You’re an organization, seeking to create meaningful products, services, and experiences for a circular economy?
Services
Sustainable systems & industrial design
Proven track record of developing truly sustainable products on local and global scale. Generating new ideas together with clients and guiding them through the development process towards successful low footprint solutions.
We created an entirely new growing experience by converting growkits into simple yet beautiful bouquets
Prototyping and testing digital & hardware innovation
Finding ways to validate the potential of disruptive ideas in the earliest stages of development. Prototyping and testing concepts with real users enables faster product-market fit and gives clients a clear product vision to pursue and implement.
people to understand how their lifetyle impacts their
personal health with augmented reality tools.
User research for new business ventures
Using quantitative and qualitative research methods, to uncover problems & opportunities for clients, their customers, and their stakeholders. Constantly extracting insights from these key players is a good idea at any stage of a product’s lifecycle, but it becomes even more crucial when trying to discover meaningful applications for new technologies or business models.
to survive in a changing market, where product orders
increasingly go to factories in neighboring countries.
Lecturing, talks & mentorship
Teaching innovation management methods or giving long-term mentorship to students, startups, and organizations, giving them tools to increase their own confidence, when navigating through the uncertainties of developing a product.
of sustainable innovation management with hands on
workshops as associate lecturer at UPC.
cultivate design thinking and confidence in their own creativity through a series of talks and workshops.
About
Bernd Karlsboeck is an innovator, designer, and researcher with experience in consumer tech, health tech, and food tech as well as industry 4.0, additive manufacturing, circular economy, and human-AI interaction. As the former head of HP’s industrial design department, Bernd managed the design vision for the awarded 3D print and 2D large format print product portfolio. He later co-created the internal HP advanced design & future projects lab where he generated several patented innovations. He gives lectures on innovation management and entrepreneurship at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, and guest lectured at the renowned Umea Institute of Design as well as other universities and innovation hubs in Europe and Asia. Currently, he consults organizations and startups from a wide variety of sectors in early-stage product development.