Human-centred design and innovation studio
London · working internationally
Philpott helps leaders turn ideas into inspiring experiences, brands, AI products, tools and frameworks that people can understand, trust and act on.
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For leaders responsible for transformation, innovation, sustainability, research engagement programmes and impact: when the work matters, but is not yet landing.
Selected organisations we have worked with and alongside.
Selected proof
CABI + Gates Foundation
We helped turn five and a half years of agricultural research across twelve countries and thirty-two organisations into the FAIR Process Framework: a six-step learning platform with workbooks, films and clear user journeys.
Read the case study: CABI + Gates FoundationOpen Data Institute
From creating the ODI brand in 2013 to shaping tools such as the Data Ethics Canvas and Data Spectrum, we have helped complex data ideas become recognisable, approachable and useful over a long-term partnership.
Read the case study: Open Data InstituteADA.ADA.ADA
Research into Ada Lovelace became an interactive touring performance, participatory algorithm and learning programme designed to work across museums, schools, universities and corporate campuses.
Read the case study: ADA.ADA.ADAAI product design
We codify how your team works into one AI tool they can ask in plain language.
It takes the repetitive admin off their desk, so they can get on with the human side of the job: creative thinking, relationships and expertise. We use interactive storytelling to make complicated, boring admin easy, so people actually use it.
We find the research, briefings, reporting and drafting that eat your team's week.
The repeatable steps become one AI tool, built around your systems, knowledge and tone.
The team asks for what they need and gets work back that is ready for their judgement.
In practice
We are leading one now for a consultancy: an AI front door to their CRM, where research, briefings and proposals get done for the team. It is designed to turn hours of proposal work into minutes, so they have time to build relationships and win work.
What's the admin that eats your team's week?
What we do
These are not five separate services. Strong programmes often need several at once, held under one direction.
Frameworks, tools, platforms and AI products people can use without an expert beside them.
Identity, language and systems that keep their meaning, so teams adopt the brand and use it with confidence.
Live, digital and physical encounters understood through participation, not presentation.
Stories that engage people emotionally and shift behaviour. We turn research into reports, campaigns, films and publications that move boards, funders, policymakers and the public to act on new knowledge.
Training, templates and programmes that leave people able to carry the work forward.
How we work
We find the real obstacle, agree the direction, build the right form, test it with people and leave the capability behind.
DIFFERENT WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
Something important is falling short and the reason is still unclear.
A named problem, an aligned direction and a defensible brief.
A framework, brand, platform, publication, experience or learning resource needs to exist and be adopted.
One coherent, usable outcome delivered end to end.
Complex, evolving work needs continuity of judgement across strategy, brand and production.
Institutional memory, consistent output and growing internal capability.
About Philpott Design
We hold strategy, creative work, AI and digital product design, experience design and capability building together, so the framework, story, experience and tools reinforce one another rather than arriving as disconnected parts.
Underneath it all is storytelling. We use it to engage people emotionally, because that is what changes what they do.
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