A digital product studio

Making human-centred digital products, services and experiences

Work

Partnering with clients of all sizes - from startup, scaleup and corporate to not-for-profits/social enterprises, we help design and build digital products, services and experiences that have real impact. We also experiment with launching our own products.

Services

We work as collaborators with clients to help discover, design and build successful digital products and services that are delightful to use. Here's what we offer:

Discovery
Discovery/research sprints
Workshop facilitation
User & market/competitive research
Customer development strategies
Definition of outcomes/metrics for success
Rapid prototyping
User testing & validation
Story mapping

Product Management, Coaching & Consulting
Product vision & strategy consulting
Outcome-driven product roadmaps
Building empowered product teams
Moving from project to product cultures
Product coaching & mentoring
Interim/fractional product leadership

Delivery
Design sprints
UX, interaction & UI design
Information architecture
Service design
Software development
Connected hardware/IoT integration
Agile delivery management
Product team formation/augmentation

Coaching & mentoring

I offer coaching and mentoring services to startup founders as well as product teams at organisations of all sizes. Here's how I can help:

One to One Leadership/Executive Coaching
I help startup founders and product leaders with transformative one-to-one coaching to help them become the best leaders they can be and achieve the goals they've set for themselves, their companies, teams and products. My collaborative style will see us partner together to explore what you're getting stuck on and tools and tactics for getting to where you want to be. Whether it's working out what's blocking relationships with your teams or co-founder(s), help making order out of the chaos, or levelling up in your professional life, we'll figure out how to move past limiting beliefs to live your purpose and achieve what you want in your business and/or career.My coaching is unique in that I use my background in technology to empathise with the situations you find yourself in and help you see what's around the corners. Based on your needs, I can act as a helpful thought partner to you for working through issues you bring to our sessions or as an accountability partner to keep you on track for achieving your goals.The first step is a discovery/chemistry call where we'll meet each other and discuss how we want to work together. This initial call is free. Each one hour session afterwards is £150 and I suggest two sessions a month to keep momentum and be the most effective for you. It's truly an investment in yourself.

David Hopper
Executive Leadership Coach

About me
I'm a product leader and founder who has been building digital products and software for more than 20 years. I've worked with companies across diverse industries and stages from early-stage startups to fast growing scale-ups and large companies as well as a handful of charities and NGOs so I have a wide perspective on problem solving in many contexts. I've helped founders get unstuck, become better leaders and figure out how to move forward with their business as well as product teams solve thorny product issues and get better at building products people want. Since 2022, I've been a Founder Coach on the Zinc Venture Builder for founders building HealthTech and ClimateTech companies.

About

Working with our network of senior collaborators, we bring several disciplines together in product, design, research, engineering, data and content and connect the dots of your product strategy to drive innovative new product, services and ventures. Our way of working enables us to assemble the right team for an organisation's unique needs - truly lean product development.

David Hopper
Founder & Principal Consultant

With more than 20 years experience building digital products and services, David started Different Projects in 2011 to bring product and design thinking coupled with lean startup principles to a diverse range of companies and organisations large and small. David's an experienced product strategist, coach and mentor as happy working alongside startup founders as he is executive stakeholders.

We've been fortunate to work with these amazing client partners over the years. Highlights include designing Just Eat's first mobile app, enabling Orange's employees to do impactful community volunteering service, helping The Climate Group and Business in the Community educate both big business and the UK public on how to reduce carbon footprint and working with Abbott to create a mentoring platform for their global life sciences employees.