Creating a positive impact on people, places, and culture
About
DEN - The Design Entrepreneur Network - is a consulting group specializing in design strategy. Since 2004 we have assisted over 500+ start-ups, social enterprises, and organizations. Our deep understanding of design strategy, technology, and the cultural landscape allows us to support our clients in discovering opportunities to solve today’s product, software, service, and business challenges. We emphasize sustainability and social impact every step of the way.
Our Services
DEN's comprehensive creative services include:
Design research and collaborative design
User interface design, experience design, and software development
Integrated product, digital, and communication strategies
Defining product offerings, building sustainable product lines, and manufacturing
Business, brand, intellectual property, and licensing strategies
Project management
How to Work with Us
DEN has three pillars: DEN Consulting, DEN Studio, and DEN Education.
DEN Consulting
When you require a high degree of personal attention in advisement and mentoring, DEN Consulting is the answer. We offer our experience to help you recognize viable opportunities early in the process so that you don’t waste time getting to the solution. We work with you to identify design and business strategies, set project goals, establish requirements and criteria, and develop action plans to guide project decision-making.
DEN Studio
The Design Entrepreneur Network is a collective of designers, entrepreneurs, and technologists. When you get to the stage that you want to fund, test and build your ideas, DEN Studio is here for you. We customize a team for each project with targeted skills to design it, prototype it, make it, test it, release it, and create a campaign for it.
DEN Education
Do you wish to build your personal capabilities or your organizations? DEN hosts collaborative educational programming to teach our processes to you and your team. Through sprints, seminars, workshops, and lectures, we share the strategies and methods you need to bring your project to life.
Our Team
The Design Entrepreneur Network is a collaborative creative practice lead by industrial designer, researcher, and business strategist Krystina Castella and producer, interaction designer, experience design specialist, and software architect Brian Boyl.
Our clients span a wide range of industries including education, health and wellnesss, kids and youth, technology, environmental sustainability, retail / wholesale businesses, lifestyle brands, government organizations and manufacturing. We have worked with companies on start-up, growth and licensing strategies fortechnology, products,brands, and art. Each project has given us a broad understanding of cross-sector opportunities as well as the specific challenges in each industry. Clients we have worked with to date represent the following industries:
Technology
Apps Websites Consumer Electronics Immersive Technology Green Technology Automotive & Mobility Medical & Wellness
Play
Toys Digital Games Analog Games Sporting Goods Play Programs Education
Environments
Architecture & Interiors Furniture & Fixtures Museum Exhibits & Programs Public Spaces & Programs Retail Services