WHY design4u?

ACCELERATE INNOVATION

Quickly turn ideas into validated concepts with expert input on product design, strategy, and launch-readiness.

CLARITY AND CONTROL

Our fixed monthly pricing gives you predictable budgeting and full transparency. No more out-of-scope fees or surprise costs.

BRING IDEAS TO LIFE

From concept sketches and CAD to renderings and design for manufacture, we help you communicate and refine ideas at every stage.

INTEGRATE SEAMLESSLY

We work like part of your team, not an external agency, collaborating in real time across projects, platforms, and teams.

DESIGN FOR IMPACT

Embed circular thinking and sustainable design practices to reduce waste, increase value, and future-proof your offering.

ACCESS TOP-TIER TALENT INSTANTLY

Get senior design support without the overheads or delays of hiring. Perfect for growing teams, staff leave, or stopgap coverage.

accelerate your business

Are you open to new ways of working as a business?

Looking for partnerships, not transactions, want someone who integrates into their team and mission. DESIGN4U is our flexible, monthly retainer service that embeds senior design, circularity, and innovation expertise directly into your team, without the overheads of full-time hires.

More than just a service, it's in-house innovation on demand.

We help businesses move faster, make better products, and reduce environmental impact, all while offering predictable pricing that makes budgeting simple. By integrating deeply with your team, we enable sustainable design as a growth strategy, turning responsible innovation into a competitive edge.

Unparalleled Weekly Access

  • Innovation + Design Thinking

    - Innovation methodology to identify and validate solutions to business challenges, novel market opportunities.

    - Design for the circular economy product innovation methods to unlock alternative growth and revenue streams.

    - Workshops including Design sprints, proto push, ideation, stakeholder insights

    - Experience across multiple industries; consumer goods, devices, toys, lifestyle, food, beverage, FMCG, packaging

  • concept creation

    - New product concept identification

    - User centric design, user experience (UX)

    - Mood, brand, theme, colour boards

    - Theme boards, inspiration, trends, colour

    - Rapid exploration (Hand, digital Sketching)

    - Rough Prototyping

    - Design for look, feel, function, brand design language.

    - Concept presentation boards

  • design Development

    - Detailed design of concepts and exploration including colour, materials, finish (CMF).

    - Computer Aided Design (CAD): Solidworks (Expert Surfacing, DFM, Mould analysis, Materials)

    - Keyshot/VRAY Rendering

    - Product Animations (3DS Max, Keyshot)

    - Incorporate Brand elements, principles

    - Implement design improvements to existing product range

  • Market/User Research

    - Market evaluation, competitor and product mapping to understand key metrics and white space opportunity.

    - Rapid concept/design/product testing groups.

    - Market research reports (Conducted by network partner)

    - Immersive product testing platform

    - Concept Evaluation, launch metrics

    - Concept Screeners (Quick identification and validation of top concepts with target audience)

  • Rapid Prototyping

    - Access quick turnaround high fidelity mock-ups

    - 3D Prototypes in Standard (FDM) and High Quality (SLA, SLS)

    - Market ready prototypes. Full colour spectrum prototypes, real life representative

    - 3D print in an array materials to suit funtional needs; PLA, PETG, PET, TPU, PA, ABS, Carbon Fibre and flexibles (Silicone replica)

  • Design for Manufacture

    - Design for manufacture (including structural, fixtures, openings, labelling, in-moulding, injection moulding, blow, thermaform, mulitpart tooling, dielines)

    - Liaise with production/manufacturing teams or business. Source and lead if required.

    - Production files (CAD) and documentation

    - Revise designs for manufacture and prepare production prototype

    - On-shore and off-shore partnerships (including Circular Economy providers of return, refurbish, remanufacture services).

Try Our Trial Sprint Month

Have your own in-house creative agency with senior design resource available for…

Less than $220 per day.

DESIGN4U MONTHLY PLANS

Lite

Great for nimble teams or lower-intensity pipelines. No dedicated days, support all week.

Flat fee per Month

$4498.00 (INC GST)

Regular

For those needing more hands on support with. Support all week, 1 dedicated day per week for your business.

Flat fee per Month

$6498.00 (INC GST)

LIMITED SERVICE, Money Back Guarentee

Current Availability: 2 client spots (Next available spot November 2025)

Design4U is limited to just 4 clients at any one time. This ensures each client gets deep focus, high responsiveness, and the strategic input you'd expect from an embedded team member.

If you are not satisfied with what I deliver in one month you get your money back. Conditional: Based on one month agreed objectives schedule. Objectives not met as agreed.

FLEXIBLE, NO LOCK-IN Plans

With no lock-in terms, no minimum terms, no out of scope chats, have peace of mind knowing you can access as you need and when you need (subject to DESIGN4U plan availability).

is there a catch?

No, with no lock-in terms you can access as you need. 1, 2, 3 or even 12 months, it’s flexible.

ARE you a Start-up, NFP or Business working on a better Future?

Please reach out as we have special arrangements for start-up, not for profit activity and projects that support development of social, economic and environmental outcomes.