Danny Hearn – Deeply Human Design Ltd

Make customer-centred thinking a habit.

Your team executes requirements well, but something's missing. They're not questioning priorities, prototyping ideas, or thinking strategically about the product.

I can support with :

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Strategic design coaching

From reactive teams to strategic contributors

Transform how your digital teams think about problems, priorities, and opportunities

Systematic product strategy that drives results

Clear frameworks for roadmapping, research, and decision-making that work in the real world

Culture change that sticks without external dependency

Build internal capability through proven methods, not one-off interventions

Shifting culture happens through small, consistent nudges, creating space for reflection, permission to experiment, learning and growing and then scaling it out — not one-off interventions or top-down change programmes.

Leaders & teams

Your Challenge: Managing talented teams who need to shift from order-takers to strategic contributors.

My Approach: Work directly with you and your team leads to introduce strategic design practices that stick. We can focus on real projects, real decisions, and real outcomes.

Outcomes I help you achieve :

  • Teams that proactively identify opportunities and risks
  • Faster, more confident decision-making (typically 40% improvement within 8 weeks)
  • Clear frameworks for prioritisation and strategic planning
  • Sustainable ways of working that don’t depend on external consultants

Related case studies

Clarks
As Head of UX, I formed a new capability to improve the customer experience and disrupt, challenge and improve the ways of working.

Startups & founders

Your Challenge: You understand good product strategy but need help implementing it systematically.

My Approach: Build your product management and strategy capability from the ground up, focusing on practical frameworks you can use immediately.


Typical Deliverables:

  • Strategic product roadmap with clear success metrics
  • User research plan and initial insights
  • Prioritisation framework tailored to your business model
  • Team capability plan showing how to build these skills internally


Process:

  1. Strategy Sprint – Align on vision, validate assumptions, create roadmap (1 week intensive)
  2. Implementation Support – Help execute research and validate direction (4-6 weeks)
  3. Capability Building – Coach your team to sustain these practices (ongoing)

Related case studies

Adora Digital Health
Adora Health, an early-stage health tech startup specialising in menopause, faced the dual challenge of achieving market fit and improve its app experience.

What people have said

Danny was exactly what our early-stage startup needed. He brought a hands-on, strategic, and detail-oriented approach to product and design, with a genuine investment in our success, particularly in the critical area of women’s health and menopause solutions. 
Adora Health

Ann O'Niel

Co-Founder | CEO

Adora Health

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. 
Clarks

Lucy Calver

Director of Digital

Clarks

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.
Fitflop

Simon Wright

Chief Operating Officer and Board Director

Fitflop

My design experience

I’m an independent consultant with 20 years of expertise in UX design, product strategy, and design sprints. 

Workshopping

  • Delivered design thinking workshops for 100s of charities
  • Ran design sprints to innovation teams at Walgreens & Boots, Clarks

Design Leader

  • Head of UX at Clarks (2019)
  • UX Manager at John Lewis (2016)
  • Innovation Design Director at Future Foundry (2022)

UX and product design

  • 20 years as both consultant and design leader
  • Researched and designed a number of premium brand websites,

Lets research and design together

If you’ve got a challenge, problem or team you’d like to talk about get in touch