Understand desirability.

How are your products, services and brand really perceived?

Go beyond traditional market research approaches and co-design with your customer. Experience their unfiltered reactions, perceptions and feelings towards your brand, products and services. Discover moments of friction and use these to inspire direction and revitalise service offerings.

Design thinking team coaching and capability uplift

Welcome to Workup, a human-centred design-thinking agency.


With 20 years of experience, we've perfected our toolbox and processes working with a diverse range of industries and government agencies. We provide practical solutions that deliver real results, fast.

Plan and design with confidence, deliver with conviction. Unlock the full potential of your organisation.

design thinking team coach and facilitator
Empathy research in-field with the real customer

We work with all types of organisations, from start-ups to large scale corporates.

Starting out

Start with your customer first. Build empathy for the problems and challenges they face. Discover how to respond to moments of friction to create new opportunities.


Enter new markets


Design new products & services


Build and test strategy


Empathy research


In-market rapid prototyping


Mature organisations

Bring the lens of desirability into existing products and services to discover incremental improvements and inspire the design of your customer experience. Learn how to prioritise what counts from within the noise of possibilities.


Customer experience


Commercial opportunity evaluation


Customer Journey Maps


Voice of customer research


Future state design


Do It Yourself

Expert coaching and guidance designed to unlock the latent potential of internal teams and guide them towards successful and predictable outcomes.


Design thinking sprints


Capability uplift & team building


Bespoke toolbox creation


Cross-functional team collaboration


Governance frameworks & process design


Expert advice & experience.

Our real world experience has been developed through collaborating with a diverse range of industries and people. Here are some of the organisations we have worked with.

An amazing variety of customers Simon Holbrook has worked with

How might you start?

We believe every experience and organisation is unique. Contact us for a no-obligation consultation to explore your opportunity and discover what might be possible.


About Us

Design thinking sprint with teams prototyping solutions.