Nile – The Strategic Design Consultancy

We’re the changemaker’s
secret weapon

We’re a strategic design consultancy.

We use design, research, and foresight to help changemakers clear the path to progress.

Who we are

Established in Edinburgh in 2006, Nile is a multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers, and foresight practitioners, supported by a global network of associate specialists.

We help organisations to do what designers do best, at scale. We introduce new perspectives. We break down silos. We zoom in on services, customers, and the planet, turning strategy into solutions.

It’s why we’re known as the changemakers’ secret weapon.

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Bringing bereavement into the 21st century

We all struggle with bereavement. But probate — the legal process for putting our affairs in order — adds another layer of uncertainty.

Find out how we helped Exizent

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Driving exceptional growth with service design

Black Circles had saturated the expert-buyer market. Now they needed to find new customers.

Find out how we helped Black Circles

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A design of note

The design of the RBS banknotes had remained unchanged since 1987. They needed an update.

Find out how we helped RBS

Thanks to Nile, the rate of industry growth we’ve achieved is unprecedented for retail, let alone automotive retail

Nick Leonard, Marketing Director, Blackcircles.com

What we do

We help changemakers:

Break new ground
Go to market with confidence. Our research, design and futures teams identify competitive opportunities, prove their worth, and help you launch to the right people.
Make bold moves
Cut through complexity. We help changemakers make better decisions by grounding them in human insights, and designing for sustainable change.
Optimise products & services
Our service design teams focus on your experiences to reduce internal resource pressure, increase customer satisfaction and boost acquisition rates.
Adapt & adopt ways of working
We help you reshape internal mindsets to activate your strategy, using foresight, design, and insight to guide and inspire your teams.