Design Consultancy Service

Learn more about our design consultancy service for better and best products, projects and services.

Design Consultancy Service
If you need explicit comments on the aesthetics and functionality of your products, projects and services, or if you are seeking to work with the World’s top designers, artists and architects, the A’ Design Award and Competition offers Design Consultancy Service in collab with World Design Consortium. The service has four different levels: 1) In House Design Consultancy Service, 2) Specific Design Consultancy Service 3) Professional Design Consultancy Service 4) Advanced Design Consultancy Service. Regardless of what type of design consultancy you would need, first, we suggest you order our In House Design Consultancy service so that we can establish a reference point and we could develop a good understanding of your needs, Alternatively you might consider ordering Preliminary Design Consultancy Service if you have no idea where to start, this is a managed service for design consultancy; i.e. the consultancy for design consultancy. If you know what you need, read on:

In House Design Consultancy Service
This is a broad design consultancy service that we provide in-house. In this service we will prepare a report on how to improve your product, project and service. You can order our In-House Design Consultancy Service to get honest feedback on what can you do to improve your product or services; ideas for communication, for spatial design, for branding, for packaging, for presentation, for market positioning, for product form, for aesthetics, for functionality, for ergonomics, for structure, for sustainability, and other related aspects are communicated.We will think about value propositions, aesthetics, presentation, production, efficiency and other aspects. We will approach the product or service from all different perspectives such as packaging, communication, usability, form, function, experience, interaction and other relevant criteria that makes good design. This service is the suggested service for companies and enterprises who are considering to become more design oriented. In the end of this service, we will provide a suggested to do list and we will also suggest some designers’ names to work with in case you wish to procure design solutions from third parties, however our to do list could also be followed by your in-house design team to make the product or service better. We also suggest whether you should order further design consultancy service or not. Please note that, in this package, we do not improve the product ourselves; for example we do not make a new 3D design, or we do not redraw your process flow; what we do is to tell you, what is actually wrong with the current product, project or service. If there is nothing wrong with it, we will tell you, what you can do, to make it better. But we do not do it; this service tells you in a good way what you can do to improve your product or service.

Order the In House Design Consultancy Service to learn “what you need to do to make your product or project better”.

Specific Design Consultancy Service
This is a category specific design consultancy service that we provide in-house for most categories, and in some categories we hire third party design experts to provide better insights. In this package, you choose a specific element of your product, project or service and we focus more on that element. For example, you might need to improve its packaging or communication to make your product or service more appealing to customers, and we can suggest you a series of changes, new forms or people in the industry to work with to achieve these suggestions. You can order multiple versions of this service, for example you can order Packaging Design Consultancy, Communication Design Consultancy as well as Engineering and Technical Design Consultancy as separate packages. There are no discounts when you order different packages but it is likely that we will work with different experts to provide you better insights. Unlike the In House Design Consultancy Service, in this package, we partially do a bit of the work to make your product better. We can for example present you drafts, overall process flows, indicative materials or technologies. In this package, we do not provide you a complete solution, we provide drafts that your in-house design team can take and realize. We can send you concept drawings but for example we will not send production ready drawings or technical designs, we expect your in-house design team to do the production ready work or any details related to project or service.

Order Specific Design Consultancy Service to learn “how you need to do what you need to do to make your product or project better” from a particular and specific perspective.

Professional Design Consultancy Service
This is a professional design consultancy service that we usually work with design experts to improve and advance your products and services. This is a solution oriented service, unlike the specific and in-house design consultancy service, in this package we offer a more technical presentation about what needs to be done, how it needs to be done, with details enough to develop a production ready work. Imaging having a temporary design department that is focused to provide solutions on the matters you highlight for a brief period of time. For this service, we will bring in good designers who can develop either new products or services or improve existing product or service to make it more market friendly. The expert design teams will follow good design practices and principles to deliver you a good design product, project or service. This service takes longer as it incorporates many processes including a phase for design research, form/function exploration, user testing and more. This is a good design consultancy service for companies who wish to develop new products or services, or for companies who wish to improve existing products or services, working together with good designers. In this package, we usually connect you with flat-fee based designers and in rare occasions with designers who might work based on royalties, depending on industry. For this service you would be working mostly with our award winning designers.

Order Professional Design Consultancy Service “if you wish us to make your product or project better”, without intervention from your in-house design team.

