Design leadership but not how you expect. Get a seasoned design leader without the hassle.
Design leadership, but maybe not quite how you know it.
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From facilitating workshops to joining your team. There’s something for everyone.
We’ll work together until you’re 100% satisfied with the results.
From Deeptech to D2C. We work with the best of the rest.
Is your business moving along slowly, you’re struggling to understand and engage your customers?
Do you have an existing design team, that are missing that bit of direction, process and mentorship?
Are you struggling to hire designers, don’t quite understand the landscape and what to expect? Or have you made the wrong design hire before?
Do you need that extra boost on your product, experience or brand? Is your design, look and feel just not cutting the mustard?
You need a
FRACTIONAL DESIGN LEADER
Common Ideas replace your traditional Heads of with a more flexible, reliable option
“Honestly, the best mentor that I’ve ever had”
"A brilliant brand and product mind"
Strategy & Tactician
Working with you on a range of strategic areas. From understanding your business, analysing your products to refining what your stand for and why.
Mentorship & Hiring
Scaling design teams (globally), understanding the organisational structure for design, product and tech teams. Hiring the right people, mentoring current teams, accessing a wider network of talent.
Facilitator
Avoid the chaos, we go into companies and we help your teams to get stuff done. We help you solve problems and make decisions. We help you figure out what you should do, and how to do it..
Design
From really getting to know your users though research, to wonderfully crafted visual design that your customers will love
Product
Helping you to define your product vision, roadmap and beyond. A pure product head with deep domain experience.
Brand & Marketing
Building and scaling brands that your customers will adore.
Choose a plan that’s right for you.
Helping you to solve problems and make decisions. From big strategy workshops to creative sessions - we facilitate it all.
Joining your team as a fractional design leader, strategist and mentor. Design coach, advisor, all the experience, without the hassle.
From supporting your hiring, optimising your landing page to building your MVP. Whatever you need, we've got you covered.
Learn more about how Common Ideas works and how we can help you.
We're fully transparent, about our time and availbility. Have a look at our calendar and see when we might be able to fit you in. If you need work urgently being done, then…
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Common ideas, is Bhav. Bhav is a one man band, but he comes with wealth of experience in building great products, user-centric experiences, stunning design work, engaging brands and innovating with strategy.
Bhav is an award winning design leader, with over 15 years of experience, he’s built and accelerated tech businesses, created people-centric products, engaging brands and scaled diverse, happy teams.
Bhav has built and scaled 100’s of tech businesses. Taking businesses from Seed to Series A and beyond. Bhav is also a regular speaker, masterclass teacher and crunchy nut eater.
He loves working with emerging technologies and industries and gets his kicks from helping businesses grow with technology and experience at the core.
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Tap into our network of the best tech based leadership, technical operators, engineers, marketeers and designers in the business.
Seasoned product experts, with deep domain knowledge. Who know exactly how to build, ship and shape the right product.
Experienced marketers, specialising in D2C to B2B SaaS. Brand marketing experts who really understand your customer
CTOs who have built the biggest businesses in the world. Data scientist who are mad hatters.
Access to other designers, creatives and agencies
A fractional Head of Design (HoD) offers you the flexibility and scalability needed to take your businesses, startup to the next phase of growth. As a leadership position, the HoD can offer you strategic experience, a business nouse and a leading voice for the product A fractional Head of Design can be perfect for businesses who have not yet fully invested in a product or design function yet or are looking to see how design and product thinking can be integrated into the business.
As a facilitator we help your teams to get stuff done. We help you solve problems and make decisions. We help you figure out what you should do, and how to do it. In real terms, we lead collaborative group sessions to achieve specific business goals. Our wide ranging workshops improve team communication, foster innovation, and boost productivity, which can make them an invaluable asset to startups looking to improve processes, products, and team dynamics.
From brand work to building your MVP, we offer end-to-end services that elevate your product, brand and experience from user-centric research, strategy to visually compelling design work.
Yes. We can work together to see what type of engagement best suits you as a business.
We’ll invoice you every 10 business days.
Nope…
Just joking. We want to our customers to be confident of the value that we provide. If you’re unhappy at any point, talk to us and we’ll work with you to rectify it.
Working with our network of product experts, seasoned growth marketers, and innovative tech leaders means your project will benefit from a diverse range of perspectives and expertise, ensuring the best possible outcomes.
Common Ideas is a new type of design leader, available, experienced all for a subscription.