Danny Hearn – Deeply Human Design Ltd

Startups and Founders

Uncover user-insight driven design to validate assumptions, inform design decisions, to build confidence in your product or service.

Is this you?

  • I need to grow our product/service beyond concept

  • I don't understand our target audience in way that helps us make design decsions

  • I need a trusted friend for advice, evaluate potential partners

  • I need support in storytelling for potential investors

  • I need to create a roadmap that helps us plan for the future

  • I need more certainty that we are building the right things to avoid technical debt

How I can help

Every startup, founder and their challenges are unique.  This is why I work with you to co-create a package of support, that could span over a few days, weeks or longer, based on what you need and how our relationship develops. 

Outcomes you can expect

  • Gain a clear understanding how people are using your product or service
  • Turn a sea of data, feedback and research into actionable insights
  • Crack a user experience challenge or problem
  • Ideate innovative solutions and validate risky assumptions through rapid prototyping
  • Build confidence on next steps for your product or service
  • Tell a story with interactive design assets and prototypes to share with stakeholders, investors and your wider community
  • Have a trusted friend for advice, evaluate potential partners

My experience

  • Developed, prototyped and validated leading propositions for Walgreens & Boots
  • Worked directly and collaboratively with founders from large and small startups
  • Delivered a range of design mentorship programmes, sessions and workshops (as a member of DOT PROJECT).
  • Partnered with Thinkitdigital to provide a 1-day introduction to user-centric mindset for small businesses and start-ups
  • Ran ideations sessions with the Read with Audrey team to unstick a design challenge.

Case studies

What people say about me

Co-Founder & COO

Future Foundry

Working alongside innovation strategists and insight leaders, Danny has been crucial in identifying and architecting a number of disruptive new digital and retail propositions for our most senior clients.

Entrepreneur, Investor, Founder

Beauty Pie

Danny is by far the best consultant in his category that I have ever worked with. Truly great digital experts, for me, have been hard to come by. Danny is different. 

Head of Product

John Lewis

Danny is an energetic and passionate UX leader. He has a tenacious attitude and won’t accept the status quo when there is opportunity to do things better. He is a positive agent for change, brings people with him and is a great manager widely respected by his team. 

Head of Product

How Splendid (agency)

I have worked on several projects with Danny now and would highly recommend him for large, complex, goal driven UX projects. He has a great ability to work alongside the client, develop a rapport, gather requirements, keep the design focused and deliver results.

Co-Founder

DOT Project

I have learnt so much from working alongside Danny at DOT PROJECT as have the incredible charities we support. Danny has taken on so many new challenges with such focus, commitment, energy, but most importantly empathy. 

Director of Digital

Clarks

Danny is a joy to work with – he is a highly skilled UX professional who is passionate about bringing the best of that discipline to drive consumer-centric transformation – he is tenacious, compassionate and has a relentless drive to make things happen. 

Chief Operating Officer and Board Director

Fitflop

Danny brought fantastic and such valuable insight to the Fitflop Digital re-platform. His approach to understanding the required customer experience and interpreting it through our digital platform has been first class.

Co-founder

Clearleft

Danny introduced innovative ways of working, demonstrated solid and imaginative design thinking and built a good rapport with our clients. 

Founder & CEO

Acorn aspirations

I never thought someone who is used to working in a corporate environment would be able to engage 40 teenage girls for 2 days in a fun and interactive way, teaching them ideation, UX, prototyping tools and programming using Scrum and Agile.  Our hackathon would not have been the success that it was without Danny.

Product Manager

John Lewis

Danny was instrumental in helping to push the product development process forward. It was impressive to see how he was able to introduce and embed a range of innovative tools and methodologies. I would highly recommend him for guidance, coaching and leadership with product design teams.