Advanced Design Consultancy Service
To be honest, this is rather an expensive looking design consultancy service but in reality we expect companies who order the service to get a high ROI. Unlike the Professional Design Consultancy service, for the Advanced Design Consultancy Service, we only work with the World’s biggest names in the design industry; top architects, top designers, top engineers, the best of the best and the crème de la crème of design. We suggest this service for large enterprises, big companies and initiatives who wish to work with the World’s best design talent to potentially have the World’s best products or projects. This is a higher level service where a group of designers, a design studio, a creative agency, or several different independent designers working and collaborating together on improving your products, projects and services. If you wish to work with the very best, the choicest of designers, you shall order this service. However, before ordering you need to get an agreement with us, and also you should remember that this service takes up to two (2) years to complete. The price indicated at this page is the bare minimum, and the price could go higher depending on type of the product, project or service. For this service you would be working mostly with our top design award winners.

Order Advanced Design Consultancy Service “if you wish us to make your product or project best”, without intervention from your in-house design team.

Efficiency of the Design Consultancy Service
We believe it is economically efficient to order these services from us from the following perspective: We have a grand database of tens of thousands of award winning designers, artists, architects, engineers, product developers, creative agencies and marketers. We know, among this list, which people provide the best service for the least cost, thus when we contact and procure design services, it is likely to be less than the price you get, or the quality could be better. Of course, we do not imply any guarantees or warranties for this point, it is just what we think about it. When we work with our inside designers and team, as well as preliminary jury members, we have the upper hand because we have seen tens of thousands of designs, and we have identified issues and points of improvement on most of these designs, and we are likely to quickly highlight major and minor issues with your products, also concerns and points that customers or other designers would hesitate to express.

Timeline and Delivery
Design Consultancy Service, when we provide the reports and suggestions via our in-house design team, takes about fourteen (14) days. When we collaborate with external design experts and third parties, such as for Specific Design Consultancy service, it takes from fourteen (14) to sixty (60) days depending on the availability of the expert; in some fields, we work with very niche oriented designers who are on high-demand thus the time limit could sometimes be exceeded. When we provide the Professional Design Consultancy Service, it takes about ninety (90) to hundred-eighty (180) days to complete the service. The Advanced Design Consultancy service takes usually about hundred eighty (180) to seven hundred thirty days (730) depending on project, most projects are completed within three hundred sixty five (365) days.

Ordering Design Consultancy Service
To start this service, we need to know what we will be testing, analysing and providing consultancy on. There are several type of products that we do not provide this service for, such as weapons, tobacco products, medical products and drugs. Before ordering the service please contact us and have prior agreement. After ordering the service we always need several of the products for the design consultancy service in order to test and use it. We will require you to send several samples to us. We will not return the samples, we might test them for durability, or we could give them to other experts to test them further. Furthermore, depending on the service you ordered we might need extra budget for buying similar products or services to yours to determine market best practices or other available solutions and ideas that could be used to improve your product, project or service. Once we analyse the product, project or service, we will provide you a detailed report – a suggested to do list on what could be done to make the product better. If we think you would need a designer, architect, engineer or artist to make the product better, we will also suggest you good names. You can order the In House Design Consultancy service now from the table below, or you can contact us now for inquiring other service levels.

Difference from Preliminary Evaluation Services
Design Consultancy Service is different from our Preliminary Checks or Professional Preliminary Evaluation service significantly as the Design Consultancy Service focuses on the design rather its presentation. In Preliminary Checks and Professional Preliminary Evaluation service, we assign your design a design quality score from 0 to 10 for its likeliness of success in the award, and we assign your design presentation a presentation score from 0 to 100 for how good the design is being presented. In Preliminary Checks or Professional Preliminary Evaluation Services, you get insights on how to improve the presentation of your design and you learn how good the design is for taking part in the competition. Preliminary Checks are provided free of charge to all entrants and the Professional Preliminary Evaluation is a premium service that gives more detailed report and is subject to a fee, however none of these services are designed to provide insights on your design; the services Preliminary Checks and Professional Preliminary Evaluation are for the presentation of your design.

You need to contact us before buying any of the services above except for the In-House design consultancy service which we suggest you to order in any case for any level of consulting service. - The total cost for PDC and ADC services are indicative, real costs will differ and likely to be higher than what is indicated here. Furthermore, please kindly note that ordering these services do not guarantee a victory at A' Design Award, indeed the jury members will not know that you have ordered the design consultancy service.