business and IT teams come together and move from silo’d thinking to collaborative ways of working and innovative solutions.
Service Design &
User Experience
Creating innovative digital services, front-to-back, end-2-end, in a lean/ agile approach. I drive the definition of new digital services, front-to-back, end-2-end, with an intimate insight in user requirements, business ambitions and technical possibilities.
With stakeholders and users I validate desirability and commercial opportunities, the target operating model, technical opportunities in spikes, prototypes and service rehearsals with users, business and operations teams.
Working this way transforms product strategies into tangible, testable, and shareable realities, providing stakeholders with the confidence to make informed decisions. It creates common ground between product, business, IT and operations teams while they are creating the future solution together.
Building high-impact Product Teams
Great product teams don’t happen overnight. Building them takes work and attention. As a passionate practitioner I elevate and champion Service Design & Digital Product Design capabilities in the organisation. I bring a comprehensive understanding in human-centered methodologies, creative problem-solving skills, lean/agile and leadership mindsets, to create sustainable business impact.