Butters Innovation delivers plug-and-play user centred innovation and product design, to help you grow your business, reduce commercial risks and make progress in weeks rather than months!
We're fast and agile! We can get you from initial concept to high fidelity working prototype in weeks not months, still understanding the long-term roadmap
Reduce commercial risk
Our user-centred approach to new product development ensures you build the right thing, that's not only feasible but also desirable and viable
Plug-and-play expertise
Bring our decades of experience in product development and innovation into your business exactly when you need it, for as long as you need it
We engage strategically with our clients in Innovation and User-Centred Design processes, to boost growth and profits. We have worked with dozens of small-medium enterprises, startups and university spin-outs, to help them embed a user-centred culture and develop successful manufacturable solutions, devices and machines, and digital platforms - across the med-tech, healthcare, wellbeing, energy, environmental and consumer product sectors.
New product development of Radial Artery Optimal Compression band, from concept through to CE & FDA approval and manufacture
Developing a sea safety system for the RNLI and McMurdo from initial concept to manufacture
Co-designed with the UK National Innovation Centre for Ageing's VOICE community - from concept to manufacture
Running early feasibility studies with working prototypes to gain key insights for the development of the device and the AI algorithms that process the data collected
Visually accurate technology demonstrator developed from a bench-top prototype, through to production tooling to support a clinical trial
Helping the founder to develop the solution design for use by pregnant mums at home, through rapid prototyping, user testing and iteration
Design and development of a technology demonstrator of a machine to aid sit to stand, balance and walking
Taking a University spin-out from basic working prototype to premium-grade finished product
In depth stakeholder interviews to refine the understanding of the problem and enable a simplified solution design for prototyping and testing
Fixing a troubled in-house design project with our plug-and-play service
Developing a new functional insole from initial concept through to manufacture
Designing and developing the solution from initial concept to market-ready product, supporting a first time entrepreneur to engage with their users throughout
We make sure you build the right thing, not just build something right!
We help you engage with your users and customers, and tap into your stakeholder networks, to gain insights and test emerging ideas
Decades of experience developing successful physical and digital solutions across multiple sectors that can be verified and validated
Working with stakeholder communities to illicit genuine responses, to inform and test the development of novel products and systems
Setting up stakeholder events and hackathons to establish functional and user requirements - also known as Design Inputs
Producing finished parts without tooling, from 3D printing additive manufacture processes
Turning ideas into great, manufacturable business outcomes with your supply chain or our network of producers
Experience in ensuring compliance with CE/UKCA Class I, IIa and IIb, as well as FDA 510(k)
funding applications
Successfully raised private investment funding, and grants from Innovate UK, UK IPO, NIHR i4i, Made Smarter, EIT Health, Innovation Vouchers and university research grants.
What challenges are you facing?
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Every project is different, so we tailor our offering to suit your needs
By using user centred design thinking early in the development process, we can help to define the problem, highlight opportunities, set out the use case and test it with early-stage concepts and physical prototypes
Whether you need a small amount of support, an expert review of an existing project, an end-to-end solution or simple advice we are here to help in the most appropriate way
We are experienced in developing medical devices and are compliant with the quality management systems required under EU and USA regulatory law
We don't design prototypes, we prototype designs - using prototyping to test ideas, user behaviour and investigate what aspects of a solution will work and where the real problems lie
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