We grow businesses through innovation

Our experienced consultants bring fresh insight and user centred design experience to tackle your business challenges, and commercialise winning ideas

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What we do

front-end of innovation

We help you solve knotty problems and create what comes next, tapping into your networks and stakeholders to gain insight and test emerging ideas, early on in the process

design leadership

Helping clients to set out their design roadmap so that resources, challenges and expectations are aligned

product development

Our team has decades of experience developing successful solutions for clients - medical, consumer, industrial

design for manufacture

Turning ideas into great, manufacturable business outcomes with your supply chain or our network of producers

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Low cost medical imaging for the Developing World


University spin-out secures six figure investment - Through the Design Council’s Science Programme Jonathan assisted the team that has recently created the first spin-out from Newcastle University’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. The new company, Video Enhanced Observation Limited, has received an investment of £130,000 - Full Design Council case study here

Ozone created inside food packaging

As Design Leadership Experts, we worked through the Design Council to help Anacail, a venture capital-backed spin-out of the Astrophysics Department at the University of Glasgow, to find the best consultancy to commercialise their technology.

What our clients say

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“'Cormed needed an improved design and new prototype of a partially completed idea.
Butters Innovation came to the rescue and not only created working models but worked with us to qualify for
ISO:13485 and gaining a Class ll CE mark''
Chris Brown, Founder, Cormed Ltd
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“Jonathan and his team delivered great concept design and manufacture of prototypes within very short timescales. Always very responsive we delivered a complex medical device within 6 weeks - class leading by any standards ! I would not hesitate to recommend him as a source of high value add design.”
John Fuller, CEO, 
LoadSwift International
“Highly recommended for: Professional Services, Manufacturing, FMCG, Manufacturing, Product Development and Early Stage Pre-Revenue Projects. Jonathan prototyped our design to a very high standard in the time scale he said he would. He gave great advice and answered all our questions. He kept me informed right the way through and responded very quickly to my emails. All in all I am so pleased I chose Jonathan to work with I highly recommend him.” 
Sherie Wharton, CEO, 
Roll-i-Tan Ltd
“The RNLI had a significant challenge to overcome to deliver a first class product to a sector of the maritime market that is particularly vulnerable and at risk….This equipment also required a specific ergonomic study to design an effective user interface and the creative approach of Jonathan's team in developing the product, which is now bearing fruit through saving lives.”
Peter Bradley, Staff Officer Operations, RNLI

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