Better ideas, faster.

Good facilitation doesn't guarantee good outcomes. From one-day workshops to 12-week innovation sprints, what does is product expertise, knowing which ideas are worth pursuing and building the stimulus material before hand that draws out the best thinking in everyone.

My Methodology

01

Reframe

Before the workshop, the preparation goes into building material that reframes what participants already know. Not icebreakers — curated signals from technology, competitors and shifting human behaviour that unlock thinking not built on industry consensus.

02

Catalyse

In the room, the job is connecting what the team knows about their business with what's emerging in technology and beyond. Naming what's worth pursuing, cutting what isn't, and being direct about the quality of thinking as it happens.

03

Crystallise

Crystallisation happens in two stages. In the room, ideas are filtered and prioritised in real time, keeping momentum and landing the day on clear direction. Afterwards, all the working is developed into a focused plan of action the team can move on straight away.

Recent workshop engagements

OVO Energy

Whole-Company Discovery

Ten workshops over three weeks, drawing in design, product, tech, operations and deployment teams to surface the emergent ideas already spread across the organisation.

10 Workshops 3 Weeks Smart Home

Lenovo

AI Portfolio Implications

Two workshops in San Francisco with their product and strategy leadership, framing what AI means for their existing portfolio and where it opens up categories they haven't yet addressed.

2 Workshops San Francisco AI Strategy

Johnson & Johnson

Mass Co-Creation

Fifty scientists, engineers, designers and marketers in Florida, all expected to co-create under a single brief. Real-time AI image generation served as a shared visual language, keeping the group in motion across two full days.

2 Days 50 People AI Visualisation

Deutsche Telekom

Embedded On-Site Collaboration

A week working inside Deutsche Telekom's design team in Bonn, holding customer needs, manufacturing constraints and brand ambitions in tension to land a product identity direction everyone could commit to.

1 Week On-Site Product Identity

Logitech

Customer Future Scenarios

Two days with Logitech's senior leadership in Cork, using pre-tested prompts to build scenarios for how AI changes the way their customers work and what that demands of the MX portfolio.

2 Days Cork Future Scenarios

Map Project Office

Design Provocation

A day session using a Sky Glass TV the studio had already shipped as the subject of a fictional circular economy redesign brief. The constraint unlocked thinking a conventional brief wouldn't have reached.

Day Session Circular Design Provocation

★★★★★

  • “Matthew is an exceptional designer, one of the best I’ve worked with. He inspires all those he works with."

    Chief Strategic Design Advisor, LG Electronics

  • “I enjoyed Matthew's positivity, flexibility and outstanding creativity. Wish we had more time for his magic!"

    Global Product Manager, Logitech

  • “Matthew works like Usain Bolt runs at the Olympics”

    CPO, Head of Autonomous Humanoid Systems

  • “He became one of my most trusted advisors. I have complete trust in Matthew from a creative and operational standpoint”

    Partner, Innovation Venture Fund, BDC

  • “Everyone was buzzing. Your lens on the question was exactly what we needed"

    Head of Design, Global Strategy Consultancy

  • “Matthew gets us from 0-1 like know one else I know.”

    Investor, Hardware Scale up

XR & Ambient Intelligence Experience

Confidential Client 2025

Product strategy for wearable ambient computing, building a personal intelligence layer that delivers more contextual information in real time.

Confidential Client 2024/25

Product vision spanning self-driving cars, delivery robots navigating shared urban space, and quadruped and humanoid robots operating in heavy industry for monitoring and security.

Swift Creatives 2025

Speculative AR smart glasses vision, positioning them as part of a broader ambient intelligence ecosystem rather than a standalone device.

Meta 2024

A research and design framework mapping how AR interfaces evolve from screen annotation to fully embodied spatial perception.

ByteDance 2023

Explored how TikTok's creators and consumers leverage spatial layers embedded in real environments, and what new interactions become possible.

Logitech 2020

Exploring how sound becomes a primary ambient intelligence layer, sensing home and work environments and carrying information back through them.

HTC 2017

New use cases and hardware concepts for spatial AR, exploring what the experience feels like when physical and digital become intimately connected.