Elevating tennis — brand, product, and digital strategy for a smart court startup

Elevating tennis — brand, product, and digital strategy for a smart court startup

Zenniz had the technology. They needed the identity, the story, and the product design to launch it credibly.

Zenniz had the technology. They needed the identity, the story, and the product design to launch it credibly.

Zenniz is a Helsinki-based company that developed an ITF-approved smart court system — a technology platform designed to elevate the tennis experience through data, sensing, and connected play. The product was technically validated at the highest level of the sport. What Zenniz needed was everything around it: a brand identity, a digital presence, and the industrial design of the physical device itself. Nordkapp worked with Zenniz's founding team across the full range of brand and product design work. Partners Fotonokka and Matias Vaara joined the extended team. Together, we built the brand from the ground up and brought the physical product into a form ready for launch. The outcome covered brand identity and guidelines, launch materials, website design, and the industrial design of the Zenniz court device — a complete package for taking a technically credible product to market.

Year

2020

Industry

Sports Technology

Scope of work

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UX & Product Design

Timeline

2020

Zenniz had the technology. They needed the identity, the story, and the product design to launch it credibly.

Zenniz is a Helsinki-based company that developed an ITF-approved smart court system — a technology platform designed to elevate the tennis experience through data, sensing, and connected play. The product was technically validated at the highest level of the sport. What Zenniz needed was everything around it: a brand identity, a digital presence, and the industrial design of the physical device itself. Nordkapp worked with Zenniz's founding team across the full range of brand and product design work. Partners Fotonokka and Matias Vaara joined the extended team. Together, we built the brand from the ground up and brought the physical product into a form ready for launch. The outcome covered brand identity and guidelines, launch materials, website design, and the industrial design of the Zenniz court device — a complete package for taking a technically credible product to market.

Year

2020

Industry

Sports Technology

Scope of work

/

UX & Product Design

Timeline

2020

Brand and identity for a new category

Creating a brand for a smart sports product requires a specific kind of balance. The identity has to feel credible to serious players and coaches — people who care about performance and have no patience for marketing posture — while also being accessible enough to work as a consumer and B2B proposition for courts, clubs, and facilities. We worked with the Zenniz founding team to define the brand from first principles: what the product stood for, who it was for, and how it should present itself in a market where both tennis tradition and sports technology innovation are reference points. The result was a brand identity and set of guidelines that gave the team a consistent visual and verbal language to carry through every touchpoint. Launch materials brought the brand to life for the product introduction, and the website design gave Zenniz a digital home that communicated the technology clearly and the brand confidently. The industrial design of the physical device itself was developed in parallel — ensuring the product's visual presence in the world matched the quality of the brand built around it.

ITF approval is a significant technical credential in tennis. The brand and product design work needed to earn that same level of confidence from players, coaches, and facilities managers.

Industrial design and launch readiness

Industrial design for a connected sports device is a distinct discipline — sitting at the intersection of durability, usability, and visual identity. The Zenniz court device needed to function reliably in an outdoor sports environment, communicate its technology without over-explaining itself, and look right on a tennis court. Those constraints shaped every design decision. Working with partners Fotonokka and Matias Vaara, the extended team brought the device from concept to launch-ready form. The collaboration across brand, digital, and industrial design disciplines under a single coordinated process meant that the product, the website, and the brand materials all felt coherent — the kind of consistency that matters when you're introducing a new product to a new market. Zenniz launched with a complete package: a validated product, a clear brand, launch materials, and a website. Everything needed to go to market was in place.

Deliverables spanned four distinct areas: brand identity and guidelines, launch materials, website design, and industrial design of the physical Zenniz court device.

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Matti Mölsä

Managing Director / Partner

Aarni Kaartokallio

Business Development Specialist

Teppo Kotirinta

Design Director / Partner

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Get in touch.

Have a project in mind? Reach out to us, and we’ll discuss the best way to move forward.

Matti Mölsä

Managing Director / Partner

Aarni Kaartokallio

Business Development Specialist

Teppo Kotirinta

Design Director / Partner

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Get in touch.

Have a project in mind? Reach out to us, and we’ll discuss the best way to move forward.

Matti Mölsä

Managing Director / Partner

Aarni Kaartokallio

Business Development Specialist

Teppo Kotirinta

Design Director / Partner

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