The intersection between design and business.

Zapiens is a strategic design agency that sees brand, business and experience as inseparable elements. We develop comprehensive designs, looking from a hybrid and more coherent perspective.

We take care of every step of the design process to create products and services that are relevant, consistent and that reimagine the future while making a positive impact.

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Relevant design
that excites.
That makes us reshape what we know.
Makes us break it, reimagine it, revolutionize it over and over again.
And if it doesn't exist, we'll create it.
With passion, without fear, always better.
Evolutive Thinking.
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Our team helps you discover the entire product, service or customer life cycle using an In&Out approach: internal, from the company’s point of view, and external, from your audience’s point of view. We map the category, the value proposition, positioning and brand promise.

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We identify opportunities and solve current challenges, from the design brief to the solution, from a human perspective. At the same time, we bring a vision of the future to equip the company with new capabilities in continuous change.

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Think, ideate, prototype: we combine different product, brand and service design disciplines with a new hybrid approach that connects with business strategy and technological feasibility. We think, experiment and decide until we have a high-value solution.

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We are keen to go from MVP to MAP, “Minimum Awesome Product”. Our unique approach facilitates support throughout the entire design cycle, progressively applying learning over time, from the vision and definition of the product, brand or service, until market launch.

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We make the company grow. Each solution brings a positive and scalable impact to your environment. We enable the evolution of companies, both internally with employees and externally with the different audiences we address.

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The best products and services don't happen by chance

  • Research with users from key industries. We analyse internal and external factors, connecting the expectations of B2B and B2C clients with vision, worldview, and cultures to understand each company’s current and future challenges. The objective is to identify findings and advance ideation in iterative cycles, involving decision-makers to eliminate uncertainty in launching new projects.

    • Lean CX
    • Human centered solutions CX
    • Guerrilla research UX/CX
    • Design challenges
    • Customer experience maps
    • Business intelligence (BI)
  • Strategic product (UX-UI) and service design, centered on the customer experience. Everything is in the same process, from vision to implementation.

    • UX Strategy
    • Product definition
    • Design systems
    • Experience design
    • Design Sprint
    • Visual design
    • UX & UI Design
    • Architecture + UX writing
    • Employee experience (EX)
    • E-commerce design
    • Software design
    • Conversational design (VUX)
    • Native development
    • AR + VR development
    • Quality assurance (QA)
  • We design new generation brands from their relationship model to make the customer experience tangible. In each project, we eliminate the barriers between the experiential design, the value proposition, and the company’s internal purpose to better connect with the different audiences creating unique meanings beyond the brand promise.

    • Brand strategy and positioning
    • Brand design
    • Creative & art direction
    • Brand platforms
    • Principles of design
    • Culture deck & playbook
    • Employee branding
    • Key message architecture
    • Narrative design
    • Shooting & film
    • 3D design
    • Brand content
    • Motion graphics design
  • We help and accompany partners and startups in the launch of new products and services with an equity or partnership model. We become either a part or an extension of your team.

    • Design kit: brand, product and service
    • Co:Labs and innovation observatories
    • Lean business canvas
    • Design Sprint
    • Economic models
    • Product roadmap definition
    • Business Intelligence (BI)
  • Futures Desing We apply a utopian and dystopian vision of the established categories through research and evolutionary thought. We do it using new collaboration or experimentation models or developing our own digital products.

    • Design of future scenarios
    • Speculative design today vs tomorrow
    • Agents of change
    • Design Sprint
    • Innovative product design
    • Prototyping
    • Trends radar

Team

A hybrid team with a hybrid culture. More than 20 people, including designers, engineers, creatives, thinkers, futurists, anthropologists, sociologists, architects and media experts always looking from a new perspective.

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Marta Badía Product Manager
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Vicente Ocaña Partner / Lead UX
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Esther Alonso Partner / Lead Product & Brand Designer
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Nacho Rodríguez Partner / Customer Experience Officer
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Carla Goldstein Visual Designer
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Miguel Gómez Partner / CEO / Product Thinker
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Nicolás Taberner Content Designer & UX Writer
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Fran Vela Lead Designer
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Antonio León Partner / Chief Operations Officer
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Francisco Samas Chief Growth Officer
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Óscar G. Anchía Strategic & Product Designer
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Sara Martín Project Manager
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Álvaro Navío Project Manager
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Nikita Tokaryev Visual Designer
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Daniela González Visual Designer
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Alba Castro Visual Designer
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Arancha Milián Account Director

Enabling the evolution of visionary partners since 2004

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Two decades of designing digital experiences for companies from all over the world.

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