What’s in a name?
Beautiful Everything arrived out of a conversation about the scene in American Beauty where a plastic bag blowing in the wind is captured on film as an articulation of how the beautiful and fascinating can be found all around us in everyday objects and moments of wonder.
Coming up with a name for our new company took a while and a flip chart full of crossed out possibilities. Beautiful Everything arrived out of a conversation about the scene in American Beauty where a plastic bag blowing in the wind is captured on film as an articulation of how the beautiful and fascinating can be found all around us in everyday objects and moments of wonder. We are interested in how beauty can be found in the most unexpected things. We’re interested in how technology and digital experiences can help find that beauty and bring it to life; how beauty has a fascination through revealing some sort of human truth or insight, and makes people want to spend time experiencing it and reflecting upon it.
In this world of ever faster evolving technology and media, holding any of your audiences’ attention seems increasingly difficult. Standard advertising and brand communications are less and less effective. Against this backdrop there exists enormous potential for brands to create natural emotional connections through meaningful experiences with their audience. We help to identify where best to improve people’s relationship or experience with your brand. Then we find ways to create beautiful experiences that form part of the brand story to help customers stop and reassess their relationship with the brand. Beauty in everything. Beautiful everything.
A review of the key UX research methods to help those considering conducting UX research to find the best fit for their needs. Talk to us about UX research and find out how we might be able to help.
The meat-free category continues to grow globally. Flexitarian was term we encountered when completing some qual research several years ago. Are we now all flexitarian? Some desk research into the meat-free category in the UK.
Getting to know your audience or customers better is how we are able to grow awareness of our organisations, products or services. Not all of this requires big investment and all of us need to start somewhere. Read more to find out how you might start this process.
The world has ground to a halt for a number of months as Covid-19 has tragically spread rapidly, closing countries borders, taking airplanes from the skies and cars from the roads, teaching us all what “social distancing” means and that’s before we get to the economic or sociological effects of this pandemic and our response to it.
Pause. Stop. Breathe.
Is now the time for a reboot?
Make it beautiful… as a species we’re attracted to beautiful things. We always wanted to make genuinely healthy products and nutritious products for our customers, but making them look beautiful at the same time makes them so much more attractive and is also why all of our packaging is transparent – we want you to see what’s inside.
n the first of this series, we’ve had a chat with Michael Price – Product and Marketing Director from inov-8. inov-8 are a brand that we’ve been familiar with/had a love for, for a while now. The global running shoe market was estimated at $64.30 billion* (£49.37 billion) in 2017 and not showing many signs of slowing down. inov-8 forged ahead into this market in 2001 with innovative approach, at first in the off-road and then later road, cross fit and weight training shoes.
We travelled down to Plant Based Live, a vegan food show, held at the Excel Centre in London. We like to get along to trade exhibitions and shows every once in a while, they’re always great places to get a view on a sector and develop insights, with new startups often present alongside more established brands. But it also gives you a sense of the pulse of a sector, what trends are emerging, who the customers are and what they’re looking for. It’s a great space to walk around and catch up with brand owners, talk about the challenges the market is facing and product or service developments in the sector.
Audiences and customers evolve, your product and services need to evolve with them. Identifying your audiences’ needs and your current service or product capabilities can help you match them to those audience needs. This not only applies to what you might see as your core audience now, but also what your audience might need to evolve to be in the future, in order to survive.