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User Factor’s project coordination in Portugal, led by SPI, is promoting the 2nd edition of the Design for Business course (DfB). This course is organized in association with Porto Design Factory Porto Design Factory and aims to support SMEs and startups by exploring with the

Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI – www.spieurope.eu), together with Porto Design Factory (https://www.ipp.pt/inovacao/porto-design-factory), successfully organized the first edition of the Design for Business programme, powered by the USER-FACTOR project. The first edition of this course counted with a total of 12 participants, representing SMEs and

Please check these 3 guides have been developed to support customers with the creation and delivery of their design project. This includes finding the right designer, building a strong design brief and understanding the process. This key learning addresses some key challenges our customers faced,

.attachment-rella-thumbnail-post{ display: none } The User-Factor project has enabled the Innovation team at Scottish Enterprise to explore the impact of our ‘By Design’ grant support mechanism to drive Scottish SME design projects. The grant was used for a wide range of design activities related to

On Feb 4th and 5th we rolled out our pilot further, a third iteration, which we delivered to 18 businesses. This brings our total businesses who received service design training to 28. To offset the difficulty we had initially attracting participants, this time we used

The Design Factory (Factoría de Diseño) is a support programme for entrepreneurs and SMEs developed by Innovalia Association as User Factor pilot. We have selected 25 participants through the entire region of The Canary Islands to enhance the connection with their customers with a user-centred

Given the scale of Belfast city, and the NI USER FACTOR objective: to create a shift in the business mindset here i.e. one that seeks to apply service design solutions to business challenges, it made sense to build upon the momentum for design during Belfast

At the end of September, User-Factor partners came together for the fourth time to learn together and exchange their experiences from across the Atlantic regions.  The partnership meeting hosted by Innovalia Association took place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. We kicked the meeting off with

On the 15th of May 2019, GAIN celebrated the event “Design, good practices, action proposals and SME support”. The aim of the event was to present the pilot action that GAIN has developed to support 25 SMEs in the development of new innovative products and

The Cardiff Market Service Design Programme 2019 is one of eight regional design support pilots being developed through the User-Factor project. User-Factor leading partner PDR have been working with Cardiff market business owners in recent months and will deliver a two phase programme during 2019.