We are Nordkapp, a strategic design and innovation consultancy.

We are Nordkapp, a strategic design and innovation consultancy. With our clients we discover new, meaningful growth opportunities in future trends and technology. It's what we call futures thinking, doing and learning.

Our services

We don’t just deliver. We partner & thrive together with you to boost your business impact by creating better futures, experiences and new ways of working.

Foresight & Strategy Direction

Discover new opportunity arenas and go from future visions to business decisions.

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Thinking

Nokia—Foresight, opportunity mapping and ecosystem design for a proof of concept. With real-time analysis of sea health using computer vision over 5G.

Eagle Eyes 5G
Telia—On-going work on productising technology through foresight and customer insight.
DENSO—Business design and proof of concept for a new strategic direction.

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BDR Thermea Group—Global research and foresight work for BDR Thermea's future vision and strategy.

BDR Thermea

Products  & Experience

Shape your business through experiences that bring meaning to your customers.

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Doing

Freska—Interaction and visual design for Freska’s first mobile app enabling customer self- service

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Starship—Collaborating on a service based on autonomous delivery robots

Starship.xyz
VR—Designing the digital future of the train traveling experience for Finnish National Railways

App Store

Google Play
Oura—Product design for the app launching the second generation smart ring

Ouraring.com
ING Group—Product design and strategy around financial services and personal wealth

ING Beleggen

Coaching & Future Capabilities

Unleash your full potential by embedding innovation capabilities into your organisation.

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Learning

ING Group—Hands on design methodology training, innovation and design sprints.

ING Group
NS International—Design methodology training for internal growth teams to with our own coaching framework.

NS International
Telia—Experience vision as the beacon in organisational transformation.

Telia Finland
VR—Designing the digital future of the train traveling experience for Finnish National Railways

App Store

Google Play

Are you looking for new challenges?

ING Group

Europe

Since 2016, we’ve collaborated with the leading bank in Benelux countries, ING on various fronts, for example on their trading app ING Beleggen.

Case study

Umbra

Finland / USA

Product and service design for Umbra’s augmented reality tools and customer portal.

Case study

Starship

Global

Collaboration with a global start up developing a service based on autonomous delivery robots.

Telia Finland

Finland

Service design, product design, transformation partnership since 2015.

Case study

Beddit

Beddit was a Finland-based health technology startup developing an invisible sleep sensor that tracks your sleep and vitals during while you sleep.

We collaborated on branding, product strategy and design for their product, leading to a successful acquisition by Apple, Inc in 2017

Health, consumer electronics
2015-2017
Finland

Case study

More proof? You got it.

Mobvoi aims to push the boundaries of next generation human-machine interaction with AI technology. Through its creation of critically acclaimed consumer products in wearables, automobile and home product categories, Mobvoi’s rich accumulation of experience in the application of AI has in turn driven continued innovation in its core voice-based technologies.

We developed the product identity, story and industrial design for the Ticwatch E.

DENSO Automotive

DENSO Automotive

DENSO is a leading supplier of advanced automotive technology, systems and components for major automakers, committed to making the world a better place through our world-first products and technologies.

We’re building towards a better place to live, empowering individuals or families to move safely, more conveniently, with lower environmental impact.

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What’s happening at Nordkapp?

Weeknote #634: This is how we survive the darkness Nordkapp, Nov 7

This week we share 5 tips on how we survive the darkest season of the year. We have welcomed a new colleague, celeb… https://t.co/KIcG0a8xLk @nordkapp, Nov 7

This week we went back to Tokyo for research, visited the Tokyo Motor Show and got a bit lost in translation. In He… https://t.co/KsAR0yD8ly @nordkapp, Nov 1

Weeknote #633: Winter is coming Nordkapp, Nov 1

Our head of strategy, @virpivaittinen, spent the week all over the Helsinki area with @AaltoUniversity students stu… https://t.co/I4FhMRdoU5 @nordkapp, Oct 31

This week we got back to work after autumn holidays and our coaches wrapped up the first round of Personal Developm… https://t.co/iixJwqIEb6 @nordkapp, Oct 25

Weeknote #632: Personal development Nordkapp, Oct 25

This week we faced typhoon, jetlag, earthquake, language barrier, and cold Finnish autumn, as well as conducted our… https://t.co/tohBeV7wAN @nordkapp, Oct 18

Weeknote #631: Nordkapp goes international Nordkapp, Oct 18

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Are you looking for new challenges?

Are you a designer wanting to change the world with us?

Send us an open letter describing your skills and ambitions, accompanied with a CV and portfolio. We will get back to you.

You can apply at
nordkapp.workable.com

Who do we work with?

It’s still the same product as before. But such a well executed design around it helps consumers to navigate and buy into the story. This we see very clearly in the sales numbers.

—Udo Szabo, VP Product & Marketing, Beddit (Now Apple)

Amer Sports—Product design for Suunto, platform design and assessment for Movesense.

Nordkapp
Basware—Product design for complex financial software.
BDR Thermea Group—Global research and foresight work for the future vision and strategy.
Beddit—Product design, strategy and purpose leading up to acquisition by Apple.

Solving sleep case study

Apple acquires Beddit
DENSO—Business design and proof of concept for a new strategic direction

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Fortum—Service and product design for service ecosystem around solar energy, electric cars, mobility and new energy.
Freska—Interaction and visual design for Freska’s first mobile app enabling customer self- service.

Download for iOS
ING Group—Product design and strategy around financial services and personal wealth.

ING Beleggen case study
Nokia—Foresight, opportunity mapping and ecosystem design for a proof of concept with real-time computer vision analysis of sea health over 5G.
NS International—Tailored lean service design coaching and Innovation programs for agile business teams.
Oura—Product design for the app launching the second generation smart ring.

Ouraring.com
Rightware—Product Design for future automotive concepts and interfaces.
Santander Consumer Bank—Design for organisational change through future concept incubation.
Starship—Collaborating on a service based on autonomous delivery robots.

Starship.xyz
Telia—On-going work on productising technology through foresight and customer insight.

Telia case study
Umbra—Product and service design for Umbra’s augmented reality tools and customer portal.

Umbra Composit case study
University of Helsinki—Product design and data visualisation for a service visualising Finnish higher education.

Töissä.fi
VR—Designing the digital future of the train traveling experience for Finnish National Railways.

App Store

Google Play
YLE—Service design for overarching identity system and organisational change through concept incubation.